We Love the Internet 2018/49: The Gamified life edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Gamified life
• Welcome to the Golden Age of Weird Promoted Tweets
• Meet The Parents Of The Instagram-Famous Mixed-Race Babies
• Not just snapped but irreparable
• The NBA Is Fake Woke

Reference points:

• This is 18
• How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years
• The Recent History of America Trying and Failing to Adapt British TV Comedies

Longer reads:

• The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind An Unlikely Tech Unicorn
• Raised by YouTube

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Super Vision
• Beat The Devil Out Of It
• Guy Learns The Hard Way What Happens When You Overfill Your Car Tire
• Who Named Heavy Metal?
• Pro Mod driver Mike Bowman’s parachutes failed during qualifying at St. Louis

Things to look at/read:

• Enchanted, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Disney princess
• The Bizarre Story Of Jered Threatin, Who Paid Thousands To Tour The UK’s Best Venues Playing To Literally Nobody
• As historic Tsukiji market closes, fishmongers mourn

Animal corner:

• Dinner date didn’t go as planned
• “fuck you and your shitty biscuits, Janice”

Tweets of the week:

• Today I visited a historic American landmark
• This is how I mine my own business
• Whoa Black Betty Anagram
• This workplace safety ad has finished me off
• This drawing from a Heimlich Manoeuvre how-to contains more complex emotion than nearly every novel

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• An oral history of Mortal Kombat
• Unprotected
• Going Hungry at the Most Prestigious MFA in America
• Kelly, the Sassy Dolphin

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