We Love the Internet 2018/27: The Body positivity is a scam edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Growing Pains: The Challenge of Launching a Prestige Network in 2018
• We’re In an Epidemic of Mistrust in Science
• GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button
• Elizabeth Holmes is trying to start a new company
• Scooter companies tried to barge into San Francisco and got kicked out. Now they’re making big promises to get legal.

Reference points:

• How Instagram’s algorithm works
• National Security Agency (NSA) security/motivational posters from the 1950s and 1960s (pdf)
• 60 thoughts.
• The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly

Longer reads:

• Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web
• How WeWork became the most hyped startup in the world

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why this skateboarding trick should be IMPOSSIBLE
• Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: 1000 Shot NERF Blaster!

Things to look at/read:

• Body Positivity Is a Scam
• Bananas have died out once before–don’t let it happen again
• My So-Called (Millennial) Entitlement
• What White Girl Coming-of-Age Movies Don’t Do For a Black Girl
• Average

Animal corner:

• Cat Stuck in Trashcan
• Golden retriever & our toddler: partners in crime
• Friends Please wait for the last 5 seconds : )
• this challenge is the purest thing I have seen in a while
• WhatTheFluffChallenge

Tweets of the week:

• keep forgetting
• Drink! Feck! Girls! Brexit!
• the way he changes his voice lmao! “Big ass dinosaur”
• exe has stopped working
• The Senegal warm-up is even better with Ducktales music.
• Are there photos of Macron where he *doesn’t* look like a Bond villain?
• 2009: “As Twitter grows, it will increasingly become a place where companies build brands, do research, send information to customers, conduct e-commerce and create communities for their users.” – Time 2018:

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed.
• Wrestling in Paris
• The Trouble With Johnny Depp
• The 30 Best Superhero Movies Since Blade

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We Love the Internet 2018/26: The How everything on the internet became clickbait edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How everything on the internet became clickbait
• Ways to think about machine learning
• How The Internet Is Changing The Way Dogs Find Homes
• YouTube’s top creators are burning out and breaking down en masse
• Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay
• What It’s Like When Elon Musk’s Twitter Mob Comes After You
• How Tidal Got So Fucked
• Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore

Reference points:

• Neural network-generated roller derby names
• How ‘influencers’ made my arse a work of art
• How The Truman Show Predicted the Future

Longer reads:

• Here’s How That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter
• How Peppa Pig became a video nightmare for children

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Dancing in Movies
• Greatest “1 in a Million” Plays/Moments in Sports History
• Luciano Rosso / Playback 30 / MAMBO
• Are there more than 2 genders?
• Mid-West Freestyle Canoe 2007 — Marc Ornstein
• 2014 1st China National Wushu Games

Things to look at/read:

• It Was All a Dream
• Craft lager is an oxymoron no more
• The Pyramids of Giza Are Near a Pizza Hut, and Other Sites That May Disappoint You
• The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud.
• The words that America’s spelling champions keep getting wrong
• Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee and the strange path of an ancient epithet
• The Surprising History (and Future) of Fingerprints
• The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations

Animal corner:

• Worlds Worst Sheepdog
• Senior Chihuahua’s First Bed
• Sea Lion Relaxing on Bench Changes Seat to Escape Sun
• BUSTED! This very good dog was having tons of fun splashing around in his inflatable pool – but quickly changed his behavior as soon as he noticed his owner watching.
• “got what i want, I’ll be in the car”

Tweets of the week:

• Once you see Roland Rat you won’t unsee it
• Exclusive footage of Melania Trump at a funeral:
• when someone films the dead body before you
• “fit…for…work”
• I’m 100% convinced my grandma was the reason Mexico won
• GIF of the day
• When it’s 3 AM and you’re trying to go home but you hear your friends talking about “ what’s the next move “
• This is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Quest to Break America’s Most Mysterious Code—And Find $60 Million in Buried Treasure
• Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It
• It Costs $2.50 to Make Lipstick — Here’s Why You’re Charged So Much More
• The tower
• The ‘Sex Cult’ That Preached Empowerment
• The Real Story of Donald Trump Jr.
• How the resurgence of white supremacy in the US sparked a war over free speech
• The financial scandal no one is talking about

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We Love the Internet 2018/25: The Inside the binge factory edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The long and short of it needs the wrong and shit of it
• For the World Cup, livestreamed online video is threatening to score the equalizer on traditional TV

Reference points:

• What did Earth look like 750 million  years ago?
• The colors of motion

Longer reads:

• Inside the Binge Factory
• A Company Built on a Bluff
• Why do we care so much about privacy?
• Are Good Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
• State of Digital Ad Fraud Q2 2018

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Top 7 Most Bizarre Musical Instruments of the World
• That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
• Solo: A Star Wars Story Cast Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions
• Slapping championship
• Top 10 Amazing Drawing Tricks

Things to look at/read:

• World Cup kits through the ages
• A Deep Dive Into the England Squad-Suit Photo
• Pop, passion and enemas: how online forums created a new musical culture

Animal corner:

• Asparagus Vs. Dog
• FATMAN THE DOG: Mwadlands with Charlie Birch
• Video games are great, but sometimes it’s nice to unplug and play a game of Jenga with your cat
• Well it was a nice lake day until my dog nearly drowned my sister
• “don’t, Denise, he’s not worth it”
• My boss texted me this video earlier and said “if you don’t like this, you’re fired.”
• The problem with having a black cat is they sometimes go missing and 90% of the time they’re sitting in front of the TV screen

Tweets of the week:

• When you come into work dressed as the carpet. I am MORTIFIED.
• Watch this video of an adorable Pre-K graduate make your day (and the future) a little brighter.
• A friends mum felt that the usual hospital pain scale didn’t relate to her as a patient. So I give you, created by her son, The Work of Art Pain Scale: (genius)
• GREATEST TATTOO OF ALL TIME
• Alexa: remind me to feed the baby
• Just watching Arctic Monkeys at the BBC and can’t help but notice that Alex Turner has come as every character from The Big Lebowski at once…
• I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Olive Garden commercials and then asked it to write an Olive Garden commercial of its own. Here is the first page.
• You all knew this just *had* to happen right?

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Most Hated Bachelor in America Explains Himself
• The spy who came home
• Blood Will Tell
• How 1960s Film Pirates Sold Movies Before the FBI Came Knocking
• The Hidden Queer History Behind “A League of Their Own”
• How the resurgence of white supremacy in the US sparked a war over free speech

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We Love the Internet 2018/24: The Email is dangerous edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Email Is Dangerous
• How Evan Spiegel Fumbled Snap’s Redesign
• With Facebook Live views falling, BuzzFeed looks to Twitch
• As GDPR looms, it’s time to update your personal terms of service
• Data protectionism: the growing menace to global business

Reference points:

• Internet trends 2018
• Gifless
• How Onscreen Sex Sounds Are Made, From Kissing to Hand Jobs

Longer reads:

• How the math men overthrew the mad men
• I pitched the absolute worst ideas for TV shows to Channel 5 and MTV
• Can the cult of Berkshire Hathaway outlive Warren Buffett?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Cyclist Tired of Waiting for Bomb Squad
• KTLA started following the wrong car in a pursuit
• Emilia Clarke Re-Creates Stock Photos
• This Crazy Japanese Slide Is Not Recommended For Beginners

Things to look at/read:

• How did music become so unimportant?
• Why The Internet Is Obsessed With #MealPrep
• The Red Phone Box, a British Icon, Stages a Comeback

Animal corner:

• Dog Jumps for Joy After Owner Returns Home
• Amazing video shows eagle battling fox for rabbit in mid-air
• I’ve been working in TV for over 5 years now, and nothing I’ve helped create has ever topped this.
• Colin tried to hide his smugness at having the banana all to himself.

Tweets of the week:

• Jesus breakdancing to impress his friends, AD20
• before the absolute boy there was
• if you’re really wondering what England is actually like, look no further than this timeless classic
• Men with beards looking upwards for your viewing pleasure. Don’t say I don’t give you anything
• I’m at a loss for words.
• She has ACTUALLY done what I think she has done….
• “Always Follow Your Dreams…” -Jon Hendren

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Sarah Silverman Is the Troll Slayer
• Bhad Bhabie Isn’t Going Anywhere
• Twenty four karat chicken wings and the allure of eating gold
• Own Goal: The Inside Story of How the USMNT Missed the 2018 World Cup
• The trouble with charitable billionaires
• How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money

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We Love the Internet 2018/23: The Recursive recipes edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The decline of Snapchat and the secret joy of internet ghost towns
• How YouTube’s “Super Chat” System Is Pushing Video Creators Toward More Extreme Content
• The Netflix Effect: Publishers see Netflix deals as gateways to more TV work

Reference points:

• Recursive recipes
• A guide to understanding Twitch emotes

Longer reads:

• State of the Digital Nation 2020: Venture Road
• After Authenticity

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This Pool Trick Shot Genius Can Put An Ungodly Amount Of Spin On His Shots
• when you use the internet in 2018
• A flash flood in the desert looks unreal.
• How to Tell If Any Singer Is Lip-Syncing
• How Its Made Rubber Bands
• Space Mountain Lights On Ride Through – Walt Disney World

Things to look at/read:

• The Dumb-Bell Economy: Inside the Booming Business of Exercise
• Infatuation: One Man’s Love For Virtual World Cups

Animal corner:

• Chimpanzee Ball Pit Adventure!
• At The Races presenter amazingly catches loose horse
• The race is on.
• the case is solved boys
• Love this new one from Florence + The Machine.
• worth watching for the end
• Nice

Tweets of the week:

• Added the dinosaur filter while singing happy birthday to my dad and it went horribly wrong
• My new favorite thing is Mick Jagger leaving dorky dad comments on his teenage son’s Instagram posts.
• “Let’s go to the park Sheila, I saw this great exercise on the YouTube”
• My poster
• Can’t believe Sterling is getting all this stick for getting a tattoo of his big pal Peter on his leg
• Any man who can do this should be allowed to.
• I can’t stop laughing
• Oh god what is it really

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy
• Chasing the Pearl of Lao Tzu
• Trump vs “The Deep State”
• How a champion boxer got caught in Britain’s immigration dragnet
• The First Family of pinball: Meet the local wizards behind the game’s huge resurgence
• The Untold Story of Robert Mueller’s Time in Combat

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