We Love the Internet 2020/34: The Sweatpants forever edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Google has outgrown its corporate culture
• Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
• App stores, trust and anti-trust
• Seven predictions for how Amazon will change the sporting world

Reference points:

• My favorite product management templates
• TikTok clone Instagram Reels is just one of the many times Facebook has copied its competitors
• PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later

Longer reads:

• TikTok and the Sorting Hat
• How social justice slideshows took over Instagram
• TikTok and the Evolution of Digital Blackface
• “Hannity has said to me more than once, ‘He’s Crazy’”

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Fast and the Furious (on a budget) Trailer
• 200 Watt car mounted laser!
• The Hackney Mole Man
• The smoothest guitar switch ever!
• How to make a blockbuster movie video
• Radio.garden

Things to look at/read:

• The embarrassing 1,000 year history of the male power ballad
• Twilight of the Imperial Chef
• The Airport of the Future Will Have No Check-In or Security Lines
• The ‘slam’ of your car door is fake
• Who Is Keanu Reeves, Really?

Animal corner:

• The Pit Bull Influencers Reclaiming the Dogs’ Image, One IG Post at a Time
• Otter Jumps Onto Boat Escaping Orca With Seconds To Spare
• egg thief!!!!!!!!!
• I CANT STOPLAUGHIINFGNGH
• Kung fu cat
• Most dramatic brain freeze EVER!
• Say hi to the melon pupper

Tweets of the week:

• I refuse to read the whole article. This headline is everything I need
• Been telling my daughter to take this mask off for over 3 hours she’s not listening .
• Many people have been using quarantine as a time to perfect their bread or coffee making skills, but I personally have taken this as an opportunity to make increasingly unsettling eggs
• America has a pandemic problem so I solved it by making a gun:
• The perfect image for 2020 doesn’t exi….
• I needed this tbh
• The Story of the Legendary Grilled Cheese.
• Dear @ManUtd, the home shirt is £64.95. Whilst I’m willing to pay the £64.95, I’d rather pay £30 up front, £10 when I’ve worn it 10 times, £10 when the team finish in the top 4 wearing it, £10 when Jadon Sancho scores a hat-trick wearing it and £4.95 if I win the Ballon d’Or.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Sweatpants forever
• In Conversation: Laurence Fishburne
• The Unraveling of America
• Pop Culture Failed to Imagine Kamala Harris
• Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump’s Battles With U.S. Intelligence Agencies
• Viral Video Seemed To Show BLM Storming A Church. The Real Story Is Much Darker.
• Simone Biles Would Like to Thank Herself
• The ride from hell

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