We Love the Internet 2020/05: The Tragic iPad edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Tragic iPad
• The dark underbelly of Amazon Prime Video
• “Flood the zone with shit”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy
• What Will You Do When the Culture War Comes for You?
• How to Run a Business in 2020
• Love Island’s real genius is in its money-making app
• Google’s tenth messaging service will “unify” Gmail, Drive, Hangouts Chat
• ‘You’re able to grow audiences much faster’: For some creators, Facebook Watch beats YouTube

Reference points:

• The aftermath of a YouTube apology
• Instagram for Windows 95

Longer reads:

• We Finally Figured Out Who Makes wikiHow’s Bizarre Art
• Hollywood is replacing artists with AI. Its future is bleak.
• The amazing stories of a man you’ve never heard of
• The making of Mojo, AR contact lenses that give your eyes superpowers

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Death-Defying Mountain Biking
• Chinese fire station official becomes elderly woman’s ‘grandson’
• I Flew Katie Hopkins to Prague to Win a Fake Award
• Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs
• Bird shaped paper airplane goes viral in china
• A Night In With The Boys of Sex Education
• Kid calls dad on Ring doorbell with question about TV
• Women Falls Asleep At Work

Things to look at/read:

• Collectors Are Spending Thousands on Video Games They Will Never Play
• Every Place Is the Same Now
• The masterful deceit of “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher,” explained
• Doctors beg men not to masturbate with banana peels
• Players Are Pushing Their Bodies to the Limit Speedrunning Nintendo’s Fitness Game
• Mathematicians have solved traffic jams, and they’re begging cities to listen
• New Solar Telescope Shows the Sun’s Surface in Unprecedented High Resolution Images & Video
• Not having a best friend might actually be better for your mental health

Animal corner:

• Baby Possum Rescued by Australian Farmer in Bushfire-Ravaged Region
• Wee Minnie playing wae a blueberry & Ruby spoiling the fun
• They thought they were all alone in the world — they were wrong
• I regret to inform you that Mike Bloomberg attempted to shake a dog’s mouth.

Tweets of the week:

• JESUS CHRIST!
• This is what happens when your Grandpa is a homicide detective and left to babysit
• There is an anomaly in the spacetime continuum….
• Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area.
• This is the greatest TV Moment of the year
• just found this instagram account that’s a kid who calls himself the Shirley Temple King and goes to restaurants and gives brutally honest reviews of their shirley temples. it’s so pure and I love him so much
• when people start fighting in my mentions but i’m still tagged
• just found out nuance exists and multiple conflicting things can be true at the same time

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Losing religion and finding ecstasy in Houston
• ‘Nobody Is Going to Believe You’
• The Coast of Utopia
• Clearview AI Says Its Facial Recognition Software Identified A Terrorism Suspect. The Cops Say That’s Not True.
• I Walked 600 Miles Across Japan for Pizza Toast
• Why millennials are the “death positive” generation

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