We Love the Internet 2024/30: The How to feed the Olympics edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• What happened when British GQ stopped trying to ‘feed the algorithm’
• Everyone Is Trying to Make This TikTok Go Viral — and It Never Will
• Apple Tries to Rein In Hollywood Spending After Years of Losses

Reference points:

• Context, Consent, and Control: The Three C’s of Data Participation in the Age of AI
• Where has this been all my life?

Longer reads:

• Netflix’s Greg Peters on a new culture memo and where ads, AI, and games fit in
• How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Hidden “McBain” movie secreted in multiple Simpsons episodes

Things to look at/read:

• How to Feed the Olympics
• The Five Big Drug Trends Defining Summer 2024
• How the Notes app became Gen Z’s Clueless outfit generator
• The Unbranding of Abercrombie
• Behold the $150,000 DogPart cuddly. Part vicious. All status symbol.

Animal corner:

• Meet Quillow!
• He had that deep sleep nap
• Bear doesn’t stomp, he *STOMPS*
• Only in Wales will you get to feed a sheep called Dottie an ice cream
• Toffee continues to blep

Tweets of the week:

• when my not chronically online boyfriend shows me a meme from 3 days ago like it’s brand new
• I do sometimes think the internet was a mistake but then I get to see things like a man in belfast chug a bottle of vinegar on the street in the pouring rain
• “What is the charge? Eating a plant? A succulent garden plant?”
• “Do hyphens matter?” Yes.
• “mum I shit myself again”
• Microsoft outage but Teams and Outlook are both fine is the adult version of snow that doesn’t settle enough for a school closure.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
• How Celebrity Book Clubs Actually Work

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