We Love the Internet 2021/46: The Notes on newsletters edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Notes on newsletters
• A look under the hood of the most successful streaming service on the planet
• After Bingeing on Dramas, Netflix and Rivals Target Reality TV
• How mental health became a social media minefield
• U.S. court orders Google to disclose manga piracy site operator
• Beijing 2022 sponsors – a story of state control, Snickers bars and “co-exclusive” rights

Reference points:

• The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History
• Netflix Top 10

Longer reads:

• “We’re Like the Anti-‘Billions’”: How ‘Succession’ Makes Wealth Look Miserable

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why movies tilt the camera like this
• There’s a Trippy Wheel of Time Billboard in Piccadilly Circus!
• I made a compilation of players following up a rebound after a goal has been scored and missing. Enjoy!

Things to look at/read:

• A Week in the World’s Most Chaotic City

Animal corner:

• Someone come get him please
• Omgg! The ending 💀 wait for it …
• Bark at your dog
• Super sonic wiggles today! What song should she do next?!
• I’m in the bath and this happens
• Somewhere over the rainbow
• A legenda é com vocês

Tweets of the week:

• I have not laughed this hard in years and I know that makes me mentally a 14 year old.
• COVID-19 map for Germany looks pretty bad. Except for Ludwigslust-Parchim. It was hit by ransomware.
• feels a little invasive to me
• Can I make this an NFT
• OH MY GOD, HE DID IT, HE READ DRIL TWEETS AS MATT BERRY
• Please under no circumstances drink uranium dioxideperoxide.
• Mine was a throat and nose swab.
• Looks like someone’s thrown Yoda through the window….

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The housing theory of everything
• The untold story of Sushi in America
• Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals

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