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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