We Love the Internet 2020/15: The Self isolation education edition
2 min readApr 9, 2020
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- The Most-Watched Show in America Is a Moral Failure
- Trump’s daily coronavirus press briefings are becoming TV clip shows
Reference points:
- Here are some happy websites to go to if you’re sick of reading articles about Coronavirus
- 25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them
- The definitive guide to Spotify royalties (pdf)
- The Impact of Coronavirus on the Mobile Economy
Longer reads:
- An Oral History of ASMR
- Quibi — the new short-form streaming service for your phone — explained
- Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies
- CEO By Day. Internet Sleuth By Night.
- Why Are We Polarized? Don’t Blame Social Media, Says Ezra Klein
- How Cameo Turned D-List Celebs Into a Monetization Machine
- Can computers ever replace the classroom?
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- self-isolation education (sex education parody)
- Satisfaction: Mug
- This is so cool to me lol
- Guy Shoots Aerosol Can With AK-47, Instantly Regrets It
- Bag Guy vibrator cover Billie Eilish
- Motorcycle near miss
- This Simple Riddle Almost Fooled Einstein — How To Solve It
- The most dangerous work in the world
Things to look at/read:
- The economics of cruise ships
- Bizarre Rich-People Secrets I Learned Undercover at Canyon Ranch Spa
- The men of WikiFeet aren’t the heels you think they are
- Effective immediately: We are closing our homeschool
Animal corner:
- Watch A Cassowary, The World’s Most Dangerous Bird, Chase Down A Camera Man
- Louie the beagle do Toilet paper 🧻 challenge
- Uncanny Portraits of Perfectly Symmetrical Pets
- Skater of Java sparrow
- This dog is better than all of us at volleyball
- Cat playing theremin you’re welcome
- This morning’s mental health must: what a penguin weigh-in looks — and sounds — like
- they said the perfect video didn’t exist…. and they were wrong
Tweets of the week:
- I’m taking advantage of isolation by learning some new cuisines from around the world. Tonight, I cooked my favourite American dish
- My dad texts like he’s doing a phishing scam
- Met the girl downstairs tonight banging pots out the window for healthcare workers. Told her to hold out her wine glass. Bystanders saw.
- Getting to know our delivery guys
- My attempt at the perfect pint pour from a can.
- I don’t know who this is, but he’s made my day.
- “And I got a free Parker pen just for enquiring.”
- Amid all the worrying news, this made me smile. Glorious.
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- It happened at All-Star Cafe
- Is it OK to have a child?
- Who killed the 20th century’s greatest spy?
- The Secret History of a Cold War Mastermind
- How Margot Robbie Changed Her Hollywood Destiny
- ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries
- Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster
- The deadliest virus ever known
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