We Love the Internet 2019/36: The Perfection anxiety edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

· Google Is Tightening Its Grip on Your Website

· Meet the peo­ple mak­ing mon­ey through the thot­shot economy

· Tiktok’s best comedy duo is a loud man and his duck

· The decline of historical thinking

Reference points:

· Urban nudges

· Version museum

Longer reads:

· Three years of misery inside Google, the happiest company in tech

· When the Internet Chases You From Your Home

· The Big Show Never Ends: How Dan and Keith’s ‘SportsCenter’ Changed TV Forever

· Behind Billie Eilish: Meet the manager’s guiding the artist’s global success

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

· Catching a strangers phone on roller coaster

· Japan’s 9-Year-Old Drumming Prodigy Never Misses a Beat

· Guys Put A Car Wheel On An Airbag To See What Happens When They Detonate It, Immediately Regret It

Things to look at/read:

· Perfection Anxiety

· Thursday is the best day

· As Phoenix Heats Up, the Night Comes Alive

· Kardashian BFFs Are Here Today And Gone Tomorrow

· This Tumblr Post About Extremism From Four Years Ago Goes Viral After Every Shooting. Its Creator Finally Explained It.

· How Britain killed the Aperol spritz

· The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste

Animal corner:

· Mother dog helps rescuers dig for her buried puppies

· This Dog Getting His Hair Cut By A Barber For The First Time Is The Most Wholesome Thing You’ll See Today

· The worlds most dramatic doggo

· “How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”

· This. Not only proof of evolution, but proof animals are better than us.

· It happened. I found the perfect TikTok video

Tweets of the week:

· before it happens you think “no way is it going to happen…” and then it happens

· he did it all for the bubbly

· A tale of three Britains

· Taylor Swift stans learning who Tool are because they’re currently selling more copies than “Lover” is really something special

· Someone trying to play Soon Yi in the Woody Allen biopic

· Someone commented that Donald Trump stands like a centaur without its hind legs, and now I can’t unsee it.

· neat

· 1970–2012: websites are not very mobile-friendly :(

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

· Tricks, Kickflips, and Thumbsticks: An Oral History of the Making of ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater’

· The Beautiful Power of Ta-Nehisi Coates

· The myth of Eurabia: how a far-right conspiracy theory went mainstream

· The cult of Sally Rooney

· The myth of the free speech crisis

· Secrets and Lies in the School Cafeteria

· What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi?

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