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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Things to think about:

• The Myspace Dilemma Facing ChatGPT
• Why is OpenAI like this?
• How The Atlantic won ‘tortoise and hare’ race versus digital news start-ups

 Reference points:

• Good COP, bad COP
• How far back in time can you understand English?

 Longer reads:

• Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Living Human Brain Cells Play DOOM on a CL1

Things to look at/read:

• The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
• Luxury’s Overexposure Is Biting
• Reading Socrates in Silicon Valley
• The Unnamed Cat Who Triggered Japan’s Literary Explosion
• What comes after Labubu? Inside Pop Mart’s next grow play
• The West has long characterized Iran’s oil as a prize to be claimed

Animal corner:

• Pure joy for the best boy
• Offended by dads stinky toes
• Bulldog antics
• The little dog is being eaten by the yummy corn
• Cute or scary
• meet the gorgeous Staffordshire bull terrier 
• one thing about my dog is she FULLY understands the English language

Tweets of the week:

• Bahamas to Australia via the Sun? That’s gonna take longer than three weeks.
• Crunishment
• this scene always gives me chills
• Chicken caeser…but does chicken …hear her?….does chicken understand her?….does chicken tender….?

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Why Pilates Keeps Pissing People Off
• Baby-making on Mars
• Girls Who Love Boys Who Love Boys
• Master and commander

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Things to think about:

• What do coders do after AI?
• Why (and how) everyone is cold-calling the president
• What Makes ‘Good TV’ on the Internet? Piers Morgan Has Thoughts.

 Reference points:

• The Imagination Curriculum

 Longer reads:

• Child’s play
• The Panopticon Age of Documentaries Is Here
• Listening to Joe Rogan
• Megatrends 2026

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Dialed
• Why Movies Just Don’t Feel “Real” Anymore
• the entire beatles album discography but it’s just numbers

Things to look at/read:

• Recreating the smells of history

Animal corner:

• He loves some whipped cream
• Frozen carrot day
• Business in the front party in the back
• such a brave boy, I’m so proud
• What a distinguished young lady, miss Diva is
• The wiggle bottom
• Surf n turf for dinner

Tweets of the week:

• I’d have hyphenated eco activist and written two years. Otherwise it’s fine.
• this is the video i see in my head every time i make “issues” in the “project board” at work. i truly wish i never saw it
• Just went in two footed in the garden. Broke her ankle. That should do it
• Hey Stan, have you ever designed for product packaging before? No, but how hard could it be?
• FFS they said “Discreet packaging” when I ordered it

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• In search of Banksy
• My year as a degenerate gambler
• Soapbox
• Transformers Europa

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Things to think about:

• Gen Z has perfected the glorious art of boredom as entertainment
• Inside the hideous, exploitative, but still addictive world of vertical dramas

 Reference points:

• The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs

 Longer reads:

• America isn’t ready for what AI will do to jobs
• Harvey Weinstein: The Rikers Interview
• YouTube Face Has Infected the Internet
• Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Your AI slop bores me
• The Eccy road Co-op freezer section does indeed sound heavenly

Things to look at/read:

• Alien assumptions
• Chain of mystery: We found the ghost owner of 105 Union Street
• A new film follows Paul McCartney’s 2nd act after The Beatles’ breakup
• Chaos on the Bermondsey Beer Mile

Animal corner:

• Pablo vs. orange
• Watch the energy slowly escalate
• She put herself there and I helped her down
• He chose violence
• Have you paid your cheese tax?
• Just so everyone knows he’s in fact a gentleman
• What’s this band called?

Tweets of the week:

• Grenade bars are in the meal deal at big tesco
• Can my mate come to the party? Honestly, he’s sound!
• Someone’s grandparents are gonna see this on Facebook and flip their shit.
• Well done wee man
• Can’t see him getting any points on his license.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• TikTok is obsessed with talking parrots. It’s fueling a global black market
• Punching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chef’s Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the World’s Top-Rated Restaurant

Things to think about:

• ‘He Is Basically the Goop That’s Inside a Lava Lamp’
• The Death of the Downvote
• The Complicated Legacy of Bob Iger
• Microsoft’s Pivotal AI Product Is Running Into Big Problems

 Reference points:

• What Is Palantir? An FAQ.

 Longer reads:

• Why You’re More Likely to Develop AI-Psychosis than to Join a Cult
• The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting 

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• A Thorough Look At Resident Evil
• A Paris timeline, from the 3rd century BC to Macron’s era
• Ultimate Karen Metal – Give Him a Ticket

Things to look at/read:

• Thirteen Waters: Tasting Notes from a Sommelier
• Move Over, Girl Dinner. Boy Kibble Has Arrived.
• The making of ’24 Hour Party People’
• Bettors wagered $54 million on Khamenei’s death. Now they’re not getting paid.
• Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein

Animal corner:

• My big cry baby
• Rule #1 of the Art of War: Never let them know your next move
• Hunting the drop, One quiet step at a time
• How’s your day going
• A drama about dogs directing and performing themselves
• Cats are everything
• puppy’s first rain

Tweets of the week:

• happy world book day
• LeBron never did that

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The century of the maxxer
• ‘I clicked on a button – and everything changed’: how a DNA test turned my life upside-down
• Under the Mormon Influence
• On tilt

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Things to think about:

• A Slow-Motion Eulogy for the TV Industry
• Storied, faceless, and stubbornly profitable: The Economist braces for change
• Here’s how Epstein broke the internet
• A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox

 Longer reads:

• The blindboxification of everything
• The 2028 global intelligence crisis

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Are you roady?
• Epic Skateboarding Clips 2025

Things to look at/read:

• By ‘ruining art,’ Ohio painter turns discarded works into pop-culture classics
• Actually, That’s a Wig

Animal corner:

• Sharing a nut with a squirrel – mouth to mouth.
• I never usually give button baths like this
• On day one I made the rookie mistake of letting a banana poke out of my bag
• Sleeping is My Favorite Hobby
• Love my ball 
• My spoiled brat
• When kitten Blue first met puppy Twiggy
• when she refues to go out the door where we shoveled a path for her

Tweets of the week:

• here’s the rest of the photo
• How I think the waiter sees me vs how he actually sees me
• The greatest name in football…even better than Max Power…
• West Brom struggling on the pitch.. not so well off it either

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• A War foretold

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Things to think about:

• An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
• “Hate brings views”: Confessions of a London fake news TikToker
• This is what it looks like when nothing matters

 Reference points:

• The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century
• Tangible media collection

 Longer reads:

• The Adolescence of Technology
• The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs
• How will OpenAI compete?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• We finally know why it’s so good for you

Things to look at/read:

• Tourists in Japan Are Baffled: Where Are the Trash Cans?

Animal corner:

• New party trick unlocked! 
• Guilty? I think so.
• It’s normal right
• Did it work? Hope Oso brightened your day
• It’s the little plaps for me 
• Tiny Lars (all 2.5 lbs of him) conquered his custom-built ramp
• Tucker’s disappointed groan says it all 
• Smell/Taste Test The Doggy Passed 

Tweets of the week:

• this looks like a clip from the office
• This should be a sackable offence.
• The greatest Valentine’s Day video of them all.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich
• John Oliver Keeps Pushing the Rock Up the Hill
• He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive

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Things to think about:

• Welcome to Desocialized Media
• Silicon Valley Goes To War
• “Faking ‘realness’ on a computer doesn’t get us anywhere new.”
• Dan Bongino’s podcast homecoming

 Reference points:

• Meet Gen Alpha
• What (Digital) Audiences Want in 2026

 Longer reads:

• Friction reloaded
• Inside the Secret Smear Machine That’s Targeting Hollywood

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Turing reel
• Super monkey ball

Things to look at/read:

• My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump’s America
• ‘The Superhuman President’
• Going on a bad date is a drag. Worse? Ending up as a cautionary tale on TikTok.

Animal corner:

• this went viral on instagram
• Here is how Brodie fits into his @Little Chonk Backpack
• The curiousity didn’t last long
• ask and you shall receive
• What you don’t hear is me encouraging him and putting on my shoes incase I needed to rescue him
• A day with Lola exploring her new enclosure!
• When everyone applauds you for doing a wee wee outside
• She really stood on business… I’m sorry for doubting you

Tweets of the week:

• it really was exactly like this
• For those mad that Bad Bunny will performing mostly Spanish at halftime and won’t understand, we’ve been listening to Pearl Jam for years and still don’t know what Eddie Vedder is saying
• POV: you’re fumbling queens on 2 different apps…

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• If a tree falls
• Bad lunch
• Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong

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