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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