We Love the Internet 2019/30: The Stay in the game edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”
• The Hotel Hackers Are Hiding in the Remote Control Curtains
• Bon Appétit’s Gourmet Makes is a great way to learn how to be productive at work
• Is this social start up the future of TV?
• I.P. Quartz Brief, the innovative mobile news app.
• Lights, camera, caption! Why subtitles are no longer just for the hard of hearing
• Shopify and the Power of Platforms

Reference points:

• 100 Things We’ve Learned About Language from The Allusionist
• On YouTube’s Biggest Channels, Videos With Keywords Like ‘Fortnite,’ ‘ASMR’ and ‘Insane’ Get Higher Views
• 44 African Americans who shook up the world
• Snapchat’s Gender-Swap and Baby Filters Doubled App Downloads
• Generation Z’s suicide epidemic

Longer reads:

• How ‘Overwatch’ Is Tackling the Esports Stats Problem
• The Wild Ride at Babe.Net
• Can Democrats win back the internet in the age of Trump?
• The Land Where the Internet Ends
• Slack Wants to Replace Email. Is That What We Want?
• TikTok Has A Predator Problem. A Network Of Young Women Is Fighting Back.
• Why the ending of Game of Thrones elevated the worst of fan culture
• At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Storyline – the trend guessing game
• Two People Crash At ‘Mountain Of Hell’ Bike Race — And Then All Hell Really Does Break Loose
• How To Make A Cheese Ball Machine Gun
• Cassetteboy – Boris Johnson’s Leadership Bid
• The Alfonso Cuaron One-Shot Sequence

Things to look at/read:

• Stay in the game
• Romance Novel Model Jason Baca, 45, Retiring from the Genre After Posing on Over 630 Covers
• Meet the Guy Who Bought a Monorail For $1,000
• Wireless headphones are augmented reality devices
• A Brief History of the Movie-Summarizing End-Credits Rap
• What do people in solitary confinement want to see?

Animal corner:

• DogCoin Mining by 2 Labradors
• Doggy Stays Dry While Playing with Water
• Mother Skunk Helps Babies Climb over Curb
• Saint Bernard Makes Huge Mess and Chews Entire Paper Towel Roll
• I showed my cat the Cats trailer.
• I don’t care how small your advertising budget is.  Wonderful things can still be done.
• Brought home a new pet
• why does this dog look like richard gere

Tweets of the week:

• What is up with our timeline
• so we’re 2 hours into the races, and el comes and tells me someone has spilt red wine down her…
• this is terrifying
• I have watched this video of Ryan from last night 300 times 😂😭😂😭 cannot write this stuff
• This is my new favorite wild mommy post. It’s me, the millennial slut who just goes to Disney World to make children cry
• MONEY/IDIOT KLAXON.
• What kind of lasers were they fucking using?!
• For the last 800 days, @meganamram has posted this tweet every day.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• A Family Portrait: Brothers, Sisters, Strangers
• Subway Got Too Big. Franchisees Paid a Price.
• Hooked
• How Warped Tour led the consumerist music festival revolution
• Behind ‘The Mask’
• David Sackler pleads his case on the opioid epidemic
• The $500m family feud
• What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

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We Love the Internet 2019/29: The Hired guns of Instagram edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online
• Everything we do, and everything we feel.
• eBay trashes Amazon Prime Day and promises to unlock more deals if the site crashes again
• They welcomed a robot into their family, now they’re mourning its death
• How ‘Toy Story 4’ and Pixar keep Don Rickles’ legacy alive two years after his death
• The Golden Age of Cord-Cutting Is Over. Now What?
• We hired three Fiverr workers to write about Fiverr’s IPO

Reference points:

• How Music Discovery Works Today, and What Artists Can Do To Stand Out
• At What Age Do People Switch Jobs
• Reflect, connect, learn: How video is fulfilling new roles in people’s lives

Longer reads:

• The hired guns of Instagram
• Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Pickpockets Target Oblivious Tourists, Don’t Notice That The Police Are Trailing Them
• billy corgan rides a rollercoaster
• Guy In Charge Of Pouring The Champagne Tower Has The Absolute Worst Day Of His Life
• Woman Tries To Body Surf Down A Dune, Fails To Account For The Effects Of Friction
• Oh Geez, This Is The Most (Literally) Painful Gender Reveal Ever
• This clip from the Fox show Beat Shazam is the bleakest thing on television. Darker than Euphoria or Chernobyl. I implore you to watch the entire clip

Things to look at/read:

• The Best Abortion Ever
• The Ultimate Guide To Every Hot Dog Style From Around The World

Animal corner:

• Tortoise Snaps Angrily at Girl’s Phone
• Fucks given: Zero.
• Dog Has Most Dramatic Reaction To Dropping Toy

Tweets of the week:

• dr strange: *opens the portals* dusted avengers:
• me when an email finds me well
• 50 years ago today, as we were camping in Canada, my dad used an aluminum canoe as an antennae so my brother and I could listen to the launch of Apollo 11
• phil mitchell saying “eh” to the tune of the eastenders theme is one of my favourite videos to ever exist
• If white characters were written the way white authors describe POC in novels:
• Thoughts and prayers for the woman in the brown top
• Lethal Weapon 5 looks shit….
• drunk woody harrelson being kept from his seats at wimbledon is a huge mood

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Time I Went On A Lesbian Cruise And It Blew Up My Entire Life
• Judge Judy Is Still Judging You
• A dirty, rotten, double crossing (true) story of what happened to the Italian American mob

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We Love the Internet 2019/28: The I in we edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• A GIF Within a GIF of Another GIF
• Disruption Starts with Unhappy Customers, Not Technology
• The Ruthless Reality of Amazon’s One-Day Shipping
• The Real Difference Between Creators and Influencers
• Quibi: The next Go90, or streaming unicorn?
• Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s Productivity
• How a video game community filled my nephew’s final days with joy
• Meaningful measurement

Reference points:

• Reuters digital news report
• Internet trends 2019
• The 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of the 21st Century
• Where are the places with the best (and the worst) weather in the United States
• The 30 Best Elaine Moments on Seinfeld

Longer reads:

• The I In We
• Big Mood Machine
• The unlikely origins of USB, the port that changed everything
• Bodies in seats
• On the Outside: The Harsh Reality of Life After ‘Love Island’
• Andreessen Horowitz Is Blowing Up The Venture Capital Model (Again)
• WeChat Is Watching

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• A Brief History Of Spotify
• HBO’s Chernobyl vs Reality – Footage Comparison
• Not A Single Word Is Needed For This Animated Short To Blow Your Damn Mind
• H.E.R.N.O.B.Y.L
• How To Fall Asleep In 2 Minutes
• Tank Runs Over Car At Top Speed And, Uh, Holy Crap
• Whoever Wrecked This Car Really Didn’t Think Through The Evidence Left Behind
• The Descent Into China’s Deepest Subway Station Is Comically Long

Things to look at/read:

• How Graffiti Became Gentrified
• Bird-killing, cancer-causing 5G is the internet’s new favourite conspiracy theory

Animal corner:

• Barking Bird Guards the House like a Dog
• A Very Cool Demonstration Of Owls’ Insane Flying Precision
• Dog Wearing Salami Mask
• Horse and Rider Jump Into Deceptively Deep Pool of Water
• Somehow all of the neighborhood cats managed to get into our trampoline…
• i’m not gonna ask you again, what the fuck is in your mouth

Tweets of the week:

• Why are the peas upside down. It’s fucking me up.
• Holy shit lmao.
• If you don’t use these EXACT character names when discussing Big Little Lies, you’re being confusing.
• Mikhail Gorbachev with the hair of Joe Kinnear and Ronald Reagan with the hair of Kenny Dalglish.
• My wife went straight savage in Waitrose. Fuck you, Doris, and your hatred of tattooed millennials.
• The #USWNT hammered after winning back 2 back world cups is honestly the best content I’ve ever seen
• The distinctive Rijksmuseum i & j digraph works well in *most* contexts.
• Amazing

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The mindfulness conspiracy
• The Death Of The Family Secret
• Mike Tyson Smokes the Toad

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We Love the Internet 2019/27: The Dark forest theory of the internet edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
• Seinfeld is 30 years old. Here are 5 ways it changed television.
• The Coalition Out to Kill Tech as We Know It
• The catch-22 that broke the internet
• When Grown-Ups Get Caught in Teens’ AirDrop Crossfire
• Hollywood is quietly using AI to help decide which movies to make
• The Best Ideas Are the Ones That Make the Least Sense
• Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again

Reference points:

• Remake my day
• Why We Created a Gender-Inclusive Stock Photo Library
• What Do the Most GIF-able TV Shows Have in Common?
• How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained

Longer reads:

• Uber’s Path of Destruction
• Destroyer of worlds
• How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use
• Investing in the Podcast Ecosystem in 2019
• Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered With Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics
• After 15 years the pirate bay still can’t be killed
• Donald Trump’s Wikipedia Entry Is a War Zone

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How The Shawshank Redemption Humanizes Prisoners
• Draining a Flooded Street
• 80″ Symphonic Gong played by Paiste Gong Master Sven
• This Ingenious Man Has Created A ‘Tree Bike’ That Allows Him To Go Up 100-Foot-Tall Trees
• The Best Unexpected Technique for Whisking
• Video shows helicopter rescue of injured hiker
• Trine Softball Wins Super Regional With Hidden Ball Trick Play!
• This Disastrous Snowmobile Stunt Attempt Is The Most Canadian Video On The Internet

Things to look at/read:

• The dark side of Japan’s anime industry
• A Woman Leaned Over Beyoncé To Talk To Jay-Z — And The Beyhive Responded With A Wave Of Harassment
• I Promise This Clickbait Delivers: This Horrifying Florida Man Story Involves Boats, Guns, Cocaine, And Hostages
• Three comedians on how they cope with depression
• ‘Get Scavino in here’: Trump’s Twitter guru is the ultimate insider

Animal corner:

• Cat Feeder Machine
• Bride Sara Carson Devine / Dances with her “Best Dog” Hero
• Hello, new friend.
• Everything’s terrible so here’s a cat massaging a capybara
• Can everybody just Please look at this cat
• You haven’t lived until you get to 30 seconds
• This is the best thing you will see today
• So we had to put a cone on my dog again. My cat loves it

Tweets of the week:

• Giant weetabix
• There is no comment which can adequately describe this behaviour.
• Hit up graduation then I Woahh
• Honestly can’t stop reading this mental job advert. It’s an absolute dystopian masterpiece.
• Happy 21st birthday to this: the greatest 20 seconds of Glastonbury coverage ever broadcast…
• I know nobody wants political content on this account but it’s 2:30am and I am awake and putting Marianne Williamson’s speech to Twin Peaks music
• This really bothers me and yet I can’t stop watching it.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?
• The Grindr Grifter
• Would you leave your life behind for a house you saw on Instagram?
• The Artist Who Gave Up Her Daughter
• El Chapo: what the rise and fall of the kingpin reveals about the war on drugs
• Can CBD Really Do All That?

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