We Love the Internet 2019/23: The Future is not what it used to be edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

· The Future is Not What it Used to Be

· The push to break up Big Tech, explained

· Some Amazon Sellers Are Paying $10,000 A Month To Trick Their Way To The Top

· The Problem Isn’t Twitter. It’s That You Care About Twitter.

· An HBO Question Is Giving AT&T Executives a Headache

Reference points:

· A People Map of the UK

· Every HBO Show, Ranked

· The Number Of Fucks In Deadwood

Longer reads:

· Adapt or Die: The Nature of Brand Strategy

· How the news took over reality

· Can an Art Collective Become the Disney of the Experience Economy?

· She was the “queen of the mommy bloggers.” Then her life fell apart.

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

· Hot Wheels Xylophone

· Manuel Schütz fast catch boomerang training

· The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob

· Danny Macaskill: Danny Daycare

· The truth behind the TV show Cops

· 4 Dopes and a Merry Go Round

· Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?

· Robber Tries To Escape From A Window On 22nd Floor, Realizes He’s Not Jason Bourne

Things to look at/read:

· The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37

· The Socialist Lavatory League

· TED’s “snacks curator” has some advice for shaking up your office pantry

· The Best “Actors Playing Themselves” Cameos in Movie History

Animal corner:

· Black Labrador Jumps off Staircase to Get to the Ocean

· Shiba Inu puppies

· Woman Records How Her Dog And Her Cats React To Her Coming Home, And Yep, That Seems About Right

· You call this a prison Karen ?

· The longer you look at this the better it gets

· It’s a dog help dog world

Tweets of the week:

· You’d think by now after tweeting it every f**king year he’d believe it

· How it looks online versus how it looks when you try it on

· In honor of #Sesame50 I present my favorite outtake ever: Julia Louis-Dreyfus cursing in front of Elmo, who is so method that he just rolls with it.

· it’s pride month so i am legally required to repost this

· Me: You: Everyone: No one: Brands at 12:01am on June 1st:

· The laws of physics are amazing.

· The Joker should have been a woman. And she finally went insane because too many random dudes told her to smile, so now she perpetually smiles while terrorizing Gotham.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

· ‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’

· The Church of Living Dangerously: How One of America’s Biggest Pastors Became a Drug Runner for a Mexican Cartel

· Why we are addicted to conspiracy theories

· Requiem for a Sports Bettor

· My childhood in a cult

· Faith, Friendship, and Tragedy at Santa Fe High

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