We Love the Internet 2025/33: The Paradigm shifts and the winner’s curse edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The New ChatGPT Resets the AI Race
• The Pedro Pascal smear campaign
• Okay, so age verification is pretty painless. It’s still not a good thing. At all.
• How Spotify distorts genre histories

Reference points:

• Behind the Streams: Three Years Of Live at Netflix. Part 1.
• How Much Do Podcasters Really Earn? One Star Pulls Back the Curtain.
• AI Hallucination Cases
• A chicken for The New York Times, a star for Bloomberg: A new “Media Capitulation Index” ranks large media and tech companies
• Stewthius over time

Longer reads:

• Paradigm Shifts and the Winner’s Curse
• Reflections on OpenAI

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I put 40 Billion marbles in the Colosseum to find alien life
• Making of the World’s Smallest Violin

Things to look at/read:

• Meet the Normans: The Defining Person-Type of 2025
• I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
• The Tossers: Inside the world of competitive egg throwing
• WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree
• Bubble could soon burst for lower-end cards

Animal corner:

• Still the funniest video we ever made
• the grunts were absolutely taking me out
• i completely blamed her. i’m sorry penny
• Whyyyyy?
• No because why did it walk directly to her spot
• Trick shot
• Let’s play with my anteater!

Tweets of the week:

• You sure about this, Google?
• Thanks google AI but I meant to type “shut”…
• I don’t want to panic anyone in Bristol but
• “Hey! Just sent over a 4pm calendar invite with your manager. Nothing to worry about. Also, could you send a quick list of your current projects?”

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Conversations with a hitman
• Disneyland of the Dead

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