We Love the Internet 2021/09: The UX on this small child is terrible edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why Ted Lasso became the hit that put AppleTV+ on the map
• How the Pandemic Stalled Peak TV
• The Web’s Missing Interoperability
• The internet’s most beloved fanfiction site is undergoing a reckoning
• Mailchimp employees have complained about inequality for years — is anyone listening?
• “The Agents Certainly Did Not Like Being Called Crooks”: How Hollywood Writers Won a War

Longer reads:

• ‘Record companies have me on a dartboard’: the man making millions buying classic hits
• Everybody Hates Millennials: Gen Z and the TikTok Generation Wars

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Murder Show

Things to look at/read:

• The UX on this small child is terrible
• Waluigi Is Nintendo’s Cult Hero, but Will He Ever Be Something More?

Animal corner:

• Bird plucking fur from my dog for its nest
• Dog Doesn’t Let a Fight Break out Between 2 Cats

Tweets of the week:

• In the UK right now a train is delayed as a cat is sitting on the roof and refusing to come down.
• Trying to please all my social media platforms.
• Millennials need an emergency meeting. We’re not sending our best
• Imperial Stout Pastry Stout
• Me retweeting myself
• forget STEM, now I’m all about STEAMED HAMS: science, technology, engineering, art, math, humanities, anthropology, music, and such
• Every single Wetherspoons at 10am on 21st June
• “Sic transit gloria” is Latin for “nice car, Gloria”

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How Dolly Parton became a secular American saint
• What Happened to Jordan Peterson?

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