We Love the Internet 2022/16: The Memento millennial edition
2 min readApr 22, 2022
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- This is as good as movies are going to get
- Back to the Future of Twitter
- Google’s New Tech Can Read Your Body Language — Without Cameras
- Confessions of an Information Hoarder
- The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers
Reference points
- Communicating complex research
- Earth reviews
- How many people are in space right now
- Wordle, 15 Million Tweets Later
- The 125 Best Books About Hollywood
- Instagram Has Verified 35 Virtual Influencers
Longer reads:
- Memento Millennial
- His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.
- The internet’s meth underground, hidden in plain sight
- The Schism Breaking Apart the “Prepper” Community
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Are you the asshole?
- Tracking Devices Reveal Where Recycling Really Goes
- How to Cut Michelin Star Onions
Things to look at/read:
- ‘That’s it? It’s over? I was 30. What a brutal business’: pop stars on life after the spotlight moves on
- Slobbing out and giving up: why are so many people going ‘goblin mode’?
- On Rap’s Linguistic Twists and Turns
- Why We Use “lol” So Much
- Around London In 12 Dragons
- The 12 most unforgettable descriptions of food in literature
Animal corner:
- Cat pushes turbo button on dog
- Bulldogingles
- What a good boy
- Baby llama is only five hours old
- rbf cause he’s not getting any pizza
- The way I would commit federal, and international crimes to be able to do this for 5 minutes
Tweets of the week:
- The five stages of grief, as represented by butter substitutes.
- I’m rewatching all of Friends with my 14-year-old daughter. We are on season 2. Here is a running, but incomplete, list of all the things I have needed to explain to her:
- bringing her home to the master and commander sheets
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- The Untold Story of Disney’s $307 Million Bomb ‘John Carter’: ‘It’s a Disaster’
- Size Matters: Inside the Politics of Festival Posters
- The queen of crime-solving
- The pied piper of psychedelic toads
- Teachers In America Were Already Facing Collapse. COVID Only Made It Worse.
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