We Love the Internet 2024/38: The How to succeed in Mr Beast production edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Taylor Swift and the Power of the AI Backlash
• Can Football Manager be an esport?
• What If You Didn’t Have to Choose Between Cable and Streaming?
• The Stars Who Came to Hate Their Fame
• Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs Bills Regulating AI Performance Replicas Into Law

Reference points:

• The best movies of 2024 (so far)
• Could Your Favorite TV and Movie Characters Afford Their Homes Today?
• 10 Classic ‘Simpsons’ Episodes the Internet Originally Hated

Longer reads:

• How to succeed in Mr Beast Production
• The Man Who Made Nike Uncool

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Presidential morality test
• Antarctica

Things to look at/read:

• There Will Never Be Another Sally Rooney
• Why Are Men Weird About Their Birthdays?
• Fast Times, Nettspend High
• The town that went feral

Animal corner:

• Why People Are Throwing Baby Puffins Off Cliffs in Iceland
• willas 3 levels
• No treats were caught in the making of this video
• Consider the message delivered
• Do these make sense to anyone other than Cowboy?

Tweets of the week:

• Imagine being that hungry
• Spotify reminding me to get my Chappell Roan tickets
• I’m sitting next to a Lincoln impersonator at the airport bar.
• me before a menty b
• This. Is. Tremendous.
• Swear to god, this will be me.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Gold Treasure Worth a Fortune Was Hidden in a Forest. Let the Hunt Begin
• The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates

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