We Love the Internet 2025/38: The How music criticism lost its edge edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
• How Legacy Media Fumbled the Charlie Kirk Shooting
• The job market is hell

Reference points:

• A taxonomy of the video game production scope
• Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape

Longer reads:

• How music criticism lost its edge
• It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where on Roblox Your Children Are?
• Syria’s quest to build its own Silicon Valley

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Forcing Scammers To Solve Impossible Captchas
• The Worst City on Earth, Built in Minecraft
• one of my favorite videos on the internet. she knew she ate.

Things to look at/read:

• This trucker built a scale model of NYC over 21 years. It’s drawing museums’ attention.
• ‘Scourged Back’ exposed the horror of slavery. Now it’s embroiled in America’s censorship debate
• Meet The Mastermind Behind The $1.9 Billion Poppi Deal

Animal corner:

• Rupert the Dalmatian meets the talking Cactus
• I’m obsessed with Gene eating a prawn cracker
• It’s the 4 year anniversary of my favorite video I’ve ever taken
• Intimate experience
• Doggy SPA Day,Relax with ManYu
• POV: A little rain never stopped Buster
• Weekend activities

Tweets of the week:

• Trolling players as a fake deer in GTA5
• Unbelievable backpack to human ratio on this lad
• why do they look like Naughty Dog characters
• Steve Austin stuns in old pictures
• i too have a 14 inch waist if you ignore the other 14 inches
• imagine these two having a staring contest
• absolutely generational meme. i will be deploying it OFTEN

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Have we been measuring mountains all wrong?
• What Happened to Cameron Crowe? He Has Answers.

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