We Love the Internet 2019/50: The 2010s broke our sense of time edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time
• This Is Not About How Young People Use Tech
• Devin Nunes and the Power of Keyword Signaling
• The Golden Age of TV Is Over
• A Framework for Regulating Competition on the Internet
• The bus ticket theory of genius
• The Cooperative Nature of Capitalism

Reference points:

• The Best Memes of 2019
• 52 things I learned in 2019
• Celebrating the videos and creative community that made TikTok so lovable in 2019
• The “cost of living” in Spotify streams
• Evolution of the Scrollbar
• Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie

Longer reads:

• How I Eat For Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Instagram
• How does YouTube handle the site’s misinformation, conspiracy theories and hate?
• A cybersecurity firm’s sharp rise and stunning collapse
• Has Advertising Lost Its Personality?
• The man who animated Disney
• Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
• What’s Left of Condé Nast
• The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Trombone Battle
• News anchors in tears as meteorologist shows up in mystical unicorn costume
• Why most visual effects suck–but some don’t
• Honda Brake-Checks A Hummer. Things Don’t End Well For The Honda
• Meet The Mole People Living Beneath the Las Vegas Strip
• Vennbahn: The World’s Weirdest Border?
• German Mountain Bike Pro Athlete Spills on World’s Longest Jump Attempt
• Guy Pours Gasoline Into An Ant Hole, Lights It On Fire And Explodes His Whole Backyard

Things to look at/read:

• A Man Whose Legs Were Severed In An Accident Called Out His Insurance For Denying Him A Wheelchair — Twice

Animal corner:

• Cat Reacts Funnily To Owner Dressing Up As A Cat For Halloween
• Golden Retriever waits for mail truck
• Husky Adorably Loses His Mind Meeting His Pups For The First Time
• this video of cats reacting to cat face filter has me crying.

Tweets of the week:

• When you enter a trial in Pheonix Wright.
• I was in the process of booking a flight
• Dad level: Master
• spoons when u open the drawer
• Oh yeah.. my professor catching some hands for this.
• Y’all need to see this video collage of all the crazy things my Physics Professor did this semester
• Lovely festive wishes from our neighbours. Really warmed the cockles.
• Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” is about friends practicing witchcraft but then someone walks in and they have to suddenly play it cool

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• A Million People Are Jailed at China’s Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here’s What Really Goes on Inside
• The Inevitable Decade of Marvel
• The Strange, Sad Story of the Ken Doll’s Crotch
• The Problem With Queer Thirst For Straight Celebrities

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