We Love the Internet 2019/04: The Tom Hardy noises edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How do you make a sex scene sexy? (And keep the actors safe?) Five intimacy coordinators explain their craft
• Why Online Ads Haven’t Built Brands
• Inside Facebook’s ‘cult-like’ workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time
• Netflix Flexes
• Facebook’s ’10 Year Challenge’ Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?
• Netflix: “We compete with (and lose to) Fortnite more than HBO”
• What Made the TV Show ‘You’ a Hit? Netflix
• As HuffPost and BuzzFeed shed staff, has the digital content bubble burst?

Reference points:

• School Reports: 2019 Trend Reports
• Which is more expensive?
• Year of colour
• The 20 Most Popular Websites, Charted From 1998 To 2018
• Keiichi Matsuda explores dystopian future of the workplace in new film Merger

Longer reads:

• State of the world 2019
• Media Trends 2019: an earthquake in audience engagement, and openness to new business models

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Tom Hardy Noises
• Ak-47 breaks and sticks full auto
• Using rope to remove snow from a roof.
• Adorable: Baby’s Reaction Hearing New Sounds with Help of Hearing Aid
• A brie(f) history of cheese

Things to look at/read:

• Is Juul the Startup World’s Greatest Long Con?
• How to Become a TV Music Booker: An Unlikely Story in 29 Steps
• Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out
• Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and the Era of the Forever QB
• Evolution of the Alphabet

Animal corner:

• Extremely rare 2 Gender Spider
• Crying Puppy Wants to Sleep With Best Friend
• 花布爱上鸟_ on weibo.
• she learn
• Every time. Every single time.

Tweets of the week:

• All of the cool Instagram fashion kids dress like king from tekken 3 now
• Lord forgive me I cannot stop laughing at the discarded baby in the second photo
• I could never forgive myself if I didn’t share this with the world.
• megg-up
• that’s her ear
• Either there’s a @netflix glitch or @MarieKondo’s methods have escalated
• modernity has failed us
• Because I only ever use one emoji, my phone has stored only one emoji as a person of color, and thus I have unintentionally created this work of art I call “Diversity Meeting”.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The French burglar who pulled off his generation’s biggest art heist
• Elwood, Illinois (Pop. 2,200), Has Become a Vital Hub of America’s Consumer Economy. And It’s Hell.
• ‘Crucify me right here’ The post-presidential life of Mikhail Gorbachev
• How Cartographers for the U.S. Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa
• Ellen DeGeneres And The Limits Of Relatability

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