We Love the Internet 2020/42: The My mustache, my self edition
3 min readOct 16, 2020
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Netflix Is Thinking of Ending Things
- With Nowhere to Go, Teens Flock to Among Us
- HBO Max’s Secret to Viral TikToks: Letting Their Interns Run the Account
- “I Have Blood on My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation
- The forecasting fallacy
- Why Goodreads is bad for books
- Evernote’s CEO on the company’s long, tricky journey to fix itself
- Jeff Zucker Helped Create Donald Trump. That Show May Be Ending.
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s passport number
- Disney and Integrators Versus Aggregators
- The Entertainment Value Curve: Why TikTok is On Fire 🔥 and Quibi Isn’t
- Best Sellers Sell the Best Because They’re Best Sellers
- The Rise of Digital Despots
- Magic Leap Tried to Create an Alternate Reality. Its Founder Was Already in One
- “I Accept Pay Less Than My Worth Just To Get A Job”: How The Gig Economy Screwed Over Millennials
- Mark in the middle
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Amazing Tornado Passes Right in Front of This Guy
- 5 System of a Down riffs on hurdy gurdy
- Why pop music is obsessed with this one note
- How To Steal Like Wes Anderson — The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Pythagorean Siphon Inside Your Washing Machine
- Go hard or don’t even show up
- Here’s a thread of all the folk game tiktoks I’ve been collecting for the past few months! Starting with a great use of high stakes
- This is the craziest gender reveal I’ve seen
Things to look at/read:
- This Teacher’s TikTok Of How Energetic She Is While Teaching 5-Year-Olds Online Has Gone Super Viral
- Suspect in Guelph home break-in didn’t take anything but pooped in dishwasher: Police
- How To Survive A Viral Hit
- The extremely profitable (and ethically murky) business of reselling dumbbells
Animal corner:
- The Unflattering Dog Photo Challenge Is Exactly What Humans in 2020 Need Right Now
- German Shepherd doesn’t recognize returning soldier at first
- Woman Pretends To Lose Consciousness, Elicits Very Different Reactions From Dog And Cat
- Crazy cat
- I always choose my outfit
- Buddypositive furry boomerang
- Gary fell in the water!
- When that puppacino kicks in..
Tweets of the week:
- This pie has just told me that asylum seekers get a 92 inch tele the moment their dingy lands on the beach in Kent
- Me making supernoodles after coming home at 4am hammered
- English Premier League managers as teachers in UK schools. A thread:
- its the wraps pinned together with sewing pins for me.
- When the economy crashes, but you save the stock market.
- For those who love irony.
- oh my god
- When your friend Manuel tries to give you a hug.
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- My Mustache, My Self
- Going Sohla
- The man who refused to spy
- How my mother and I became Chinese propaganda
- A history of “wokeness”
- Trump’s $100 Million Mistake: How Retaining Ownership Of His Hotels Cost The President A Fortune
- How to Save Restaurants
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