We Love the Internet 2024/36: The Why AI isn’t going to make art edition
2 min readSep 6, 2024
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Why Creators Have Stopped Editing Their Content
- Snapchat Is a Minefield for Teen Friendships
- Why Disney+ Has Succeeded While Other Netflix Rivals Struggle
- The evil genius of cursed app design
- The Hotelification of Offices, With Signature Scents and Saltwater Spas
- Second Circuit Says Libraries Disincentivize Authors To Write Books By Lending Them For Free
Reference points:
- Five media sustainability lessons from The Economist
- Apple Loses Its Podcasting Lead to YouTube and Spotify
- Why Does Every Netflix Show Look the Same? An Investigation.
Longer reads:
- Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
- Roblox is Already the Biggest Game In The World. Why Can’t It Make a Profit (And How Can It)?
- How ESPN Is Dramatically Rewriting Its Streaming Playbook
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
Things to look at/read:
- In Snark Forums, Fans Are Haters And Haters Are Friends
- Pumpkin spice lattes — and the backlash, and the backlash to the backlash — explained
- Hollywood’s Most In-Demand Pickleball Game
- The Time I Met Adam West
- The NSA’s podcast will have you listening in on them this time
Animal corner:
- It’s 8:30am on a Thursday…
- well that was almost a ✨catastrophe✨
- My big scary dog… scared of a fly
- Bambi would never be able to catch a break as an upstairs neighbour
- Everyone wants a Bordercollie puppy until..
Tweets of the week:
- leonardo dicaprio just switched to bing
- I, a 30 year old woman, emailed a fish company because I’m obsessed with their logo.
- “Best killing of an alpaca I’ve ever seen, 5 stars”
- Beanie said let me do the one musical Lea Michele can’t steal from me
- Copywriting: It’s not for everybody
- had a deadline
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- Live Forever: Oasis, ‘Definitely Maybe,’ and the Definitely Misunderstood Legacy of Britpop
- Food Shopping in Rome
- Natural Born Killers at 30: The Making of a Misunderstood Masterpiece
- How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche
- The thin purple line
- The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here — and It’s Loony
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