We Love the Internet 2018/17: The art of the PG-13 F-bomb edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• When Teens Cyberbully Themselves
• Generation Z Is Already Bored by the Internet
• Instagram Looks Like Facebook’s Best Hope
• Why is modern TV so confusing?
• Netflix and Shill

Reference points:

• The Royal Wedding: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers to Everything You Ever Wanted to Know — and Some Things You Didn’t
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• People vs. Adtech
• 10 Hidden URLs to Help You Rule the Web

Longer reads:

• Palantir Knows Everything About You
• Refactoring UI: Bad About
• The Inside Story of Reddit’s Redesign
• OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world – then it all went wrong
• The Age of Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Art of the PG-13 F-Bomb
• Concrete patch gone wrong.
• Motorcyclist Pulls Off Incredible Save After Hitting A Pothole At 130 MPH
• “Scandal” Is Over, but Olivia Pope Will Always Have Giant Glasses of Wine

Things to look at/read:

• Do Taxpayers Know They Are Handing Out Billions to Corporations?
• Iniesta surrounded
• This Ice Cream Shop Is So Good that Israelis Sneak into Palestine to Eat There
• In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America
• Excerpts from my upcoming novel: Ready Player Two
• This Dude Roasted His Mom On A Reply All Email To His University And It’s Something
• How Pop-Ups Took Over America’s Restaurants
• The Man Trying to Break the World Record for the Longest Time Spent Masturbating

Animal corner:

• Golden Retriever Cares for Kittens
• Snowmobiler Has A Terrifyingly Close Call With A Bear
• Raccoon 1:  “Here’s the plan, you go in the house, act like a cat and they’ll give you food?
• you’re carrying a lot of stress in your lower back.

Tweets of the week:

• so my school installed a cry closet in the library LMFAOOOOOOOOO what is higher education
• “When the aging gorilla is confronted with the much more virile, new alpha-male, he shows submissiveness by grooming the alpha-male, but the gesture is actually a vain attempt by the old gorilla to humiliate his much younger rival.”
• tm: omg I look so bad in that one don’t post it anywhere just bc u look good queen: dw I won’t 😉
• Imagine banning the world’s coolest dog
• Not a fan of the new Harry Potter book
• Eminem has never won a game of rock paper scissors. Always a draw.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Aging Ghosts in the Skincare Machine
• Cardi B’s Money Moves
• The 101 dishes that changed America
• What about the breakfast club?

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We Love the Internet 2018/16: The Cake server edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Good luck leaving your Uber driver less than five stars
• What smartphone photography is doing to our memories
• Facebook says its ‘voter button’ is good for turnout. But should the tech giant be nudging us at all?
• The rationalization of publishing

Reference points:

• I’m An Internet Writer, And I’m Tired Of This Ubiquitous Headline Formula
• How 50 Famous Female Characters Were Described in Their Screenplays

Longer reads:

• Jersey Shore: An Oral History

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Mindhunter: A Game Called Dialogue
• The Cake Server
• nyoooooooooooom
• I built a PC out of rope and wood…
• NS 290 hits truck Temple
• Gummy Bears vs Molten Salt
• Why these all-white paintings are in museums and mine aren’t
• Baby laughing hysterically at pacifier noise

Things to look at/read:

• Doing Dishes Is the Worst
• Jaguars Literally Cannot Resist Calvin Klein’s ‘Obsession for Men’
• A’s free promotion highlights team’s struggle to draw paying fans
• The Lebowski Theorem of machine superintelligence
• If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
• Just Before Impact
• Let’s all obsess over this intricate map of alt-music history

Animal corner:

• How I Trained My Cats
• “Every time. Every single time”
• Bears vs Hammock

Tweets of the week:

• “we need to have a podcast together” is the millennial “dude, we should totally start a band”
• Tapas is more confident in Granada.
• “CHAI TEA IS REDUNDANT”
• Only this could happen to me, so I’m having a lovely cosy Netflix night… oh a voice note off someone I used to work with how nice… I am actually DEAD! It gets worse by the minute I’m done with life bye
• we’re building self-driving cars
• when you’re funny but ugly
• For any aspiring journalist wondering if they can affect real change…
• ???

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The dizzying story of Symphony of the Seas, the largest and most ambitious cruise ship ever built
• Is Francis Mallmann the most interesting chef in the world?
• The FBI Agent Who Can’t Stop Thinking About Waco
• Landlords Are Offering Young Men Free Rooms In Return For Sex And Facebook Is Letting It Happen
• Dwayne Johnson: The Pain and the Passion That Fuel the Rock
• The demise of the nation state
• The life and death of Homaro Cantu, the genius chef who wanted to change the world

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We Love the Internet 2018/15: The Your pretty face is going to sell edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Netflix’s aggressive content-buying spree creates opportunities and risk for creators
• Non-tech businesses are beginning to use artificial intelligence at scale
• Unplugging From the Internet Nearly Destroyed Me
• What Are Screens Doing to Our Eyes—and Our Ability to See?
• Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes Following Rule Change

Reference points:

• Your Pretty Face is Going to Sell

Longer reads:

• A Reckoning with Reality (TV)
• Why Good People Turn Bad Online
• Good Game Well Played: The Story of the Staying Power of ‘StarCraft’

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Black Mirror — Now Entering the Twilight Zone
• The Audience Response Duplicator
• The philharmonic turntable orchestra
• Anatomy Of A ‘Fast And Furious’ Chase Scene
• Rusted butcher’s knife – Impossible Restoration
• The smallest sushi on earth
• World’s fastest clapper

Things to look at/read:

• This Guy Was Banned From A Hotel For 17 Years For An Incident Involving Hungry Seagulls And A Suitcase Full Of Pepperoni
• Self-storage: How warehouses for personal junk became a $38 billion industry
• America’s gender-fluid future, in 100 years of baby name trends
• A complete guide to the cinematic references and inspirations of Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Animal corner:

• Husky Einstein puppy howl
• Protective Baby Rhino Guards Mother During Toe Treatment
• “i’ve got what i want, I’ll wait in the car”

Tweets of the week:

• me: hi do you guys have- urban outfitters employees:
• Come on man
• “don’t forget to drink the water, humans like water”
• I unironically love this joke.
• When the bus driver sets off before you’ve sat down
• Her name was…. it never suited her
• My kids gonna learn today
• Roses are red *unintelligible grunts*

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘God Made Me Black on Purpose’
• There’s Something Funny About Tiffany Haddish
• The world’s best hitchhiker on the secrets of his success
• Why I’m suing over my dream internship
• “Whatever’s your darkest question, you can ask me.”
• It’s New To You
• The legacy of childhood trauma

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We Love the Internet 2018/14: The Death of the newsfeed edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The death of the newsfeed
• The End of Windows
• Subscribers are the new, new thing in business

Reference points:

• How we wrote and sent the “best cold email ever”
• Our tone of voice
• Right click

Longer reads:

• Toxic management caused an award winning studio to lose its best developers
• Didi Chuxing took on Uber and won. Now it’s taking on the world
• Shenzhen’s Homegrown Cyborg
• The mind-expanding ideas of Andy Clark
• Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Guy Power Washing Racist Graffiti Is The Most Satisfying Thing You’ll See All Day
• Aubrey Plaza Explores ASMR with Whispers, Peacock Feathers, and Cornflakes
• Here’s Why You Don’t Park Right At The Bottom Of A Snowy Mountain
• How ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Does Running Gags
• How Punching Sounds Are Made For Movies
• Motorcyclist Brake Checks Car, Immediately Regrets That Decision
• Plane Miraculously Flies To Safety After Sudden Engine Failure
• Laura´s Bluetooth Receiver for the Car

Things to look at/read:

• A picture is worth a thousand words
• Omnisexual, gynosexual, demisexual: What’s behind the surge in sexual identities?
• Presenting The 2018 Name Of The Year Bracket
• The Stop: Racial profiling of drivers leaves legacy of anger and fear
• How Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
• How Activists Turned Empty London Property into a Thriving Homeless Shelter
• Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women
• 50+ Absolutely Unexplainable Stock Photos That Will Make You Say WTF

Animal corner:

• Frustrated Moose Smashes Car Window
• When they fake throw the ball again and now you’re just tired of the lies.
• hey listen friend, i don’t want any trouble.
• Baby bounces. Corgi bounces back. They are caught in an infinite loop of cuteness.
• New Bond film looks rubbish

Tweets of the week:

• arctic monkeys new album confirmed for may 11th
• IMA GO TO HELL FOR LAUGHING
• Me: I’m so annoyed of the little boy singing at Walmart Me hearing the remix:
• When you win the argument, but now she not talking to you.
• Ah yes the two genders, ladies and original
• 45 port Ethernet switch with a side stacked 6 port RJ11 to fiber converter box. Old school.
• When you suddenly remember that one embarrassing thing you said 5 years ago
• I’m worried about Sigourney Weaver

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right
• Cutting ‘old heads’ at IBM
• I Went to a Masturbation Class In Search of My Biggest Orgasm Yet
• The Disturbing Secret Behind An Iconic Cartoon
• Perfect prams for perfect parents: the rise of the bougie buggy

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