Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Inside Twitch’s Wildest Talk Show
- A CGI and completely fake influencer claims she was ‘sexually assaulted’ and people are well and truly p****d
- How Sony bought, and squandered, the future of gaming
- Here’s the typography of the next decade
- How trends — from oat milk to ugly sneakers — get so huge so fast
- No longer under BuzzFeed, the Try Guys are building an independent media business
- Fake Faces: People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook To Influence 2020 Elections
- What is Lorem? Inside One of Spotify’s Best New Playlists
Reference points:
- Total Christmas price index
- 100 Hysterical Tweets From 2019 That Got 100K Retweets And Kept On Going
- The Decade in Internet Culture, in 34 Emblematic Posts
- The Worst Hacks of the Decade
- 32 moments that made the decade
- The Most Disappointing Gadgets of the Decade
- 2019 in Photos: How the First Months Unfolded
- The 84 biggest flops, fails and dead dreams of the decade in tech
Longer reads:
- The decade tech lost its way
- Carat’s 10 trends for 2020
- Fjord trends 2020
- The year in culture 2019
- 20 Games Every Creative Thinker Should Play
- The year in stupidity
- Fandom went mainstream in the 2010s — for better and worse
- The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- 100 Interesting Facts We Learned in 2019
- Portrait of Lotte, 0 to 20 years
- Dual Axis Illusion
- Chinese man who can ‘jump on water’ goes viral
- Pushing A Roomba To Its Limits
- World’s First Protosaber!
- World Record Elephant Toothpaste
- RC loader pushing snow
Things to look at/read:
- What did ‘authenticity’ in food mean in 2019
- Here’s What Billionaires Actually Give Each Other As Gifts
- How we spent it: the changing face of luxury
- These Guys Just Drove an E63 AMG Across America in a Record 27 Hours 25 Minutes
- This Dad Got Really Attached To His Daughter’s Hamster. Then He Escaped And The Texts Are Gold.
- Chinese criminal gangs spreading African swine fever to force farmers to sell pigs cheaply so they can profit
- My 27-Hour Vacation in Singapore’s Changi Airport
- If The Universe Is 13.8 Billion Years Old, How Can We See 46 Billion Light Years Away?
Animal corner:
- Cat Likes To Lick Owner’s Face, Does Not React Well When Owner Does The Same
- Suspicious Deer Encounters A Decoy Deer In The Woods, Snaps It In Half
- Waking a sleeping rabbit by surrounding him with carrots
- Dog Throws A Temper Tantrum When She Catches Cat Sleeping In Her Bed
- Do Cats Walk On Foil? An Experiment
- Dog Panics When His Favorite TV Show Gets Paused
- LMFAOOOO this tik tok is so chaotic I love it
- Strong defence
Tweets of the week:
- Give this baby all the awards immediately
- I am a music historian, and with @AdrianRMG I have researched the best-selling single of every decade all the way back to 14,000BC.
- I changed my mum’s autocorrect whilst we’re on holiday in Germany. She just texted this to the cat-sitter:
- Hereditary (2018)
- holy shit
- they’ve hired a PR firm
- anime swordsman: *opens and closes his sword* anime villain:
- A lads just sent me his number so thought I’d take advantage of it
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- What Was the Worst Wellness Trend of the 2010s?
- 99 good news stories you probably didn’t hear about in 2019
- One Perfect Shot Presents The 100 Most Beautiful Shots of the Decade
- The age of perpetual crisis: how the 2010s disrupted everything but resolved nothing
- The Decade The Kardashians Took Over Everything
- Seeing red: Tech and consequences
- Trump Got His Wall, After All
- Living through the era of school shootings, one drill at a time
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