We Love the Internet 2022/03: The misery of the hype house edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The misery of the Hype House
• Netflix Needs New Subscribers. Its Korean Playbook Is Its Secret Weapon.

Longer reads:

• Police Departments Are Making Their Own “Cops” Videos Counteracting Police Brutality Depicted On Social Media
• When New Journalism Was New: Gay Talese on His Legendary Esquire Profile of Frank Sinatra

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Great Art Cities Explained: Paris
• A Huge Volcano Erupted In Tonga Triggering Tsunami Waves

Things to look at/read:

• Do Electric Trains Dream Of Autonomous Mobility? Yes, They Do.
• The Scientist Who Taught Rats to Play ‘Doom II’ Wants to Start Streaming it on Twitch

Animal corner:

• Nothing Else Matters (my son on guitar)
• I told my Dad that more than 1,000 people had liked his photos of Bertie looking sad, so he made him up a special plate tonight
• After more than eight years of service, this TSA airport sniffer dog officially retired..
• This is probably my favorite dog picture of all time
• say what you will about YouTube, when the algorithm works it works

Tweets of the week:

• to make a tv show you need one banana-shaped man and one-orange shaped man. let me explain
• Tories having sex
• please don’t delete it rolling stone. this is an all time great typo.
• Hey there’s Wordle in German now!
• when someone goes into the google doc while ur working on it
• Restaurants are finally providing benefits for their workers.
• I’ve permanently broken my libido and appetite with AI generated art for “erotic tunnocks”
• I have genuinely spent 10 minutes starting at this but, no, it really DOES appear to be true that a bunch of cryptobros just spent €2.6 MILLION — 100x the asking price — for a book at auction in the mistaken belief that they would therefore own the copyright in it.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Routine Maintenance
• After the Beanie Baby bubble burst
• XXX-Files: Who Torched the Pornhub Palace?
• The Undoing of Joss Whedon

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