We Love the Internet 2024/23: The Gmail will break your heart edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Gmail will break your heart
• How Amazon created a winning streaming formula: shows based on airport books for dads
• The Diminishing Returns of Having Good Taste
• It’s the End of Paramount+ As We’ve Known It (and That’s Fine)

Reference points:

• A Brief History of Movie-Title Changes
• The 2024 Streaming Power Rankings
• Does curiosity make you read more hard news? How about anxiety?

Longer reads:

• The Love Machine
• We’ve been telling the wrong story about queer people in Hollywood

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How do they know dogs are colorblind?

Things to look at/read:

• How Fleetwood Mac Got Cool Again
• After Prison, I Went to Miami to Reacquaint Myself With Freedom
• Streaming Behind Bars

Animal corner:

• I’ve never met such a gutsy squirrel
• “Dad…incase you didnt know…i like cheese too!!”
• Shadow was so small before
• He came here for two reasons only. Snuggles and pizza, and it looks like we are all out of snuggles!
• When you accidentally capture a funny moment with the pets

Tweets of the week:

• Honey, you okay? You barely touched your Billie Irish!
• when your extra long arm comes in handy for protecting your friends modesty.
• How it feels to be making TikToks to promote my book at the age of 36
• I am so sorry I cannot stop watching this video. There’s an old boss I wish I could send this too.
• This isn’t a very good use of the hashtag feature
• I’ve defrosted freezers quicker
• Man is living the American and Indian dreams simultaneously. Ivy League degree, Silicon Valley job and beating the tar out of Pakistan

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Scholar of Comedy
• Giving it the Big One

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