We Love the Internet 2022/48: The Someone is pretending to be me edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• This is why streaming Netflix, Disney Plus, and HBO Max keeps getting more expensive
• Stop watching movie trailers
• Pop Stars Are Mugging for TikTok. Fans Are Loving It.
• Streamers Use Playlists to Control the Music Industry

Reference points:

• Predicting The FIFA World Cup 2022 With a Simple Model using Python
• From quitting to blocking: How to protect yourself on Musk’s Twitter

Longer reads:

• Someone is pretending to be me.
• Better Call Brad: Hollywood’s Secret Problem Solver Speaks

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why Japan’s internet is weirdly designed
• Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Sixth Year
• The Cruelest Rulers In History

Things to look at/read:

• The Complicated History of the ‘Magdeburg Unicorn’
• The New Vocabulary of Beer
• How to film a burger falling “per-fect-ly” into a model’s hand: Chuck Studios explains all

Animal corner:

• Cheeto!!!
• Oh no
• Excited for thanksgiving dinner
• The workout journey is starting slow
• Don’t think their new sweaters are going to work out
• i swear shes a smart dog….lolll

Tweets of the week:

• He hit him with the reverse card
• Phil Foden as a cat.
• This made me laugh so hard and I don’t know why
• We’re all thinking it right?
• “For Iran it’s probably their biggest win since Iron Sheikh beat Bob Backlund at WrestleMania!”

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Why inheritance is the dirty secret of the middle classes — harder to talk about than sex
• ‘The Godfather, Saudi-style’: inside the palace coup that brought MBS to power
• Collision course

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