We Love the Internet 2024/32: The Pop craveification of breaking news edition
2 min readAug 9, 2024
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- The Pop Craveification of Breaking News
- The Rise Of The Disappointing Duet
- AI’s Real Hallucination Problem
- Making Memes for the Global “Oat Milk Élite”
- Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is.
- Nara Smith and the new era of influencer marketing
- Linking through hoops
- Elon Musk Really Means It
Reference points:
- McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2024
- BREAKING: The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source
Longer reads:
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- How sci-fi has changed over the last 70 years, analyzed with data.
- Why You Should Really Stop Throwing Away The Silica Gel Packets
- My FBI Declassified Story
- Everything Twisters Got Right And Wrong About Storm Chasers
Things to look at/read:
- How Billionaires Die
- Meme tattoos and the rise of post-ironic body art
- Why don’t straight men read novels?
- Has social media made sightseeing deeply uncool?
Animal corner:
- The seal lion was just trying to give a nice California welcome
- Sammy likes to maintain a good visual of what’s on the grill
- Philadelphia Union vs NYCFC was paused because a raccoon was on the field
- In maui’s defense, this is from few years ago and the roles are completely reversed now
- Now accepting applications for a normal dog
- Mandatory vibing with Winnie
Tweets of the week:
- I don’t usually watch the Olympics, but I think the bloke in front is cheating
- And a terrible irony is born
- Wrong.
- avril lavigne first drafts
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- The demon slayers
- My family and other Nazis
- A double life: The cocaine kingpin who hid as a professional soccer player
- How Michael Cole Got Over
- We bought everything needed to make $3 million worth of fentanyl
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