We Love the Internet 2020/28: The Will Covid kill off the office edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Will Covid kill off the office?
• How Netflix Beat Hollywood to a Generation of Black Content
• TikTok Is Shaping Politics. But How?
• Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App
• I’m a Black social media manager in the age of George Floyd. Each day is a new trauma
• It’s Time to Reclaim the Meaning of the Word ‘Entrepreneur’
• Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
• What Counts as a Streaming Hit? A Start-Up May Have Answers

Reference points:

• Stock photography then and now: The rise of a new aesthetic
• Group Think Fest 2020 – Learnings

Longer reads:

• Is Anyone Watching Quibi?
• The Remaking of Comedy Central
• Why Did the Washington Post Get This Woman Fired?
• Reddit turns 15: The dramatic moments that shaped the internet’s front page
• The Kanye Story

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Chamber no 5
• I Try to Master The Pizza “Slapping” Technique…
• Karens be like..
• You Will Never Look At Stretch Armstrong The Same Again
• Why a Single Little Spot Makes Driving Across “America” Impossible
• Bowser Stunts
• These Are All Cakes

Things to look at/read:

• My Little Pony Fans Are Ready to Admit They Have a Nazi Problem
• How “Starship Troopers” aligns with our moment of American defeat
• Someone is Wrong on the Internet: A Study in Pandemic Distraction
• When “Edgy” Comedy Is Actually Just Lazy
• She was furloughed. So she became ‘Lasagna Lady,’ and made 1,200 pans of free lasagna for those in need.

Animal corner:

• Penguin Relationship Flowchart Shows Intricate Romantic Web
• Baby Animals Are Pure Joy
• This raccoon’s reaction when it runs out of grapes is just priceless
• Say “YEAH”!
• Curious Cat Discovers She Has Ears While Striking Pose in Mirror
• Squirrel is living the best life.
• Seagull stealing a meatball. Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. Photo: Alexander Ivanov Masteral
• This is how dogs apologize..

Tweets of the week:

• Why are there so many pics of them together
• when you have to fight the minotaur
• As lockdown eases my personal pandemic hero is still the gloriously off-message child who did the bottom picture here.
• I’m losing my mind
• Her dad is now my favorite person
• Sometimes Twitter = 👍.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• It is time for reparations
• How the Trump Campaign Is Drawing Obama Out of Retirement
• Thandie Newton Is Finally Ready to Speak Her Mind
• The Decline of the American World
• Twelve Minutes and a Life
• The Trayvon generation
• Boss of the Beach
• The story of O-man, the personal trainer who became The Valley’s secret orgasm whisperer

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We Love the Internet 2020/27: The More than a meal edition

Part 1: For the day job

 

Things to think about:

• How deepfakes could actually do some good
• Why the term “BIPOC” is so complicated, explained by linguists
• Black TikTokers Who Create Viral Dances Are Asking The Platform’s Most Popular Teens To Properly Credit Their Work
• The hosts of The Nod want Spotify to hand over their podcast
• ‘I have more followers than the C of E’: meet the religious stars of Instagram
• This Is Definitely A Test
• Why Slack’s CEO Doesn’t Want to ‘Kill Email’

Reference points:

• Black Lives Matter Brand Responses
• The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures

Longer reads:

• Apple and Facebook
• Down the rabbit hole: how QAnon conspiracies thrive on Facebook
• Quibi before Quibi: The inside story of Jeffrey Katzenberg’s first dot-com failure
• Inside the Social Media Cult That Convinces Young People to Give Up Everything

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Can this $35000 suit survive a Grenade blast?
• This Little Boy Riding A Homemade Backyard Roller Coaster His Grandfather Built Is The Sweetest Thing You’ll Watch Today
• Subaru plays Toto’s “Africa” as door chime
• Swiss acrobats perform at Les Diablerets Alpine reopening
• Why Dubai’s Man-Made Islands Are Still Empty
• This TikTok is one of the many videos that offers a masterclass in plot and character development that I think a lot of people could use
• replace the entire British curriculum with this TikTok

Things to look at/read:

• The Whitewashing of Prince
• An evening of carnal delights as envisioned by my 10-year old self
• The Pandemic’s Worst-Case Scenario Is Unfolding in Brazil
• Can White Portland’s Fragility Handle a Megaquake?
• Artist Imagines Famous Cartoon Characters With Human Bodies And The Result Is Bizarre
• Here’s The Story Behind That Viral TikTok Showing A Baby Getting Tossed In A Pool

Animal corner:

• German Shepherd Learned How to Get into Pool
• Belka(Alaskan Malamute/Siberian Husky),our 20 day old pup howling
• TSA Detection Dog Gets A Huge Surprise Before He Retires
• Hummingbird Whisperer
• Moose in Ottawa man swimming pool
• Cat’s Reaction to Treadmill
• Wait for it
• I’ve watched this tik tok approximately 500-600 times. 20/10 the perfect tik tok

Tweets of the week:

• Lockdown has provided important research time for science
• if y’all can retweet this enough times that Disney calls, that’d be greatly appreciated
• WATCHMEN (HBO, 2019)
• Please watch this 35 second Magnum clip. I have not stopped laughing.
• Current Premier league managers rated as yer step dad A thread:
• my boyfriend trying to be supportive
• I don’t mean to brag, but mine was free
• we hit July everybody!!

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• More Than a Meal
• How I Became a Poker Champion in One Year
• How the Coronavirus will reshape architecture
• One Bar. Twelve Weeks. Seventeen Lives in Lockdown.
• City of Solitude
• What It Takes to Keep a Bar in Business During a Pandemic
• Inside the cult of Trump, his rallies are church and he is the gospel
• Did Cards Against Humanity’s ironic humor mask a toxic culture all along?

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We Love the Internet 2020/26: The Celebrities are not all right edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why Zoom meetings are so dissatisfying
• The best new products introduce only one new thing.
• What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride
• Pepsi’s $32 Billion Typo Caused Deadly Riots
• Sports Media Giant Bill Simmons Finds Himself Playing Defense
• Reality TV’s Racism Problem Is Impossible to Ignore
• Early thoughts on the impact of CV19 on British attitudes & the national mood
• Burger King’s secret sauce: CMO Fernando Machado shares its unique creative methods

Reference points:

• How the Virus Won
• You know Karen
• Subscription Mooching & Streaming Media
• Mastering TikTok Mobile Ads: Takeaways from Six Months in the Self-Serve Beta
• A catalogue of Trump’s worst cruelties, collusions, corruptions and crimes

Longer reads:

• The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You This
• Caught in the mushy middle: How Quartz fell to earth
• Are We Ever Offline Anymore?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• concatenation 2
• Movie Poster Expert Explains Color Schemes
• Launching a FULL SIZE Car into Space with Dynamite
• Pubs opening, but gyms closed?
• Fuck me this made me laugh
• guy in a relationship talks about his lockdown
• Move over Eminem there’s a new crew in town
• late night tv except i play all the hosts and guests

Things to look at/read:

• Has Coronavirus Killed the Menu? An Ode to the Restaurant Staple
• This is the word that exists in all human languages, according to research.
• The Magic of Rick Rubin Is in What He Doesn’t Do
• Revenge of the Suburbs
• The trampling of Venice shows why tourism must change after Covid-19

Animal corner:

• Tiniest Puppy Loves To Race Around On His Wheels
• Dogs Wearing Bread Masks
• yeah fuck those stringy bits man
• Hungry, hungry…Husky?! I think she cheated at the end…
• if anyone’s ever wondered how they weigh a koala…
• Kora the caracal kitten has perfected her ear flick.
• I put my microphone in front of a 7 week old baby red squirrel.
• I want what this dog has

Tweets of the week:

• My furloughed housemate coming in for some casual 4pm chit-chat
• Skills. Wait for it
• Some Dublin clouds this evening.
• Someone please take iMovie away from me
• it’s like a youtube comments section come to life
• Don’t remember Churchill being so easily distracted
• “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAD FORTY TICKETS?!”
• the plan? stop testing patients for coronavirus to make the number of active cases go down

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Celebrities Are Not All Right
• The Power of Black Lives Matter
• My Family Saw a Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween. Then I Learned How NYPD Impunity Works.
• How The Antifa Fantasy Spread In Small Towns Across The US
• Could Bruce Lee win a real fight?
• The end of tourism?
• Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness
• Performing Whiteness

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We Love the Internet 2020/25: The Lego tapas factory edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Pandemic Organizers Are Co-opting Productivity Software
• The Pandemic Ad Salutes You
• Spotify staked its future on podcasts. Then the pandemic changed how we listen
• Inside Operation Pridefall: 4chan’s Attempt to Bring Down Pride 2020

Reference points:

• 100 Ways White People Can Make Life Less Frustrating for People of Colour
• 14 Films By Black Filmmakers That Everyone Should Watch In 2020
• The best scenes from 35 years of Studio Ghibli movies

Longer reads:

• Replaying my shame
• Going Broke in Hollywood: TV’s Overworked Assistants Reel From Pandemic Pay Cuts
• Pandemics have fueled the rise of mega-corporations—and they’ll do it again

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Lego Tapas Factory
• The Swish Machine: 70 Step Basketball Trickshot
• Wolverine Bone Claws VS CONCRETE!
• Eh, the clothes will probably be fine for another week..
• When The Customer Is Always Right & The Loader Don’t Give A Fuq
• This Norwegian advert for the return of the Premier League is beautiful, brilliant and unsettling in equal measure.
• Knuffelberen
• If Cardi B Did The Sound Effects For Star Wars – Episode II

Things to look at/read:

• Monopolies Normal People Have No Clue Exist
• A visual guide to banknotes around the world
• A deep dive into the archives of Zara’s most ridiculous model poses
• A Legendary Hip-Hop Archive Finds a Home in Harlem
• The Incredible Story of the US Army’s Earth-Shaking, Off-Road Land Trains

Animal corner:

• We don’t deserve dogs
• what in the world kind of pig cat eats like this
• My dog does this every time we set the table and I cannot stress enough how much I respect her optimism
• and i’ll do it again bitch
• Me ignoring “3-5 years experience preferred” and applying for the job anyway
• Man reluctantly gets into pond.
• Friction is for losers.
• I can’t fucking stop watching this tik tokkkk

Tweets of the week:

• i’m awake at 3 am and i just want everyone to know what gen z says about millennials on tiktok…..
• My dad (who is a stonemason) CARVED MY BOOK IN STONE for my birthday
• Holy shit, Icke was right.
• To make sure nobody shares a photo of you, put a GettyImages® watermark on your face mask.
• Surprise appointment in League 1 as HM The Queen is unveiled as the new Blackpool manager.
• I would love to show someone from 1995 this picture and ask them what they think is happening here
• Imagine if Shake Shack actually did poison those milkshakes. And then the government was like, “please don’t do that.” And then they did it again and killed 1000 ppl every year for roughly 50 years. And then when ppl got upset and were like, maybe we should abolish Shake Shack
• My 72 year-old mother just informed me she is going to her first “sex party” and doesn’t know what to bring. After some delicate questioning, “Gender Reveal, Mom. It’s called a Gender Reveal.”

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• My Secret Life as a Personal Assistant to “America’s Most Eligible Man”
• Go Get Your Knife: The Oral History of Deftones’ ‘White Pony’
• From homeless refugee to chess prodigy, 9-year-old dreams of becoming youngest grandmaster
• The man in the iron lung
• The American Nightmare
• The Story Behind Bill Barr’s Unmarked Federal Agents
• What Lockdown? World’s Cocaine Traffickers Sniff at Movement Restrictions
• The power of crowds

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We Love the Internet 2020/24: The Incalculable loss edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Inside Nextdoor’s ‘Karen Problem’
• Cop shows won’t just disappear. How can we reinvent them?
• Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Big Newsrooms
• A Twitter joke about MSNBC and World War Z turned into a misinformation nightmare
• How Google Docs became the social media of the resistance
• TikTok Pivots From Dance Moves To A Racial Justice Movement
• Worst. Deal. Ever
• ‘Morally Impossible’: Some Advertisers Take a Timeout From Facebook

Reference points:

• Incalculable Loss
• An interactive guide to ambiguous grammar
• 50 ideas that changed my life
• Classic GTA sites
• You shall not pass

Longer reads:

• The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance
• Never-ending Niches
• The virtual economy
• Tinder CEO Elie Seidman On Finding Love During The Pandemic
• The Gospel According to Peter Thiel

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Schitt’s Creek feat. Mariah Carey
• The Avengers Of Oz
• I Faked My Instagram for a Week and The World Believed It…
• How This Guy Stacks Playing Cards Impossibly High
• Farmer has a rough day at work
• killing eve in under 5 minutes (parody)
• I have no idea who did this, but if you know, find them and tag them. One of the best things I’ve seen on this app this week
• This is better than The Fugitive

Things to look at/read:

• Slosh! Slurp! Welcome to the ‘Walktail’ Party
• Training a Dog
• We’ve Now Entered the Final Phase of the Trump Era
• Echoes in the Chelsea Hotel
• Revisiting TGI Fridays and the Revolutionary “Fern” Bars of Late-1960s New York
• Five Surprising Things I Learned from Partying with Rich People
• The last images ever taken
• How apples go bad

Animal corner:

• Puppy Has ‘Fainting Goat Syndrome’
• Dog Helps Owner Dig Holes For Plants
• New York dog snags Guinness World Record for holding six tennis balls in his mouth, on his own
• Today in find the cat
• At moment there’s a lot going on in the world so here’s a video of my waving cat sox to make you smile
• The emus are performing arcane summoning rituals in the backyard again.
• the mortifying ordeal of being known

Tweets of the week:

• It’s more than just the police.
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty (2001)
• me after guessing the password of my own email
• I AM DYING
• I’ve no idea of the origins of this but this wonderful lady made me laugh so much, I want to share the joy
• Fucking hell, how fast was that rollercoaster going?
• this is the best meme actually
• I’ve watched this 936 times

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
• The Remaking of Steve Buscemi
• The Business of Building Utopia
• The new theatrics of remote therapy
• How RuneScape is helping Venezuelans survive
• The inequality engine

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We Love the Internet 2020/23: The 8m46s edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Secret Lives of Perfect Social Distancers
• The Brands, They Are A-Postin’
• Influencers Say Instagram Is Biased Against Plus-Size Bodies, And They May Be Right
• She Gets Calls And Texts Meant For Elon Musk. Some Are Pretty Weird
• Joe Rogan helped create a podcast culture on YouTube, and now he’s leaving it
• Microsoft Solitaire turns 30 years old today and still has 35 million monthly players
• Zoom is giving fandoms a new place to hang
• What’s next for BuzzFeed News? ‘We will never just be pizza and kittens’

Reference points:

• 8m 46s
• Mapping police violence
• Is 2020 over
• The 50 Most Powerful LGBTQ Players in Hollywood
• Picturing Lockdown Collection
• 30 Movies That Are Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before
• Opening an account
• Netflix: Cooked?

Longer reads:

• On the Spotify-Joe Rogan Deal and the Coming Death of Independent Podcasting
• Team Biden: The Media Is Fucking Up the Election Again
• Quarantine is creating brand-new gamers
• Sex Workers Built OnlyFans. Now They Say They’re Getting Kicked Off
• When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
• The History of the Future

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• 8 Minutes and 46 Seconds: How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody
• Everything I need to know to survive Covid-19 I learned by watching horror and sci-fi movies
• David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Reports
• Here’s why Larry Bird is the best trash talker in the NBA
• The Craziest Edit in Beatles History
• Face mask shuts up when it sees people

Things to look at/read:

• Why So Many Police Are Handling the Protests Wrong
• Time, it is a-changin’
• The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S.
• We Need To Rethink Our “Pics Or It Didn’t Happen” Approach To Activism
• The Cult of Elon Is Cracking
• Here’s Why Men Are Pointing Loaded Guns at Their Dicks
• America’s most illegal record has been obliterated
• Britain’s Historic Castles Face “Armageddon” as Coronavirus Torpedoes Tourist Season

Animal corner:

• Cat’s Reaction to Treadmill
• Playful Kitten Doesn’t Want Owners to Watch Series
• “Kiss From A Rose” By Seals
• El emotivo reencuentro entre una burra y su dueño tras el confinamiento
• Bulldog meets a group of steers
• Cows Sneak up on Preoccupied Pug
• Cat Pack Unfriendly Towards Pooch
• the most polite “no thank you” i have ever seen

Tweets of the week:

• Wow, I love this song.
• Trump began his term promising to build a wall to protect America from the world. He ends it building a wall to protect himself from Americans.
• Do you see the small difference in headlines. Why didn’t @JohnBoyega headline state he wins praise before focusing on the negative. The difference in reporting are the small things that lead to the big things!
• This letter by the head of a Sheffield Primary School is everything I would want my children to be taught. If he can do it, why can’t all schools?
• WHITE DUDES WHITESPLAINING MARTIN LUTHER KING TO HIS SON. ENJOY.
• Thank you for your interest in wiping out half of humanity. We are experiencing a high volume of apocalypse right now. Your apocalypse is very important to us. The next available group of self-identified experts with no experience in the field will be with you shortly.
• Old electric toothbrush heads make ideal ‘AirPods’ for people who don’t really like music

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• History Will Judge the Complicit
• Stewed Awakening
• Blow Up the Restaurant Industry and Start Over
• How Japan’s global image morphed from military empire to eccentric pop-culture superpower
• Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown
• The twilight of the Iranian revolution

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We Love the Internet 2020/22: The Party in a shared Google doc edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Party in a Shared Google Doc
• The New Model Media Star Is Famous Only to You
• Quibi Revamps Programming After Rocky Start for Short-Video App
• Wannabe influencers are being trained to film a believable YouTube apology video
• Step inside the Hype House, the LA mansion where TikTok dreams are made
• The secrets behind the runaway success of Apple’s AirPods
• After 25 Years of Streaming, the World Can’t Live Without It

Reference points:

• The Vice guide to 2030
• 2020 Winners and Shortlist Galleries
• How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users

Longer reads:

• The Epic Games Primer: Parts I-VI Directory
• The Prophecies of Q
• OnlyFans, Influencers, And The Politics Of Selling Nudes During A Pandemic
• The Gif is dead. Long live the Gif
• Sony CEO Yoshida navigates coronavirus and activist attacks
• I recreated my local pub in VR
• The hacker who saved the internet
• Motherhood Through The Looking ‘Gram

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Your Dad Teaches Loading the Dishwasher
• Rory Sutherland’s 10 rules of alchemy
• Parks and Roncreation
• The power of vulnerability
• This is what people meant when they said great art would come out of the hardship of the pandemic
• Salam Aidilfitri from my family to yours!

Things to look at/read:

• What your toys say about you: Spanning 58 countries, Toy Stories is a photographic study of the objects children love most
• The reckoning of Tyra Banks
• Here’s your 2020 name of the year bracket
• The Un-Heroic Reality of Being an ‘Essential’ Restaurant Worker

Animal corner:

• Watch This Bobcat Make An Incredibly Long, Nearly Impossible Leap Across The Water
• Have a nice day, everyone. Here is a video of my cat who sleeps with a cardboard cutout of Danny Devito and gets mad when you try to take it from him.

Tweets of the week:

• I will never recover from this
• There’s no fucking way, I’ve been living a lie all this time
• I never understood all the fuss around interfaith marriage. Then I watched my non-Jewish husband cut a bagel like this, and honestly, I get it now.
• Me preparing for the test The questions on the test
• I’m never deleting this app. Y’all can go to HELL.
• Absolute banger
• tonight.. we dine like kings
• when you fire all the arts and entertainment writers so the remaining straight dude on staff who usually just covers sports has to do the tweet

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• My appetites
• Ranking the 101 Best Characters Who Died on ‘Game of Thrones’
• Putin Is Well on His Way to Stealing the Next Election
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: An Oral History
• OnlyFans, Influencers, And The Politics Of Selling Nudes During A Pandemic

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We Love the Internet 2020/21: The Miracle sudoku edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• As Cable TV Fades, Fearing ‘the End of Comedy Central’
• Mind-Melting AI Makes Frank Sinatra Sing “Toxic” by Britney Spears
• TikTok is the new Young Hollywood
• Zoom fatigue is something the deaf community knows very well
• Who is MrBeast?
• Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
• Typefaces have personality – and can be political
• How to keep TV title sequences relevant in a post-“Skip Intro” world

Reference points:

• 100 best social ads
• 50 insights from Hollywood
• Top 50 sports documentaries of all time
• Wealth shown to scale
• 10 Outrageous Wikipedia Articles That Will Send You Down a Rabbit Hole

Longer reads:

• Digital around the world in April 2020
• Inside the Clubhouse
• How HBO took on the streaming wars
• ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘The Rise of Skywalker,’ and the Challenges of Modern Fandom
• TikTok Boom! How the Exploding Social Media App Is Going Hollywood
• Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?
• OK branding
• Yoga With Adriene: How the YouTube Star Won Lockdown

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The miracle Sudoku
• Make Better Virtual Keynotes
• 10 Weirdest Videos on YouTube
• Storm drain surfing
• The Anderson guide to surviving a global pandemic
• Inspector Gadget for 8 cellos
• Dan Dubuque covering Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name Of” on Weissenborn Slide Guitar
• Our letting agent asked us to make a video of the flat we are basically being forced out of. I wish them the very best of luck.

Things to look at/read:

• Why Nostalgia Is Our New Normal
• Inside LearnedLeague, the Enduring Online World of Trivia Fanatics
• The same people who put Trump in office run the NFL. No wonder it’s not diverse
• The buying and selling of “fuck”

Animal corner:

• ‘It started as a joke’: the animal Zoom calls delighting a locked-down public
• Dog And Mailman Have The Sweetest Relationship
• Cute Baby Bunnies think the Golden Retriever is their Mother
• The Company Meeting
• Decided to play a tune to welcome a new pup and well, we think he liked it.
• When you get your big TV break on the same day your cats finally decide to sort it out once and for all
• I love puddles

Tweets of the week:

• That’s the last time I help my mum do a Tiktok
• Can’t quite believe my eyes
• I don’t know who needs to see this but here is another use for your shoes aside from wearing them
• This is a fucking novel.
• this is excellent
• It nearly killed me, but here it is: The intro to Buffy the Vampire Slayer recreated using only stock footage
• Celebrities: wow for once ppl won’t recognize us in public with these face masks Diane Keaton:
• zoom needs a button that plays wrap it up music like at the oscars

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The stuntman
• I flew to Greece and began solo IVF. Then the world shut down
• How ‘Karen’ Became a Coronavirus Villain
• The Man who thought too fast
• What Happened to Val Kilmer? He’s Just Starting to Figure It Out.
• How Profit and Incompetence Delayed N95 Masks While People Died at the VA
• The Men Behind the Hockey Mask
• The Man Who Runs 365 Marathons a Year

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We Love the Internet 2020/20: The Slow death of modern journalism edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Slow Death of Modern Journalism
• Anna Wintour Made Condé Nast the Embodiment of Boomer Excess. Can It Change to Meet This Crisis?
• The Open Information Ecosystem
• With nothing left to watch, the entertainment business turns on itself
• ‘Zoom fatigue’ is taxing the brain. Here’s why that happens.
• How Instagram Live Became Appointment Viewing
• Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job
• There are only three memes, OR: there is only one meme

Reference points:

• Every episode of The Office recreated in Slack
• The A-Z Of AI
• Get Lost in the Stacks of These Stunning Libraries You Can Virtually Tour
• World press photo of the year

Longer reads:

• ‘It’s bullshit’: Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping
• The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
• The Week the Cameras Stopped: TV in the COVID-19 Era
• The Globalization of The Simpsons: A Study of Satire in International Media

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This is a music challenge, testing how well you recognize historic hits.
• How Netflix Turned ‘Tiger King’ Into a Viral Sensation
• London in 1927 & 2013
• Unreal Engine 5 Revealed
• Fred Armisen Does Every North American Accent
• Rocksmith – The Who – My Generation – guitar + bass
• How to grief
• jerry stiller making JLD break is still one of the funniest things ever

Things to look at/read:

• It’s Time to Take Octopus Civilization Seriously
• Commissioner Resigns After He Threw a Cat During Zoom Meeting
• Calvin and Hobbes and quarantine
• Instagram Filters Are Changing the Way We Think About Makeup
• The Enduring Appeal of the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Processed Snack
• During the pandemic, models get a digital makeover
• You Can Bet on Anything Now

Animal corner:

• American Hedgehog Warrior: Course 3
• Meet Buddy and Barley, the doggy duo delivering beer during lockdown
• Hey Finnegan Fox
• Pup Can’t Pass up Popcorn Snack
• Gwang Bok vs Milky
• DOG carrying a big LOG
• congratulations to my cat on getting stuck between the window and the window screen

Tweets of the week:

• wales has fallen
• Bit of a mic drop, this.
• Just me who thought this?
• Tricky start to the season for Pollen FC
• my wife witnessed a miracle today & yelled across the house with an urgency that had me sprinting. I thought something terrible had happened but when i came into the kitchen she said: Look…
• Fuck it. I’m doing it: Men of Middle Earth as bad ex boyfriends who ruined your life:
• I screeeeamed at this TikTok. When you notice an author’s crutch word, it’s so hard to unsee it.
• i would like to talk about this video of snoop dogg listening to the frozen soundtrack in his parked car

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Pitch Perfect: The History and Influence of the Pitchfork 10.0
• Bellagio Bandit: How One Man Robbed Vegas’ Biggest Casino and Almost Got Away
• The Eruption Of Instagram Island
• The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Female-Fronted First-Person Shooter
• Disposable People
• The $20 theory of the universe

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We Love the Internet 2020/19: The Stuck in 2020, pretending it’s 2014 edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Stuck in 2020, pretending it’s 2014
• Five improvements in the design of coronavirus coverage
• The Worst Rebrand in the History of Orange Juice
• Pandemic Advertising Got Weird Fast
• How film and television production can safely resume in a COVID-19 world
• $1 Billion Video-Game Coaching Business Ramps Up During Lockdown
• Is esports prepared for the coming influx of freed-up marketing spend?
• The Parks and Rec reunion special was pretty good. Please don’t let it be the future of TV.

Reference points:

• The Five Levels of Remote Work — and why you’re probably at Level 2
• The Infinite Monkey Theorem Experiment
• Chaz’s 100 things a planner should know
• Estelle Caswell Interview
• Martech 5000 — really 8,000, but who’s counting?
• A state-of-the-art open source chatbot
• All the things COVID-19 will change forever, according to 30 top experts

Longer reads:

• Content, Cars, and Comparisons in the “Streaming Wars”
• How ‘Mad Men’ Became the Perfect Show for the Pandemic
• In the Coronavirus era, the force is still with Jack Dorsey
• Embracing the chaotic side of Zoom
• The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder awaiting trial on federal charges of ‘massive fraud’
• Mary Meeker’s coronavirus trends report

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• 5 Things About Formats
• Different types of Zoomers
• I Turned a 1920’s Typewriter into an EDM Drum Machine
• How Much Core Strength Do Olympic Swimmers Have? This Much

Things to look at/read:

• The Dawn of Quarcore: What Prepper Fashion Can Tell Us About the Future of Clothes
• An inspired photographer, a disrupted senior class and 500 portraits that capture what they lost
• After Years on the Decline, Hepatitis C Is Returning — Primarily Among Millennials
• Kansas City Is Now Home to a BBQ Vending Machine
• Why People Return to the Sports That Nearly Killed Them
• How a Random Guy Made the #2 Movie in America for $1,000

Animal corner:

• Why your pet is acting like a weirdo during quarantine, explained by animal behaviorists
• ‘Brody’ the dog interrupts Paul Dellegatto’s weathercast
• Seymour Enjoying His Avocado Snack
• Two Week Old Golden Retriever Puppy Can’t Find Mom
• My cat just locked up my dog lmfaooooo
• unmute this im begging you im BEGGING YOU

Tweets of the week:

• The silver linings list
• My kid wrote a song called, “I Wonder What’s Inside your Butthole” Quite honestly, it slaps.
• when Ethan Hawke made his son switch seats just so he could talk to Rihanna.
• From that position? I’m not going to lie that is one of the most incredible things I’ve seen. Just how?
• The best tik tok I’ve seen
• Really loving The Last Dance documentary.
• She’s turned the W X Æ A-NS against us

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Generation freefall
• My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?
• The Once and Future Sneaker King
• The Jordans Rule: The Heart of Today’s Billion-Dollar Sneaker-Collecting Boom Is 35 Years Old
• To Run My Best Marathon at Age 44, I Had to Outrun My Past

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