We Love the Internet 2024/33: The Wait, is PowerPoint cool now edition
2 min readAug 16, 2024
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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