Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Here’s why Substack’s scam worked so well
- The New York Times is so done with its 77,000-member Facebook cooking group. What happens now?
- Fortnite’s experimental story is an attempt to create ‘the entertainment experience of the future’
- Outgrowing software
- Justice League’s Snyder Cut saga reminds us which fans’ voices get heard
- Stars Now Understand That Their Destruction Is Our Entertainment
- The Preteen’s Guide to Getting Rich Off YouTube
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- Inside the ‘Black Market’ Where Artists Can Pay for Millions of Streams
- The internet is splitting apart. The Internet Archive wants to save it all forever.
- Kevin Mayer talks about his disappointing departures at Disney and TikTok, and the long decline of pay TV
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- The World’s Deepest Canal
- Little Girls Flawlessly Ride Hoverboard in Circles Like Professionals Inside House
- hands down the best scene in television
Things to look at/read:
- There were 3,800 anti-Asian racist incidents, mostly against women, in past year
- The Invention of a New Pasta Shape
Animal corner:
- Sleeping German Shepherd wakes up after smell his favorite food
- Smart dog intentionally drops his toys in the pool so he can jump in and save them.
- Dog Howling at flute playing
- Oshie attempts to say mom using his voice, versus pressing the button!
- the crime the criminal
Tweets of the week:
- Well that’s me told
- gentrified is not the word
- Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
- WHY THEY JUST DROP MY CAR BROOO
- This is awesome
- Got a new bumper sticker
- I literally feel like this chair
- Ant McPartlin enjoying a curry:
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- The master thief
- How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted
- OCD Is Not a Joke
- Lessons from a year of Covid
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