We Love the Internet 2024/40: The Doc web edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• OpenAI as we knew it is dead
• What I learned in year four of Platformer

Reference points:

• The 365 Most Famous Quotes of All Time
• From Elton John at the piano to Stormzy at Glastonbury and Madonna snogging Britney: 41 era-defining music photos
• The secret inside one million checkboxes

Longer reads:

• The doc web
• What’s become of The Times & Co.?
• NBCU’s streaming chief isn’t worried about you canceling cable

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Fifth Element — 1950’s Super Panavision 70
• Disco in the 80s but everyone is Lionel Messi
• What’s the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf?

Things to look at/read:

• Decade by decade
• Chappell Roan Got Too Famous Too Fast
• ‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ — Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
• Too much of a good thing

Animal corner:

• Bison wanted a kiss
• Cant stop watching this
• I love her so much
• First time seeing cows run 10/10
• Daisy is brave

Tweets of the week:

• is he marrying that labradoodle
• I love Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter
• But does it have a CD player? Player? Player?
• This is as if the Bene Gesserit sisterhood decided to produce the Generation X messiah.
• Best Halloween decoration so far.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• For every winner a loser
• Warren Hern, America’s abortion doctor
• The Myth, the Murders, and the Matter of the Bloody Countess Báthory
• My mother, the gambler
• The Charming, Eccentric, Blessed Life of Lee Maxwell

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