We Love the Internet 2016/15: The Secret rules of the internet edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• What HBO’s Vinyl Shake-up Tells Us About the Network’s Drama Problem
• Facebook, phones and phonebooks
• Louis C.K.’s online miniseries Horace and Pete might change TV as we know it
• The state of the WWE network after 2 years
• Facebook Wanted A Fight Against Fake News. It Got One.
• “Racist algorithms” and learned helplessness

Reference points:

• The dark side of Guardian comments
• The letter of the law
• There Are Now 2,000 YouTube Channels With At Least One Million Subscribers
• How reporters pulled off the Panama papers
• The Weird Redemption of SF’s Most Reviled Tech Bro

Longer reads:

• The secret rules of the internet
• No-one is making decisions for me
• My year in start-up hell

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• History of Japan

Things to look at/read:

• Do we really learn survival skills from ants?
• People Are Loving This Teen’s Over-The-Top Senior Pics
• People Are Freaking Out Over This Guy’s Made Up Story About Getting A Milkshake At 1 A.M.
• 24 Things That Got Really Fucking Out Of Hand, Fast

Animal corner:

• 21 Reasons Rats Are Completely Unappreciated
• chameleon hatching out
• 2 year old talks to turkeys

Tweets of the week:

• 2016: Smartphones are destroying our culture. 1795: Books are destroying our culture.
• my. god.
• When Panini call you in for the photo shoot but you’re still thinking about your dog dying.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer pop culture articles:

• Prison is horrifying. For transgender people, it’s hell.
• Losing the will to die just before choosing death. The last days of “Miracle Boy.”
• Operation Trump
• Tegan and Sara are from the future
• The sugar conspiracy
• Who Gets To Be The “Good Schizophrenic”?

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