Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Memes Are the New Pop Stars: How TikTok Became the Future of the Music Industry
- Is America ready for a high school version of Marvel?
- How Trans Actors Are Rewriting the Rules of TV Casting
- ‘Not Great, Bob!’: The Making of Mad Men’s Greatest Meme
- Inside MeWe, Where Anti-Vaxxers and Conspiracy Theorists Thrive
- I Discover All the Best Music in My Life Through Video Games, and I’m Not Alone
- Metadata is the biggest little problem facing the music industry
- YouTube’s Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl
Reference points:
- Does the news reflect what we die from?
- Why Women Are Called ‘Influencers’ and Men ‘Creators’
- What Value do you Create? Marketing’s 3 Types of Value
- The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
- All 21 Pixar movies, definitively ranked
- This Immersive Netflix Hack Turns Your Phone Into A Rumble Pack
Longer reads:
- When Fandom Is the Problem
- Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
- Everything’s Flopping, and No One Is Happy
- The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones
- Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game
- Air France Flight 447: Ten Years On
- What happened when I let algorithms run my life for a week
- Netflix: ‘No amount of data can tell you what to commission next’
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Dump Truck Vs. Traffic Light
- Breakfast club
- Teen Performs Magic Trick with Rubix Cube in School Cafeteria
- GOPRO Goes on Japanese Sushi Conveyor Belt
Things to look at/read:
- There Are Two Types of Airport People
- My secret shame: I am (still) addicted to Pokémon Go
- The Joy of Watching (and Rewatching) Movies So Bad They’re Good
- Kimigayo: A Guide to Japan’s Controversial National Anthem
- The Eternal Revenue Stream of Led Zeppelin
Animal corner:
- Cat Laughs in the Face of Climbing Wall Challenge
- Special Dog Has Beach Fun
- Therapy Dogs For The Parkland Shooting Survivors Got Their Own School Yearbook Page And It’s Pretty Amazing
- Sawfish look like they don’t buy your bullshit excuses
Tweets of the week:
- Being Beyoncé’s assistant for the day: DONT GET FIRED THREAD
- Is it 1995?
- got another capitalism greatest hit. i will give you one hundred thousand dollars if you can guess the brand by the end
- supporting your friends dreams:
- ah shit, here comes the sun
- I drunkenly ordered maccys four times last night because I kept forgetting I’d ordered it, they all arrived at my house before I did
- Anyone know what Boris Johnson is doing in this Chagall painting? Because he’s there and it’s terrifying.
- HOLY SHIT
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- The curse of genius
- Two days with Curvy Wife Guy, the most controversial man in body positivity
- Where an Entire Day’s Worth of Food Came From
- ‘A zombie party’: the deepening crisis of conservatism
- The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich
- Can we live longer but stay younger?
- How a cheap, brutally efficient grocery chain is upending America’s supermarkets
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