August 2020 Favorites

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

Videos

• Samurai & Shogun (Rick and Morty) – A bloody, but funny Rick and Morty homage to kozure ōkami (Lone Wolf and Cub).
• Rick and Morty vs. Genocider – A Special Rick and Morty Anime Short – This short film reveals a secret to Rick and Morty.
• Sleep is Just Death Being Shy
• You (Probably) Don’t Exist
• Weekend Wednesday – A better way to split your week (if you can).
• Is Dust Mostly Dead Skin?
• Book Summary: The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
• The Second Brain – A Life-Changing Productivity System
• Jordan Peterson – Self-esteem Doesn’t Exist
• How to Have a Life Worth Living – Jordan Peterson – A nice, animated talk by Jordan B Peterson.
• The 13 Truths – Jordan Peterson
• Dr. Jordan Peterson – Is Neo-Marxism on the rise?
• Let’s scan the whole planet with LiDAR
• Newton’s three-body problem explained – Fabio Pacucci
• Trump, QAnon and The Return of Magic
• Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left
• The Best Explanation of Anxiety by a Neuroscientist – Sam Harris
• Casually Explained: People Who Are Into the Stock Market
• Production Hell – The Nightmare of Apocalypse Now
• Demolition Man – Life Simulator 2020 Edition
• How Quentin Tarantino Makes Violence So Much Fun – Sound Design for Film
• Dark – Series Review (No Spoilers)
• The Flying Train (1902) – Fantastic video footage from Germany 1902 showing the daily life from a flying train in Wuppertal. There is also a recolored, improved version in 60 fps available.
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Futurist from 1901 Describes The World of 2001, ‘Ladies Home Journal’
• 🚨 Warning – Graphic Content. I stumbled by accident over the raw full bodycam footage of officers Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane and body cam footage of Tou Thao, three of the policemen in the George Floyd case which was made publicly available on August, 10th. After watching this everything looks now different. A murder case is nearly impossible after seeing the evidence. And racism? There is none. You should watch it to understand how politically motivated media coverage and manipulated emotions lead to violence.
• We Must Rise: 2020 – A call to reject fatalistic resignation or existential nihilism.
• Debunking the Black Lives Matter Narrative – Understanding Proportionality
• John McWhorter: America Has Never Been Less Racist
• Glenn Loury: ‘We’re Being Swept Along by Hysteria’ About Racism in America
• Discrimination and Disparities – Thomas Sowell
• Racism: Getting to the Truth – Coleman Hughes
• Can the Republican Party Survive Trump?
• Kamala Harris: Drug Warrior, Vice Cop, Draconian Prosecutor
• This LA Musician Built USD 1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
• How Ads Got ”Woke“
• Where’s the Cheese? – Cheese is now racist.
• Exposing The Reality of Transgender Science & Trans Activism – Debra Soh
• Leaving California, Black Conservatives & American Socialists – Bryan Callen
• The Intellectual Dark Web – Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, and More – Best of IDW interviews with Ben Shapiro.
• Bret Weinstein on Ending Cancel Culture, Avoiding Civil War and How We Can Unify
• Social Psychologist Explains How Good Intentions & Bad Ideas Are Leading Us To Failure
• The Book Club: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley with Sen. Ted Cruz
• Attack of the Corona Karens – The Karen meme is so funny 😅
• Lewis Hamilton is an Idiot – The hypocrisy of Lewis Hamiltion.
• m o d e r n i t y 2 – Paul Jospeh Watson does the best political commentary. 2020 insanity mix part 2.
• Political Correctness vs. Freedom of Thought – The Keith John Sampson Story – The shocking story of a student reading a book about the defeat of the KKK.
• When Victimhood Leads to Genocide – Prof. Jordan Peterson on Dekulakization – Excerpt from Jordan Peterson’s lecture series Maps of Meaning.
• The new artificial Chinese Megacity in Singapore
• Can Comedy Be Funny Anymore? – Andrew Schulz’ TEDx talk about the challenges of being a comedian. Super interesting!
• I watched a lot of Andrew Schulz’ material, he is currently my favorite comedian. Unbelievable good. Be it his standup, improv comedy, his show Schulz, or Inside Jokes, where you can see how he works with other comedians on their most-offensive jokes to find different angles to them.
  • Views From the Cis – Funny standup comedy from Andrew Schulz
  • Top 14 Crowd Work Moments of the Year (2019 BEST OF COMPILATION)
  • Asian Animal Rights Activist Wasn’t Ready…
  • TikTok & Ellen Share Evil Secret
  • Jeffrey Epstein Joke Makes Couple Walk Out
  • The Truth About Hydroxychloroquine
  • Soccer Feminists Oppress Themselves… How To Fix It
  • Confederate Flag & Racist Statues, What To Do
  • Corona Shut Up Social Justice Warriors
  • Vietnamese makes no sense
• Joe List: I Hate Myself – Full, free comedy special
• Sam Morril: I Got This – Full, free comedy special
• Uncle Roger LOVE this Crazy Chinese Cooking Video
• Uncle Roger HATE Jamie Oliver Egg Fried Rice
• How to improve your posture – 1950s style
• A Day in the Life of Jordan Peterson (Fan Parody)
• Comedians Against Comedy
• When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything
• How Internet Politics Look to Normal Humans
• The Corona Virus Doesn’t Spread in Gatherings
• When The Stock Market Doesn’t Need The Economy
• The Insanity of Picking a Side
• How to Become a Narcissist
• How People Cancel Each Other
• How Couples Were in January vs August 2020
• How to Offend Everyone
• Duck Tales for 8 Cellos

TV Shows

• The Umbrella Academy [2] [N]
• Modern Family [10] [N]
• Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich [MINI] [N]
• Wizards: Tales of Arcadia [1] [N]
• Norsemen [3] [N]
• Suits [8] [N]
• The Terror [2] [P] – Infamy
• Rita [5] [N]
• Anne with an E [3] [N]
• Hoops [1] [N]
• iZombie [2] [N]

Movies

• Rob Schneider: Asian Momma, Mexican Kids [N]
• Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill [N]
• Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers [N]

Music & Podcasts

• Max Richter: Voices
• Making Sense with Sam Harris: 207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink? – This episode was unbelievable good. I never saw anybody so calm and fact-driven summarize the recent social protests and civil unrest.
• Zeitsprung – Geschichten aus der Geschichte: ZS255 – Die 47 Ronin 🇩🇪
• Approaching the Third Rail with Bret Weinstein (Ep.13)
• Has Anti-Racism Become A New Religion? – John McWhorter (Ep.2)
• Is Black Lives Matter Right?
• Joe Rogan Experience 724 – Christina Sommers
• Joe Rogan Experience 877 – Jordan Peterson
• Joe Rogan Experience 1107 – Sam Harris & Maajid Nawaz
• Joe Rogan Experience 1488 – Andrew Schulz
• Joe Rogan Experience 1520 – Dr. Debra Soh
• Joe Rogan Experience 1526 – Ali Macofsky
• Joe Rogan Experience 1528 – Nikki Glaser
• Joe Rogan Experience 1529 – Whitney Cummings & Annie Lederman

Books

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Amazon)
• The Daily Stoic (Amazon)

Articles

• On Monopolies, Apple, and Epic
• Subscription or no subscription? That is not the question.
• Gradient angles in CSS, Figma & Sketch
• What Happens When Border Radii Overlap?
• TypeScript + React: Why I don’t use React.FC
• TypeScript + React: Component patterns
• Hobbes, Locke and Mill: In Defence of Tolerance
• The Challenge of Marxism
• Oppositional Thinking and the Importance of Compassion
• Pandemics and Pandemonium
• NYC Is Dead Forever. Here’s Why
• This company claims it can use nuclear waste to make batteries that last 28,000 years without charging
• CEO Who Took USD 1M Paycut To Give All Employees USD 70K Minimum Salary In 2015 Explains How It Affected The Company

Inspiration

• Architect Kengo Kuma Wrapped a Giant Wooden “Nest” Around a Building in Sydney
• Basketball Court Repaired Using the Traditional Japanese Art of Kintsugi
• Pieces of Japan – A very interesting blog about Japanese artisanship.
• A.I. Claudius – Daniel Voshart used a neural-net tool and images of 800 sculptures to create photorealistic portraits of every Roman emperor from 27 BCE to 285 ACE. The detailed article Photoreal Roman Emperor Project on Medium.
• A Photographer Shows the Harsh Reality of Living in 43-Square-Foot Rooms in South Korea
• Manager Time, Maker Time
• The Japanese Garden II
• TOU – ゆらぎかべ – A really beautiful website for a wall that reacts to wind outside.

Stuff & Things

• Visual Studio Code – Settings Sync – Finally Settings Sync arrived in Visual Studio Code. There was a plugin that did a similar thing with the help of a GitHub Gist, but it didn’t work reliably for me anymore for a long while.
• Fancy Border Radius Generator

Quotes

Daryl David collected over the years a lot of racist items, while he convinced dozens of Ku Klux Clan members to leave the clan:

People always say to me, Daryl how can you have this stuff? Why don‘t you burn it? As shameful as it is, you don’t burn our history, regardless, the good, the bad, the ugly. And the Ku Klux Klan is as American as baseball, apple pie, and Chevrolet.

Wisdom they define as the knowledge of things good and evil and of what is neither good nor evil … knowledge of what we ought to choose, what we ought to beware of, and what is indifferent.

If you control language, you control thought.

The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists.

Nothing happens to you. It happens through you.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.