We Love the Internet 2020/51: The Nuclear family was a mistake edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out.
• U.S. Budget Stop-Gap Bill Contains Proposal to Make Streaming Copyrighted Material a Felony

Reference points:

• 52 things I learned in 2020
• The Year on TikTok: Top 100

Longer reads:

• 98 Million TikTok Followers Can’t Be Wrong
• Matt Drudge Logs Off

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This Dad Hysterically Photobombs His Daughter’s Class Presentation
• One Thing Leads to Another
• Parkour VS Normal People In Real Life

Things to look at/read:

• Loneliness and me
• We have a winner in the world’s first quantum chess tournament
• ‘Sharleen is my homegirl’ — how Texas and Wu-Tang Clan became pop’s weirdest pals

Animal corner:

• Dogs having a group photo
• Man Saves Dog From Alligator By Prying Open Its Jaws In Tense Moment Caught On Camera
• Dog Suddenly Behaves Like He’s Seeing A Ghost In 100-Year-Old Farmhouse
• NEW FISH JUST DROPPED
• This is how drum breaks are made

Tweets of the week:

• Someone farts during a kids zoom…
• Why does Matt Hancock sit down like Woody in Toy Story when a human enters the room
• It’s a chemistree
• Once you see Cookie Monster, you can’t unsee it.
• That don’t impress me much.
• My da won’t have a shite when my girlfriend is in the house because he’s embarrassed

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
• In Conversation: Francis Ford Coppola
• Embroiled in Multiple Hollywood Sex Scandals, Charlotte Kirk Breaks Her Silence
• The Promise That Tested My Parents Until the End

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