Things to think about:

• The Movie Business Is About to Get VidCon-ized
• The Future Of Horror Filmmaking Is YouTube … If You’re A Dude

 Reference points:

• Taken
• What Strategists Need to Do in a World Where There’s a Surplus of Smarts
• How Long Do We Wait for New Inventions?

 Longer reads:

• I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
• Whither the Nerd-Bully?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The little known metric that ruined every website
• The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum

Things to look at/read:

• Meet the Coffee Shop That’s Quietly Taking Over American Cities

Animal corner:

• No added audio because listen to him
• A stinker in the sink

Tweets of the week:

• Really torn here.
• buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years
• Also conveniently just in time for Pitbull at BST Hyde Park
• Me pretending to look for my wallet until someone says ‘I’ll pay’

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Children of Dilley
• Could the Girls of Camp Mystic Have Been Saved?
• The UK Needs A New Creative Director
• The Fall of the Man from Mango
• The rise of the fool

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Things to think about:

• RIP social media. What comes next is messy.

 Reference points:

• Creating an AI Braintrust

 Longer reads:

• The life and times of an American tween
• AI’s biggest critic has lost the plot
• At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Water World

Things to look at/read:

• The Lost Art of Going Bald
• How Fanatics cornered the sports collectibles market
• Joe Hill …
• The Unsavory Side of FoodTok
• What is a bike bus and why are parents loving them so much?
• The SF tech worker whose unhinged order broke In-N-Out forever
• “Anxious Girl” auction reignites debate over Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein’s “inspiration”

Animal corner:

• Spa day for Jiya
• He loves his meat & I love giving it to him!
• Nothing better than my conversations with big Mike
• A friend in need 
• It’s like he’s laughing
• Breakfast chaos!

Tweets of the week:

• Why does Sting look like the head of a planetary council in a science fiction film
• Anthony Gordon after doing 7 kick ups at his Barca unveiling in the July sun.
• When people ask me why we sold Morning Brew, I just show them this chart.
• I’ve not seen a masterclass away in Europe this good since Roy Keane v Juventus
• There are days when I miss being an editor and I particularly loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The After-School Special
• The memory maker
• Are Disney adults the happiest debtors on earth?
• The Rise and Fall of Mercato Metropolitano
• We Love Delta. We Hate Delta.

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Things to think about:

• We’ve Been Here Before
• ChatGPT Gave Me Chilling Advice—as I Simulated Planning a Mass Shooting
• Why Can’t AI Write Copy?
• Our longing for inconvenience
• What happens when the short-form video bubble pops?
• Google Search as you know it is over
• Meet the Young Wikipedians Writing the Front Page of Music History

 Reference points:

• Below the fold
• New Ways to Add Personality To Your Newsletter
• We Tried 100 Claude Skills. These Are The Best

 Longer reads:

• The feed is fake
• If America’s So Rich, How’d It Get So Sad?
• The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why hair transplants are so expensive
• How to be cultured
• Some cool explosions
• Unsolved Tetris Mysteries With Creator Alexy Pajitnov & Designer Henk Rogers

Things to look at/read:

• The busiest place you’ve never seen
• What I learned about billionaires at Jeff Bezos’ private retreat
• We Were the Mediocre Class at Horace Mann
• How influencer-led events like The Sidemen Charity Match are rewriting the sports playbook

Animal corner:

• Absolutely shooketh 
• Stop the pets, cop the threats
• need suggestions for other things to test with her
• He said this isn’t steak
• Donkey Jamming Out
• pretty sure she understood 100% of that

Tweets of the week:

• Telling the barista at Starbucks i clogged the toilet as Im leaving
• How can you tell this is AI
• Homer Simpson’s shoes
• “We locked 40 people in a room to work 40 hours a week for 40 years.”

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• I found it: The best free restaurant bread in America
• The men who want women to be quiet
• The Murder America Can’t Quit

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Things to think about:

• Gen Z’s biggest fear is laughable at first. But it’s quietly wreaking havoc on their lives
• Laying it on thick
• Worried About AI? Here, Have Some AI

 Reference points:

• How Britain ate, flirted and scored each other.
• All The Big Stats Netflix Just Released for ‘The Netflix Effect’ Report

 Longer reads:

• The brand age
• How Far Would You Go to Learn From Werner Herzog?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Škoda DuoBell – The First Bike Bell Designed To Penetrate Noise-Cancelling Headphones

Things to look at/read:

• I Want to Live Like Costco People
• How Japan has changed in the last 20 years
• Two hundred chimpanzees are embroiled in a ‘civil war’
• Candy now tastes different. It’s not just you.
• Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears
• Permian Gas Glut Means Producers Are Paying Buyers to Haul It Away

Animal corner:

• Is this the smartest squirrel ever or the dumbest dog?
• his first bark
• Dramatic Great Dane.
• Someone had a fight with my crocks
• What a stitch up

Tweets of the week:

• He’s in the final interview. Now reveal there’s an internal candidate.
• Zack Polanski pictured with Dedra Meero, the architect of the Ghorman Massacre, disgusting.
• two unskippable ads
  

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
• I Stumbled Across My Boyfriend’s ChatGPT and It Ended Our Relationship
• Infinite Jest Extraction
• The last great weed smuggler
• Inside the White House’s most inscrutable marriage. (No not that one)
• Fortress Yellowstone

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Things to think about:

• The cursed generation
• The clip economy
• Amazon’s durability
• How ChatGPT conversations became ‘a treasure trove’ of evidence in criminal investigations
• Does the New York Times Need a Magazine?
• Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

 Reference points:

• Netflix Cancels One in Five Shows — Here’s What the Data Since 2016 Actually Reveals

 Longer reads:

• Seeing like a spreadsheet
• South Korea has animated American cartoons for decades. Now, it wants the world to see its own
• Social media is now parasocial media

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
• The Clip Economy Is Eating Everything
• I CAN’T BREATHE

Things to look at/read:

• Life After The Devil Wears Prada
• Why Millennial Pop Stars Are Catching ‘Blue Dot Fever’
• Kash Patel’s personalised bourbon stash
• ‘Not a Chance Hormuz Opens’: How Wall Street’s new NACHO trade bets on a prolonged oil shock

Animal corner:

• My dog demanded my attention when I’m teaching an online class
• Sweet dreams, pillow king
• Nah frl

Tweets of the week:

• “listed as ‘remote’ for visibility” is wild
• HAHAHAHAHA I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING
• Bowling is funny because I do it once every 2 years while I’m shitfaced and I still roll a few strikes. I shouldn’t be able to do the best move in your sport accidentally.
  

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Why Almost Everyone Loses—Except a Few Sharks—on Prediction Markets

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Things to think about:

• The era of AI malaise
• Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company
• Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing
• Warner Bros. Approved the Paramount Deal. Here’s What Comes Next.
• Why Tubi Is Betting on AI to Win Over Gen Z Viewers
• I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With It

 Reference points:

• How The Heck Does Shazam Work?
• The AI streaming drain

 Longer reads:

• Tony Dokoupil Is the Face of the Bari Weiss Revolution at CBS News. Will He Survive It?
• The Most Inspiring Media Story of the Year
• Can a Journalist Be a Celebrity Anymore?
• The War Against Misinformation Is Over. The Lies Won
• How “The Fast and the Furious” Tells the Story of Hollywood

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I time travelled to Ancient Rome! (Vlog)

Things to look at/read:

• The Engagement Ring Is Having an Identity Crisis
• Wine Media Is Broken: A Case Study
• From car and phone to tractor owners, a populist wave is rising to end the ‘captive’ repair economy
• SpaceX’s IPO Could Leave Tesla Eating Rocket Dust

Animal corner:

• The look of betrayal
• Better restock that food quick…
• Dog vs Dad
• when I said “go by myself” she was like I THINK NOT
• Luckily the owner of the dog didn’t see
• He Is Pro Max
• BFF’s for life

Tweets of the week:

• You Are Not On Loan
• Major scientific breakthrough

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• We all float on: A weekend aboard the Modest Mouse cruise

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Things to think about:

• TMZ gets political
• My prodigal brainchild
• AI job loss is coming. Does anyone have a plan?

 Reference points:

• The Last Time Everyone Watched the Same Thing

 Longer reads:

• The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Now Online: a Treasure Trove of 1000s of Secret Concert Recordings
• Your name in landsat
• A song about being ethnically ambiguous
• the pitt video game actually looks pretty cool

Things to look at/read:

• Where Did All the Affordable Cars Go?
• UK Has More EV Chargers Than Gas (Petrol) Nozzles

Animal corner:

• the cats yearn to sit
• Reality of grooming large dogs
• He’s a sensitive soul 
• DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS AT HOME 
• Nothing to see here
• a corn cob a day keeps annabelle away

Tweets of the week:

• Imagine you’re in the club and the DJ drops this.
• Imagine losing your life savings and then you’ve got fucking Wall-E & his mates Gegenpressing you as you try leave
• Peter Drury’s house during a power cut

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Paul Heyman and the making of a wrestling god

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Things to think about:

• Are bots taking over music?
• The AI Myth of Solomon Fairfax, the “Grim Reaper” of Charleston
• What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O.
• They Were YouTube’s First Stars. Here’s What They Wish They’d Known.

 Reference points:

• Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It.
• Does Your Video Podcast Look Like Trash?
• Apple at 50

 Longer reads:

• Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Big Here Quiz

Things to look at/read:

• Dinosaur skeletons are selling for millions. What does that mean for researchers and museums?

Animal corner:

• During the nail trimming, one groundhog seems to have already accepted its fate…
• New emotional support bowl unlocked
• Oreo really likes cheese
• Selleck’s first time to the beach!
• When I come in the house it is easy to tell when my dog has done something wrong 
• She will remember this forever
• BOOPOCLOCK
• This makes 19 year old me very happy.

Tweets of the week:

• I have a sports statistic to share
• Idk what to type here rn
• Every gay friend group.
• Celebrating a winner in front of the away end after being called a feathered wanker all game.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Sims Creator’s Audacious Quest to Turn His (and Your) Own Mind Into a Video Game
• “The Worst Neighbor Ever”
• What broke the Beckhams?
• Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
• The car-crash conspiracy

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Things to think about:

• Meta can kill the metaverse. It can’t escape the name
• Why Spring TV Has Us Seeing Stars
• How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years

 Reference points:

• The Apple Charging Situation

 Longer reads:

• How I became a film-maker
  

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
• Gen Z’s Baby Bust
• 2 Hours Of Rick And Morty Lore, But It’s Rick’s Darkest Moments

Things to look at/read:

• Inside a Corporate Retreat That Went Very Badly Wrong
• As millions lose weight on GLP-1s, they’re starting to turn to retailers to refresh their wardrobes

Animal corner:

• Locking in for the 9pm zoomies
• His tiny little face looks so happy in the end
• When I like playing ping pong
• I guess I’ll just stay here…
• Champ the Bat Dog LOCKED IN for Dom Keegan’s at-bat
• organic PB hits diff
• Putter vs. leaf blower

Tweets of the week:

• An FT correction for the ages…
• This, from Wisden Cricket Monthly, shows why Oxford commas matter.
• If those astronauts go around the moon and can find no trace of Lisa Stansfield’s baby then I really think that’s it, we’ve exhausted all lines of enquiry
• For the love of God, don’t skip your class!

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• A New Jersey Teen Finds Treasure, and More, in Abandoned Storage Units
• Finding the Cattle Queen

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Things to think about:

• Gen Z Lives in the Archive
• The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete
• Your AI-generated password isn’t random, it just looks that way

 Reference points:

• 100 conversations later …

 Longer reads:

• The Age-Gated Internet: Child Safety, Identity Infrastructure, and the Not So Quiet Re-Architecting of the Web
• The brand age
• The slow death of the Power User

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that’s okay.

Things to look at/read:

• Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
• Funmaxxing: Should we all be playing more?
• ‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive
• Marc Andreessen’s Dangerously Unexamined Life

Animal corner:

• Guinea pigs vs watermelon
• Athena really doesn’t know if she wants the Cheetos or not…but num num num
• new level unlocked
• Doggo went
• Selective hearing sense was activated
• I’ve never see a dog actually have a fight with food before…
• And she’s still going strong

Tweets of the week:

• me trying to find the HDMI port on my TV
• I am a huge fan of Laura Dern but I truly think she is miscast as Epstein here
• Well if it isn’t my old friend Mr McCann with hand for a hurl and a hurl for a hand
• When someone is laughing and socializing instead of taking their turn at the board game we’re playing.
• FYI: It’s no longer “box wine” The classy term is “cardboardeaux”

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Fantasy Baseball Ties That Bind
• How to talk to an Uber driver
• Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother
• The man who broke into jail

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