We Love the Internet 2019/11: The Can you dust my wets edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

· Who Was Lil Tay?

· You May Have Forgotten Foursquare, but It Didn’t Forget You

· What the Cancellation of ‘One Day at a Time’ Says About Netflix

· A false alarm over Twitter likes and retweets caused panic — but it was justified

· RuPaul’s Drag Race helps turn queens into stars — and savvy marketers

· Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the world wide web: ‘We can get the web we want’

· This Woman Found Revenge Porn On Google Drive — And Now She’s Fighting Back

· “It gives you the freedom to be violent to other people”: what has the alt account become?

Reference points:

· What’s the most influential book of the past 20 years?

· The 25 Most Influential Movie Scenes of the Past 25 Years

· Digital 2019: Global Digital Overview

· The clueless parent’s guide to understanding TikTok

Longer reads:

· Rethinking how technology uses our personal data

· The art of decision-making

· 2019 Creative Trends

· The facts about Facebook

· The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

· Old man parks his car

· Straight outta the Commons… it’s Still M.A.Y. (featuring Snoop Mogg)

· Bel-Air (2019) | Official Trailer

· Rocket League Documentary (Part 1)

· Sounds inside a nuclear power plant cooling tower.

Things to look at/read:

· The world is falling apart. And so is my mental health

· Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike — then learns it wasn’t him

· How Kylie became the wealthiest member of the Kardashian-Jenner family

· Five Questions for… the Westfield Stratford Ice Cream Shagger

· Inside Dau, the ‘Stalinist Truman Show’: ‘I had absolute freedom — until the KGB grabbed me’

Animal corner:

· He couldn’t hack it as a drug-sniffing dog. Now he’s conservation’s best friend

· Owl Spooks Cat Off Couch

· Dog needs a little help after massive dumping of snow

· Stray cats expressing joy loudly when stroking

· I almost killed my boyfriend with a slice of cheese

· You come at the king, you best not miss

· I go upstairs for 3 minutes

· Just when you think it can’t get any better, it does

Tweets of the week:

· me: can you dust my wets?

· This baby shark got my lil niece possessed!!

· I can see why they need to hire a content writer.

· Cancel the search party. The best human has been found.

· I’m close to breaking this whole thing wide open

· you: liking craft breweries isn’t a personality trait. your mentions:

· Robyn Afterparty at the E train station after the @robynkonichiwa show at MSG

· When you don’t have exact change

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

· Fantasy’s Widow: The Fight Over The Legacy Of Dungeons & Dragons

· ‘Centurians of Rome’: How a Bank Robber Made the Most Expensive Gay Porno of All Time

· Sidney Wants to Be Someone Else

· The bicycle thief

· Stealing from the dead

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