We Love the Internet 2025/34: The Brain rot summer edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Brain rot summer
• ‘Baby Shark’ copyright battle ends with victory for Pinkfong in South Korea’s top court
• ‘Someone’s always watching’: Gen Z is spying on each other

Reference points:

• The 44 Most Powerful Players in Podcasting in 2025
• The 25 pieces of culture that explain the last 25 years
• My data philisophy

Longer reads:

• Is AI experiencing the trough of disillusionment?
• My scammer

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• What happens when an architect sees the movie “Parasite”

Things to look at/read:

• The economics of writing a book
• Buy now, pay later, in debt forever?
• The world is burning, but want to meet up for thirty-four dollar cocktails?

Animal corner:

• My dog is a master of hide and seek.
• Better than a Dyson. No crumb left behind
• Poor fella got schooled
• he thinks he’s a kangaroo
• The day my dog’s worldview expanded to include… horses!!
• my cat reacting to me peeling off my face
• The misdirection, the trip, the steal. Flawless execution.

Tweets of the week:

• i have been obsessed with the phrase “i don’t deserve flavors” for weeks now
• Drive by boshes, we’re in another realm here
• me at 1am:
• That’s the strangest shadow I’ve ever seen

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Knock it off
• The wedding wars
• Has David Roche Cracked the Code? Or Is He Just Another Crackpot?

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