We Love the Internet 2024/25: The State of culture in 2024 edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why does TV feel so underwhelming yet so overwhelming?
• Apple intelligence and AI maximalism
• Hollywood at a Crossroads: “Everyone Is Using AI, But They Are Scared to Admit It”
• Apps put a psychiatrist in your pocket
• Is anybody watching the same TV shows anymore?

Reference points:

• The 25 Photos That Defined the Modern Age
• When Online Content Disappears
• How Does Our Sense of Humor Change With Age? A Statistical Analysis

Longer reads:

• The Tragic Downfall of the Internet’s Art Gallery
• The first social media babies are adults now. Some are pushing for laws to protect kids from their parents’ oversharing
• How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The State of Culture in 2024
• The Talk: Cher & David Lynch
• What Happens to Your Body When You Have a Hangover

Things to look at/read:

• 57 sandwiches that define New York City
• The Lost Art of Buying a Round for the Bar
• Writing America, from the outside
• I Finally Befriended My Idol Tavi Gevinson. Would It Fall Apart Over Taylor Swift?
• Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness
• The Worst Dads in All of Literature: An Incomplete List

Animal corner:

• This weeks grand entrances!!
• Maybe even the main sight
• Not the brightest spark our Jim
• What a conundrum

Tweets of the week:

• Reporter handles a person trying to interrupt in the most savage way possible
• thanks for reminding me
• Ryan Porteous vs Germany, Euro 2024.
• As the daughter of a father, and the sister of two brothers, I wish our @England team the best of luck in tonight’s men’s #Euros! You’re showing little boys everywhere that there’s nothing they can’t do
• Me when I drink 9 pints of Guinness and I’m about to get sick all over myself
• the meal deal of champions

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Inside the Savage, Surreal, Booming World of Professional Slap Fighting
• The Package King of Miami
• Go Balls Deep: The Oral History of ‘Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story’
• How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

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