We Love the Internet 2020/32: The Google’s top search result edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How Ben & Jerry’s Perfected the Delicate Recipe for Corporate Activism
• What Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’ Means for Disney Plus
• Why Gen Z Turned on Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Netflix’s ‘Most Popular’ List Is a Wasteland
• Facebook Employees Wonder What Would Happen If Trump Used Their Platform To Dispute Election Results

Longer reads:

• Google’s Top Search Result?
• Media 2020: Rise of the Renaissance Creator

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Four Years Playing the Electric Guitar — Month by Month Progress
• The Supercut: 94 movies/shows, 10 weeks and 130+ hours of editing
• Do Masks Work Or Not?? Proving Whether Masks Stop Covid-19 Transmission with Uncle Rob
• Inside The Hostess Factory
• World’s first Bulletproof Lamborghini
• How I Stole $2.8M as a Teenager
• YouTuber walks around Shibuya like it’s a video game.
• Drinking game zone

Things to look at/read:

• What’s Really Happening in the Background of Your Zoom Calls
• Americans tune in to ‘cancel culture’ — and don’t like what they see
• Is This the Saddest Pandemic Dining Experience in America?
• Hardcore pop fans are abusing critics — and putting acclaim before art
• We Quit Our Jobs to Build a Cabin — Everything Went Wrong

Animal corner:

• Owls are the cats of the sky.
• Girl returns home from college and her goldens are thrilled about it.
• “I’m afraid of escalators but when I’m with dad I’m not afraid of anything”
• I’m fascinated by the rules of this game
• Goooooooal
• This is what a sheepdog looks like if you shave just its head
• Dogs be like

Tweets of the week:

• that’s larry bird
• This is the best thing you’ll see all day.
• The film crew. This is amazing.
• Possibly one of the best swims of my career! (~open for debate~) What can you do without spilling a drop?!
• “Yeah, Nah” = Me, disagreeing “Nah, Yeah” = Me, agreeing
• toni colette is like if nicolas cage had full control of his powers
• Voting in a United States 2 party system
• The Year 2020 as told by Arrested Development

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”
• The Remarkable Rise of Lil Baby
• Whose century?
• The Uncertain Future of Post-Pandemic Starbucks
• How To Pretend That You Are Smart
• How the Pandemic Defeated America
• The Panopticon Is Already Here

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