We Love the Internet 2020/28: The Will Covid kill off the office edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Will Covid kill off the office?
• How Netflix Beat Hollywood to a Generation of Black Content
• TikTok Is Shaping Politics. But How?
• Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App
• I’m a Black social media manager in the age of George Floyd. Each day is a new trauma
• It’s Time to Reclaim the Meaning of the Word ‘Entrepreneur’
• Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
• What Counts as a Streaming Hit? A Start-Up May Have Answers

Reference points:

• Stock photography then and now: The rise of a new aesthetic
• Group Think Fest 2020 — Learnings

Longer reads:

• Is Anyone Watching Quibi?
• The Remaking of Comedy Central
• Why Did the Washington Post Get This Woman Fired?
• Reddit turns 15: The dramatic moments that shaped the internet’s front page
• The Kanye Story

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Chamber no 5
• I Try to Master The Pizza “Slapping” Technique…
• Karens be like..
• You Will Never Look At Stretch Armstrong The Same Again
• Why a Single Little Spot Makes Driving Across “America” Impossible
• Bowser Stunts
• These Are All Cakes

Things to look at/read:

• My Little Pony Fans Are Ready to Admit They Have a Nazi Problem
• How “Starship Troopers” aligns with our moment of American defeat
• Someone is Wrong on the Internet: A Study in Pandemic Distraction
• When “Edgy” Comedy Is Actually Just Lazy
• She was furloughed. So she became ‘Lasagna Lady,’ and made 1,200 pans of free lasagna for those in need.

Animal corner:

• Penguin Relationship Flowchart Shows Intricate Romantic Web
• Baby Animals Are Pure Joy
• This raccoon’s reaction when it runs out of grapes is just priceless
• Say “YEAH”!
• Curious Cat Discovers She Has Ears While Striking Pose in Mirror
• Squirrel is living the best life.
• Seagull stealing a meatball. Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. Photo: Alexander Ivanov Masteral
• This is how dogs apologize..

Tweets of the week:

• Why are there so many pics of them together
• when you have to fight the minotaur
• As lockdown eases my personal pandemic hero is still the gloriously off-message child who did the bottom picture here.
• I’m losing my mind
• Her dad is now my favorite person
• Sometimes Twitter = 👍.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• It is time for reparations
• How the Trump Campaign Is Drawing Obama Out of Retirement
• Thandie Newton Is Finally Ready to Speak Her Mind
• The Decline of the American World
• Twelve Minutes and a Life
• The Trayvon generation
• Boss of the Beach
• The story of O-man, the personal trainer who became The Valley’s secret orgasm whisperer

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