We Love the Internet 2018/33: The Complicating the narratives edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
• Women’s Media Is a Scam
• The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no-one

Reference points:

• The Top 10 TV Episodes of the 21st Century
• The 100 best one star reviews of The Catcher In The Rye

Longer reads:

• Complicating the Narratives
• Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This is a Chicken Wing
• Rubber Chicken Vacuum Cleaner Challenge
• These human face pies are the stuff of nightmares
• Guy Deploys Airbag Underneath Reclining Chair

Things to look at/read:

• A small-town couple left behind a stolen painting worth over $100 million — and a big mystery
• Bill Maher Is Stand-up Comedy’s Past. Hannah Gadsby Represents Its Future.
• When Men Decide It’s Time to Say Sorry

Animal corner:

• When you are 9 levels of skill higher than your opponent
• Bored? Let’s play a game! Retweet once you see the cat.

Tweets of the week:

• I just found out I have a FUNKY WHITE SISTER
• That judge isn’t fucking about
• What’s your favourite painting of Nicolas Cage trying to breastfeed a smaller Nicolas Cage? Here’s mine:
• Howay lads time and place
• Dear Bron, I wrote you but you still ain’t call me…
• Joey Barton looking like he’s about to tell us why the iPhone 11 costs two grand.
• Can’t… stop… watching
• Here’s something I never thought I’d see. @DaveBensonPhill giving a bronco buster

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Alt-Right Troll To Father Killer: The Unraveling Of Lane Davis
• How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1%
• How e-commerce is transforming rural China
• Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide
• The New Gwen Stefani Is A Lot Like The Old One
• Can Andy Byford save the subways?
• My son, Osama: the al-Qaida leader’s mother speaks for the first time

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We Love the Internet 2018/32: The We are all public figures now edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment
• Go90 or bust: How AwesomenessTV’s fate was tied to Verizon
• Facebook Lenses
• Don’t feed the trolls, and other hideous lies
• Netflix Isn’t Being Reckless, It’s Just Playing a Game No One Else Dares

Reference points:

• The 100 best TV episodes of the century
• The Best TV Episode of the Century Is …
• The toxic power of music stans
• Stop letting the data decide

Longer reads:

• We are all public figures now
• Previously On: How Recaps Changed the Way We Watch Television
• The endless reign of Rupert Murdoch
• “Google was not a normal place”
• Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How Does Netflix Make Money?
• Trippy RollerCoaster Ride
• how is prangent formed
• How to Make an A24 Movie
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) – HALO Jump Stunt Behind The Scenes
• Bohemian Rhapsody, but it spells out Bohemian Rhapsody.
• The Truth About Tanacon

Things to look at/read:

• Nine Things I Learned When I Became a Honeymoon Planner for Billionaires
• I Explored The World Of Japanese Dating Apps And It’s More Different Than I Imagined

Animal corner:

• Mad Malamute After Bath Won’t Look At Me!
• Cats In Japanese Cat Cafe Somehow Sense An Earthquake Before It Even Hits
• They finally caught me in the act!
• Bless this doggo who stole a GoPro
• This is how one dog moves 2000 sheep
• Not sure of source but oh my god?????
• When you are worried about robots taking your job
• This picture will never stop making me laugh

Tweets of the week:

• This is glorious. Absolute perfection
• Adidas Boss: “You completed that Leicester City project I gave you? Season starts in 8 days?” Adidas Intern: “What Project?”
• Is Jamie Oliver going to…. cook his children
• G(old)
• I adjusted the audio as it really should have been. You’re welcome.
• I can’t decide if this is Inverness being super friendly by having signs specifically dedicated to giving Little Mix directions, or being horrible by trying to start rumours about them.
• *notices a slight change in the way something tastes* me:
• Clippy! Is that you, old friend?

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
• Inhuman resources
• Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood: Who’s the “Crazy Evil Genius” Behind a Global Racket?
• Jameela Jamil: ​’I won’t become a double agent for the patriarchy’
• It’s Harder Than It Looks to Write Clearly

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