We Love the Internet 2024/35: The No one’s ready for this edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• No one’s ready for this
• Aggregation theory
• The End of HBO Sunday Nights
• Is Amazon turning into Temu?

Reference points:

• Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do
• Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless
• Who’s the Greatest Actor in Movie History? A Statistical Analysis

Longer reads:

• Hey Big Spender
• The Strange History of “Toxic” Masculinity

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Apparently Kid: 10 Years Later
• The “crappy” math behind the Calories
• Teacher spends 1800 hours building the hovercraft of his childhood dreams
• Why Olympic Shooters Wear Funny Glasses (10m Air Pistol Gear Explained)

Things to look at/read:

• A Picture to Die For
• The Airport is the New Third Place

Animal corner:

• Fake news right here
• “Monsters coming” is one of Jip Jip’s favourite games
• How the Dog/Cat war began…
• She is having the time of her life
• Dogs favourite word

Tweets of the week:

• Just taken this in for a neighbour…
• I want the most Bullseye exchange you have. No, that’s too Bullseye.
• What a day to be accidentally named after Britain’s 10th longest motorway
• 9am on here tomorrow
• Apparently, Gen Z is making fun of older generations for never buying big ticket purchases on their phone and always using a desktop
• When you find out how young people in the UK are able to afford a house deposit
• We regret the error

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• “That’s the Way Life Is”
• The Dognapping of the Century
• The BTK Killer’s Daughter. Gabby Petito’s Parents. JonBenét’s Dad.
• The enemies within: How the pandemic radicalised Britain

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