We Love the Internet 2018/10: The You are the media you eat edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Has dopamine got us hooked on tech?
• What’s Left at Comedy Central?
• How Tiny Red Dots Took Over Your Life
• Live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm: How LittleThings went from social publishing darling to shutting down
• The great big Spotify scam
• Is Facebook killing online comedy?
• HQ Trivia Is Dictating When and How Consumers Use Apps and Inspiring a Host of Imitators
• What If This Was Peak Media?

Reference points:

• You Are The Media You Eat
• Six degrees of Wikipedia
• From Energy To Transport To Healthcare, Here Are 8 Industries Being Disrupted By Elon Musk And His Companies
• The Responsive Network
• 10 breakthrough technologies 2018

Longer reads:

• The story of the internet, as told by Know Your Meme
• Design’s Lost Generation
• Is the ‘Digital Nomad’ Life as Good as It Sounds?
• What Amazon Does to Poor Cities
• Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
• The Greatest Hits of Binet & Field

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Babies Video Chat with Each Other
• The Hidden Formula Behind Almost Every Joke on Late Night
• One Way To Deconstruct There Will Be Blood — Or Any Movie
• The world’s darkest building is at the 2018 Olympics
• Throwing a Needle Through Glass in Slow Motion
• Jason Voorhees Found at Camp Crystal Lake
• Whoever Designed This Cheat Sheet Eraser Is A Genius
• This kid always goes into statue mode when he gets in trouble

Things to look at/read:

• A Complete History of Happy-Slapping
• A Deep Dive Into ‘Celebs Go Dating’, The Greatest Show on British TV
• No, Fascism Can’t Happen Here
• Yes, bacon really is killing us
• This Is Why Michael B. Jordan Is So Hot
• Go Ahead, Millennials, Destroy Us
• Pop art

Animal corner:

• Funny parrot stomping around like its mad
• Well, Where Else Would You Put the Umbrella?
• Husky fur removing
• I’m, er, not sure it’s working
• it’s called soft crossfit and it’s going really well thank you
• Can’t believe nala just gave 3 year old buddy the British bulldog her half of the biscuit they both shared. In full tears

Tweets of the week:

• Just got word that I can finally share my rejected theme song from @readyplayerone.
• i always wonder why twitter is free when it blesses us with moments like this
• Quite simply the best ‘snowman’ I’ve ever seen
• expectation vs. reality
• seems fine
• Probably the best thing you will see on the internet today
• Here’s my definitive turtleneck alignment chart

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously
• What Is the Perfect Color Worth?
• Is the British establishment finally finished?
• What Ever Happened To Brendan Fraser?
• Jerry and Marge Go Large
• The poison we pick
• Jordan Peterson’s gospel of masculinity
• Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from the “house of gaslight” in the age of #metoo

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