We Love the Internet 2020/01: The Decade tech lost its way edition

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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