We Love the Internet 2018/31: The Public humiliation diet edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• I Infiltrated A Scheming Website, Published A Trending Article, And Upset A Lot Of People
• Shoot, Match and the glory days of football magazines for teenagers
• “We’re in This Amazing Golden Era of Documentary”
• We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air.
• ‘Never had a chance’: Inside Verizon’s $1 billion bad bet on Go90
• The Messy Fourth Estate

Reference points:

• The Hipster Index: Brighton Pips Portland to Global Top Spot
• 3D maps of every Underground station
• Lessons for showcasing data journalism on social media

Longer reads:

• The Public Humiliation Diet
• Alibaba v. Tencent: The Battle for Supremacy in China
• The man who created the world wide web has some regrets
• The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet
• The Inside Story of How HelloFresh Clawed Its Way to the Top
• Meet The 29-Year-Old Trying To Become The King Of Mexican Fake News

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Quentin Tarantino and the Poetry Between the Lines
• Jimmy Fallon uses the same joke, over and over again
• This is America – shittyfluted
• Movers Accidentally Drop Wardrobe off Balcony
• The Art Of Making Noodles By Hand
• Man Doesn’t Tell His Wife That She’s About To Touch An Electric Fence And Oh Boy
• A Look Back at this Month – 20 Years Ago – JULY 98
• Why TV shows have better gay characters than movies

Things to look at/read:

• In Praise of Being Washed
• RuPaul Perpetuates The Myth That Black Progress Is Tied To White Acceptance
• Learning How to Cruise
• The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon

Animal corner:

• Cat Freaks out After Owner Disappears
• Knocked out by elephant
• Me for twenty minutes in the shower after I’ve finished cleaning myself.
• Just needs a little help
• There’s no better way to kick off the weekend than watching bears trying to get in a hammock.
• Me, when someone offers me healthy food.
• Is it just me or does Riley sound like he’s singing toxic by Britney Spears?
• Heard a big ass crash in my bedroom…

Tweets of the week:

• Everyone can turn off the internet and go outside to play now, I’ve found the best meme.
• Peter Mitchell worked as a truck driver in Leeds in the 1970s, photographing the city during his rounds. What a find he is.
• Here is my acting reel from when I was an audience member on The Steve Harvey Show
• I love Sleater-Kinney
• Just been sent this..
• this man has been thinking about this for 6 years
• i recorded my calc professor for an entire semester, I hope he never sees this but… GOOOD MORNINGGGG
• Found on the train and submitted without comment, one of the most astonishing things I have ever happened across.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• A Journey Into The Dark Heart Of Celebrity Relationship Conspiracy Theories
• The Lost City of Trump
• Bobbitt vs Bobbitt
• How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco
• Living alone and liking it
• The Warrior Pose
• One man’s mission to bring better ramen to the incarcerated
• After the fall

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We Love the Internet 2018/30: The White fragility in the workplace edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Inside the Villa: How Love Island Made a Sizzling Success of Social-First TV
• WeRateDogs Is Once Again In Hot Water On Twitter
• Here’s the final nail in the coffin of open plan offices
• Five Reasons Why 2018 Has Been the Year of the TV Sophomore Slump

Reference points:

• Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster. What if That’s Actually True?
• “Unporn” is the photo stock collection for those suggestive, naughty moments

Longer reads:

• Inside the Crypto World’s Biggest Scandal
• The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• White Fragility In The Workplace
• Aaron Paul Discovers Bryan Cranston Living in Breaking Bad RV
• Aubrey Plaza is really WEIRD and…AWKWARD
• America’s Ramen Obsession, Explained
• – B L U R S T – O F – T I M E S –
• Burglary suspect weeps after recognizing judge from middle school
• 82-year-old Shridhar Chillal with longest nails finally trims them after 66 years
• A GoPro Adventure in Les 3 Vallees

Things to look at/read:

• A million miles from Love Island: what I learned from being on Shipwrecked
• ‘One winner played on the toilet’: inside HQ Trivia, the hit quiz app

Animal corner:

• Panic/Anxiety Service Dog Alert on video
• Beekeepers have trained dogs to sniff out diseased larva and save entire hives.
• The fox I planted last year is coming along nicely.
• alaskan melonmute puppies grow in fields, and can use their melon body to stay cool on hot days.
• the comedic timing on this gif is fucking incredible
• i cannot believe the miracle i just witnessed – this dog just chased down a skateboarder until he stopped and the owner ran over – “SO sorry, he honestly just loves skateboards” AND THEN HE DID THIS:

Tweets of the week:

• THOR RAGNAROK BUT IT’S AN ANIME INTRO THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING
• Honestly this sounds like a perfect day
• THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS I’VE EVER SEEN HAHA
• folks,,, i just stumbled on perhaps the greatest Venn diagram of all time
• The following data relies heavily on the work of the blogger at “Her Majesty’s Jewel Box”
• Behold one of the most brilliant criminal minds of the Twenty-First Century:
• Geoffrey the Toys R Us giraffe enters a rumble and gets eliminated by Amazon package
• So far so good. I think.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Most Important Soccer Game Ever Played
• When Children Say They’re Trans
• The staggering rise of India’s super-rich
• ‘Nothing to worry about. The water is fine’: how Flint poisoned its people

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We Love the Internet 2018/29: The How do you eat a slice of pizza edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The World Needs Netflix Minis
• The Times Has Sacked An Award-Winning Reporter For Running A Fake Review Scam
• How alt-right Twitter tricks the media into panicking
• Why are memes of black people reacting so popular online?

Reference points:

• The best Mario Kart character according to data science
• 100 greatest YouTube videos of all time, ranked
• Why we shouldn’t trust our gut instinct (pdf)

Longer reads:

• The perverse incentives that helps incels thrive in tech
• Elon Musk Has Always Been At War With The Media
• A wide-ranging, unabashedly honest conversation about why tech companies aren’t diverse — and how to fix them
• How I Broke, and Botched, the Brandon Teena Story
• ‘I was shocked it was so easy’: ​meet the professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you’re gay

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• A Boy Ate 150 Gummy Vitamins For Breakfast. This Is What Happened To His Bones.
• The most American event we’ve ever seen.

Things to look at/read:

• A Long Answer to a Simple Question: How Do You Eat a Slice of Pizza?
• 17 Places Book Lovers Need to Visit
• Die Hard at 30: how it remains the quintessential American action movie

Animal corner:

• Humans should stop meddling with pandas and let them die
• A Boy Squashed Between Two Cows On Live TV
• Hilarious moment cat crashes Polish historian interview on Dutch TV
• Tiger Slowly Creeps Up Behind Visitors
• The subtitles have me dead
• Why does ma Nana’s dog look like he’s trying tae see what he wants tae order from the chippy

Tweets of the week:

• This is an absolutely perfect picture.
• It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie
• You 1000% cannot convince me that this is not the sleeping body of the god of elephants, resting among the waves until the time of man is done
• Oh my god. North Carolina FC just gave us both the best and worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life…
• Ok this summer is now so hot it officially qualifies as a plot device in a literary novel
• The internet is forever undefeated!
• Great, cheers mate, just make sure you don’t put my eggs at the bottom

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The reputation-laundering firm that ruined its own reputation
• The Death of a Once Great City
• Music’s Unsung LGBTQ Heroes
• What Is the Gayest Marvel Movie?
• The age of patriarchy: how an unfashionable idea became a rallying cry for feminism today
• The Hod complex: England and the 1998 world cup

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We Love the Internet 2018/28: The How Nathan Fielder undresses people edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How National Geographic uses Instagram to stay relevant
• Netflix’s Content Budget Is Bigger Than It Seems (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 1)
• The crazy hacks one woman used to make money on mechanical turk
• The Guardian finds less polished video works better on Instagram Stories
• The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens
• Creators are making longer videos to cater to the YouTube algorithm
• Netflix is moving television beyond time-slots and national markets

Reference points:

• 15 principles of good service design

Longer reads:

• How innovation is maturing, creating new kinds of firms that disrupt the professional services market
• The Legend of Nintendo
• Digital Dust

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How Nathan Fielder Undresses People
• In Search of Forgotten Colours – Sachio Yoshioka and the Art of Natural Dyeing
• Smooth Criminal But Every Other Beat is Missing
• Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” | Talks at Google
• here’s that botched Canadian convenience store robbery set to Metal Gear Solid music
• Flying Port-A-Potty Sprays Unholy Liquid Everywhere As Strong Winds Blow It Into Space
• Poker Player Celebrates $1 Million Win Before Last Card Is Dealt, Which Turns Out To Be A Very Bad Idea
• Dylan Alcott sneaks Wu-Tang lyrics on live TV

Things to look at/read:

• I Am Sick! And Tired! Of That Pink Doctor from ‘Love Island’!
• My Suicide Week
• Meet the guys who tape Trump’s papers back together
• Toned down for what? How ‘chill’ turned toxic

Animal corner:

• Madrid police dog gives CPR
• So that’s how you stop a kangaroo fight

Tweets of the week:

• When you try to log in to your uni website but it calls you an invalid nonce
• Brands now after pride month has ended
• Am I wasted or is that scoobie doo in my pint?
• JURASSIC PARK, but everyone including the dinosaurs is wearing high heels
• Will always think of this GIF when I see Ronaldo.
• I’ve had enough
• …and Beckham is now a baby. Fucking hell.
• Wondered why the car blowers didn’t seem very effective then realised half of them were set to ’email’ instead of ‘bacon’

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘It’s nothing like a broken leg’: why I’m done with the mental health conversation
• The unbelievable story of one of America’s bloodiest hitmen
• The Lifespan of a Lie
• How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective
• The radical lessons of a year reporting on knife crime

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