We Love the Internet 2018/33: The Complicating the narratives edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
• Women’s Media Is a Scam
• The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no-one

Reference points:

• The Top 10 TV Episodes of the 21st Century
• The 100 best one star reviews of The Catcher In The Rye

Longer reads:

• Complicating the Narratives
• Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This is a Chicken Wing
• Rubber Chicken Vacuum Cleaner Challenge
• These human face pies are the stuff of nightmares
• Guy Deploys Airbag Underneath Reclining Chair

Things to look at/read:

• A small-town couple left behind a stolen painting worth over $100 million — and a big mystery
• Bill Maher Is Stand-up Comedy’s Past. Hannah Gadsby Represents Its Future.
• When Men Decide It’s Time to Say Sorry

Animal corner:

• When you are 9 levels of skill higher than your opponent
• Bored? Let’s play a game! Retweet once you see the cat.

Tweets of the week:

• I just found out I have a FUNKY WHITE SISTER
• That judge isn’t fucking about
• What’s your favourite painting of Nicolas Cage trying to breastfeed a smaller Nicolas Cage? Here’s mine:
• Howay lads time and place
• Dear Bron, I wrote you but you still ain’t call me…
• Joey Barton looking like he’s about to tell us why the iPhone 11 costs two grand.
• Can’t… stop… watching
• Here’s something I never thought I’d see. @DaveBensonPhill giving a bronco buster

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Alt-Right Troll To Father Killer: The Unraveling Of Lane Davis
• How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1%
• How e-commerce is transforming rural China
• Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide
• The New Gwen Stefani Is A Lot Like The Old One
• Can Andy Byford save the subways?
• My son, Osama: the al-Qaida leader’s mother speaks for the first time

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We Love the Internet 2018/32: The We are all public figures now edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment
• Go90 or bust: How AwesomenessTV’s fate was tied to Verizon
• Facebook Lenses
• Don’t feed the trolls, and other hideous lies
• Netflix Isn’t Being Reckless, It’s Just Playing a Game No One Else Dares

Reference points:

• The 100 best TV episodes of the century
• The Best TV Episode of the Century Is …
• The toxic power of music stans
• Stop letting the data decide

Longer reads:

• We are all public figures now
• Previously On: How Recaps Changed the Way We Watch Television
• The endless reign of Rupert Murdoch
• “Google was not a normal place”
• Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How Does Netflix Make Money?
• Trippy RollerCoaster Ride
• how is prangent formed
• How to Make an A24 Movie
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) – HALO Jump Stunt Behind The Scenes
• Bohemian Rhapsody, but it spells out Bohemian Rhapsody.
• The Truth About Tanacon

Things to look at/read:

• Nine Things I Learned When I Became a Honeymoon Planner for Billionaires
• I Explored The World Of Japanese Dating Apps And It’s More Different Than I Imagined

Animal corner:

• Mad Malamute After Bath Won’t Look At Me!
• Cats In Japanese Cat Cafe Somehow Sense An Earthquake Before It Even Hits
• They finally caught me in the act!
• Bless this doggo who stole a GoPro
• This is how one dog moves 2000 sheep
• Not sure of source but oh my god?????
• When you are worried about robots taking your job
• This picture will never stop making me laugh

Tweets of the week:

• This is glorious. Absolute perfection
• Adidas Boss: “You completed that Leicester City project I gave you? Season starts in 8 days?” Adidas Intern: “What Project?”
• Is Jamie Oliver going to…. cook his children
• G(old)
• I adjusted the audio as it really should have been. You’re welcome.
• I can’t decide if this is Inverness being super friendly by having signs specifically dedicated to giving Little Mix directions, or being horrible by trying to start rumours about them.
• *notices a slight change in the way something tastes* me:
• Clippy! Is that you, old friend?

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
• Inhuman resources
• Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood: Who’s the “Crazy Evil Genius” Behind a Global Racket?
• Jameela Jamil: ​’I won’t become a double agent for the patriarchy’
• It’s Harder Than It Looks to Write Clearly

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We Love the Internet 2018/31: The Public humiliation diet edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• I Infiltrated A Scheming Website, Published A Trending Article, And Upset A Lot Of People
• Shoot, Match and the glory days of football magazines for teenagers
• “We’re in This Amazing Golden Era of Documentary”
• We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air.
• ‘Never had a chance’: Inside Verizon’s $1 billion bad bet on Go90
• The Messy Fourth Estate

Reference points:

• The Hipster Index: Brighton Pips Portland to Global Top Spot
• 3D maps of every Underground station
• Lessons for showcasing data journalism on social media

Longer reads:

• The Public Humiliation Diet
• Alibaba v. Tencent: The Battle for Supremacy in China
• The man who created the world wide web has some regrets
• The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet
• The Inside Story of How HelloFresh Clawed Its Way to the Top
• Meet The 29-Year-Old Trying To Become The King Of Mexican Fake News

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Quentin Tarantino and the Poetry Between the Lines
• Jimmy Fallon uses the same joke, over and over again
• This is America – shittyfluted
• Movers Accidentally Drop Wardrobe off Balcony
• The Art Of Making Noodles By Hand
• Man Doesn’t Tell His Wife That She’s About To Touch An Electric Fence And Oh Boy
• A Look Back at this Month – 20 Years Ago – JULY 98
• Why TV shows have better gay characters than movies

Things to look at/read:

• In Praise of Being Washed
• RuPaul Perpetuates The Myth That Black Progress Is Tied To White Acceptance
• Learning How to Cruise
• The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon

Animal corner:

• Cat Freaks out After Owner Disappears
• Knocked out by elephant
• Me for twenty minutes in the shower after I’ve finished cleaning myself.
• Just needs a little help
• There’s no better way to kick off the weekend than watching bears trying to get in a hammock.
• Me, when someone offers me healthy food.
• Is it just me or does Riley sound like he’s singing toxic by Britney Spears?
• Heard a big ass crash in my bedroom…

Tweets of the week:

• Everyone can turn off the internet and go outside to play now, I’ve found the best meme.
• Peter Mitchell worked as a truck driver in Leeds in the 1970s, photographing the city during his rounds. What a find he is.
• Here is my acting reel from when I was an audience member on The Steve Harvey Show
• I love Sleater-Kinney
• Just been sent this..
• this man has been thinking about this for 6 years
• i recorded my calc professor for an entire semester, I hope he never sees this but… GOOOD MORNINGGGG
• Found on the train and submitted without comment, one of the most astonishing things I have ever happened across.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• A Journey Into The Dark Heart Of Celebrity Relationship Conspiracy Theories
• The Lost City of Trump
• Bobbitt vs Bobbitt
• How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco
• Living alone and liking it
• The Warrior Pose
• One man’s mission to bring better ramen to the incarcerated
• After the fall

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We Love the Internet 2018/30: The White fragility in the workplace edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Inside the Villa: How Love Island Made a Sizzling Success of Social-First TV
• WeRateDogs Is Once Again In Hot Water On Twitter
• Here’s the final nail in the coffin of open plan offices
• Five Reasons Why 2018 Has Been the Year of the TV Sophomore Slump

Reference points:

• Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster. What if That’s Actually True?
• “Unporn” is the photo stock collection for those suggestive, naughty moments

Longer reads:

• Inside the Crypto World’s Biggest Scandal
• The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• White Fragility In The Workplace
• Aaron Paul Discovers Bryan Cranston Living in Breaking Bad RV
• Aubrey Plaza is really WEIRD and…AWKWARD
• America’s Ramen Obsession, Explained
• – B L U R S T – O F – T I M E S –
• Burglary suspect weeps after recognizing judge from middle school
• 82-year-old Shridhar Chillal with longest nails finally trims them after 66 years
• A GoPro Adventure in Les 3 Vallees

Things to look at/read:

• A million miles from Love Island: what I learned from being on Shipwrecked
• ‘One winner played on the toilet’: inside HQ Trivia, the hit quiz app

Animal corner:

• Panic/Anxiety Service Dog Alert on video
• Beekeepers have trained dogs to sniff out diseased larva and save entire hives.
• The fox I planted last year is coming along nicely.
• alaskan melonmute puppies grow in fields, and can use their melon body to stay cool on hot days.
• the comedic timing on this gif is fucking incredible
• i cannot believe the miracle i just witnessed – this dog just chased down a skateboarder until he stopped and the owner ran over – “SO sorry, he honestly just loves skateboards” AND THEN HE DID THIS:

Tweets of the week:

• THOR RAGNAROK BUT IT’S AN ANIME INTRO THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING
• Honestly this sounds like a perfect day
• THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS I’VE EVER SEEN HAHA
• folks,,, i just stumbled on perhaps the greatest Venn diagram of all time
• The following data relies heavily on the work of the blogger at “Her Majesty’s Jewel Box”
• Behold one of the most brilliant criminal minds of the Twenty-First Century:
• Geoffrey the Toys R Us giraffe enters a rumble and gets eliminated by Amazon package
• So far so good. I think.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Most Important Soccer Game Ever Played
• When Children Say They’re Trans
• The staggering rise of India’s super-rich
• ‘Nothing to worry about. The water is fine’: how Flint poisoned its people

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We Love the Internet 2018/29: The How do you eat a slice of pizza edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The World Needs Netflix Minis
• The Times Has Sacked An Award-Winning Reporter For Running A Fake Review Scam
• How alt-right Twitter tricks the media into panicking
• Why are memes of black people reacting so popular online?

Reference points:

• The best Mario Kart character according to data science
• 100 greatest YouTube videos of all time, ranked
• Why we shouldn’t trust our gut instinct (pdf)

Longer reads:

• The perverse incentives that helps incels thrive in tech
• Elon Musk Has Always Been At War With The Media
• A wide-ranging, unabashedly honest conversation about why tech companies aren’t diverse — and how to fix them
• How I Broke, and Botched, the Brandon Teena Story
• ‘I was shocked it was so easy’: ​meet the professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you’re gay

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• A Boy Ate 150 Gummy Vitamins For Breakfast. This Is What Happened To His Bones.
• The most American event we’ve ever seen.

Things to look at/read:

• A Long Answer to a Simple Question: How Do You Eat a Slice of Pizza?
• 17 Places Book Lovers Need to Visit
• Die Hard at 30: how it remains the quintessential American action movie

Animal corner:

• Humans should stop meddling with pandas and let them die
• A Boy Squashed Between Two Cows On Live TV
• Hilarious moment cat crashes Polish historian interview on Dutch TV
• Tiger Slowly Creeps Up Behind Visitors
• The subtitles have me dead
• Why does ma Nana’s dog look like he’s trying tae see what he wants tae order from the chippy

Tweets of the week:

• This is an absolutely perfect picture.
• It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie
• You 1000% cannot convince me that this is not the sleeping body of the god of elephants, resting among the waves until the time of man is done
• Oh my god. North Carolina FC just gave us both the best and worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life…
• Ok this summer is now so hot it officially qualifies as a plot device in a literary novel
• The internet is forever undefeated!
• Great, cheers mate, just make sure you don’t put my eggs at the bottom

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The reputation-laundering firm that ruined its own reputation
• The Death of a Once Great City
• Music’s Unsung LGBTQ Heroes
• What Is the Gayest Marvel Movie?
• The age of patriarchy: how an unfashionable idea became a rallying cry for feminism today
• The Hod complex: England and the 1998 world cup

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We Love the Internet 2018/28: The How Nathan Fielder undresses people edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How National Geographic uses Instagram to stay relevant
• Netflix’s Content Budget Is Bigger Than It Seems (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 1)
• The crazy hacks one woman used to make money on mechanical turk
• The Guardian finds less polished video works better on Instagram Stories
• The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens
• Creators are making longer videos to cater to the YouTube algorithm
• Netflix is moving television beyond time-slots and national markets

Reference points:

• 15 principles of good service design

Longer reads:

• How innovation is maturing, creating new kinds of firms that disrupt the professional services market
• The Legend of Nintendo
• Digital Dust

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How Nathan Fielder Undresses People
• In Search of Forgotten Colours – Sachio Yoshioka and the Art of Natural Dyeing
• Smooth Criminal But Every Other Beat is Missing
• Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” | Talks at Google
• here’s that botched Canadian convenience store robbery set to Metal Gear Solid music
• Flying Port-A-Potty Sprays Unholy Liquid Everywhere As Strong Winds Blow It Into Space
• Poker Player Celebrates $1 Million Win Before Last Card Is Dealt, Which Turns Out To Be A Very Bad Idea
• Dylan Alcott sneaks Wu-Tang lyrics on live TV

Things to look at/read:

• I Am Sick! And Tired! Of That Pink Doctor from ‘Love Island’!
• My Suicide Week
• Meet the guys who tape Trump’s papers back together
• Toned down for what? How ‘chill’ turned toxic

Animal corner:

• Madrid police dog gives CPR
• So that’s how you stop a kangaroo fight

Tweets of the week:

• When you try to log in to your uni website but it calls you an invalid nonce
• Brands now after pride month has ended
• Am I wasted or is that scoobie doo in my pint?
• JURASSIC PARK, but everyone including the dinosaurs is wearing high heels
• Will always think of this GIF when I see Ronaldo.
• I’ve had enough
• …and Beckham is now a baby. Fucking hell.
• Wondered why the car blowers didn’t seem very effective then realised half of them were set to ’email’ instead of ‘bacon’

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘It’s nothing like a broken leg’: why I’m done with the mental health conversation
• The unbelievable story of one of America’s bloodiest hitmen
• The Lifespan of a Lie
• How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective
• The radical lessons of a year reporting on knife crime

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We Love the Internet 2018/27: The Body positivity is a scam edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Growing Pains: The Challenge of Launching a Prestige Network in 2018
• We’re In an Epidemic of Mistrust in Science
• GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button
• Elizabeth Holmes is trying to start a new company
• Scooter companies tried to barge into San Francisco and got kicked out. Now they’re making big promises to get legal.

Reference points:

• How Instagram’s algorithm works
• National Security Agency (NSA) security/motivational posters from the 1950s and 1960s (pdf)
• 60 thoughts.
• The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly

Longer reads:

• Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web
• How WeWork became the most hyped startup in the world

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why this skateboarding trick should be IMPOSSIBLE
• Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: 1000 Shot NERF Blaster!

Things to look at/read:

• Body Positivity Is a Scam
• Bananas have died out once before–don’t let it happen again
• My So-Called (Millennial) Entitlement
• What White Girl Coming-of-Age Movies Don’t Do For a Black Girl
• Average

Animal corner:

• Cat Stuck in Trashcan
• Golden retriever & our toddler: partners in crime
• Friends Please wait for the last 5 seconds : )
• this challenge is the purest thing I have seen in a while
• WhatTheFluffChallenge

Tweets of the week:

• keep forgetting
• Drink! Feck! Girls! Brexit!
• the way he changes his voice lmao! “Big ass dinosaur”
• exe has stopped working
• The Senegal warm-up is even better with Ducktales music.
• Are there photos of Macron where he *doesn’t* look like a Bond villain?
• 2009: “As Twitter grows, it will increasingly become a place where companies build brands, do research, send information to customers, conduct e-commerce and create communities for their users.” – Time 2018:

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed.
• Wrestling in Paris
• The Trouble With Johnny Depp
• The 30 Best Superhero Movies Since Blade

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