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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