We Love the Internet 2024/50: The On millennial snot edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How The New York Times beat the algorithm and became Facebook’s top publisher
• How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of Concealment
• AI-Powered Robot Leads Uprising, Talks A Dozen Showroom Bots Into ‘Quitting Their Jobs’ In ‘Terrifying’ Security Footage
• The death of mid-length video
• Weakened US public broadcasters will fight for their lives in 2025

Reference points:

• Hollywood’s Biggest Winners and Losers of 2024: From Joe Rogan to Kevin Costner
• Sixty years of innovation: Key moments in business technology
• The Rise of Nicole Kidman, Pop Culture Folk Hero: A Statistical Analysis
• The 50 best Saturday Night Live musical performances
• The year ahead in streaming
• Your 2024 therapy unwrapped

Longer reads:

• On Millennial Snot
• The Rest Is Not Even Close: Inside Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Revolution

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Demolition
• How Many Giant Balloons Stops A Compound Bow & Arrow?
• Our Only Home
• I will swear TRUST ME.

Things to look at/read:

• What Are We?
• The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention
• Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. But It Is Fighting Back.
• The Case Against Deli Meat
• Crumbl’s massive empire was never about the cookies

Animal corner:

• Happy Stompsgiving everyone!!
• This is literally the most beautiful video in the world
• what is this contraption?
• He thinks he is so sneaky
• No pool at the dog park calls for a wheelbarrow cool down at home
• Top 10 Athletic Dogs!

Tweets of the week:

• Someone has obviously never sent a message in work slack that got 28 laughing emojis
• It’s available, it’s just called 28.Days.Later.2002.1080p.BDrip.x265
• Really coming down to the wire on this one.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The end of the 20th century
• Is the $11 billion online sportsbook bubble about to burst?
• A Miracle: Notre-Dame’s Astonishing Rebirth From the Ashes
• ‘It wasn’t sexual in any way!’ 50 years of streaking — by the people who dared to bare all
• The Stone Soup Theory of Billionaires

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