We Love the Internet 2019/02: The Microsoft in 2019 edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• What If Amazon.com Actually…Is A Horrible Website?
• Next Stop, Uberland: The Onrushing Algorithmic Future of Work
• Why are Bird Box memes so popular? It’s complicated.
• “TV doesn’t trust games enough”
• Children Are Using Emoji for Digital-Age Language Learning
• It’s Beyond Time to Rethink Social Media Marketing
• Apple’s Errors
• The Media’s Post-Advertising Future Is Also Its Past

Reference points:

• Human history, in one chart
• Netflix’s upcoming content crisis, in one chart
• 83 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2018
• 52 things I learned in 2018
• The Best Maker YouTube Channels
• The 45 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2018

Longer reads:

• Beyond human-centred design, to?
• Going dumb: My year with a flip phone

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Microsoft in 2019
• Four Generations of moms and dads
• How a Celebrity Trainer Gets Actors in Shape for Movies
• Christmas Candy Broccoli Surprise
• The Man Who Could Take A Cannonball To The Stomach
• Benny Hill/Slayer Mashup Disaster
• Rapman – 2018 Wrap Up
• What Happens When You Pack A Glass Bottle Full Of Match Heads And Set It On Fire

Things to look at/read:

• Your Flaws Are Probably More Attractive Than You Think They Are
• The 5 Years That Changed Dating
• The Bronx Made Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a Congresswoman, but Republicans Are Making Her a Star
• A Shocking Number of Killers Murder Their Co-workers

Animal corner:

• However Good You Think You Are At ‘Fruit Ninja,’ This Cat Is Better
• This is Clyde. He was born with Cerebellar Hypoplasia. There’s no pain associated, he just has to work a little harder to get where he wants to go. 14/10 would wibble wobble with
• Mufasa : “scar, brother help me” Scar: “Long live the king”
• i can’t stop watching this
• Hello clarice

Tweets of the week:

• How ironic that there are suddenly far more Marie Kondo jokes than necessary.
• This is what it’s like to get texts from my fourteen year old while driving.
• Are you a man who has built their career on taking credit for the work of younger women of color who get paid less than you? Now there’s an app for that!
• I missed my flight and it was 4 hours until the next so this is what I did
• having too many tabs open is an age-old problem
• “Tonight’s main story: my outfit looks like balls and a cock, peeing. More at 11”
• I could watch Elvis doing Karate all day.
• Critics are giving it 5 stars

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
• The infiltrator
• How Trump made war on Angela Merkel and Europe
• The Mad Scramble to Claim the World’s Most Coveted Meteorite

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