We Love the Internet 2024/24: The last ten years, explained edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• You’re not imagining it — movies are getting longer
• Is Substack the new speciality store? Designers think so
• The Toilet Theory of the Internet

Reference points:

• The last 10 years, explained
• When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis
• 101 real-world gen AI use cases from the world’s leading organizations
• Finding the Hardest Spelling Bee Puzzle

Longer reads:

• How CoComelon Captures Our Children’s Attention
• The new propaganda war
• The Creator Of ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Knows Exactly Where It All Went Wrong

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I Made a Graph of Wikipedia… This Is What I Found

Things to look at/read:

• Taylor Swift’s most danceable and positive songs, according to science
• Not Lost in a Book
• When Did Everything Become a ‘Journey’?

Animal corner:

• him just an extra long tongue baby boy
• Raccoon is eating jelly

Tweets of the week:

• Nobody: My Glade Air Freshener at 3am:
• This June weather
• In The New World on Mars, @robert_zubrin suggested that colonists could wash their clothes by just exposing them to the outside near-vacuum.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Creature Feature: The Oral History of ‘Gremlins’
• Your Neighbors Are Retiring in Their 30s. Why Can’t You?
• The Trash and Treasures of Temu

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