We Love the Internet 2024/33: The Wait, is PowerPoint cool now edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Apple Tries to Rein In Hollywood Spending After Years of Losses
• Why I finally quit Spotify
• Back to BASIC — the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing
• Every Generation Is the Anxious Generation

Reference points:

• Can an AI make a data-driven, visual story?
• Pose 28, toxic themes and Lana lore: Exploring Gen Z’s obsession with Roblox’s Dress To Impress

Longer reads:

• Nike: An Epic Saga of Value Destruction
• The life and tragic death of John Balson: how a true crime producer documented his own rising horror
• Meeting the people of PEGI: talking age ratings, gambling, and why their famous voice only got €200
• AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why “pop-up” restaurants are everywhere now
• All The Ways Restaurants Trick You Into Staying
• Photographing the Subway with the Most Graffiti in the World

Things to look at/read:

• Wait, is PowerPoint cool now?
• Having taken orders, Chinese factory must actually make massive AI slop gorilla sofas
• This $65 Million Mansion Might Be The Fanciest Home In New York
• You’ll Never Really Know Ballerina Farm
• The couples who run their families like a corporation
• How lore became pop’s hottest summer accessory

Animal corner:

• I guess it took her over a year to notice it.
• Starbucks Summer Skies
• Its his watermelon
• Honestly so brave
• Its a dog in silly hats, what more could you want

Tweets of the week:

• pray for my bro
• Dodge this
• Gone from a Rangers cult hero to Olympic gold, fair play
• me third wheeling my couple friends
• me after firing off a banger in the group chat but no one is haha’ing it
• dvd butter

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Visions Of The Things To Be — How Mash Gang is Breaking the Alcohol Free Mould
• What Your Grocery Cart Says About You

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