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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