We Love the Internet 2025/27: The How YouTube won the living room edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How YouTube Won the Living Room
• Fake, AI-generated videos about the Diddy trial are raking in millions of views on YouTube

Reference points:

• AI 2027
• Free coffee, cut-price theatre tickets and birthday upgrades: 42 genius ways to beat the system

Longer reads:

• The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth
• The era of the business idiot
• Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It)

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Jackson Pollock Part One: The Myth of the Modern Artist

Things to look at/read:

• Get Up Close to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unrealized Buildings with David Romero’s Digital Models

Animal corner:

• yall are on thin ice with me rn.
• My little baby orange cat loves his carbs
• When the beat takes forever to drop and you stop for a wee
• He can stop
• His reaction
• Nobody: Me at 6am
• Does anyone else feel like they are the 3rd wheel when your husbands dog is around?

Tweets of the week:

• OK, this is an original and good point.
• All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight
• ‘What’s the matter contactless boy, afraid you might spend something?’
• what next, a sexy young pop starlet called Sir Koir Starmer

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• My best friend’s murder was a tabloid circus
• Why one geologist thinks we should pay more attention to rocks

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