We Love the Internet 2024/51: The Promise of Duolingo edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• ChatGPT was tasked with designing a website. The result was as manipulative as you’d expect
• Social media’s ‘LOLCow’ obsession is curated cruelty
• The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of Hawk Tuah Girl

Reference points:

• How to give a good speech

Longer reads:

• Welcome to the Golden Age of Licensed Video Games
• Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
• Alexa’s New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Is creativity dead?
• The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About

Things to look at/read:

• The Promise of Duolingo
• The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia
• In every Nelson he visits, Jeff Truesdell finds the man he loved

Animal corner:

• “But mum how do I get the other ball?”
• He should have listened to my warning
• When I woke up in the morning, the cat was sitting on the table, looking up and waiting for me to lick it
• Shes not a fan of the no treats until after dinner rule
• Wilson is a certified baller
• Bath day

Tweets of the week:

• yes
• Unconventional
• “Your fashion sucks so bad I called the FBI and they arrested you” is such a fucking incredible own
• You don’t understand how happy this makes me feel. We won, guys. We won.
• Pain Au Sockalat

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• An I.V.F. Mix-Up, a Shocking Discovery and an Unbearable Choice
• Nara Smith Is Craving More
• Everyone’s thirsty for Danny Dyer

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