We Love the Internet 2019/19: The Re-creating Facebook on Instagram edition

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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