We Love the Internet 2020/49: The Mobbed by Raccoons edition
2 min readDec 4, 2020
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- ‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at the King of Crypto Start-Ups
- What Happens When You Actually DM a ‘DM to Collab’ Instagram Scammer
- Why Amazon radically redesigned the Echo
- Why Is The Obscure B-Side “Harness Your Hopes” Pavement’s Top Song On Spotify? It’s Complicated.
- Quibi Is Officially Dead
- Five Months, 14 Shows, 300,000 Tickets Sold: How Driift Cracked Livestreaming
- The impact UK Government’s proposed ban on HFSS online advertising has on esports
- Spotify says it’s dominating the podcasting market because of a million-plus tiny podcasts
Reference points:
- The best inventions of 2020
- Social media companies all starting to look the same
- ‘Thumb-Stopping,’ ‘Humaning,’ ‘B4H’: The Strange Language of Modern Marketing.
- How This YouTuber Amassed 328k Followers In Less Than A Year
Longer reads:
- “Emily in Paris” and the rise of ambient tv
- The rise and fall of getting things done
- When ordinary people go viral, where’s the line between comedy and cruelty?
- How old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit on YouTube
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Fourth Year
- Here’s The Most Comprehensive Reconstruction Of The Beirut Port Explosion From All Available Photos And Videos
- The Bizarre Sport of Egg Boxing
- when you need to confirm you’re not a robot
- I created these simple animations to explain camera movement to students.
Things to look at/read:
- How Do You Chop 20 Stories Off a Too-Tall Building?
- Desperately seeking headbangers: the lonely hearts who found love in the back pages
Animal corner:
- Mobbed by Raccoons
- Dog Flips Out After Losing At Hot Dog Whack-A-Mole Game
- I taught my dog Yari to load the dishwasher
- Extremely Adorable Puppy Has A Quiet Way Of Getting Owner’s Attention
- c ow
Tweets of the week:
- “look who decided to come out of their room!”
- Bit of spare time on my hands today so I audited the unopened Quality Street tin. Just 4 purples (4.7%) and yet a massive 11 (12.9%) orange ones. Another blow for 2020. Who do I complain to?
- The Coke advert but with Pfizer lorries instead of Coke ones.
- me: y does my back hurt my posture everyday from 9–6:
- it’s been a good year
- dating me is like pulling a Christmas cracker, shit jokes but a decent bang
- me going up to items in the “British” Museum: yeah but where are you really from?
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- ‘I was at war with my body’: my year as a day patient on an eating disorders ward
- The Last Children of Down Syndrome
- ‘Like Being Grilled Alive’: The Fear of Living With a Hackable Heart
- 20 days of fantasy and failure: Inside Trump’s quest to overturn the election
- How a deadly police force ruled a city
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