We Love the Internet 2021/05: The Unlikely pandemic dream partner edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Rebranding the baby out with the bathwater
• New York Times explains the in-house adtech it is using to prepare for the death of third-party cookies
• Facebook is the worst brand of the year

Reference points:

• 2021 trends roundup
• Peak TV Update: Scripted Originals Dip 7% in 2020, FX Says
• Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today
• The Emoji That Nearly Weren’t
• Google Research: Looking Back at 2020, and Forward to 2021
• Slow TV map
• A Comparative Analysis of Two Drafts of Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
• How we made Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker

Longer reads:

• Why I’ve tracked every single piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years
• How one musician took on the world’s biggest TV network over copyright — and won
• Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls?
• Amazon Can Make Just About Anything — Except a Good Video Game
• The battle inside Signal
• Publishing is Back to the Future
• A Vast Web of Vengeance
• Has the pandemic transformed the office forever?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Danny MacAskill — The Slabs
• Best of the Handforth Parish Council Planning & Environment Committee Thursday 10th December 2020
• How We Built A 3 Acre Farm in 1 Year from Scratch
• Two Trenchcoats In A Kid
• The Tiny Doors in the U.S. Capitol
• The lamps you’re not allowed to have
• David Supercut
• Apparently this is the world’s greatest hoodie

Things to look at/read:

• My Unlikely Pandemic Dream Partner
• A 6-ton potato is one of Idaho’s hottest Airbnb locations. Would you sleep in this?
• Hair Transplants Actually Look Good Now — Here’s Why
• Veneers Are Becoming An Essential Accessory For Influencers

Animal corner:

• Parrot wants so badly to touch cat
• Giant Octopus and Bald Eagle Wrestle in the Water
• Parrot Loves Going To Home Depot With His Dad
• Someone Strapped A GoPro To A Model Train And Allowed Their Cat To Wander Around In Pure Awe
• Stoat Discovers Trampoline, Proceeds To Have The Time Of Its Life
• I’ve added Wuthering Heights to this video of a panda sliding around in the snow so I can watch it every morning when I wake up and have an instant morale boost.

Tweets of the week:

• my brain when i’m tryna sleep
• Watching Tenet on my toilet seat, as Christopher Nolan intended
• NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
• STOP SOMEONE MODDED BERNIE SANDERS INTO RESIDENT EVIL 7 IM SCREAMING
• republicans just said the quiet part loud
• nobody: the english department:
• I’m choking up
• funniest thing i’ve seen all day this

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted
• The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
• Welcome to Zollywood
• Penthouses and poor doors: how Europe’s ‘biggest regeneration project’ fell flat
• The mirage of the Black middle class
• How eBird Changed Birding Forever
• The cruise ship suicides
• The day my voice broke: what an injury taught me about the power of speech

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