We Love the Internet 2019/23: The Future is not what it used to be edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Future is Not What it Used to Be
• The push to break up Big Tech, explained
• Some Amazon Sellers Are Paying $10,000 A Month To Trick Their Way To The Top
• The Problem Isn’t Twitter. It’s That You Care About Twitter.
• An HBO Question Is Giving AT&T Executives a Headache

Reference points:

• A People Map of the UK
• Every HBO Show, Ranked
• The Number Of Fucks In Deadwood

Longer reads:

• Adapt or Die: The Nature of Brand Strategy
• How the news took over reality
• Can an Art Collective Become the Disney of the Experience Economy?
• She was the “queen of the mommy bloggers.” Then her life fell apart.

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Hot Wheels Xylophone
• Manuel Schütz fast catch boomerang training
• The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob
• Danny Macaskill: Danny Daycare
• The truth behind the TV show Cops
• 4 Dopes and a Merry Go Round
• Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?
• Robber Tries To Escape From A Window On 22nd Floor, Realizes He’s Not Jason Bourne

Things to look at/read:

• The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37
• The Socialist Lavatory League
• TED’s “snacks curator” has some advice for shaking up your office pantry
• The Best “Actors Playing Themselves” Cameos in Movie History

Animal corner:

• Black Labrador Jumps off Staircase to Get to the Ocean
• Shiba Inu puppies
• Woman Records How Her Dog And Her Cats React To Her Coming Home, And Yep, That Seems About Right
• You call this a prison Karen ?
• The longer you look at this the better it gets
• It’s a dog help dog world

Tweets of the week:

• You’d think by now after tweeting it every f**king year he’d believe it
• How it looks online versus how it looks when you try it on
• In honor of #Sesame50 I present my favorite outtake ever: Julia Louis-Dreyfus cursing in front of Elmo, who is so method that he just rolls with it.
• it’s pride month so i am legally required to repost this
• Me: You: Everyone: No one: Brands at 12:01am on June 1st:
• The laws of physics are amazing.
• The Joker should have been a woman. And she finally went insane because too many random dudes told her to smile, so now she perpetually smiles while terrorizing Gotham.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’
• The Church of Living Dangerously: How One of America’s Biggest Pastors Became a Drug Runner for a Mexican Cartel
• Why we are addicted to conspiracy theories
• Requiem for a Sports Bettor
• My childhood in a cult
• Faith, Friendship, and Tragedy at Santa Fe High

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