JETLAG RADIO 193 | BENKYO RADIO 193

  • Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running-mate [The Economist]

  • Lebanon: a country in free-fall [1843 magazine]

  • Google launches new tools to make developing Android apps on Chrome OS easier, including a new ChromeOS.dev resource website and a native Android Emulator [TechMeme]

  • The UK sank into a deep recession. GDP contracted for the second quarter in row, this time by more than 20%, for the first time since the financial crisis more than a decade ago, which precipitated deep cuts in government spending. But chancellor Rishi Sunak said he sees “promising signs” of recovery amid a falling pound. [Quartz]

  • Kamala Harris is the choice Joe Biden needed to win over Silicon Valley [Recode]

  • GPT-3 writes climate change protest letters to Trump, Xi, and Putin [TheNextWeb]

  • Is It Safe to Eat at Restaurants Yet? [Eater]

  • How Entrepreneurs Are Reducing the Stress of Back-to-School [Inc.]

  • Should you get pregnant in a pandemic? Women are weighing the risks [Fast Company]

  • How to Read a 240-Page Book in 2 Hours [Medium]

  • When Will My Next Stimulus Check Arrive? (Updated) [Entrepreneur]

  • The Iconic Arecibo Telescope Goes Quiet After Major Damage [WIRED]

  • See the full list of TWIT Tech Podcasts [TWIT]

  • Boston Dynamics Robot Dog! [MKBHD]

  • How to Zoom on FaceTime! [Sam Sheffer]

  • My Google Pixel 4a Review! [Dave Lee]

  • It’s time for a regular Amazon daily coronavirus briefing [Casey Newton’s The Interface]

  • Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Unboxing! [iJustine]

  • The only Female Artist to ever break into the Top 10 of DJ magazines Top 100 DJs, Lisa Lashes’ prolific Career in dance music spans 18 years of entertaining clubbers and festival goers across the globe. [DJ Lisa Lashes]

What’s up everybody, here’s JETLAG RADIO 193 & BENKYO RADIO 193. Don’t forget to vote in the Top 100 DJ Mag Poll. Here are my top 5:

  1. Ferry Corsten

  2. Armin van Buuren

  3. Paul van Dyk

  4. Sander van Doorn

  5. Sama Abdulhadi

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 192 | BENKYO RADIO 192

  • Artist of the Month: Amelie Lens [beatportal]

  • How to program MIDI drums that sound like they were played by a real drummer [Computer Music]

  • Could this be the simplest and easiest AI mastering plugin yet? [Future Music]

  • Grassroots action: how Young Urban Arts Foundation are helping young people through creative pursuits [DJ Mag]

  • Pioneer DJ releases documentary on COVID-19’s impact on the electronic music industry [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Mellodees Reveals First Animated Marshmello In New Series Aimed At Young Children [YourEDM]

  • Instagram Reels vs. TikTok: 13 Things You Need to Know [Gary Vaynerchuck]

  • MSF and Sea-Watch announce collaboration to save lives at sea [MSF]

  • Americans should worry less about foreigners and voter fraud | And worry more about long lines at polling booths and problems with vote counting [The Economist]

  • Tear gas, batons…then nothing. The night the Feds left Portland - Black Lives Matter took off in America’s whitest city. Then, after weeks of clashes with federal agents, the officers melted away [1843 magazine]

  • 8 Ways Managers Can Support Employees’ Mental Health [Harvard Business Review]

  • ‘I went from prisoner to PhD’ [BBC Ideas]

  • Covid-19 Is Bringing a Fall Full of Unknowns [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • Fed’s Evans says another coronavirus aid package ‘incredibly important’: interview [Reuters]

  • Peter Beinart and the crisis of liberal Zionism [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Countering Trump’s Attempt to Manipulate the Election and the Census [The New Yorker]

  • Computer scientist Frances Allen, known for her work on compiling, dies at 88 [The Verge]

  • How cities can tackle violent crime without relying on police [Vox]

  • VPN booms as countries around the world mull TikTok bans [TechCrunch]

  • Climate change-fueled heatwaves could kill millions [MIT Technology Review]

  • Previous reports from the FBI, CIA, and NSA concluded that Russia attempted to help Trump win in 2016 — and Vladimir Putin said publicly he wanted Trump to win — but Trump has denied those reports’ accuracy. [Business Insider]

  • Manchester United seal semi-final spot as Bruno Fernandes sinks Copenhagen [The Guardian]

  • How to Ask if Everything Is OK When It’s Clearly Not [The New York Times]

  • Trump’s Order On ‘Unemployment Benefits’ Is A Big Mess - That extra $400 is actually just $300, unless your state feels like kicking in. [Huffington Post]

  • Forest Fires Are Setting Chernobyl’s Radiation Free [The Atlantic]

  • Some Volunteers Want To Be Infected With Coronavirus To Help Find A Vaccine. But It Isn’t That Simple. [FiveThirtyEight]

  • A Biden Administration Will Have to Confront Trump’s Corruption [The Nation]

  • Previously Shelved Season 4 Episode of ‘Black-ish’ Now Available on Hulu [COMPLEX]

  • Kanye West Could Face Election Fraud Investigation [HypeBeast]

  • Van Jones Fights For Civil Rights and Loves Hip-Hop [XXL]

  • A Timeline of The Weeknd’s Career, From Drake’s Co-Sign to ‘After Hours’ Domination [billboard]

  • In 2020, anything’s possible. New government intelligence might prove alien life is, too [USA Today]

  • The world must not let China steamroll Hong Kong [The Washington Post]

  • Brest remplace Copenhague pour le depart du Tour de France 2021 [Le Monde]

  • SNL’s ‘MacGruber’ announces Peacock series in ridiculous, action-packed teaser [Mashable]

  • Mars’ Weird Glowing Atmosphere Pulses Exactly 3 Times a Night, NASA Discovers [VICE]

  • Antarctica is the last continent without COVID-19. Scientists want to keep it that way. [National Geographic]

  • Why We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized [Nautilus]

  • ‘A Homeless Pandemic’ Looms As 30 Million Are At Risk Of Eviction [NPR]

  • California Coronavirus Updates: UC System To Require Flu Shots [CapRadioNews]

  • Bienvenue a Wakaliwood [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Afghan Women Should Be the Centerpiece of the Peace Process [Foreign Policy]

  • The Democratic Renewal - What It Will Take to Fix U.S. Foreign Policy [Foreign Affairs]

  • Climate Change Is a Security Threat to the Asia-Pacific [The Diplomat]

  • What Turning a Blind Eye to the World Will Cost Us [The Cipher Brief]

  • Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health [Quanta magazine]

  • Notre #PhotoDeLaSemaine presente Moya Lee et Rita Perez, ingenieurs au CERN, travaillant sur l’un des collimateurs du LHC. Les collimateurs absorbent les particules parasites avant qu’elles n’entrent en collision, on les appelle souvent les gardes du corps du LHC. [CERN_FR]

  • Four Down, Four to Go: Artemis | Rocket Moves Closer to Hot Fire Test [NASA]

  • 5 reasons non-delivery scams work [INTERPOL]

  • First Space Force Doctrine Lays Foundation for Future Ops [Air Force Magazine]

  • Could the Next BMW M5 Be an 1,000-HP Electric Super Sedan? [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! I’ve just added JETLAG RADIO 192 & BENKYO RADIO 192. It’s back to school in many places! Stay strong, you can do this. I really enjoy the Fast & Furious game so far. I know there are a lot of critics about the gameplay, but that’s not fair because they don’t have a big budget like Gran Turismo Sport or Forza. Plus, if you support this game, it is more likely that there will be more games, with better gameplay.

I am asking the Trump Administration to stop (I think the expression is) Dilly-Dalling around with COVID-19. We need nationwide isolation. We need to do this for 6 weeks straight, then the coronavirus will be contained. We need Medicare For All. If we can’t have that just yet, we need to pass a temporary Medicare For All. We need to reverse-engineer a vaccine by getting all the scientists together from every major country on Earth. There’s no point in every country working out for themselves. The Planet will benefit if the world is healthy. Work together, stop bickering, and listen to Bill Gates, goddamnit.

Dear Iron Man (Elon Musk), I know Mars is important and all that, but if there are no humans left to go on Mars, it might be quite problematic. Could you allocate a few hours each week or at least get a team to work on mapping the coronavirus genome? Peter Parker can even ask Spider-Man to help you.

Wear a mask! Use social-distancing! Do it for yourself, and your loved ones!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 191 | BENKYO RADIO 191

  • Weather experts issue most threatening hurricane forecast yet [CBS News]

  • A.I.’s next big challenge? Playing a quantum version of Go [Digital Trends]

  • Enlist George W. Bush and Al Gore to help us prevent a Trump-Biden nightmare in 2020 [USA Today]

  • Big Ten players submit proposal for protection of college athletes during COVID-19 pandemic [SB Nation]

  • Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir [TechMeme]

  • Cannabis at a crossroads [Quartz]

  • Bill Gates is spending $150 million to try to make a coronavirus vaccine as cheap as $3 [Recode]

  • This startup is fighting air pollution with AI [TheNextWeb]

  • A McDonald’s Employee Reported Unsanitary Conditions. Her Coworkers Retaliated With Harassment [Eater]

  • She Was Rejected by 86 Investors Before Hearing a Single Yes—and It Was From Jay-Z [Inc.]

  • This one small thing can radically impact your productivity [Fast Company]

  • Psychologists Explain How To Stop Overthinking Everything [Medium]

  • Restflix Is Netflix for Getting Better Sleep and It Might Change Your Life [Entrepreneur]

  • ‘Ultima’ Fandom Is Still Going Strong [WIRED]

  • This Week In Google 571 [TWIT]

  • The Last Intel Mac VS The Osborne Effect! [MKBHD]

  • Instagram Reels: How to Use the New IG Reels feature (2020) [Sam Sheffer]

  • Breaking: Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job [The Interface by Casey Newton]

  • New 27in iMac is HERE! [iJustine]

  • How Next-Gen is Reframing the ‘Console Wars’ - Next-Gen Console Watch [IGN]

  • PlayStation State Of Play: Everything We Saw, Including PS5 Games [GameSpot]

  • Ghost of Tsushima guides and walkthroughs [Polygon]

  • New Pixels —and new prices—are here [Google Blog]

  • Google AI Blog: MediaPipe Iris: Real-time Iris Tracking [Google AI]

  • The Sky This Week: The Perseids peak with the Moon on display [Astronomy]

  • AI Is Helping Teams Right Now: Being More Responsive Is Just the Beginning [Salesforce]

  • Lebanon is the very definition of a failing state. So sad as for a long time (until the mid-1970s) it was the most open, dynamic corner of the region, with Beirut the Paris of the Middle East. The explosion seems to be the result of bad governance-a metaphor for the country [Richard Haas]

  • Billionaires need the working class. The working class does not need billionaires. [AOC]

  • Human Trafficking is a serious problem in America. We @strike_source sat down with the Guardian Group, an organization lead by retired Tier 1 Operators who hunt Human Traffickers in the United States. [IGRECON]

What’s up, everybody, here’s JETLAG RADIO 191 & BENKYO RADIO 191. I need to remind those of you who deal with a Mental Health illness like me to reach out to your friends who are also going through this. It’s important to talk and be there for emotional support. As always, please wear a mask and practice social-distancing. The sooner we cut down the spread of the coronavirus, the sooner we can get back to normal. Perform large gatherings at your own risk. They did it in Florida, and they all got infected. Beware.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 190 | BENKYO RADIO 190 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 036

  • Denon DJ Announces Long-Awaited Integration with Beatport LINK [beatportal]

  • Akai MPK mini mk3: “world’s best-selling USB MIDI keyboard controller” now looks slicker and plays better [Computer Music]

  • Here’s what Roland has planned for its 40th anniversary 808 day celebrations [Future Music]

  • Spotify Launch DJ Curated Playlist Series Track ID [DJ Mag]

  • i_o and Raito share fiery techno EP, ‘revolution’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • HARD Summer BackHARD BBQ Is Heating Up Now [Your EDM]

  • The United States Announces $7.5 Million in Additional Humanitarian Assistance to Contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [USAID]

  • MSF supporting Beirut’s health services in wake of massive blast [MSF]

  • Google hits middle age [The Economist]

  • Why sourdough went viral [1843 magazine]

  • Can You Be Too Well Connected [Harvard Business Review]

  • Beirut explosion: Port officials under house arrest as rescue efforts continue [BBC News]

  • If Not a 401(k) Then What? The Alternatives Aren’t Great [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • The scale of the coronavirus deaths [Reuters]

  • Lebanon’s Hezbollah denies storing arms at blast site: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says Beirut port explosion ‘has nothing to do’ with group, calls accountability [AL-Jazeera News] Mossad is likely culprit, and is known to carry attacks in Beirut. Bibidi Netanyahu warned Lebanon one or two days before the attack. it will be tough to prove so, but Interpol is on-site investigating. Due to Trump being in bed with Netanyahu, it is unlikely that there will be enough international pressure to convict Israel for war crimes, yet again. This is sad. Extreme-Right Nationalism must be expelled from the leadership in Israel. People in the streets are protesting Bibidi Netanyahu and demand regime change. He’s facing corruption charges. How is he still standing? Why is the Mafia in Israel so strong? There must be more investigation.

  • “Mr. President, What Are Your Priorities?” Is Not a Tough Question [The New Yorker]

  • VoteByMail makes it easier to request a mail-in ballot ahead of the election [The Verge]

  • How to pick the right Series A investors - When it’s time to start fundraising, here’s how to get started [TechCrunch]

  • Mars may not have been the warm, wet planet we thought it was [MIT Technology Review]

  • An aerospace startup just won a contract to develop an Air Force One jet that can travel at Mach 5. Here’s an early look at the engine that could rocket from New York to Paris in 90 minutes. [Business Insider]

  • Civil death: how millions of Americans lost their right to vote [The Guardian]

  • Russia Continues Interfering in Election to Help Trump, U.S. Intelligence Says [The New York Times]

  • Bill Gates: CDC’s COVID-19 Response Was ‘Muzzled’ By White House [Huffington Post]

  • Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism? [The Atlantic]

  • Trump Wants to Postpone The Election, But Americans Really Don’t [FiveThirtyEight]

  • How Stephen Miller went from teen troll to Trump whisperer [The Washington Post]

  • Ligue des champions : Manchester City elimine le Real Madrid [Le Monde]

  • 11 electric SUVs coming for the Tesla Model Y [Mashable]

  • A DIY Vaccine Can’t Solve the COVID-19 Crisis [VICE]

  • How to take a European road trip without leaving America’s Midwest [NatGeo]

  • The Hard Problem of Breakfast [Nautilus]

  • Tracking The Pandemic: Are Coronavirus Cases Rising Or Falling In Your State? [NPR]

  • ‘Don’t Give Up’: Hiroshima Survivor Remembers Blast, Rescue [CapRadioNews] Nuclear Deterrence is of extreme importance for world peace. We need America to finally apologize to Japan for dropping the atomic bomb twice. It is long overdue.

  • Pour plus de securite sociale dans la culture [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Europe Must Stand Up for Belarus [Foreign Policy]

  • The Pandemic Hasn’t Killed Populism - After Lockdowns, Demagogues Will Likely Resurge [Foreign Affairs]

  • Japan Braces for Looming ‘Second Wave’ Amid Dramatic Spike in COVID-19 Cases [The Diplomat]

  • China’s Arctic Ambitions [The Cipher Brief]

  • COVID-19 Is Raging. How Safe Is Your Backyard Party? [Quanta magazine]

  • Merci a Klaus Barth pour cette photo d’etoiles au-dessus du batiment de @ALICEexperiment. Il est temps de lever les yeux au ciel et d’observer les etoiles ! Vous pouvez peut-etre encore voir #Neowise.. Allez voir le travail de nos amis de l’@ESA : [CERN_FR]

  • NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is One Rehearsal Away from Touching Asteroid Bennu [NASA]

  • INTERPOL deploys response team to site of Beirut explosion [INTERPOL]

  • ULA, SpaceX Win Space Force Launch Provider Competition [Air Force Magazine]

  • 2020 Hyundai Sonata Review: Appealing to Your Emotions [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 190 & BENKYO RADIO 190. I’ve also included LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 036. That’s a lot of music, so enjoy!

Less than 90 days until the Election 2020! As you’ve heard, there is a lot of interference which is trying to prevent Biden from becoming our next President. There’s interference from Russia, and Trump doesn’t want people to vote by mail, even he did vote by mail himself. Voting by mail during a pandemic is crucial. It is safe and secure. We simply cannot let Trump stay in office for 4 more years. The country might turn into something from out of MAD MAX.

Keep wearing a mask! Use social-distancing! Also, it’s flu-season again, so don’t forget to get that flu shot because it’s not worth catching the FLU during a freaking pandemic.

I want to thank Bill Maher for raising awareness on people gaining weight at home during the quarantine. He is right. We are all putting ourselves at risk for diabetes if we are not careful. I’m doing my best to cut down sugar, which is not easy.

If you don’t think an education is important, just imagine being out there during a pandemic. Please take school seriously. Yes, I know it’s ridiculous that some schools are demanding $50K/year just for online learning, which is why Senator Sanders must pass the bill for Free Tuition, and Gavin Newsom’s push for cheaper tuition costs for Community College and CSU colleges in California.

I’m so excited about the Fast & Furious video-game! I can’t believe we have to wait until April of next year to see the new movie! It should be out on Streaming now!

We all remember the alternate universe with Biff from Back to the Future, or the Darkest Timeline from Community. I want everybody to remain calm. Less than 90 days until Biden wins, and brings a broom to clean this fucking mess. I’ve learned patience through Zen buddhism books. I suggest you try that. Super excited about the John Wick 5 announcement! Also, there’s gonna be a Knight Rider movie! Awesome!

Obviously, the fight for BLM Movement is not over. It’s time Kendrick Lamar releases an album. I know you are vexed because you considered yourself a Zionist and Israel teaches American Police officers Police Brutality but it’s time for you to make that olive branch, admit you were wrong, and write some verses. Maybe you could open your eyes to the brutality that Palestinians face every day. Future used to strictly care about “bitches and million dollar watches” but even he straightened up and is creating scholarship funds for disenfranchised black youth.

I just wrote this report. Hopefully I can rest a bit before I need to write the next one. Cheers. Oh before I forget, if you like hip-hop, check out Verzuz, it looks pretty cool. I want to watch the Snoop Dogg And DMX episode. I also need to listen to that new Logic album.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 189 | BENKYO RADIO 189

  • Black Voices Scholarship [beatportal]

  • 15 questions for…Joris Delacroix: “Be careful who you’re working with, and as an artist, don’t think that the music industry is always your friend.” [Computer Music]

  • Issue 360 of Future Music is on sale now [Future Music]

  • Black Junglist Alliance Launches to Address Diversity Issues in Jungle and D&B [DJ Mag]

  • ZHU entrances with remix of Mathame’s ‘Never Give Up’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • London Motor Show Will Feature DJ Set From Carl Cox & Cars From His Private Collection [Your EDM]

  • MSF forced to close COVID-19 centre on Lesbos [MSF]

  • Acting USAID Administrator John Barsa on World Day Against Trafficking In Persons [USAID]

  • Joe Biden has a good chance of becoming a surprisingly activist president [The Economist]

  • The end of modernity - What will fashion look like after the pandemic? [1843 magazine]

  • You Need More Sleep. What Should You Do If You Can’t Get It? [Harvard Business Review]

  • Jesse Lingard: Manchester United midfielder says ‘I was lost as a player and person’ [BBC Sport]

  • College Campuses and Towns Have No Good Choices [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • Democrat Biden says he will name running mate in first week of August [Reuters]

  • The quiet undoing of the Zionist noise [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Biden’s Big-Tent Strategy Seems to Be Working [The New Yorker]

  • The Verge’s Back-To-School Gift Guide 2020 [The Verge]

  • Millions of people will see a sharp drop in their unemployment benefits because Congress failed to act [Vox]

  • The Red Hat Developer Program will give you the tools to develop apps in the cloud [TechCrunch]

  • American parents are setting up homeschool “pandemic pods” [MIT Technology Review]

  • Bill Gates: We will have a coronavirus vaccine, but the disease will keep coming back if there’s a US ‘leadership vacuum’ [Business Insider]

  • You’re already wearing a mask - now consider a face shield and goggles [The Guardian]

  • What Happens When You’re Disabled but Nobody Can Tell [The New York Times]

  • Republicans Resume Fear-Mongering About The Debt. Don’t Believe Them. Helping working people will not hurt the economy [Huffington Post]

  • A Breakthrough Some Cosmologists Thought Would Never Come [The Atlantic]

  • Some Republicans Have Gotten More Concerned About COVID-19 [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Congress deeply unpopular again as gridlock on coronavirus relief has real-life consequences [The Washington Post]

  • Vigilance orange a la canicule maintenue dimanche dans l’Ardeche et la Drome [Le Monde]

  • Best audio workout apps for training without a screen [Mashable]

  • Government Hacking Crews Have a New Target: A COVID-19 Vaccine [VICE]

  • Surging tourism is straining this Yellowstone gateway town [NatGeo]

  • How many coronavirus masks should you have? [Nautilus]

  • Syria Is Overwhelmed By Coronavirus As Govt Conceals Outbreak, Health Worker Says [NPR]

  • Hospitals Juggle Resources, Continue Surgeries As California’s COVID-19 Cases Rise [CapRadioNews]

  • Petitionnaires de tous les pays… [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Inside the Massive Foreign-Policy Team Advising Biden’s Campaign [Foreign Policy]

  • The Overmilitarization of American Foreign Policy [Foreign Affairs]

  • Afghanistan’s Higher Education System Has a Stark Geographic Divide [The Diplomat]

  • Fixing DOD’s Acquisition Problem [The Cipher Brief]

  • Our Genes May Explain Severity of COVID-19 and Other Infections [Quanta magazine]

  • Quels sont les constituants de l’Univers? [CERN]

  • NASA Astronauts Safely Splash Down after First Commercial Crew Flight to Space Station [NASA]

  • INTERPOL assisting Cote d’Ivoire identify terrorists arrested after attacks [INTERPOL]

  • The Goldfein Years [Air Force Magazine]

  • EVgo’s Charging Infrastructure Is Getting Bigger With Help From GM [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody, here are JR 189 & BR 189. We only have about 11 more episodes until JETLAG RADIO 200! The third interstellar object was not out there yet, but we did get Comet NEOWISE! Let’s keep looking in that night sky and maybe we’ll finally find that third interstellar object.

Please continue to wear a mask outside, everybody is tired of the coronavirus just as much as anyone else. But, if we want to go out in gatherings again, we need to social-distance until the vaccine is available.

Please stay strong. It’s August! About 90 more days until the Elections 2020. We can do it. We can vote for Biden, and get rid of the Trump administration. We cannot afford to lose this election. Once Biden gets in office, the Progressives must continue to force him to pass important policies, including Medicare For All.

I was so excited to watch Chapter 1 of the new Transformers series on Netflix, it was awesome. Also, I just watched the JEXI movie, I really recommend you watch it! It was awesome!

It’s nice to see Basketball on the TV screen again! Always fun to watch them play.

I’m looking forward to listening to the Road to F9 Mixtape! There’s also a Fast & Furious video game coming out this month!

The best advice I have for you is the one I follow in order to make it through the day. Take things one day at a time. It’s a struggle! But you can do it!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 188 | BENKYO RADIO 188 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 035

  • Opinion: It’s Time to Respect the Jungle MC [beatportal]

  • Arturia’s Sound Explorers Collection box set puts 20 years of synth/FX plugins and presets on one 250GB hard drive [Computer Music]

  • The 808 Lab plugin lets you play Roland’s classic TR drum machine as a chromatic instrument [Future Music]

  • Sideman: to truly amplify Black voices, those with influence need to share the mic [DJ Mag]

  • ‘TRON: Legacy’ director hints at unreleased Daft Punk material [Dancing Astronaut]

  • The Many Mixes of DJ Rap: ‘I Like This’ Releases With Five Mixes at the Ready [Your EDM]

  • Donald Trump cancels his Florida celebration [The Economist]

  • Battered but still standing: how the NHS coped with covid-19 [1843 magazine]

  • How to Create a Workplace that Actually Inspires Passion [Harvard Business Review]

  • Man Utd beat Leicester to reach Champions League [BBC Sport]

  • 100 Days Out, Trump’s Reset on Virus Too Late For Some [Bloomberg]

  • Storm Hanna batters COVID-hit Texas coast, threatening heavy rains [Reuters]

  • ‘Cancelling’ Palestine in Australia - Public figures and media outlets continue to avoid talking about Palestine, and Israeli crimes [AL-Jazeera News]

  • America Is a Country Besieged by Its Own President [The New Yorker]

  • Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is the only movie that treats Batman like a complete person [The Verge]

  • Child care is broken. Biden has a plan to fix it. [Vox]

  • Space Force debuts official logo and motto, both reminding you that it’s ‘always above’ [TechCrunch]

  • Venus is likely teeming with dozens of volcanoes that were recently active [MIT Technology Review]

  • I was a Homeland Security prosecutor on Day One. How Trump is using my former department is damaging the country. [Business Insider]

  • John Lewis crosses Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for final time [The Guardian]

  • Tech Is About Power. And These Four Moguls Have Too Much of It. [The New York Times]

  • Wearing A Mask Is More Popular — And A Little Less Partisan — Than You Might Expect [Huffington Post]

  • First Came the Virus. Next Come the Storms [The Atlantic]

  • Confidence Interval: Democrats Could Win 60 Seats In The Senate [FiveThirtyEight]

  • America’s global standing is at a low point. The pandemic made it worse [The Washington Post]

  • L’Elysee nomme onze secretaires d’Etat pour completer le gouvernement [Le Monde]

  • Disney delivers the first clip for NatGeo’s early NASA series, ‘The Right Stuff’ [Mashable]

  • The History of TV Color Bars, One of the First Electronic Graphics [VICE]

  • Biggest ice sheet on Earth more vulnerable to melting than thought [Nat Geo]

  • Mathematicians Will Never Stop Proving the Prime Number Theorem [Nautilus]

  • As Texas Reels From Hurricane Damage, Hawaii Braces For Impact [NPR]

  • HBO Documentary Shines Spotlight On Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs [CapRadioNews]

  • En traversant la France a pied [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • How to Deglobalize - In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, politicians are calling for a rethinking of global supply chains. If they are serious, they’ll need to proceed carefully. [Foreign Policy]

  • Post-Pandemic Japan Will Attract the World [Foreign Affairs]

  • Will Afghanistan’s Long-Delayed Peace Ever Arrive? [The Diplomat]

  • A Student Reviews Putin’s People [The Cipher Brief]

  • Mathematicians Will Never Stop Proving the Prime Number Theorem [Quanta magazine]

  • Cela faisait un moment que nous ne vous avions pas presente une photo du LHC ! Saviez-vous que les scientifiques doivent tenir compte des phases de la Lune lorsqu’ils ajustent le faisceau de particules ? [CERN_FR]

  • Be Our Virtual Guest for the Mars 2020 Launch [NASA]

  • Crimes: Terrorism encompasses a range of complex threats. We focus on identifying terrorists and preventing their activities [INTERPOL]

  • Virtual Events: 2020 AFWERX Fusion Kicks Off, and More [Air Force Magazine]

  • 7 Reasons Why the Honda Civic Type R Demolishes the Civic Si [MOTORTREND]

Hello there! Here’s yet another report. I really recommend many of you to look into Music Therapy. Music has really helped me a lot over the past decade, and I hope that it helps you too. I’ve literally made thousands of hours of mixtapes, so since we’re under isolation and quarantine, start listening. It will keep you busy for a while. I’ve recommended the book “Musicophilia” before, be sure to read it if you haven’t already.

Less than 100 days until Election Day! We can beat Trump! We must elect Biden and force him to pass many Bernie Sanders policies including Medicare For All!. If you’re in Congress, stop treating women like shit. I hope AOC rallies a bunch of women to win seats in November. Remember one of my old blog post from a while back, you can be an awesome cool enhanced soldier and still report to a woman, it doesn’t make you any less of a man.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 187 | BENKYO RADIO 187

  • In just a few years, Sherelle has established herself as one of the most exciting names in club music, with a ferocious style encompassing footwork, drum & bass and more. With her rapidly accelerating life now on pause, she sits down with Danielle Koku in London to talk about her history, that infamous Boiler Room set, Black Lives Matter, and proving the haters wrong. [beatportal] #BLM

  • The playable Lego Grand Piano set is here, and it looks amazing [Computer Music]

  • #LetUsDance: the UK dance music and events industry comes together to ask for urgent help from the UK government [Future Music]

  • Anastasia Kristensen Digs Vinyl at Kristina Records [DJ Mag]

  • Tame Impala and 070 Shake link for ‘Guilty Conscience’ remix [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Kaskade Apparently Threw An Illegal Boat Party In Miami - The more we do this, the longer it will take to get back to normal [Your EDM]

  • America’s backward coronavirus strategy [The Economist]

  • HBR Readers on Juggling Work and Kids… in a Pandemic [Harvard Business Review]

  • How long does it take to get to Mars - and why is it so difficult? [BBC News]

  • The New Rules of Covid-Etiquette: Be Awkward, Not Rude [Bloomberg]

  • U.N. report suggests temporary basic income to help world’s poorest amid pandemic [Reuters]

  • John Bolton on Iran, North Korea and ‘accountability for US wars [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Three Ways of Looking at Children and the Coronavirus [The New Yorker]

  • Microsoft’s AI-powered ‘Eye Contact’ feature is finally coming to the Surface Pro X [The Verge]

  • Economists say Congress should think big on the next rescue package [Vox]

  • Startups Weekly: What education do you need to build a great tech company? [TechCrunch]

  • Lockdown was the longest period of quiet in recorded human history [MIT Technology Review]

  • Kudlow says next round of coronavirus relief will include $1,200 checks and extension of eviction moratorium [Business Insider]

  • Biden holds daunting lead over Trump as US election enters final stretch [The Guardian]

  • Selma Helped Define John Lewis’s Life. In Death, He Returned One Last Time. [The New York Times]

  • 30 Years Later, Disabled Americans Are Still Fighting For Their Civil Rights [Huffington Post]

  • Canada Got Better. The United States Got Trump. [The Atlantic]

  • The Winners and Losers in MLB’s New Playoff Format [FiveThirtyEight]

  • The $600 unemployment benefit expires soon. Congress is torn on how to proceed. [The Washington Post]

  • “Flowers”, des Rolling Stones : l’album qui m’a fait aimer… les compilations [Le Monde]

  • How to put free e-books on your Amazon Kindle [Mashable]

  • SpaceX’s Internet Satellites Keep Photobombing the NEOWISE Comet [VICE]

  • Explore some of America’s secret urban walks [National Geographic]

  • Anti-mask groups are still flourishing on Facebook [Nautilus]

  • Trump Tries To Appeal To ‘Housewives’ And White Suburbs, But His Views Seem Outdated [NPR]

  • Financial Aid Appeals Surge As Students Cope With Pandemic Hardships [CapRadioNews]

  • Un pays miné par les homicides policiers [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Was China’s Houston Consulate Trying to Steal the Coronavirus Vaccine? [Foreign Policy]

  • The Endangered Asian Century - America, China, and the Perils of Confrontation [Foreign Affairs]

  • Under COVID-19, Domestic Violence Intensifies in Kazakhstan [The Diplomat]

  • Lawfare and Information Operations [The Cipher Brief]

  • How Earth’s Climate Changes Naturally (and Why Things Are Different Now [Quanta magazine]

  • Un nouvel absorbeur de faisceau interne, développé pour la haute luminosité, a été installé dans le LHC. Une étape de plus vers le #HiLumiLHC [CERN_FR]

  • NASA Mission Will Study the Cosmos With a Stratospheric Ballon [NASA]

  • War crimes [INTERPOL] Bibidi Netanyahu must be investigated

  • AFRICOM: Russia Expanding Its Presence in Libya [Air Force Magazine]

  • 2021 Mitsubishi Mirage First Look: The Subcompact Lives [MOTORTREND]

Hello there! It’s the end of July. I can’t believe that the President finally admitted that everybody needs to wear masks. It’s so sad that he took so long to admit that the COVID-19 is very serious and that we need nationwide mask-wearing for 4 to 6 weeks so that the virus is contained. There are over 100,000 people that died under Trump’s watch because he refused to listen to scientists and didn’t take CDC and WHO seriously. It’s time to let the adults back in the room. Biden must win in November. Let’s make it happen.

Dick Cheney is a war criminal. In order to fight the Military-Industrial-Complex, he must go to jail. It’s the only way to start taking down the Umbrella Corporation.

Until next time!

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  • Patrick Topping Isn’t Who You Thought He Was [beatportal]

  • Akai’s MPC Beats is a free ‘beatmaking DAW’ that puts the classic MPC workflow on your PC or Mac [Computer Music]

  • Third Son on producing an entire album in 20 days: “There’s life in imperfection” [Future Music]

  • Porter Robinson Drops DJ NOT PORTER ROBINSON Remix Of “Get Your Wish” [YourEDM]

  • DJ Noir: The ‘160’ movement must not erase its Black roots [DJ Mag]

  • See it: deadmau5 teases new VR project [Dancing Astronaut]

  • COVID-19 provokes fears over further health system decline in northwestern Syria [MSF]

  • Young people see covid-19 as a bigger threat than their elders do [The Economist]

  • Brand Illusions - Why we speak Starbucks - How brands use language to create tribes [1843 magazine]

  • Every Business Can Be a Subscription Business [Harvard Business Review]

  • Coronavirus: Cracking the secrets of how bats survive viruses [BBC News]

  • JPMorgan Banked Millions for Ghislaine Maxwell, as It Had for Epstein [Bloomberg]

  • Spotify strikes new deal with Vivendi’s Universal Music Group [Reuters]

  • Egypt’s prisons under ‘strict information lockdown’: HRW [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Don’t Throw Unemployed Americans off the Bridge [The New Yorker]

  • Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3 is more affordable than ever [The Verge]

  • What Republicans and Democrats want in the next stimulus package [Vox]

  • Apple starts giving hacker-friendly’ iPhones to top bug hunters [TechCrunch]

  • Why Japan is emerging as NASA’s most important space partner [MIT Technology Review]

  • California, hailed for its early coronavirus response, now has the US’s highest case total. Here’s what went wrong. [Business Insider]

  • Pfizer / US agrees to pay $2bn for Covid-19 vaccine doses by end of year [The Guardian]

  • For Palestine Police, Much to Lose if Israel Annexes West Bank Land [The New York Times] we need a real #TwoStateSolution with 1967 borders

  • Can you get coronavirus twice? Doctors are unsure even as anecdotal reports mount [The Washington Post]

  • “Les soignants ont besoin des psychologues hospitaliers, parce que le soin les expose au reel de la maladie et de la mort” [Le Monde]

  • Netflix’s ‘Love on the Spectrum’ will give you endless butterflies [Mashable]

  • Siberia’s Heat Wave Triggered an Arctic Sea Ice Melt [VICE]

  • The surprising way nostalgia can help us cope with the pandemic [Nat Geo]

  • The Contagion Detective [Nautilus]

  • Tropical Storm Gonzalo Forms During A Very Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season [NPR]

  • Rural Suicide: One California County’s Fight To Save Lives [CapRadioNews]

  • L’effet boomberg [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Welcome to the Post-Leader World - The United States has abdicated its dominant role. Here’s how to fill the gap. [Foreign Policy]

  • A Job Guarantee Costs Far Less Than Unemployment - The Bold Policy for Not Just Weathering the Crisis, but Coming Out Better [Foreign Affairs]

  • COVID and Contractors: Nepalis in an American War Zone - Few Americans are aware that the war effort in Afghanistan relies on foreign contractors - many of them from Nepal [The Diplomat]

  • Mission: Career Transition - A Career Change Guide - Intelligence, Military, Foreign Affairs, National Security, and Other Government Professional [The Cipher Brief]

  • He Found ‘Islands of Fertility’ Beneath Antarctica’s Ice [Quanta magazine]

  • Voici l’exterieur du trajectographe de @CMSExperiement, plus precisement le cote “Z+” du sous-detecteur. La photo date de 2006, lorsque la piece a ete assemble dans le “Tracker Integration Facility” avant d’etre transportee pour installation au point 5. [CERN_FR]

  • Curious Universe Podcast - We’re Going to Mars! [NASA]

  • Food fraud in times of COVID-19 [INTERPOL]

  • Space Force Debuts New Delta Logo, Motto [Air Force Magazine]

  • The Grand Tour: James May Teases Release Date Of Next Episode In Recent Interview [Grand Tour Nation]

Hello there! For this report, I just wanted to leave you with this quote from @33fighterwing #motivationmonday “Reach for the stars! Now is better than ever to accomplish your personal and professional goals, sign up for school, volunteer in your community or any other goals you’ve had on your todo list.”

As always, please continue to wear a mask when out in public. California was doing great, then everything reopened and people didn’t social distance while wearing masks, then COVID-19 infections increased. This is terrible. Please wear a mask when you’re out in public. It’s really important. We have thousands of videos from doctors and nurses crying every time they lose yet another patient. Doctors and Nurses are asking for compassion. Please wear a mask. Thank you!

Until next time!

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  • We speak to Claude VonStroke, Infected Mushroom, Tokimonsta, Carl Cox, and dela Moon about their favorite Virtual Studio Technology (VST) products that won’t break the bank. [beatportal]

  • Free €50 plugin PLUS a DAW shootout in the new issue of Computer Music! [Computer Music]

  • Mixed by Humanz on mixing John Legend’s new album in lockdown: “Mixing at really low levels in the bedroom, you discover a different style” [Future Music]

  • DJ Mag: our pledge to you [DJ mag]

  • Is there life on Mars? [The Economist]

  • Mike Pompeo is in Denmark. The US secretary of state will discuss security in the Arctic with foreign minister Jeppe Kofod, as well as the top diplomat from Greenland, where Washington opened a consulate last month in Nuuk as it seeks to shore up its influence in the region. [Quartz]

  • Silicon Valley’s richest are getting richer just as the pandemic is getting worse [Recode]

  • Here’s how to scan a QR code on an iPhone [TheNextWeb]

  • Trader Joe’s to Remove Product Names Like Trader Jose and Trader Ming’s Following Accusations of Racism [Eater]

  • This Startup Is Taking On Amazon to Help Independent Bookstores [Inc.]

  • The 25 best new productivity apps for 2020 [Fast Company]

  • Stop Spending So Much Time In Your Head [Medium]

  • The Washington Redskins’ Overdue Name Teaches a Powerful Lesson on How to Lead [Entrepreneur]

  • How to Check Your Devices for Stalkerware [WIRED]

  • The Tech Guy 1712 - Creating a Virtual Choir Using Zoom or YouTube [TWIT]

  • The Biggest Ultrawide Monitor [MKBHD]

  • iOS 14 Beta: 14+ Updates to be Excited About [Sam Sheffer]

  • Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future [Casey Newton]

  • The $670 Ryzen Gaming Laptop [Dave Lee]

  • iPhone 12! What can we expect?! [iJustine]

  • Initial D - The Arcade [SEGA]

Hello there! Here’s a new post. I want all of y’all to remember when you were at your lowest point in your life. Then, remember who picked up the phone when you called, and who did not. So later in life, when you think about your darkest day, you will remember that forever.

Remember the first day you wore Airwalks. Remember the first day you wore some Air Force Ones or Jordans. Then set them next to one another, and when you wear your Adidas NMDs, think back and reflect how far you’ve come.

Until next time!

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  • How Video Games and VR Could Change Festivals Forever [beatportal]

  • How to program a percussive synth bass sound using an FM synth [Computer Music]

  • Soundcloud can now automatically master your tracks as you upload them using Dolby technology [Future Music]

  • Here’s how you can support the fight against systemic racism, inequality and police brutality [DJ Mag]

  • Jerusalem’s Peace Players - Bridging a divide in the Middle East through friendship and sport [USAID]

  • As COVID-19 spreads, fear drives people away from hospitals in Yemen [MSF]

  • Donald Trump is hoping for a covid-19 treatment by November [The Economist]

  • Pandating: coronavirus and the language of love [1843 magazine]

  • Do We Really Need The Office? What the WFH boom means for the future [Harvard Business Review]

  • The problem with perfectionists [BBC Worklife]

  • On eve of bankruptcy, U.S. firms shower execs with bonuses [Reuters]

  • We need Nelson Mandela’s legacy more than ever in Palestine-Israel - not to preach about forgiveness and reconciliation - but to craft political solutions rooted in justice and dignity. [AL-Jazeera News]

  • What is Distance Learning For? [The New Yorker]

  • John Lewis’ graphic memoir trilogy, March, tells the story of a lifetime of results and actions [Vox]

  • Gaming sales had another great month in June [TechCrunch]

  • Covid-19 data is a public good. The US government must start treating it like one [MIT Technology Review]

  • Anthony Fauci said New York is an example of how to ‘correctly’ confront soaring coronavirus cases [Business Insider]

  • Donald Trump has unified America - against him [The Guardian]

  • Older Children Spread Virus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds [New York Times]

  • NASA astronauts set to return to Earth in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon on August 2nd [The Verge]

  • Why more young people are getting sick in the latest Covid-19 outbreaks [Vox]

  • This Week in Apps: US tops China on downloads, EU regulates app stores, Instagram takes on TikTok [TechCrunch]

  • Covid-19 data is a public good. The US government must start treating it like one [MIT Technology Review]

  • Anthony Fauci said New York is an example of how to ‘correctly’ confront soaring coronavirus cases [Business Insider]

  • Aubameyang doubles up to send Arsenal past City and into FA Cup final [The Guardian]

  • The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse. We Must Act Now. [The New York Times]

  • Whatever Happened To Hazard Pay? [Huffington Post]

  • What the Coronavirus Proved About Homelessness [The Atlantic]

  • White Democrats Want to Reduce Racial Inequalities … Until They Don’t [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Democrats demand expansion of voting rights in memory of John Lewis [The Washington Post]

  • Coronavirus : ce qu’il faut savoir sur l’obligation de porter le masque dans les lieux publics clos [Le Monde]

  • Disney has reportedly joined the Facebook ad boycott [Mashable]

  • The Manhattan DA Is Going Where Mueller Wouldn’t: Trump’s Money [VICE NEWS]

  • More than half of Black-owned businesses may not survive COVID-19 [Nat Geo]

  • The Damage We’re Not Attending To - Scientists who study complex systems offer solutions to the pandemic. [Nautilus]

  • ‘Change Can Happen’: Black Families On Racism, Hope And Parenting [NPR]

  • Ask The Experts: What To Consider Before You Camp, Hike, Backpack During Mask Summer [CapRadioNews]

  • Kalymnos, des eponges aux falaises [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Transform How Vaccines Are Made [Foreign Policy]

  • Universities Must Reassert Their Values - Expertise Is Essential, Now More Than Ever [Foreign Affairs]

  • US Air Force Grants Boeing $1.2 Billion Initial F-15EX Contract [The Diplomat]

  • The Fifth Domain with Richard Clark [The Cipher Brief]

  • The Math of Social Distancing Is a Lesson in Geometry [Quanta magazine]

  • @LHCbExperiment discovers a new type of tetraquark at @CERN [CERNpress]

  • NASA to Discuss Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission with Space Foundation [NASA]

  • Human trafficking is a multi-billion-dollar form of international organized crime, constituting modern-day slavery. [INTERPOL]

  • Virtual Events: Goldfein Discusses State of USAF at Brookings, and More [Air Force Magazine]

  • Honda Stops Civic Si, Drops Civic Coupe, and Down Fit for 2021 [MOTORTREND]

  • Michael Jordan changed the fashion game, one beret and gold hoop at a time [ESPN]

Hello there! Here’s another report. For this post, I just wanted to share to you my rekindled love for Drum & Bass. Please check out this new DJ Mix from Netsky I’m listening to right now. I also want to thank Dillon Francis for his recent DnB DJ mix, it was really cool of him to do that. As always, when you’re out in public with people, don’t forget to wear a mask! If everybody wore a mask for 4-6 weeks straight, the Coronavirus could be contained in the United States. One more thing, it appears that Bernie Delegates demand a Progressive VP. I’m totally for that. Let’s get Nina Turner. Hello Somebody!

Until next time!