We Love the Internet 2018/51: The Cube rule edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• TikTok, explained
• The dark side of gamifying work
• All Good Magazines Go to Heaven
• A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
• On Instagram, 11,696 Examples of How Hate Thrives on Social Media
• A generation of digital media darlings prepare for a frigid winter
• Apple News’s Radical Approach: Humans Over Machines
• Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin

Reference points:

• Population mountains
• Why Instagram Is the Worst Social Media for Mental Health
• 52 things I learned in 2018

Longer reads:

• The future 100: 2019
• Your apps know where you were last night, and they’re not keeping it secret
• The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Nic Cage | Mega Mix One
• What Happens When A Movie Has No Script Supervisor?
• Thieves Caught and Confronted by Doorbell Camera
• Baby Meets A Woman With The Same Limb Difference, Promptly Engulfs Her In A Big Hug
• There’s Bad Driving, And Then There Are Absolute Trainwrecks Like This

Things to look at/read:

• The cube rule of food identification
• Kevin Hart’s Oscars controversy feeds the stereotype of the black homophobe
• A Soap Label To Save The World From Future Hitlers
• Mark, My Words: rock stars, stop lowering yourselves to mainstream TV humiliation
• The perils of sharing a name with someone very, very famous
• The Humanification of Pet Food Is Nearly Complete

Animal corner:

• Stick, Snake or caterpillar?
• Funny and Cute French Bulldog Escapes From Kitchen
• Cannae stop laughing at the dug in his Christmas outfit hahahahahahaha
• Skyping with ur parents
• Just a reminder that your favorite breakfast food enjoys gentle baths.

Tweets of the week:

• Another absolute corker of a correction in today’s Guardian.
• Fam I’m dead
• This was actually Jack’s original pitch for this website
• Perspective matters …
• Just why?
• Who needs subs? Julia Roberts, that’s who!
• Put together Theresa May’s Best Bits in the style of her getting evicted from Big Brother
• Sad news for fans of the Muppets.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• My Life Cleanse: One Month Inside L.A.’s Cult of Betterness
• The Glorious Madness of Japanese Dodge Van Racing
• The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
• Welcome to the Petty Hall of Fame
• The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
• The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire
• How I Accidentally Wound Up Running an Outlaw Biker Gang in Ohio
• Tommy Robinson and the far right’s new playbook

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