Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Re-creating Facebook on Instagram
- Notes on AI bias
- The Instagram trap: Social influence is helping women build brands—as long as they follow the rules
- Deep blue sky thinking: The cutting edge of legal AI
- The Kids Use TikTok Now Because Data-Mined Videos Are So Much Fun
- Samsung thinks millennials want vertical TVs
- Instagram Memers Are Unionizing
- No, YouTube Cannot Reasonably Moderate All Content On Its Platform
Reference points:
- The Most Hyped Technology of Every Year From 2000-2018
- Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few
- Bellingcat’s Invitation Is Waiting For Your Response: An Investigative Guide To LinkedIn
Longer reads:
- What the hell is going on?
- Red Dead Redemption 2: six months later
- How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World
- How Kevin Feige Super-Charged Marvel Studios Into Hollywood’s Biggest Hit Machine
- The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program
- ‘They Thought It Was Black Magic’: An Oral History of TiVo
- The urgent quest for slower, better news
- YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Cersei As a Billie Eilish Song
- Which Is The Better Fight Sequence?
- Free Food from Maccas
- Play That Funky Music Rammstein
- The Raconteurs Reveal New Album Mixing Technique
- Jet Skier Effortlessly Swerves Through Tight Utah Canyons At High Speed
- Inside an $88M Bel Air Mansion with a Hidden Car Elevator
- tom holland spoiling stuff for 4 minutes straight
Things to look at/read:
- Buy Yourself a F*^king Latte
- I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles
- The Dreams Of A Man Asleep For Three Weeks
- The musical genre is dead, gen z killed it
- Science Says Cheese is Basically Cocaine
- Squaring up: how Insta-fashion is changing the way we shop
- A brief history of the ball pit
- People Wearing AirPods Are Making Things Awkward For Everyone Else
Animal corner:
- Could they snore any more?
- German Shepherd hits the brakes
- Spot the Poodle
- This is Remy. She’s a jenga legend. Not sure why anybody doubted her. It’s a simple game when you’re good. 14/10
- Y’all’s fish could never
Tweets of the week:
- “Who’s your least favourite child?” Sandra Bullock in Bird Box:
- My dad was drunk and wanted to prove to us he can do a backflip lol
- When someone asks me what Doctor Who is about
- Met Gala: the theme is camp Me:
- crying with laughter that masterchef’s Gregg Wallace comments on every pic his wife posts on insta demanding she print it.
- Crazy Vince McMahon Stories [thread]
- Is everyone in Brussels drunk?
- Bittersweet Symphony feat. Neil Warnock
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- How to Turn a $1,000 Art-Auction Pickup Into a $450 Million Masterpiece
- The Legend of Keanu Reeves
- The Truth About Dentistry
- Why People Love To Hate Kris Jenner, The OG “Momager”
- The Mortician and the Murderer
- What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend
- The Best Cartoonist You’ve Never Read Is Eight Different People
- The challenge of going off psychiatric drugs
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