We Love the Internet 2018/08: The Math of Tinder edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• What I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death
• The aggregator paradox
• In order to keep our editorial page completely balanced we are hiring more dipshits
• Last blog standing, “last guy dancing”
• We need an internet of unmonetisable enthusiasms

Reference points:

• The math of Tinder
• What happens when an app company runs a bus
• Your Facebook data is creepy as hell
• The Internet Archive’s Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex: eyeball-lancing collection of terrible US military slides
• Booking Flights: Our Data Flies with Us
• How I Cracked Facebook’s New Algorithm And Tortured My Friends
• How Hollywood Salaries Really Work
• What free software is so good you can’t believe it’s available for free?

Longer reads:

• The Affluencers: Influencers who have actual influence.
• No one’s coming. It’s up to us.

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I Followed My Dad Around With a Confetti Cannon
• American mall game
• Drawing the Perfect Circle
• Astrée – 3 Million Dots – Speed Drawing
• 42,000 Match Sphere Gets Lit
• African Children First Time to Hear Fiddle Music
• Welcome to Daytona
• My crazy kid jumping on his buddy’s ice covered trampoline

Things to look at/read:

• The Special Stew at the Heart of Sumo Wrestling
• The Fake Strongmen of Instagram
• Here’s What It’s Like At The Headquarters Of The Teens Working To Stop Mass Shootings
• The mane course
• This Lesbian Couple Planned The Exact Same Proposal For Each Other At The Same Time And Their Reactions Were Priceless
• Photos of the Ultra Wealthy, from Above

Animal corner:

• Bulldog Reacts To Owner Who Said No
• When you hear your neighbours arguing outside.
• Dogs are the smartest and most gullible creatures at the same time lmao.
• PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!
• everything is terrible so i googled “dogs being interviewed” and it helped
• I think I know how to raise my own puppies if you don’t mind, becky.

Tweets of the week:

• porky parry cinnamon challenge soundtracked by hans zimmer
• those cursed videos and cursed images accounts suck because they never find truly bizarre content
• Wakanda gave my boy Bucky some rhythm
• …is this satire?
• This is the true magic of the FA Cup
• A genuine 10/10 effort from this lad lmaooo I’m crying
• Where Everybody Knows Your Name.
• this really happened

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand
• Not the end of The World: the return of Dubai’s ultimate folly
• Louise Linton Is Super-Duper Sorry
• Hope Hicks Has Been Able To Spin Every White House Scandal Except Her Own
• How Protein Conquered America

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