We Love the Internet 2019/52: The What life in 2019 can tell us about life in 2029 edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
• The Big Business of Unconscious Bias

Reference points:

• 136 internet videos that blew my mind
• 2019 in Photos: How the First Months Unfolded
• From renewables to Netflix: the 15 super-trends that defined the 2010s
• Best inventions 2019
• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
• An A-Z of Words That Defined the Internet in the 2010s
• The 100 best, worst, and weirdest things we saw on the internet in the 2010s
• Emoji storm

Longer reads:

• The Anatomy of a TikTok Hit
• Inside the Most Watched YouTube Channel in the World
• The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Virtuoso Coder
• Behind the smiles
• The golden age of kids’ YouTube is over. Good.

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• 11 Levels of Origami: Easy to Complex
• The new canopener nibbles on a box truck
• Match between the Philippines (in red armor) and Cambodia (in blue armor) on the LS Welterweight Men’s Semi-Finals
• Dropping Ice Down A 300 Foot Hole In Antarctica Will Make A Very Ethereal Sound
• Milton Martinez’s “¡DEMOLICIÓN!” Part
• Archery: Will it EVER be the same again? Wow.
• Someone Help Us Understand How This Guy’s World Record For Highest Standing Jump Is Possible
• That’s a ten

Things to look at/read:

• Soups in Europe
• The trends that may end the “y’all” vs “you guys” debate
• Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’

Animal corner:

• Dash camera captures the moment deer jumped over car on Tennessee highway
• Cute Golden retriever rescuing her teddy bear
• Angry French Bulldog on Diet Throws Tantrums for Not Getting Food
• World’s Most Adorable Badger
• baby moose 🐴 first pavement
• My son was on the menu in Dublin Zoo today
• I can’t stop watching this
• cat’s a master of physical comedy

Tweets of the week:

• WHY THE FUCK IS THE UBER HELICOPTER THE CHEAPEST OPTION
• this meme it was made for me
• This is the best Christmas video of 2019
• Well it made me laugh
• when i peel a potato
• Apparently I’ve ruined Christmas?
• Ladies take notes!
• forgot that mum thing mums do where they leave things on the stairs for u to take up with u

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• What Life in 2019 Can Tell Us About Life in 2029
• The Miseducation of the American Boy
• How to buy drugs
• Lessons from a year of six women running for president.
• My life as a child chef
• How natural wine became a symbol of virtuous consumption
• The Cutthroat Battle Between S’well and Its Bougie Water Bottle Copycats
• Adam Sandler’s Everlasting Shtick

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