We Love the Internet 2020/26: The Celebrities are not all right edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why Zoom meetings are so dissatisfying
• The best new products introduce only one new thing.
• What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride
• Pepsi’s $32 Billion Typo Caused Deadly Riots
• Sports Media Giant Bill Simmons Finds Himself Playing Defense
• Reality TV’s Racism Problem Is Impossible to Ignore
• Early thoughts on the impact of CV19 on British attitudes & the national mood
• Burger King’s secret sauce: CMO Fernando Machado shares its unique creative methods

Reference points:

• How the Virus Won
• You know Karen
• Subscription Mooching & Streaming Media
• Mastering TikTok Mobile Ads: Takeaways from Six Months in the Self-Serve Beta
• A catalogue of Trump’s worst cruelties, collusions, corruptions and crimes

Longer reads:

• The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You This
• Caught in the mushy middle: How Quartz fell to earth
• Are We Ever Offline Anymore?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• concatenation 2
• Movie Poster Expert Explains Color Schemes
• Launching a FULL SIZE Car into Space with Dynamite
• Pubs opening, but gyms closed?
• Fuck me this made me laugh
• guy in a relationship talks about his lockdown
• Move over Eminem there’s a new crew in town
• late night tv except i play all the hosts and guests

Things to look at/read:

• Has Coronavirus Killed the Menu? An Ode to the Restaurant Staple
• This is the word that exists in all human languages, according to research.
• The Magic of Rick Rubin Is in What He Doesn’t Do
• Revenge of the Suburbs
• The trampling of Venice shows why tourism must change after Covid-19

Animal corner:

• Tiniest Puppy Loves To Race Around On His Wheels
• Dogs Wearing Bread Masks
• yeah fuck those stringy bits man
• Hungry, hungry…Husky?! I think she cheated at the end…
• if anyone’s ever wondered how they weigh a koala…
• Kora the caracal kitten has perfected her ear flick.
• I put my microphone in front of a 7 week old baby red squirrel.
• I want what this dog has

Tweets of the week:

• My furloughed housemate coming in for some casual 4pm chit-chat
• Skills. Wait for it
• Some Dublin clouds this evening.
• Someone please take iMovie away from me
• it’s like a youtube comments section come to life
• Don’t remember Churchill being so easily distracted
• “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAD FORTY TICKETS?!”
• the plan? stop testing patients for coronavirus to make the number of active cases go down

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Celebrities Are Not All Right
• The Power of Black Lives Matter
• My Family Saw a Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween. Then I Learned How NYPD Impunity Works.
• How The Antifa Fantasy Spread In Small Towns Across The US
• Could Bruce Lee win a real fight?
• The end of tourism?
• Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness
• Performing Whiteness

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