We Love the Internet 2024/26: The Man who couldn’t stop going to college edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Responsibility Over Freedom: How Netflix’s Culture Has Changed
• Inside Medium’s decade-long journey to find its own identity
• IShowSpeed: ‘Streaming can only get you so far. I want to do it all’
• Normcore was always a misunderstood fantasy
• What doge taught me about the internet

Reference points:

• Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition
• Why Do People Hate Nickelback So Much? A Statistical Analysis

Longer reads:

• Google’s Moonshot Factory Falls Back Down to Earth
• Fast Crimes at Lambda School

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Top 80 greatest piano intros
• If you can play WOT or WarThunder like this

Things to look at/read:

• Welcome to Emma Stone’s Freak Era
• The Art of Scaling Taste

Animal corner:

• Angry Puppy
• Surprise
• Does your dog do this?!?!
• This water tastes funny

Tweets of the week:

• An epic thunderstorm in Guatemala began simultaneously with the eruption of Mount Fuego
• Lewis is only going to have to live to 75 to beat him
• He looks like a medieval panel of a saint holding the instrument of his martyrdom
• PlayStation 1 and PS5 graphics side by side.
• i have an idea…
• This is going to ruin the tour.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College
• The Untold Story of the Network That Took Down Roe v. Wade
• How Food Critic Keith Lee Went From MMA Fighter to TikTok Star
• Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History

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