We Love the Internet 2018/30: The White fragility in the workplace edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Inside the Villa: How Love Island Made a Sizzling Success of Social-First TV
• WeRateDogs Is Once Again In Hot Water On Twitter
• Here’s the final nail in the coffin of open plan offices
• Five Reasons Why 2018 Has Been the Year of the TV Sophomore Slump

Reference points:

• Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster. What if That’s Actually True?
• “Unporn” is the photo stock collection for those suggestive, naughty moments

Longer reads:

• Inside the Crypto World’s Biggest Scandal
• The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• White Fragility In The Workplace
• Aaron Paul Discovers Bryan Cranston Living in Breaking Bad RV
• Aubrey Plaza is really WEIRD and…AWKWARD
• America’s Ramen Obsession, Explained
• – B L U R S T – O F – T I M E S –
• Burglary suspect weeps after recognizing judge from middle school
• 82-year-old Shridhar Chillal with longest nails finally trims them after 66 years
• A GoPro Adventure in Les 3 Vallees

Things to look at/read:

• A million miles from Love Island: what I learned from being on Shipwrecked
• ‘One winner played on the toilet’: inside HQ Trivia, the hit quiz app

Animal corner:

• Panic/Anxiety Service Dog Alert on video
• Beekeepers have trained dogs to sniff out diseased larva and save entire hives.
• The fox I planted last year is coming along nicely.
• alaskan melonmute puppies grow in fields, and can use their melon body to stay cool on hot days.
• the comedic timing on this gif is fucking incredible
• i cannot believe the miracle i just witnessed – this dog just chased down a skateboarder until he stopped and the owner ran over – “SO sorry, he honestly just loves skateboards” AND THEN HE DID THIS:

Tweets of the week:

• THOR RAGNAROK BUT IT’S AN ANIME INTRO THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING
• Honestly this sounds like a perfect day
• THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS I’VE EVER SEEN HAHA
• folks,,, i just stumbled on perhaps the greatest Venn diagram of all time
• The following data relies heavily on the work of the blogger at “Her Majesty’s Jewel Box”
• Behold one of the most brilliant criminal minds of the Twenty-First Century:
• Geoffrey the Toys R Us giraffe enters a rumble and gets eliminated by Amazon package
• So far so good. I think.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Most Important Soccer Game Ever Played
• When Children Say They’re Trans
• The staggering rise of India’s super-rich
• ‘Nothing to worry about. The water is fine’: how Flint poisoned its people

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We Love the Internet 2018/29: The How do you eat a slice of pizza edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The World Needs Netflix Minis
• The Times Has Sacked An Award-Winning Reporter For Running A Fake Review Scam
• How alt-right Twitter tricks the media into panicking
• Why are memes of black people reacting so popular online?

Reference points:

• The best Mario Kart character according to data science
• 100 greatest YouTube videos of all time, ranked
• Why we shouldn’t trust our gut instinct (pdf)

Longer reads:

• The perverse incentives that helps incels thrive in tech
• Elon Musk Has Always Been At War With The Media
• A wide-ranging, unabashedly honest conversation about why tech companies aren’t diverse — and how to fix them
• How I Broke, and Botched, the Brandon Teena Story
• ‘I was shocked it was so easy’: ​meet the professor who says facial recognition ​​can tell if you’re gay

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• A Boy Ate 150 Gummy Vitamins For Breakfast. This Is What Happened To His Bones.
• The most American event we’ve ever seen.

Things to look at/read:

• A Long Answer to a Simple Question: How Do You Eat a Slice of Pizza?
• 17 Places Book Lovers Need to Visit
• Die Hard at 30: how it remains the quintessential American action movie

Animal corner:

• Humans should stop meddling with pandas and let them die
• A Boy Squashed Between Two Cows On Live TV
• Hilarious moment cat crashes Polish historian interview on Dutch TV
• Tiger Slowly Creeps Up Behind Visitors
• The subtitles have me dead
• Why does ma Nana’s dog look like he’s trying tae see what he wants tae order from the chippy

Tweets of the week:

• This is an absolutely perfect picture.
• It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie
• You 1000% cannot convince me that this is not the sleeping body of the god of elephants, resting among the waves until the time of man is done
• Oh my god. North Carolina FC just gave us both the best and worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life…
• Ok this summer is now so hot it officially qualifies as a plot device in a literary novel
• The internet is forever undefeated!
• Great, cheers mate, just make sure you don’t put my eggs at the bottom

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The reputation-laundering firm that ruined its own reputation
• The Death of a Once Great City
• Music’s Unsung LGBTQ Heroes
• What Is the Gayest Marvel Movie?
• The age of patriarchy: how an unfashionable idea became a rallying cry for feminism today
• The Hod complex: England and the 1998 world cup

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We Love the Internet 2018/28: The How Nathan Fielder undresses people edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How National Geographic uses Instagram to stay relevant
• Netflix’s Content Budget Is Bigger Than It Seems (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 1)
• The crazy hacks one woman used to make money on mechanical turk
• The Guardian finds less polished video works better on Instagram Stories
• The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens
• Creators are making longer videos to cater to the YouTube algorithm
• Netflix is moving television beyond time-slots and national markets

Reference points:

• 15 principles of good service design

Longer reads:

• How innovation is maturing, creating new kinds of firms that disrupt the professional services market
• The Legend of Nintendo
• Digital Dust

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How Nathan Fielder Undresses People
• In Search of Forgotten Colours – Sachio Yoshioka and the Art of Natural Dyeing
• Smooth Criminal But Every Other Beat is Missing
• Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” | Talks at Google
• here’s that botched Canadian convenience store robbery set to Metal Gear Solid music
• Flying Port-A-Potty Sprays Unholy Liquid Everywhere As Strong Winds Blow It Into Space
• Poker Player Celebrates $1 Million Win Before Last Card Is Dealt, Which Turns Out To Be A Very Bad Idea
• Dylan Alcott sneaks Wu-Tang lyrics on live TV

Things to look at/read:

• I Am Sick! And Tired! Of That Pink Doctor from ‘Love Island’!
• My Suicide Week
• Meet the guys who tape Trump’s papers back together
• Toned down for what? How ‘chill’ turned toxic

Animal corner:

• Madrid police dog gives CPR
• So that’s how you stop a kangaroo fight

Tweets of the week:

• When you try to log in to your uni website but it calls you an invalid nonce
• Brands now after pride month has ended
• Am I wasted or is that scoobie doo in my pint?
• JURASSIC PARK, but everyone including the dinosaurs is wearing high heels
• Will always think of this GIF when I see Ronaldo.
• I’ve had enough
• …and Beckham is now a baby. Fucking hell.
• Wondered why the car blowers didn’t seem very effective then realised half of them were set to ’email’ instead of ‘bacon’

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘It’s nothing like a broken leg’: why I’m done with the mental health conversation
• The unbelievable story of one of America’s bloodiest hitmen
• The Lifespan of a Lie
• How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective
• The radical lessons of a year reporting on knife crime

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We Love the Internet 2018/27: The Body positivity is a scam edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Growing Pains: The Challenge of Launching a Prestige Network in 2018
• We’re In an Epidemic of Mistrust in Science
• GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button
• Elizabeth Holmes is trying to start a new company
• Scooter companies tried to barge into San Francisco and got kicked out. Now they’re making big promises to get legal.

Reference points:

• How Instagram’s algorithm works
• National Security Agency (NSA) security/motivational posters from the 1950s and 1960s (pdf)
• 60 thoughts.
• The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly

Longer reads:

• Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web
• How WeWork became the most hyped startup in the world

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why this skateboarding trick should be IMPOSSIBLE
• Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: 1000 Shot NERF Blaster!

Things to look at/read:

• Body Positivity Is a Scam
• Bananas have died out once before–don’t let it happen again
• My So-Called (Millennial) Entitlement
• What White Girl Coming-of-Age Movies Don’t Do For a Black Girl
• Average

Animal corner:

• Cat Stuck in Trashcan
• Golden retriever & our toddler: partners in crime
• Friends Please wait for the last 5 seconds : )
• this challenge is the purest thing I have seen in a while
• WhatTheFluffChallenge

Tweets of the week:

• keep forgetting
• Drink! Feck! Girls! Brexit!
• the way he changes his voice lmao! “Big ass dinosaur”
• exe has stopped working
• The Senegal warm-up is even better with Ducktales music.
• Are there photos of Macron where he *doesn’t* look like a Bond villain?
• 2009: “As Twitter grows, it will increasingly become a place where companies build brands, do research, send information to customers, conduct e-commerce and create communities for their users.” – Time 2018:

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed.
• Wrestling in Paris
• The Trouble With Johnny Depp
• The 30 Best Superhero Movies Since Blade

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We Love the Internet 2018/26: The How everything on the internet became clickbait edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How everything on the internet became clickbait
• Ways to think about machine learning
• How The Internet Is Changing The Way Dogs Find Homes
• YouTube’s top creators are burning out and breaking down en masse
• Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay
• What It’s Like When Elon Musk’s Twitter Mob Comes After You
• How Tidal Got So Fucked
• Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore

Reference points:

• Neural network-generated roller derby names
• How ‘influencers’ made my arse a work of art
• How The Truman Show Predicted the Future

Longer reads:

• Here’s How That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter
• How Peppa Pig became a video nightmare for children

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Dancing in Movies
• Greatest “1 in a Million” Plays/Moments in Sports History
• Luciano Rosso / Playback 30 / MAMBO
• Are there more than 2 genders?
• Mid-West Freestyle Canoe 2007 — Marc Ornstein
• 2014 1st China National Wushu Games

Things to look at/read:

• It Was All a Dream
• Craft lager is an oxymoron no more
• The Pyramids of Giza Are Near a Pizza Hut, and Other Sites That May Disappoint You
• The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud.
• The words that America’s spelling champions keep getting wrong
• Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee and the strange path of an ancient epithet
• The Surprising History (and Future) of Fingerprints
• The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations

Animal corner:

• Worlds Worst Sheepdog
• Senior Chihuahua’s First Bed
• Sea Lion Relaxing on Bench Changes Seat to Escape Sun
• BUSTED! This very good dog was having tons of fun splashing around in his inflatable pool – but quickly changed his behavior as soon as he noticed his owner watching.
• “got what i want, I’ll be in the car”

Tweets of the week:

• Once you see Roland Rat you won’t unsee it
• Exclusive footage of Melania Trump at a funeral:
• when someone films the dead body before you
• “fit…for…work”
• I’m 100% convinced my grandma was the reason Mexico won
• GIF of the day
• When it’s 3 AM and you’re trying to go home but you hear your friends talking about “ what’s the next move “
• This is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Quest to Break America’s Most Mysterious Code—And Find $60 Million in Buried Treasure
• Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It
• It Costs $2.50 to Make Lipstick — Here’s Why You’re Charged So Much More
• The tower
• The ‘Sex Cult’ That Preached Empowerment
• The Real Story of Donald Trump Jr.
• How the resurgence of white supremacy in the US sparked a war over free speech
• The financial scandal no one is talking about

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We Love the Internet 2018/25: The Inside the binge factory edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The long and short of it needs the wrong and shit of it
• For the World Cup, livestreamed online video is threatening to score the equalizer on traditional TV

Reference points:

• What did Earth look like 750 million  years ago?
• The colors of motion

Longer reads:

• Inside the Binge Factory
• A Company Built on a Bluff
• Why do we care so much about privacy?
• Are Good Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
• State of Digital Ad Fraud Q2 2018

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Top 7 Most Bizarre Musical Instruments of the World
• That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
• Solo: A Star Wars Story Cast Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions
• Slapping championship
• Top 10 Amazing Drawing Tricks

Things to look at/read:

• World Cup kits through the ages
• A Deep Dive Into the England Squad-Suit Photo
• Pop, passion and enemas: how online forums created a new musical culture

Animal corner:

• Asparagus Vs. Dog
• FATMAN THE DOG: Mwadlands with Charlie Birch
• Video games are great, but sometimes it’s nice to unplug and play a game of Jenga with your cat
• Well it was a nice lake day until my dog nearly drowned my sister
• “don’t, Denise, he’s not worth it”
• My boss texted me this video earlier and said “if you don’t like this, you’re fired.”
• The problem with having a black cat is they sometimes go missing and 90% of the time they’re sitting in front of the TV screen

Tweets of the week:

• When you come into work dressed as the carpet. I am MORTIFIED.
• Watch this video of an adorable Pre-K graduate make your day (and the future) a little brighter.
• A friends mum felt that the usual hospital pain scale didn’t relate to her as a patient. So I give you, created by her son, The Work of Art Pain Scale: (genius)
• GREATEST TATTOO OF ALL TIME
• Alexa: remind me to feed the baby
• Just watching Arctic Monkeys at the BBC and can’t help but notice that Alex Turner has come as every character from The Big Lebowski at once…
• I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Olive Garden commercials and then asked it to write an Olive Garden commercial of its own. Here is the first page.
• You all knew this just *had* to happen right?

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Most Hated Bachelor in America Explains Himself
• The spy who came home
• Blood Will Tell
• How 1960s Film Pirates Sold Movies Before the FBI Came Knocking
• The Hidden Queer History Behind “A League of Their Own”
• How the resurgence of white supremacy in the US sparked a war over free speech

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We Love the Internet 2018/24: The Email is dangerous edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Email Is Dangerous
• How Evan Spiegel Fumbled Snap’s Redesign
• With Facebook Live views falling, BuzzFeed looks to Twitch
• As GDPR looms, it’s time to update your personal terms of service
• Data protectionism: the growing menace to global business

Reference points:

• Internet trends 2018
• Gifless
• How Onscreen Sex Sounds Are Made, From Kissing to Hand Jobs

Longer reads:

• How the math men overthrew the mad men
• I pitched the absolute worst ideas for TV shows to Channel 5 and MTV
• Can the cult of Berkshire Hathaway outlive Warren Buffett?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Cyclist Tired of Waiting for Bomb Squad
• KTLA started following the wrong car in a pursuit
• Emilia Clarke Re-Creates Stock Photos
• This Crazy Japanese Slide Is Not Recommended For Beginners

Things to look at/read:

• How did music become so unimportant?
• Why The Internet Is Obsessed With #MealPrep
• The Red Phone Box, a British Icon, Stages a Comeback

Animal corner:

• Dog Jumps for Joy After Owner Returns Home
• Amazing video shows eagle battling fox for rabbit in mid-air
• I’ve been working in TV for over 5 years now, and nothing I’ve helped create has ever topped this.
• Colin tried to hide his smugness at having the banana all to himself.

Tweets of the week:

• Jesus breakdancing to impress his friends, AD20
• before the absolute boy there was
• if you’re really wondering what England is actually like, look no further than this timeless classic
• Men with beards looking upwards for your viewing pleasure. Don’t say I don’t give you anything
• I’m at a loss for words.
• She has ACTUALLY done what I think she has done….
• “Always Follow Your Dreams…” -Jon Hendren

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Sarah Silverman Is the Troll Slayer
• Bhad Bhabie Isn’t Going Anywhere
• Twenty four karat chicken wings and the allure of eating gold
• Own Goal: The Inside Story of How the USMNT Missed the 2018 World Cup
• The trouble with charitable billionaires
• How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money

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