We Love the Internet 2019/43: The Dropshipping journalism edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

· “They’re doing this badly on purpose”: Why the Tories’ latest online ads look so ugly

· What happens if your mind lives for ever on the internet?

· Screen breaks: how TV music supervisors boost new artists

· A series of mysterious bleeps and bloops defined the early days of the internet

· What publishers like BuzzFeed, Hearst and Vice are learning from being on TikTok

· Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system

Reference points:

· Netflix’s Top 10 Original Movies and TV Shows, According to Netflix

· ‘Do you wind it up?’: today’s teens tackle rotary phones, FM radio and map reading

· He pretended to be a black woman online and became famous — then his life unraveled

Longer reads:

· Dropshipping journalism

· The connections between Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, and the National Enquirer, explained

· The Creators Of Pokémon Go Mapped The World. Now They’re Mapping You

· The not-so-secret life of a TikTok-famous teen

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

· Ghostbusters — Ray Parker Jr. 2019 Halloween Light Show

· Succession: Say What You Mean

· You’re Not Allowed to Die Here

· What if We Nuke a City?

· The Men of TOP BOY and the Pressures of Masculinity

· The postman

· Opening a Locked Door With Movie Film

· Super Mario Bros. (Tap Dance Medley)

Things to look at/read:

· Can you stomach this epic thread of horror cinema’s most vile gore sequences?

· For toymaker Hasbro, trade wars are no fun

· Dallas Mavericks’ Mark Cuban dismisses owning US esports teams as “awful business”

· The Distinctly American Ethos of the Grifter

· The most innovative architecture and urban design of 2019

Animal corner:

· Jump Around Dog in Box

· Pelican Waiting in Line for Fish & Chips

· What a useless cat

· let’s open this motherfucking pit

· At Pollock FC in Scotland a big football fan — a dog called ‘Yardley’ — is allowed to watch games from the stands at Newlandsfield Park.

· Cant stop watching this

· I wish I loved anything as much as this dog loves walks.

· Every day for nearly 13 years this dog has finished her dinner and instantly brought me a toy to say thank you. I can’t believe how much I adore her.

Tweets of the week:

· You don’t need sound to figure it’s happening in a UK pub

· A jar of beetroot has leaked in our fridge and it looks like a Kubrick movie

· It’s been 15 years and the lifeless CGI eyes in The Polar Express still freak me out

· trumps going to promise to build a wall in every state and then only do a couple just like sufjan stevens

· I’m shitposting about six hours early today but this is the best meme I’ve seen all week

· The French Olympic logo tumbles out of bed on a Parisian morning

· Gmail when you sign in on another device

· This made me laugh not gonna lie

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

· Against Nihilism

· Inside the most brutal dictatorship you’ve never heard of

· Is One of the World’s Biggest Lawsuits Built on a Sham?

· ‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’

· What I Wish I’d Known About Sexual Assault in the Military

· Competitive Oyster Shucking Is Real, Decadent, And China’s Best Party

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