We Love the Internet 2020/23: The 8m46s edition
3 min readJun 5, 2020
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- The Secret Lives of Perfect Social Distancers
- The Brands, They Are A-Postin’
- Influencers Say Instagram Is Biased Against Plus-Size Bodies, And They May Be Right
- She Gets Calls And Texts Meant For Elon Musk. Some Are Pretty Weird
- Joe Rogan helped create a podcast culture on YouTube, and now he’s leaving it
- Microsoft Solitaire turns 30 years old today and still has 35 million monthly players
- Zoom is giving fandoms a new place to hang
- What’s next for BuzzFeed News? ‘We will never just be pizza and kittens’
Reference points:
- 8m 46s
- Mapping police violence
- Is 2020 over
- The 50 Most Powerful LGBTQ Players in Hollywood
- Picturing Lockdown Collection
- 30 Movies That Are Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before
- Opening an account
- Netflix: Cooked?
Longer reads:
- On the Spotify-Joe Rogan Deal and the Coming Death of Independent Podcasting
- Team Biden: The Media Is Fucking Up the Election Again
- Quarantine is creating brand-new gamers
- Sex Workers Built OnlyFans. Now They Say They’re Getting Kicked Off
- When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
- The History of the Future
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- 8 Minutes and 46 Seconds: How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody
- Everything I need to know to survive Covid-19 I learned by watching horror and sci-fi movies
- David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Reports
- Here’s why Larry Bird is the best trash talker in the NBA
- The Craziest Edit in Beatles History
- Face mask shuts up when it sees people
Things to look at/read:
- Why So Many Police Are Handling the Protests Wrong
- Time, it is a-changin’
- The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S.
- We Need To Rethink Our “Pics Or It Didn’t Happen” Approach To Activism
- The Cult of Elon Is Cracking
- Here’s Why Men Are Pointing Loaded Guns at Their Dicks
- America’s most illegal record has been obliterated
- Britain’s Historic Castles Face “Armageddon” as Coronavirus Torpedoes Tourist Season
Animal corner:
- Cat’s Reaction to Treadmill
- Playful Kitten Doesn’t Want Owners to Watch Series
- “Kiss From A Rose” By Seals
- El emotivo reencuentro entre una burra y su dueño tras el confinamiento
- Bulldog meets a group of steers
- Cows Sneak up on Preoccupied Pug
- Cat Pack Unfriendly Towards Pooch
- the most polite “no thank you” i have ever seen
Tweets of the week:
- Wow, I love this song.
- Trump began his term promising to build a wall to protect America from the world. He ends it building a wall to protect himself from Americans.
- Do you see the small difference in headlines. Why didn’t @JohnBoyega headline state he wins praise before focusing on the negative. The difference in reporting are the small things that lead to the big things!
- This letter by the head of a Sheffield Primary School is everything I would want my children to be taught. If he can do it, why can’t all schools?
- WHITE DUDES WHITESPLAINING MARTIN LUTHER KING TO HIS SON. ENJOY.
- Thank you for your interest in wiping out half of humanity. We are experiencing a high volume of apocalypse right now. Your apocalypse is very important to us. The next available group of self-identified experts with no experience in the field will be with you shortly.
- Old electric toothbrush heads make ideal ‘AirPods’ for people who don’t really like music
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- History Will Judge the Complicit
- Stewed Awakening
- Blow Up the Restaurant Industry and Start Over
- How Japan’s global image morphed from military empire to eccentric pop-culture superpower
- Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown
- The twilight of the Iranian revolution
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