We Love the Internet 2024/37: The Palace coup at the Magic Kingdom edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• BTS: How The ATS Team gave Mr Beast his biggest challenge
• YouTubers Are Almost Too Easy to Dupe
• Job interview

Reference points:

• 25 Most Influential Creators of 2024
• The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time

Longer reads:

• The Palace Coup at the Magic Kingdom
• How Apple rules the world
• American Vulcan
• How Elon Musk Got Tangled Up in Blue
• After Shark Tank, Mark Cuban Just Wants to Break Shit — Especially the Prescription Drug Industry

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Sustained Two-Shot
• La Baye Aréa, French TV Series — Midjourney 6 + Runway Gen-3 + Udio
• The Police — Every Breath You Take Handfart Cover

Things to look at/read:

• Real-Estate Shopping for the Apocalypse
• The Mainstreaming of Loserdom
• Capri Sun Introducing Bottles Would Completely Miss the Point of Capri Sun
• Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Is the Final Nail in Drake’s Coffin
• Nami no Ihachi: Did a Rural Wood Carver Inspire Hokusai’s “Great Wave”?

Animal corner:

• we come in… peace
• Collected all the tennis balls
• The cuddliest these donkeys have ever been
• Ellie said “what damn gate?”

Tweets of the week:

• me on my way to springfield for some fried poodle after getting transgender surgery in jail
• “I have concepts of a plan.”
• Bebop and Rocksteady before the mutation
• Final
• Quiet please… Lemon Raspberry Loaf is sleeping
• There have been enough mix ups now that it’s time for a PSA

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• A thinker thinks
• America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny
• How to Make Millions as a Professional Whistleblower
• ‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player

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