We Love the Internet 2024/49: The Everything is Bravo edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Who’s Afraid of These Gen Alpha Queens?
• I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”
• The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture
• Netflix is removing nearly all of its interactive titles

Reference points:

• 52 things I learned in 2024
• What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
• What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?

Longer reads:

• Everything is Bravo
• AI eats the world
• On the Toll of Being a Disruptor

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why is ‘America’ Cool Again?
• You’re Probably Wrong About Rainbows

Things to look at/read:

• Tiger Tiger burnt so bright
• The UK’s Top Ten Beer Cities — Ranked
• What is an IPA? 43 beer questions answered by our expert

Animal corner:

• Throwback to when I was a little gobshite
• Turns out the raccoons in Cancun are NOT afraid of people or loud noises
• Stuffed with LOVE!
• Overview of her entire Cat Wall
• Will Anne eat it? Part 4
• The food is too much.

Tweets of the week:

• What dark wizardry is this
• This is, technically, a sandwich.
• wtf do trains do to people in leeds?!
• the fact that this image is from this year serves as a somewhat encouraging reminder that the passage of time is actually much slower than you think it is.
• When you turn ITV on at 3pm in midweek and don’t see Warwick Davis
• I’m probably really late to this…. But have they all put each other’s coats on by accident?

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Jealousy list 2024

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