Category: Video

Link List – January 8, 2019

Some things I’ve recently watched/read/listened to that I recommend.

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
  • We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • This was a fascinating episode of “Reply All” that talks about social media hacking, the people and culture behind it, and the impact having “just a social media account” hacked can have on a person.
  • Super Smash Bros
  • Child of Light
  • She-Ra – great reboot on Netflix
  • Anastasia The Musical – great lead, amazing costumes, and technically complex set. The IT/AV nerd in me was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I was impressed that everything ran so smoothly.

Some things I helped with:

A bunch of random links:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/self-assessment

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8vi02i/dads_of_reddit_what_is_your_advice_for_new_dads/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/8valyl/incredible_1080p_oncar_footage_of_the_1962_monaco/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8vc6b3/senior_citizens_of_reddit_what_were_the_elderly/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/8uj63t/21311_lego_ideas_voltron_revealed/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8uicjx/when_did_you_have_the_most_difficult_time_staying/e1fmsok/

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/8s7y24/til_of_the_bullshit_asymmetry_principle_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/a5lktv/the_privilege_of_the_petersonian_the_importance/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture

https://kottke.org/18/07/hidden-treasures-of-amsterdams-river

https://kottke.org/18/04/dna-sites-show-why-we-need-a-hippocratic-oath-for-data-science

https://kottke.org/18/04/the-culinary-wonders-of-msg

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/9tv799/steve_jobs_explains_why_a_companys_product/

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bureaucracy

https://lithub.com/fascism-is-not-an-idea-to-be-debated-its-a-set-of-actions-to-fight/

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/25/17279294/toronto-massacre-minassian-incels-internet-misogyny

https://medium.com/s/story/how-white-people-handle-diversity-training-in-the-workplace-e8408d2519f

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-government-sponsored-cyber-militia-cookbook/

https://nadiaeghbal.com/independent-research

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/26/17613844/racial-diversity-poll-twitter-white-people

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_equity_report_2018

https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-or-2018/public/schedule/detail/67172

https://twitter.com/jamchamb_/status/1025977659522789376

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=All%20Tea%20No%20Shade

https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1

https://sexismfieldguide.com

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/sharp-objects-female-journalists-in-culture/567898/

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/18/distributed-teams-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-officeless-politics/

https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/penn-jillette-in-conversation.html

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/18/17252410/jordan-peele-obama-deepfake-buzzfeed

http://jnack.com/blog/2018/08/23/absolute-witchcraft-ai-synthesizes-dance-moves-entire-street-scenes/

http://jnack.com/blog/2018/08/26/everybody-dance-now-amazing-performance-transfer-tech/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/the-expensive-education-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-silicon-valley.html

https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/26/17613844/racial-diversity-poll-twitter-white-people

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-government-sponsored-cyber-militia-cookbook/

https://hbr.org/2018/07/youre-never-going-to-be-caught-up-at-work-stop-feeling-guilty-about-it

https://vimeo.com/283555096

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/09/17/linus-torvalds-empathy

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/technology/smart-home-devices-domestic-abuse.html

https://twitter.com/i/moments/1039567055060492288

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/matreon-the-patreon-platform-for-emotional-labor

https://eand.co/if-the-point-of-capitalism-is-to-escape-capitalism-then-whats-the-point-of-capitalism-bedd1b2447d

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/up-next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSJXKoD6mA8&index=2&list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJ5raH7_jw3DVvLHWwoxJzR

“Changing the World” by Erica Joy Baker – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi02tn3K2b4

“Machine learning failures – for art!” by Janelle Shane – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yneJIxOdMX4

https://seths.blog/2018/10/non-profit-overhead/

https://kottke.org/18/10/stochastic-terrorism

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html

https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/who-is-poppinkream-the-reddit-user-fighting-for-a-fact-based-internet.html

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2018-in-review/the-year-in-good-men

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1074856487514726400

“Rules for Online Sanity” https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=582aad955a2c357f3c39654b4&id=44b268dc3b

https://blog.vrv.co/merrittk/5216/how-the-it-crowd-gave-us-one-of-the-most-beautiful-moments-in-sitcom-history/

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Surfing Away From Here

These two gents say it better than I.

I’m spending less time online and more time in-person. I abandoned Twitter. Deleted the Reddit app from my phone. I even pruned my RSS feeds. I check deleted Facebook rarely entirely. Instead I’ve created a text list of friends to pay a visit to. I’m going to make it down the list to see everyone by the end of 2019. 

I got a Kindle from my wife for an early Christmas present. Renewed my library card. Notifications don’t exist on the Kindle and I’m still stupefied by e-ink. I can’t tab over to another app nor return to a home screen of jeweled distraction. I am spending more time reading long form books (boy is it hard to stay focused. I’m out of mental shape!). I’m playing more with the kids. Spending more time in the kitchen. 

And you know what? I don’t miss any of it. The stuff I was “reading” (wasting my time with) were frivolous drops of nothingness. Their mental caloric intake was negative. The fear of missing out has been replaced with the much healthier fear of getting sucked back in.

To quote yet another more eloquent persons, “This isn’t about not doing anything ever, it’s about not wasting your time filling your brain up with stuff that isn’t accomplishing anything except avoiding a feeling of discomfort.”

If you’re reading this, I care about you. I hope you’ll consider doing the same. See you on the outside.

P.S. Want to get lunch sometime?