We Love the Internet 2019/48: The Style is an algorithm edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

· Streaming TV’s Battle of the Binge: “Burn” All Episodes or Take a “Weekly Pulse”?

· What I learned from getting scammed by 12-year-olds

· Dril didn’t sell out you sold out

· How one company you’ve never heard of swallowed tens of thousands of text messages — then spit them back out

Reference points:

· Lists: The 2010 decade

· Net positive

· Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago

· State of Play: Six Trends Revolutionizing Games

· 10 Great Infographics by XKCD’s Randall Munroe

Longer reads:

· Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

· Nowthis News and the politics of social video

· How A Massive Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions Of Dollars From Unsuspecting Boomers

· Inside Facebook’s efforts to stop revenge porn before it spreads

· Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm, price caps axed

· Five Years Later, Who Really Hacked Sony?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

· Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Third Year

· Typologies of New York City: A Crowdsourced Hyperlapse

· Martin Scorsese Is a Genre: 10 of His Best Shots

Things to look at/read:

· How the 2010s Changed Physics Forever

· The dangerously cheesy collectible Cheetos market

· The Final Days Of Japan’s Most Incredible Arcade

Animal corner:

· A Very Big Dog Named Floyd Had To Be Rescued On A Hike And The Photos Are Amazing

· I guess we will just never solve the mystery of who stole the cookie…

Tweets of the week:

· Watching THE IRISHMAN exactly as Martin Scorsese intended

· How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria (1959)

· You gotta watch this video PLEASE

· i found the most perfect video on earth and i’m here to share it with you all

· This is how battle rappers look when they’re getting flamed

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

· Style Is an Algorithm

· Voices of the New Masculinity

· The Collapse of Civilization May Have Already Begun

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