We Love the Internet 2024/34: The Social video is eating the world edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The New York Times’ Ezra Klein problem
• Four Experts Explain How AI Will Change Hollywood
• A Great Year for Movies. The Best Year to Start Writing About Them.

Reference points:

• Ranked: Countries That Use ChatGPT the Most
• 50 Years Later: Remembering How the Future Looked in 1974

Longer reads:

• Social Video is Eating the World
• Competing in search
• Before Reality Became Debatable, There Was ‘The Blair Witch Project’

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• ‘Do a wheelie’ Danny MacAskill
• X-MEN — 1950’s Super Panavision 70

Things to look at/read:

• How Snoop Dogg became America’s sweetheart at the Paris Olympics
• Is cocaine driving the British riots?
• First-look video of new Nintendo Museum shows off giant controllers fans can actually play games with

Animal corner:

• chompy chompy
• Her new favorite thing
• Otto is always so gentle. These two are inseparable
• I think he liked it
• Tobi with his best friend rabbit

Tweets of the week:

• The biggest movie star of 1939 and the biggest movie star of right now are both in this picture
• De Ligt & Martinez after conceding 2 goals in the first half tonight

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

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