We Love the Internet 2020/24: The Incalculable loss edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Inside Nextdoor’s ‘Karen Problem’
• Cop shows won’t just disappear. How can we reinvent them?
• Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Big Newsrooms
• A Twitter joke about MSNBC and World War Z turned into a misinformation nightmare
• How Google Docs became the social media of the resistance
• TikTok Pivots From Dance Moves To A Racial Justice Movement
• Worst. Deal. Ever
• ‘Morally Impossible’: Some Advertisers Take a Timeout From Facebook

Reference points:

• Incalculable Loss
• An interactive guide to ambiguous grammar
• 50 ideas that changed my life
• Classic GTA sites
• You shall not pass

Longer reads:

• The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance
• Never-ending Niches
• The virtual economy
• Tinder CEO Elie Seidman On Finding Love During The Pandemic
• The Gospel According to Peter Thiel

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Schitt’s Creek feat. Mariah Carey
• The Avengers Of Oz
• I Faked My Instagram for a Week and The World Believed It…
• How This Guy Stacks Playing Cards Impossibly High
• Farmer has a rough day at work
• killing eve in under 5 minutes (parody)
• I have no idea who did this, but if you know, find them and tag them. One of the best things I’ve seen on this app this week
• This is better than The Fugitive

Things to look at/read:

• Slosh! Slurp! Welcome to the ‘Walktail’ Party
• Training a Dog
• We’ve Now Entered the Final Phase of the Trump Era
• Echoes in the Chelsea Hotel
• Revisiting TGI Fridays and the Revolutionary “Fern” Bars of Late-1960s New York
• Five Surprising Things I Learned from Partying with Rich People
• The last images ever taken
• How apples go bad

Animal corner:

• Puppy Has ‘Fainting Goat Syndrome’
• Dog Helps Owner Dig Holes For Plants
• New York dog snags Guinness World Record for holding six tennis balls in his mouth, on his own
• Today in find the cat
• At moment there’s a lot going on in the world so here’s a video of my waving cat sox to make you smile
• The emus are performing arcane summoning rituals in the backyard again.
• the mortifying ordeal of being known

Tweets of the week:

• It’s more than just the police.
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty (2001)
• me after guessing the password of my own email
• I AM DYING
• I’ve no idea of the origins of this but this wonderful lady made me laugh so much, I want to share the joy
• Fucking hell, how fast was that rollercoaster going?
• this is the best meme actually
• I’ve watched this 936 times

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
• The Remaking of Steve Buscemi
• The Business of Building Utopia
• The new theatrics of remote therapy
• How RuneScape is helping Venezuelans survive
• The inequality engine

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