JETLAG RADIO 233 | BENKYO RADIO 233

  • Square Has Discussed Acquiring Jay-Z’s Tidal Service [TechMeme]

  • The 12 Days of Christmas [Quartz]

  • A requiem for the Twitter presidency - How Trump blurred the lines between politics and persona in ways that will reverberate for years. [Recode]

  • There’s a bunch of undiscovered exoplanets left – math can help us find them [TheNextWeb]

  • 20 Days of Turkey [Eater]

  • How Covid-19 Is Transforming the Business World, According to Scott Galloway: The entrepreneur, professor, and author reveals the best parts of his latest book. [Inc.]

  • Essential workers are risking their lives for us. What do we owe them? [Fast Company]

  • Apple’s New M1 Chip is a Machine Learning Beast [Medium]

  • 12 Gift Ideas (Plus More) for Your Work-at-Home Team [Entrepreneur]

  • The Year of Driving Less—but More Dangerously - Total traffic deaths fell during pandemic lockdowns. But fatalities per mile traveled rose, due to faster driving, fewer cops, and more drug use. [WIRED]

  • This Week In Tech - Episode 802 [TWIT]

  • Giving Away 24 PS5s and XBox Series X! [MKBHD]

  • My video submission to join the tom sachs mars yard 2.5 weartest program [Sam Sheffer]

  • AirPods Max Review - Perfectly Apple [Dave Lee]

  • Facebook escalates its fight with Apple [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • Mustang MachE and Apple ProRAW Review! [iJustine]

  • The Top 5 Albums of 2020: Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny, The Weeknd & More [Billboard]

  • Paul McCartney - McCartney III [Pitchfork]

  • 21 Savage Gives Christmas Gifts to over 30 Kids in Georgia: Report [XXL Magazine]

  • The Best-Dressed Teams in the NBA Right Now [COMPLEX]

  • New 'Evangelion: 3.0+1.0' Teaser Previews Utada Hikaru Theme Song [HypeBeast]

  • Dragon Ball Heroes - Super Saiyan 4 Broly [Comicbook]

  • Netflix's Aggretsuko Anime Gets 4th Season [AnimeNewsNetwork]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 233 & BENKYO RADIO 233.

It’s Christmas Day! Be merry, be safe. I received a subscription to Astronomy magazine! So excited.

Until next time!


JETLAG RADIO 232 | BENKYO RADIO 232 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 052

  • Dance Like Nobody’s Watching: Why GTA’s Virtual Clubs Have Saved Dance Fans [beatportal] #welovedancemusic

  • The best free VST synth plugins 2020: wavetable, FM, virtual analogue and more [Computer Music]

  • Ólafur Arnalds: "This might sound like new age mumbo jumbo, but there’s a layer to music that we don’t hear, we just feel" [Future Music]

  • Watch Festival Sets from Faithless, The Prodigy, David Guetta, More For Free on New Year’s Eve [DJ Mag]

  • Chemical Brothers share New Mix to Celebrate the Festive Season [Mixmag]

  • A comprehensive version of Daft Punk’s ‘TRON: Legacy’ soundtrack just hit streaming platforms, bonus tracks and all [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Madeon Uploads Emotional Live Acoustic Set for the Holidays [Your EDM]

  • A new coronavirus variant may derail pandemic-control efforts [The Economist]

  • Oysters in France, KFC in Japan... do they know it’s Christmas? [1843 magazine]

  • HBR Readers Reflect on 2020 [Harvard Business Review]

  • Christmas celebrations to go ahead in Bethlehem, Palestine [BBC World]

  • America Isn’t Finished Paying for Trump’s Incompetence [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • Exclusive: For years, the Pentagon sits on racial discrimination survey data [Reuters]

  • Japan sets record military budget with stealth fighters, missiles [AL-Jazeera News]

  • The Veterans Organizing to Stop Trumpism [The New Yorker] #veterans

  • Twitter is publicly declaring Joe Biden the winner of the US election — on Trump’s own tweets [The Verge]

  • Congress has finally reached a deal on coronavirus stimulus [Vox]

  • This game is the closest you’ll come to a club all year and it’s $20 off today [INPUT]

  • 20 Stunning Space Images of 2020 [INVERSE]

  • This app shows how little of your Spotify subscription costs actually went to artists [Mic] Note: I’ve been curating for years and I have received $0.

  • Dozens of journalists’ iPhones hacked with Israeli’s NSO ‘zero-click’ spyware, says Citizen Lab [TechCrunch]

  • Technology can help us feed the world, if we look beyond profit [MIT Technology Review]

  • A growing number of countries are banning flights from the UK to protect their citizens from the new variant of fast-spreading coronavirus [Business Insider]

  • Trickle-down economics doesn't work but build-up does – is Biden listening? [The Guardian] #republicans have been lying to us all along

  • How We Survive Winter [The New York Times]

  • 19 French Holiday Recipes You'll Actually Want To Try This Christmas [BuzzFeed] #French

  • What It’s Like Teaching On Zoom To Students I’ve Never Met, And Often Not Seen Or Heard [Huffington Post]

  • The Virus Is Showing Black People What They Knew All Along - COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate by race, yet it has still laid bare the brutality of racism in the United States. [The Atlantic]

  • Dr. Fauci On When Life Will Return To ‘Normal’ [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Trump calls on Congress to approve $2,000 stimulus checks, hinting he might not sign relief bill without changes [The Washington Post]

  • Quel est le calendrier de la vaccination contre le Covid-19 en France ? Après le feu vert donné mardi par la Commission européenne, la campagne vaccinale devrait débuter dimanche. Elle se fera en trois étapes principales. [Le Monde]

  • Researchers found a superhighway that could speed up Solar System travel [Mashable]

  • Why We Need Quantum Tech In Space to Fight Climate Change - Classical Earth observations are reaching their limit, so scientists are probing fundamental physics in space to understand our planet's complexity. [Motherboard by VICE] #ClimateChange

  • Trump Is Finally Realizing that the GOP Is Abandoning Him [VICE News]

  • Exposing Boy Scouts Sex Abuse Turned Into Battle of Press Freedom against Powerful Interests [The Intercept]

  • Is joy the same in every language? [Nat Geo]

  • The Sight of Jupiter and Saturn Together Is a Beautiful Thing [Nautilus] #Astronomy

  • 'My Bank Account Has $4': Pandemic Has Left Millions Of Livelihoods In Limbo [NPR] #IncomeInequality

  • Sacramento Holiday Charity Guide 2020: How COVID-19 Has Changed Needs This Year [CapRadioNews]

  • Le couscous fait l’union [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • The End of the Road for Bibidi Netanyahu? [Foreign Policy] #corruption

  • Democratic Values Are a Competitive Advantage - The Contest With Authoritarianism Requires the United States to Understand Its Strengths [Foreign Affairs]

  • Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Coming Biden Presidency [The Diplomat]

  • A New US Approach to the Muslim World [The Cipher Brief]

  • The New History of the Milky Way [Quanta magazine]

  • Jack Steinberger, un géant de la discipline, est décédé le 12 décembre 2020 à l'âge de 99 ans. Co-lauréat du Prix Nobel de physique en 1988, il a énormément contribué au développement expérimental du modèle standard de la physique. [CERN_FR]

  • The ‘Great’ Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn [NASA]

  • INTERPOL – Terrorist groups using COVID-19 to reinforce power and influence [INTERPOL]

  • Brown: ‘Shame on Us’ if Military Diversity Efforts Falter [Air Force Magazine]

  • Is This 1974 BMW 3.5 CSL IMSA "Batmobile" the Ultimate BMW for the Ultimate BMW Fan? [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 232 & BENKYO RADIO 232. I’ve also included LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 052.

THERE IS ONLY LESS THAN ONE MONTH LEFT UNTIL BIDEN TAKES OVER. I can’t believe it. It’s been so long! Alright, so right now, everybody in Congress is fighting Senator Mitch McConnell, who unlike many Americans who sworn their oath to the U.S. Constitution, he has does so for the Dark Side. He is a Sith Lord. He is keeping Stimulus Checks away from millions of Americans. It’s almost as if everybody in Congress is waiting for something. What the fuck are they waiting for? Who the hell didn’t turn in their report on time? Everybody is like WHEN IN THE FUCK are we going to get our Stimulus Checks, and extended unemployment! Every other western nations is laughing at the United States. We are supposed to be the Greatest Nation on Earth. Well, we don’t act like it. It appears that everybody is still too scared to touch the taboo topic of the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex / #WarEconomy. America needs to deal with the risks from Russia and China. Stop trying to call Iran a threat. You need to help its population provide leadership that has moderate Islam, like in Qatar/UAE. Iran needed to be respected by agreeing to the 2015 Nuclear Deal. By fucking that up, the Trump Administration ruined relationships. That is why we need to restore relations with the Biden Administration. Let diplomats do their work. Diplomats read a lot. Diplomats write a lot. So whenever Trump starts tweeting, it really fucks a lot of things up.

I want to thank Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. for his words on #BLM. Growing up, I was the only brown kid in many of my classrooms. I always had to deal with the expression “stop acting so white” and I hated it. Here I was, working hard, doing everything in my power to better the lives of many. To get people to understand the importance of getting an education. Kids need to stop thinking Meek Mill is the answer to your problems. He makes millions of dollars. If you do a motorcross in the hood, then you go back home. Do you make millions of dollars? No. So what are you going to do? Dealing out there on the streets? During a pandemic? Y’all need to get an education. Remember LeBron James “I PROMISE” philosophy. You need to promise yourself to finish school. Whatever the fuck you want to do, is up to you, but you need an education. Don’t think that the Hollywood industry is always there for you. Did you see how they build up Britney Spears only to destroy her? Do you think the Music industry will be kind to Lady Gaga before her Amy Winehouse phase in 5 years? The reason why I live by the Dave Chappelle motto is because he was fucking sick and tired, and wanted to be left alone. They made him work, and gave him a little bit of cash. Then they said “fuck you” and just put all of his content on a loop. That’s right.

Alright, on a little happier note, it’s Christmas, so hopefully you were good, so that Santa Claus brings you some presents. Remember, kids. Don’t be sad if you don’t get a PS5. Hell, I don’t have a PS5. And I have intense important work to do. You need to reflect on the year 2020. What did you want for Christmas? I wanted a family. I got that now. I am very happy. As far as the demeanor of depression from the COVID-19 pandemic, I will stay strong for another couple of months, until the third-round of vaccination goes through (people with pre-existing conditions).

I’m gonna read Matthew McConaughey’s new book, but it’s pretty sad he doesn’t understand Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution movement. Remember kids, the stars of our favorite movies are great, but the real people who do those things, they’re greater. I like Interstellar, and watching the stars at night, but my podcast, JETLAG RADIO, including a song about Saturn, and broadcasting my radio signal in outer space, years before NASA realized there were 2 dozen more moons, for a total of 82. That’s a whole lot fucking more amazing.

TENET came out on Bluray! It’s great to watch multiple times and find all the easter eggs. I wonder how Christopher Nolan got the inspiration to write the driving scenes. If he got his inspiration from someone and didn’t pay him. I’m sure it will backfire. He’s a great director, so I’m sure he will do the right thing.

I hope everybody in Cincinnati enjoyed their early Christmas present. The Bengals won a game in prime time against the Steelers. WoW.

This holiday season I will be thinking hard about the Palestinians people who have been ignored by the world, simply because they are not White. It’s very sad.

I look forward to hearing from many leaders, who are looking towards a Peace Plan in Afghanistan. There are a few more months until the month of May. It must take place. Without forgetting the women and children of that country, of course.

Happy Birthday to the Space Force which is one year old just the other day!

Oh yeah, and fuck Harley Quinn. New Batman movie out next year.

Also, you may love or hate your bestfriend, but he’s still your bestfriend. Same goes for your teammates. There may be frictions, but at the end of the day, the job needs to get done. Think Naruto and Sasuke.

I wonder why all these startups are fleeing to Texas and Florida. I mean are they that really greedy that they don’t want to pay their taxes? They make billions of dollars so they can’t pay a few dollars in taxes? As for Florida, it’s going to be underwater in a few years due to Climate Change.

The Mandalorian Season 2 was amazing! Looking forward to Season 3 next year!

Happy 23rd year anniversary to Gran Turismo!

Time to drink some coffee and eat some chocolate!

The new NBA season started! Let’s go, Cavs!

Don’t forget my usual PSA: It’s the holidays, so drive safe. Drink a 0.0% alcoholic beer, ALWAYS wear a seatbelt, the holidays are great, but only if we come home in one piece. Don’t do it just for yourself, think of your loved ones.

Until next time!


JETLAG RADIO 231 | BENKYO RADIO 231

  • It’s OK to Disconnect Sometimes: How to Prevent Mental Fatigue & Information Overload [TechMeme]

  • Hardware companies like Peloton, Variis, and Mirror combine streaming workouts with bikes, treadmills, and other exercise equipment. [Quartz]

  • You can buy a robot to keep your lonely grandparents company. Should you? [Recode]

  • How to spot shooting stars from the Geminid meteor this week [TheNextWeb]

  • Verified Explains - What kind of fabric mask is best? [United Nations blog]

  • How to increase Twitter followers: A 101 Guide [Twitter blog]

  • DataCamp 2.0 [DataCamp]

  • Hundreds of Foster Kids are Sleeping in Hotels and Offices [MotherJones]

  • The New Soul Food of Paris [Eater]

  • Trump’s Election Lies Failed, but the Damage Is Done [The Nation]

  • Elon Musk’s Big Government Grift - The Tesla mogul says he wants to be left alone. But he’s been living off the taxpayer’s dime for years. [TheNextRepublic]

  • All the President’s Pens - Barack Obama’s newly revealed pick for his favorite pen is not fit for a former president, if you ask me. This one is. [Slate]

  • Why Donald Trump is failing at making his dictator dreams a reality [salon]

  • How to Bring Employees Back to Work When They’re Getting Vaccinated at Different Times [Inc.]

  • Santa can’t do his normal mall visits this year, so he’s taking to Zoom [Fast Company]

  • Why To-Do Lists Fail and How the Blue Work/Red Work Balance Can Fix Them [Medium]

  • Are the "Console Wars" Still Happening?: The Battle Between Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo [Entrepreneur]

  • 19 Delightful Gifts for Music Lovers and Audiophiles [WIRED]

  • This Week In Tech - Episode 801 - [TWIT]

  • The iPhone with a Piece of the Moon? The Caviar Story [MKBHD]

  • Inside the First NYC Yellow Tesla Taxicab [Sam Sheffer]

  • My Personal Setup from 2020 [Dave Lee]

  • 7 questions and answers about the Facebook antitrust case [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • AirPods Max 🎧 Unboxing and First Impressions! [iJustine]

  • Shawn Mendes Achieves Fourth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘Wonder’ [billboard]

  • Watch Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin Cover Drake’s “Hotline Bling” [Pitchfork]

  • Kid Cudi teases Man on the Moon Series Might not Be Over After All [XXL Magazine]

  • The Best Video Games of 2020 [COMPLEX]

  • Nike's Self-Lacing Adapt Auto Max Surfaces in a "Jetstream" Colorway [HypeBeast]

  • PlayStation 5 Fan Catches Walmart Employees Trying to Buy Store's Entire PS5 Stock Before Customers [comicbook]

  • Anime Viewership on Netflix in U.S. is 'Up Over 100%' in 2020 [AnimeNewsNetwork]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 231 & BENKYO RADIO 231.

It’s time for some celebration. Today, the Electoral College will cast their vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Finally. It’s time for things to calm down. There are only about 30-some days left until Joe Biden is sworn into office. As you know, while millions of Americans are feeling high level of stress and turmoil, there are many of us who sworn not to Trump and his cronies, but to the U.S. Constitution. The Election took place. Joe Biden won. He will be our next President. He will become the 46th President of these United States. America needs leadership. America does not need a man who ran a chain of hotels and only paid $750 in taxes for the past decade and half. I need to read and analyze my copy of Foreign Affairs, and Le Monde diplomatique. I need to make decisions. That’s what people in the Intelligence Community and Military folks, and Diplomats have to do EVERY FUCKING DAY. We do not have time for a “Trump Reality Show” and trust us, after January 20th 2021, we’ll CANNOT wait to drink a celebration beer/liquor and say WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS PAST 4 YEARS, ESPECIALLY 2020. I want Biden to be boring. I want him to be super boring. I want him to do his job, for his staff to do their job. I want all that to happen, because we gotta focus on Operation Warp Speed for the next couple of months. It is imperative that we vaccinate the entire American population. The sooner we do that, the sooner we keep wearing masks, the sooner we can return to life back to normal. Please follow current lockdown guidelines. The hospitals are running out of ICUs. Stay strong. Remember, you’re not asked to storm Normandy beach. You’re asked to stay home, and wear a mask, and social distance. We do need to subsidized wages by the government. Canada is doing it, Japan, Norway, Germany, France, England and Italy. USA? 0.0% of wages. This is an outrage. Let’s make a change. Congress cannot go on break until they resolve this. We must pass a COVID-19 relief bill, and a second stimulus check. I’ve called my congressman, and my senator. I suggest you do the same thing.

I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I’ll try to post one more update before Christmas if I can.

I’m also done almost done reading the Naruto manga! There are 72 volumes! Sheesh! Just in time until Trump is done and Biden begins! Woohoo!

Cyberpunk 2077 looks amazing! I can’t wait for the upcoming patches so I can play this!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 230 | BENKYO RADIO 230

  • Artist of the Month: Even in Lockdown, The Legend of Carl Cox Grows [beatportal]

  • Róisín Murphy: “I’ve got an Ableton rig... I really just need a laptop, an interface and a mic” [Computer Music]

  • SampleScience releases a free VST upright piano plugin that sounds like it was recorded in your living room [Future Music]

  • Performing Artists and Musicians Exempt from Quarantine Regulations in England [DJ Mag]

  • Pioneer DJ Reports 82% Rise in the Sale of Entry-Level DJ Controllers During Lockdown [Mixmag] =)

  • Good Morning Mix: deadmau5 celebrates the late i_o with mau5trap radio tribute mix [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Elon Musk Teases Vegas Loop with “Tunnel Rave” set to the sounds of Avicii to distract us of his tax evasion of BILLIONS of dollars during a PANDEMIC [EDM.com] #TaxTheRich

  • GTA V Unveils Los Santos Music Locker w/ Moodyman, Keinemusik, Palms Trax + more [Your EDM]

  • Fear of violence, poor living conditions in South Sudan’s largest displacement camp [MSF]

  • How to Start [Gary Vee]

  • Volkswagen’s boss takes on the unions - The fight may cost him his job [The Economist]

  • The primal thrill of striking a match [1843 magazine]

  • The Secret to Becoming a Market Leader [Harvard Business Review]

  • Covid: Fauci warns Christmas is 'greater challenge' than Thanksgiving [BBC News]

  • Elon Musk Moves Foundation to Texas (for Tax Evasion), Fanning Relocation Speculation [Bloomberg Wealth]

  • 'The people have spoken': Judges reject two more U.S. election challenges [Reuters]

  • Macron rejects calls to get tough with Egypt’s el-Sisi on rights [AL-Jazeera News] there are Human Rights violations in Egypt. Macron must do more to explain this to el-Sisi.

  • Countdown to a Coronavirus Vaccine [The New Yorker]

  • Cyberpunk 2077 is Huge, Ambitious, and Safe [The Verge]

  • Everything that needs to go right for Democrats to win the Georgia runoffs, explained [Vox]

  • Netflix's Transformers: War for Cybertron: Earthrise Trailer Revealed [IGN]

  • SNL's Eminem Parody About Wanting A PS5 For Christmas Is Very Relatable [GameSpot]

  • Batman: Detective Comics is getting a historic new writer in 2021 [Polygon]

  • Will wearing the American flag feel less gross post-Trump? [INPUT]

  • Why a Classic Physics Phenomenon Could Prevent Prevent Future Car Crashes [INVERSE]

  • Could Biden cancel student debt? [Mic]

  • Apple reportedly testing Intel-beating high core count Apple Silicon chips for high-end Macs [TechCrunch]

  • “None of us were ready” to manufacture genetic vaccines for a billion people [MIT Technology Review]

  • Pentagon advisor resigns in protest, saying the Trump administration is putting the nation 'at risk' by purging posts to fill them with loyalists [Business Insider]

  • An investigation by the Cartel Project can reveal that a 10th Mexican journalist - editor of the country’s foremost investigative magazine - was targeted with the “Pegasus” spyware sold by the Israeli company NSO Group, according to technical analysis by Amnesty International. [The Guardian]

  • Biden plans to tap a retired four-star Army general as the first Black defense secretary [The New York Times]

  • The Marines And The Racist Porn Actor Who Tried To Start A ‘Modern Day SS’ [Huffington Post]

  • The Voyagers Found a Small Surprise in Interstellar Space [The Atlantic]

  • Are The Jets Tanking, Or Are They Just This Bad? [FiveThirtyEight] they just want to win the first-round draft pick

  • Amid history of mistreatment, doctors struggle to sell Black Americans on coronavirus vaccine [The Washington Post]

  • Ce logiciel, les analystes de l’ONG Amnesty International, qui ont étudié le message pour le compte du « Projet Cartel », une enquête du collectif Forbidden Stories qui a mobilisé 25 médias, dont Le Monde, pendant plusieurs mois, l’ont reconnu : il s’agit de Pegasus, un outil développé par l’entreprise israélienne NSO. [Le Monde]

  • Seth Meyers targets Trump's revealing self-own about how 'hard' he's working [Mashable]

  • Uber Is Asking the CDC to Give Drivers Priority Vaccine Access [Motherboard by VICE]

  • Armed Trumpers in MAGA Gear Threatened Michigan's Top Election Official at Her Home [VICE News]

  • PFAS CHEMICAL ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE COVID-19 [The Intercept_]

  • WHO set to approve a COVID-19 vaccine by end of 2020—increasing hopes for equitable access [National Geographic]

  • NPR’s Book Concierge [NPR]

  • Think Health Care Workers Are Tested Often For The Coronavirus? Think Again [CapRadioNews]

  • Un trumpisme sans Donald Trump [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • U.S. Diplomats and Spies Likely Targeted by Radio Frequency Energy, Long-Withheld Report Determines [Foreign Policy]

  • The United States Must Marshal the “Free World” [Foreign Affairs]

  • Mongolia Grapples With Its First Real COVID Wave [The Diplomat]

  • CIA’s Unlucky Yet Meaningful Journey [The Cipher Brief]

  • A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics [Quanta magazine]

  • Pouvez-vous nommer un des aimants du LHC ? Certains d'entre eux portent en fait le nom de personnes qui ont contribué au projet ! Les cylindres bleus contiennent la culasse magnétique de l'aimant . #LHC #HiLumiLHC: [CERN_FR]

  • United Launch Alliance Wins Multi-Year Competitive Contract Award to Launch Critical National Security Space Missions for the U.S. Space Force [ULA]

  • INTERPOL’s secure, intelligent platform for enhanced criminal analysis [INTERPOL] (Investigating Israel’s NSO’s Pegasus, and Mossad war crimes in Palestine)

  • Here’s What the Air Force Can’t Get Rid Of, According to the Draft NDAA [Air Force Magazine]

  • The Grand Tour Presents: Pirate Treasure in Madagascar - Official Trailer [Amazon Prime]

  • Living Long-Term with Mental Illness [The School of Life] #StopTheStigma

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 230 & BENKYO RADIO 230.

It’s Christmas month! Time to enjoy some good time among family. Due to COVID-19, it’s important to seclude yourselves, because this holiday might be worst than Thanksgiving. The good news is that, the vaccine is coming, and the WHO will make sure that it gets distributed equally to everybody. Only 44 days until the Biden/Harris administration takes office. There were so many people working hard to keep “running the ship.” All while Trump was busy watching Newsmax, and golfing. People who worked while you sleep. These people are tired. They want relief. They want a stimulus check. They are tired of Income Inequality. They want jobs that pay a decent wage. If we are “the greatest country on Earth,” why do so many of us need two or three jobs to pay the bills? This must change. This is ridiculous. Bernie Sanders already mentioned that most other western countries have offered assistance to its people. Did you know that Germany is offering aid to small employers and to freelancers — and freelancers in Berlin can get over $5,000 in assistance? This should be embarrassing to Trump’s Administration.

Everybody wants to have fun again, and in a little over 40 days, we finally will have a real President. Someone that reads his daily briefings. I’m so excited! You should be too, because that means we can focus on other things. Keep working on that education or sport or music or etc. Focus on your family and stay out of trouble (remember JR/BR 183 blogpost). Don’t let yourself feel down. You will face hardships, but remember, you will get over it. As someone who has experienced trauma a few times in his life, things get better in due time. If there was someone who didn’t take you seriously a few years ago, now they will, and all you can do is wait for their apology letter. Remember, if someone calls you a f*g, you tell them, f*g backwards is gaf, or General at the Air Force. Can’t wait to play NBA 2K21 on PS4 for Christmas!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 229 | BENKYO RADIO 229 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 051

  • How to Get Started DJing: How and What to Play [beatportal]

  • Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 and Korg’s Volca Beats top Reverb’s lists of the best-selling synths and drum machines of 2020 [Computer Music]

  • Shlohmo: "I kind of see myself as a graphic designer who uses Ableton" [Future Music]

  • Could This New App Save Ibiza’s 2021 Season? [DJ Mag]

  • The North Quarter Launches New Mixtape Project with ‘NQ State of Mind, Vol 1’ [Mixmag]

  • Spotify Wrapped 2020 is here [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Dillon Francis Drops Yet Another New Remix, This Time Taking On Hot Chip’s “Straight To The Morning” [Your EDM]

  • MSF providing medical care and assistance in Sudan to people fleeing violence in Ethiopia [MSF]

  • Wallpapers [Gary Vaynerchuk]

  • The end of the embarrassment - The assumption that Republicans will remain in thrall to Donald Trump could be misplaced [The Economist]

  • The anguish of grandparenting in a pandemic [1843 magazine]

  • Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany. [Harvard Business Review]

  • Ex-Arizona politician sentenced for adoption scheme [BBC News]

  • Pelosi, Schumer Back Using Bipartisan Plan in Stimulus Talks [Bloomberg]

  • U.S. to accuse Google of labor violations in clampdown on protests, fired employees say [Reuters]

  • Afghan gov’t, Taliban announce breakthrough deal in peace talks [AL-Jazeera News]

  • How the Fight Against COVID-19 Is Bringing About a Perilous Rise in Preventable Diseases in Poorer Nations [The New Yorker]

  • Climate change is already a disaster to health, doctors say [The Verge]

  • AI has cracked a problem that stumped biologists for 50 years. It’s a huge deal. [Vox]

  • This project is attempting to trace the origins of enslaved ancestors [INPUT]

  • PS5 Restock: Target, Costco, Popfindr, and More Restocks Before Christmas [INVERSE]

  • The best part? They’re free of antibiotics and don’t require the slaughter of any animal. [Mic]

  • iPhones can now automatically recognize and label buttons and UI features for blind users [TechCrunch]

  • This is the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way ever made [MIT Technology Review]

  • US lawmakers are set for a historic vote on decriminalizing marijuana — here's what you need to know [Business Insider]

  • Biden plans to urge all Americans to wear masks for 100 days after inauguration [The Guardian]

  • Trump Associates Said to Have Been Scrutinized in Suspected Pardon Scheme [The New York Times]

  • Rachel Maddow Urges Americans To Do 1 Thing Regarding Trump As COVID-19 Surges [Huffington Post]

  • The Supreme Court Is Colliding With a Less-Religious America - Justices’ drive to promote “religious liberty” may only become more intense. [The Atlantic]

  • The NFL Is Running Out Of Wiggle Room [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Vaccines offer hope for end to pandemic, but brutal months lie ahead [The Washington Post]

  • Défense : feu vert éthique pour la recherche sur le « soldat augmenté » [Le Monde]

  • Facebook will now finally ban COVID-19 vaccine misinformation [Mashable]

  • Mysterious Monolith Update: Police Are Investigating the Destruction of California Monolith [Motherboard by VICE]

  • COVID Is Much Deadlier for People of Color Than the CDC Thought [VICE News]

  • Biden Is the Perfect Figurehead for the Post-Trump National Security Establishment [The Intercept_]

  • These scientists set out to end blindness. Their innovations just won them $3 million. [National Geographic]

  • A Model for a Just COVID-19 Vaccination Program - The pandemic exposed racial injustice in healthcare. Vaccine distribution must not. [Nautilus]

  • Vaccine Cards And Second-Dose Reminders Are Part Of Warp Speed's Immunization Plan [NPR]

  • Health Experts: California's Stay-At-Home Order Is Right Move, But Pandemic ‘Heading Into A Really Bad Place’ [CapRadioNews]

  • La tyrannie de la bienveillance [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Afghanistan Needs Truth Before It Can Have Reconciliation [Foreign Policy]

  • Fear of Trump’s Populism Might Save American Alliances [Foreign Affairs]

  • Afghanistan’s Biggest Fight: Climate Change [The Diplomat]

  • Biden’s Russia Challenge [The Cipher Brief]

  • Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe [Quanta magazine]

  • INTERPOL warns of organized crime threat to COVID-19 vaccines [INTERPOL]

  • Hypersonic Missile Coming Five Years Faster Thanks to Acquisition Reform [Air Force Magazine]

  • The Million-Mile 2007 Toyota Tundra Pickup: The Teardown [MOTORTREND]

  • AUTO #31 [FIA]

  • FIFA 21 [Next-Gen] [IGN]

  • PS Plus Free PS5 And PS4 Games For December 2020 Available Now [GameSpot]

  • Everything we actually know about Matrix 4 [Polygon]

  • The Lakers will play the Clippers on opening night [SB Nation]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 229 & BENKYO RADIO 229. I’ve also included LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 051.

There are 47 days left until Biden is finally sworn in as President. COVID-19 is getting worse by the way, all because, inconsiderate percentage of Americans decided not to wear a mask. Hospitals are full, ICUs are full, Doctors/Nurses/EMTs are exhausted. I specifically said Trump needed to concede. He did not listen. More Americans are suffering. Biden says that for his 100 first days in office, people should wear masks. We should be doing that already.

People of Israel, keep working hard, soon you will have a new leader, and Bibidi Netanyahu will finally answer to his crimes of corruption. The sooner you make peace with Palestinians, the easier you will sleep at night.

WE NEED MEDICARE FOR ALL. WE NEED A NEW STIMULUS CHECK. Why do people not take AOC seriously because she is a young woman and she was a waitress? She is a congresswoman now and you will respect her. Obama did not respect her before, but now he has to, because people reminded him that he is the past, Biden is the present, and AOC is the future. We need to tax the rich. It’s a pandemic. millions of Americans have lost their jobs. People are just getting by, meanwhile, the big tech companies like Amazon and Tesla have made BILLIONS!?! This is criminal behavior!

Decriminalizing weed is an important step because too many black and brown people are in jail for minor weed infractions. This must stop. Just remember, you cannot smoke and drive. That’s dangerous.

The vaccine is coming. Hopefully it doesn’t take forever, but it’s on its way. I want you to keep the faith, because everybody that works on Operation Warp Speed is working hard for you, the American People, unlike President Trump.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 228 | BENKYO RADIO 228 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 050

  • Alphabet’s DeepMind says it has solved the key “protein folding problem”, cutting the job down from months to hours, which could speed up drug discovery [TechMeme]

  • Kick off each morning with coffee and the Daily Brief (BYO coffee) [Quartz]

  • Spotify has 300 million users. It wants more of them to listen to podcasts. [Recode]

  • Hard Lessons and Simple Routines Helped These Founders Beat the Stress of 2020 [Inc.]

  • Remote work can’t change everything until we fix this $80 billion problem - The U.S. rural areas still suffer from limited broadband availability. Addressing that may take both government investment and new technologies. [Fast Company]

  • “The reality is that Britney Spears made those millions. Not James Spears. His ass isn’t the one giving those performances. His work is minimal — he merely decides what his practically forty-year-old daughter can and cannot do.” [Medium]

  • Storytelling Total: the story of companies that survive in time [Entrepreneur]

  • The Future of Work: ‘The Long Tail’ by Aliette de Bodard [WIRED]

  • This Week In Tech 799 - Don’t Tweet the Fleet - Hosted by Leo Laporte [TWIT]

  • The FIRST MKBHD Product: ICONS! [MKBHD]

  • iPhone 12 Mini Review: No Place I’d Rather Be [Sam Sheffer]

  • Cyberpunk 2077 Loot Unboxing [Dave2D]

  • Snapchat’s million-dollar idea [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • Magic Oven! Breakfast in the Brava 🍳 [iJustine]

  • BTS ‘Life Goes On’ Launches as Historic No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 [billboard]

  • Dua Lipa’s Studio 2054 Livestream: Here’s What Happened [Pitchfork]

  • Every Tupac Shakur Album Ranked [XXL magazine]

  • Here Are Spotify’s Top Artists, Songs, and Albums of 2020 [COMPLEX]

  • More Antitrust Lawsuits Against Google and Facebook Are Coming [HypeBeast]

  • NASA Reveals “Unknown Object” Speeding Toward Earth [Comicbook]

  • Gintama: The Final Film Gets Novel Adaptation in January [AnimeNewsNetwork]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 228 & BENKYO RADIO 228. I’ve also included the latest LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO episodes.

As I just had some (decaf) coffee and warming up some water for some Ramen after eating a salad, I am feeling a sense of weird feeling. I got myself some Pioneer DDJ-400 turntables which I told myself: “I would only celebrate with them if Biden wins.” It was very surreal. I mean, we have been living in this COVID-19 nightmare since March 2020. Since March 2020, as we’ve read in Bob Woodward’s new book, we’ve known the complete lack of leadership to tackle this virus due to Trump. It’s time to tell it like it is: everybody was scared shitless of Trump, not just because they would lose their job, but because of the large numbers of White Nationalists that surround him. The Trump-Russia connection. This mafia/mobster mentality that went unchecked. The fact that the Manhattan’s District Attorney’s office is impatiently waiting to press some charges. I tried to be patient because we’re about almost forty-some days until Biden takes office. But, Trump needs to concede. I’m tired of this MGS 2 Tanker intro revisit. We are NOT going to let these White Nationalists collaborating with Russians steal the new Metal Gear. It’s time for Trump to concede. This is life. Life is real. Mr. Trump, life is not HOME ALONE 2 - Lost in New York. We know you’re going to launch a Newsmax-type conspiracy site. That’s fine, go do that. The American people don’t have time to deal with this bullshit. Let the Biden Administration get to work. Let people relaunch the Economy. Most important of all, let me PLEASE read my fucking copy of The Economist, and play my video-games, and listen to my Techno. COVID-19 is depressing. You, Mr. Trump, are depressing. You’ve made everything about you, and you didn’t realize that you work for the American people, it was your fucking job to take care of Americans. Your whole methodology was “America, First!” and you did NOT deliver. I have the luxury to tell you like it is, because I work for free. I haven’t had a paycheck in a year+. I work because tens of thousands of people in my field are fucking sick and tired of your shit. It’s over. You didn’t win the Popular vote. You didn’t even win the Electoral College. So please, get off the news. The Intelligence Community has a lot of shit to do. Your inability to read and research are putting a lot of people in jeopardy.

The next few weeks of pandemic COVID-19 statistics are going to be grim. That’s got to do with the President’s stupid behavior of telling people not to wear masks. You have to wear a mask. It’s imperative.

Let Operation Warp Speed team members do their job. Go back to your couch and listen to Rush Limbaugh.

It’s December. It’s Christmas. NORAD is following Santa, and we all want to enjoy a little bit of time among our loved ones.

It’s 2020. If in this day in age, you find the time to criticize Barack Obama, a black man, who showed up to work for 8 fucking years, but don’t criticize Trump for his mistakes which are immense (barely shows up to work, always out golfing), you need to go fuck yourself. There are things I love about Obama, there are things I hate about Obama. But at least, I’m still gonna read his new 700 page book. What the fuck is Trump’s book going to be about? Do we even dare to ask?

Dear unknown number of people in Israel who actually do believe in empathy, thank you for releasing that Palestinian prisoner who was on a hunger strike for 103 days. We live in a global pandemic. It’s time to think about peace between both sides. I want everybody around the world that whenever they are eating green olives, they do a little prayer for the Israel/Palestinian conflict.

RIP Paul Walker. It’s been 7 years, but it still feels like yesterday.

Dear Fellas, please read this article, I found it helpful: No game days. No bars. The pandemic is forcing some men to realize they need deeper friendships (Washington Post).

Mitch McConnell has 24-hrs to pass a COVID-19 / stimulus bill before he looks at himself in the mirror, realizing that he will burn in hell. Millions of Americans are waiting.

Until next time!


JETLAG RADIO 227 | BENKYO RADIO 227 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 49

  • US Techno Wunderkind i_o Has Died [beatportal]

  • Fraser T Smith – 10 songs that changed my life: “It’s impossible not to feel haunted by the isolation and nihilism of Ian Curtis’ performance“ [Computer Music]

  • M-Audio’s Oxygen Pro MIDI keyboards offer smart features and “maximum control” [Future Music]

  • Why trance works [DJ Mag]

  • The Weeknd Calls Grammys “Corrupt” Following Nominations Snub [Mixmag]

  • Dancing Astronaut Gives Thanks 2020 [Dancing Astronaut]

  • No Man’s Sky Players Create Dedicated Rave Planets [Your EDM]

  • Staff entry restrictions forces MSF to withdraw from COVID-19 response in Venezuela hospital [MSF]

  • 6 Ways to Stay Positive During Quarantine [Gary Vaynerchuck]

  • Covid-19 has shone a light on racial disparities in health [The Economist]

  • Why Companies and Skilled Workers Are Turning to On-Demand Work [Harvard Business Review]

  • Coronavirus: The agonising Thanksgiving dilemma facing millions of Americans [BBC News]

  • Amazon’s $3,000 Signing Bonuses Irk Workers Who Got $10 Coupons [Bloomberg]

  • ‘We’re drowning’: COVID cases flood hospitals in America’s heartland [Reuters]

  • COVID-19 vaccines explained in maps and charts [AL-Jazeera News]

  • A Victory for Democracy: Trump Allows the Transition to Begin [The New Yorker]

  • Samsung’s Odyssey G9 Does the Work of Three Monitors [The Verge]

  • Dark matter holds our universe together. No one knows what it is. [Vox]

  • Apple wants to weaken protections offered by Uighur forced labor bill [Input]

  • This is How the Apollo Mission changed Thanksgiving [Inverse]

  • Scientists have caught a black hole turning a star into "spaghetti" [Mic]

  • Gift Guide: 5 solid tech gifts to help decrease stress and increase sleep [TechCrunch]

  • Biden names John Kerry climate czar, in a recommitment to global cooperation [MIT Technology Review]

  • Elon Musk promoted coronavirus misinformation for months. Then his own infection kept him out of SpaceX's astronaut launch. [Business Insider]

  • Fauci urges Americans to sacrifice traditional Thanksgiving to save lives [The Guardian]

  • How to Cook a Turkey [NYT Cooking]

  • Can We Guess What You’re Thankful For? There’s so much to be thankful for. [BuzzFeed]

  • Sotomayor Calls Supreme Court’s N.Y. Pandemic Ruling A ‘Deadly Game’ [Huffington Post]

  • Pandemic Data Are About to Go Sideways - States are likely to report fewer coronavirus cases, but not because things are getting better. [The Atlantic]

  • What We’ve Learned About The Biden Administration From His Staffing Choices So Far [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Friendsgiving is an epidemiologist’s nightmare. But its absence is hitting some young people hard. [The Washington Post]

  • Les jeunes de plus en plus menacés par la pauvreté [Le Monde]

  • 25 best movies on Netflix to stream this long Thanksgiving weekend [Mashable]

  • Utah Officials Find Mysterious Metal Monolith In Remote Wilderness [Motherboard by VICE]

  • How the Criminal Justice System Fails People with a Mental Illness - “I found your baby,” Michelle Durden recalls the police officer saying after her son went missing. “He’s alive. And he’s in jail.” [The Intercept_]

  • COVID-19 forces families to come to terms with a different Thanksgiving - As Americans consider the health risks of gathering for Thanksgiving, they’re struggling with the separation from loved ones and the loss of traditions. [National Geographic]

  • How Einstein Reconciled Religion to Science [Nautilus]

  • Biden And Trump Offer Jarring Contrast Minutes Apart On Thanksgiving Eve [NPR]

  • California Turkeys Will Likely Trot North As Climate Warms, But May Not Leave The Suburbs [CapRadioNews]

  • Maradona, la politique en crampons [Le Monde diplomatique] « Ce qu’Israël fait aux Palestiniens est honteux »

  • Biden Likely to Lift Sanctions on ICC Chief Prosecutor [Foreign Policy] “And in December 2019, Bensouda sought permission from the court’s judges to pursue an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Israeli forces during the 2014 conflict in the Gaza Strip.”

  • The Strategies Are Foreign, but the Corruption Is American - A Response to “The Rise of Strategic Corruption” [Foreign Affairs]

  • Can COVID-19’s Impact on Democracy in Southeast Asia be Reversed? [The Diplomat]

  • The Challenging Vaccine Distribution Mission [The Cipher Brief]

  • The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding [Quanta magazine]

  • La jolie expérience LHCb - @LHCbExperiment tente de faire la lumière sur les raisons pour lesquelles nous vivons dans un Univers qui semble être composé presque entièrement de matière, en étudiant les "quarks beauté", d'où le nom de l'expérience. [CERN_FR]

  • From Capsules to Cranberries, NASA Helps Keep Thanksgiving Food Safe [NASA]

  • INTERPOL marks a decade of tackling serious organized environmental crime [INTERPOL]

  • Pentagon Begins Transition to Biden Administration [Air Force Magazine]

  • 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 First Ride Review: Big Talent [MOTORTREND]

  • The 4 advantages of a stay-at-home Thanksgiving in 2020 [SB Nation]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 227 & BENKYO RADIO 227.

We are about a little over fifty-some days away from Inauguration. The Biden Transition Team is at work. I am extremely thankful, because many of us can finally sleep a little easier. These past 4 years have been very tough, and the Election season was nerve-wracking. Finally, America will regain its respect around the world. Slowly but surely.

It’s Thanksgiving, so be sure to be thankful for what you have. This pandemic reminded all of us that Medicare For All is desperately needed in America. We needed people to wear masks. Some people are still having a large Thanksgiving, to the discontent of Dr. Fauci. Operation Warp Speed, worked extremely hard to get these vaccines to combat COVID-19. For us electronic dance music enthusiasts, please refer to Dyro’s Warp Speed track, as featured on JETLAG RADIO 167. We must hang on. Only a few more months before life returns to normal. I am calling on the brightest minds in “Logistics & Supply Chain Management.” There was an article on BBC News about discussing an important topic: “how do you administer a vaccine to over a billion people?” It’s time to start thinking hard about that. Time to brainstorm.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 226 | BENKYO RADIO 226 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 048

  • Squarespace’s new feature could help more business survive the pandemic [TechMeme]

  • Joe Biden made his first economic address. The US president-elect warned of a dangerous winter ahead and that “more people may die” from the coronavirus if president Donald Trump continues refusing to cooperate with the incoming Democratic administration. Biden urged Congress to pass more relief legislation and expressed support for mask mandates. He will name key members of his administration today. [Quartz]

  • How Biden’s FCC could fix America’s internet [Recode]

  • Zoom is getting rid of its 40-minute limit, but just for Thanksgiving [TheNextWeb]

  • Chicago Inches Closer to Capping Grubhub and DoorDash’s Fees [Eater]

  • A Debilitating Mental Health Crisis Almost Ended His Life. Now He Wants to Save Others [Inc.]

  • How the Netherlands became a plant-based protein powerhouse [Fast Company]

  • Working In Tech & Worrying About Getting “Too Old” [Medium]

  • Fed up with COVID-19? You could have pandemic fatigue [Entrepreneur]

  • Ancient Dog DNA Reveals Their Enduring Connection With People [WIRED]

  • The Tech Guy 1748 - Soundbar Replacements for a Home Theater System [TWIT]

  • PlayStation 5 Review: Next Gen Gaming! [MKBHD]

  • Super 73 RX review: the best ebike is back! [Sam Sheffer]

  • M1 MacBook Review + Mac Mini [Dave2D]

  • Facebook’s antitrust showdown approaches [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • All 3 New M1 Macs Unboxed! MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13in and Mac Mini! [iJustine]

  • BTS’ ‘Be’ Is Here: Stream It Now [Billboard]

  • Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace [Pitchfork]

  • Lil Yachty Remixes Saved By the Bell Theme Song for Show’s Comeback: Listen [XXL]

  • Stream Jeezy's New Album 'The Recession 2' [COMPLEX]

  • Philadelphia Cream Cheese Takes a Bite Out of the Gaming World With Philly Series 5 Cheesecake [Hypebeast]

  • Shazam! Fury of the Gods Director Shares Insane Crossover Poster Featuring Star Wars and Marvel Heroes [ComicBook]

  • Evangelion's Final Film Finishes Dialogue Recording [Anime News Network]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 226 & BENKYO RADIO 226.

We are only about a little over 60 days until Inauguration. Biden is President-Elect. Trump needs to concede. It’s long overdue. Many of us have dealt extreme hardships with our Mental Health. I want you all to remain calm. Just 2 more months. We have a little of November left, December, a few weeks in January, and then Joe Biden’s Administration can finally repair all the damage done by the Trump Administration. Whoever the fuck Emily Murphy is, she needs to answer why she hasn’t started paperwork for the transition to the Biden Team. This is fucking ridiculous. How the fuck do you expect people to concentrate at work when more people keep dropping like flies, we are ready to see a sign of hope. We want Biden to take over and get to work. Put the pressure on Emily Murphy. Americans demand answers.

I’m not having a big thanksgiving like many Americans because COVID-19 is too alarming. This will be a very scary winter if we are not careful. Remember, do you want to jeopardize the lives of your loved ones and only have 1 Thanksgiving, or do you want to sit this one out and be able to have the next 20-30 years of Thanksgivings together? Think long-term.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 225 | BENKYO RADIO 225 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 047

  • For an Industry Ravaged by COVID, There’s One Shining, Bright Spot [beatportal]

  • Logic Pro 10.6 released: M1 silicon Mac support and the option to control the step sequencer from your iPad or iPhone [Computer Music]

  • Ableton Live 11 beta: an overview of Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Resonator and Spectral Time [Future Music]

  • Afrojack Revives House and Techno Alias, Kapuchon, on New Track ‘10 Years Later’: LISTEN [DJ Mag]

  • The Cover Mix: Overmono [Mixmag]

  • Drake expects people to ‘hate on’ forthcoming LP, says it’s ‘music to evolve to’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • David Guetta and MORTEN Bring Future Rave to Musical Freedom on “Save My Life” [Video] [YourEDM]

  • Kindness is the Ultimate Strength [GaryVee]

  • Step up for TB report 2020 [MSF]

  • Fighter aircraft will soon get AI pilots [The Economist]

  • How to train your algorithm: lessons from the pointless and important world of TikTok [1843 magazine]

  • A Way Forward for Working Parents [Harvard Business Review]

  • Covid-19: Normal life back next winter, says vaccine creator [BBC World]

  • Biden Virus Advisers Say a National Lockdown Isn’t on Agenda [Bloomberg]

  • We can stop COVID-19: Moderna vaccine success gives world more hope [Reuters]

  • We stand with Afghan scholars and students under attack [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Herman Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, and the Battle Over “Citizen Kane” [New Yorker]

  • Guide to Streaming: From Disney Plus and HBO MAX to NBA League Pass and Crunchyroll [The Verge]

  • Love, delayed - As the pandemic rages on, single people are feeling the anxiety of missed opportunities.[Vox]

  • Watch SpaceX launch its historic first NASA astronaut crew mission live [TechCrunch]

  • It’s not too late to cancel Thanksgiving - Here’s your risk of having a guest with covid-19 at your holiday gathering. [MIT Technology Review]

  • Barack Obama rules out role in Biden cabinet - ‘Michelle would leave me’ [The Guardian]

  • Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Records 1 Million New Cases in a Week - “The health care system is breaking, literally breaking,” a Biden adviser says. New York City schools remain open, for now. [The New York Times]

  • In Ruins, Syria Marks 50 Years Of Assad Family Rule [Huffington Post]

  • The Role-Playing Game That Predicted the Future - Mike Pondsmith created Cyberpunk in 1988. Now it’s the inspiration for a highly anticipated video game—and an unlikely oracle. [The Atlantic]

  • How A Record Number Of Republican Women Will — And Won’t — Change Congress [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Businesses race to battle back new coronavirus restrictions as U.S. faces deadly new surge [The Washington Post]

  • Jean-Michel Blanquer : « Un tiers des professeurs titulaires sera augmenté dès 2021 » [Le Monde]

  • Baby Yoda tags along on SpaceX's first operational crewed mission for NASA [Mashable]

  • How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps [VICE]

  • Israelis Take on Netanyahu and Coronavirus Restrictions in Wave of Civil Disobedience [The Intercept] “Their message since the election has been: “Trump’s out, Bibidi you’re next.”

  • Meet the fearless women sailors taking on the ‘Everest of the seas’ [National Geographic]

  • Are You Yoda or Darth Vader? How to recognize your light and dark sides. [Nautilus]

  • National Security Adviser Says It Looks Like Biden Has Won The Election [NPR]

  • Sacramento Pushes To Get Flu Shot To Underserved Communities As A ‘Dry Run’ For Potential COVID-19 Vaccine [CapRadioNews]

  • Petit peuple et bon vaccin [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • The Biden Transition - All the new hires and plans in one place. [Foreign Policy]

  • Why the Middle East Still Matters to America [Foreign Affairs]

  • China and the Coming Biden Presidency [The Diplomat]

  • Forget the AI Race. Let’s Invest in a Data Grid for AI. [The Cipher Brief]

  • Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography [Quanta magazine]

  • Avant la découverte du #BosonDeHiggs, les scientifiques ont utilisé des simulations de collisions produisant des Higgs [Image : ATLAS, 1995]. ♥ - Découvrez les derniers résultats de @ATLASexperiment et de @CMSExperiment du début de l'année sur le sujet : [CERN_FR]

  • NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TV [NASA]

  • Wildlife and forestry crime: Worldwide seizures in global INTERPOL-WCO operation [INTERPOL]

  • What a Flournoy Pentagon Could Mean for the Air Force [Air Force Magazine]

  • If Porsche’s 919 Le Mans Racer Had a Successor, It’d Be This Vision 920 [MOTORTREND]

  • Holiday Deals start now! [Dutch Bros Coffee]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 225 & BENKYO RADIO 225.

The inauguration is about 60-70 days away. That means just 2 more months. Biden has won the election. Now we just have to be patient for two more months. But alas, Trump has yet to concede, and he needs to. For the sake of the Operation Warp Speed regarding the Coronavirus, Trump needs to go back to his corner. We know where he’s going. He’s gonna be a talk show host / TV celebrity again. That’s fine. Go be Rush Limbaugh 2.0. The rest of the American people does not have time for your disregard of the U.S. Constitution. There is a lot of activity. America has to deal with the Coronavirus, and Russia & China threat.

Hurricane season still in full swing, so be safe out there if you live in those regions.

Recently is the 5th anniversary of the French Terrorist Attacks of November 13th 2015. It’s always hard to talk about it, since life has changed a lot for many French people afterwards. Whether you are a French citizen, army, policeman, etc. This time of year, I always think hard about the GIGN. The lump in your throat that Americans felt on 9/11/2001, that’s the same feeling French people felt on 11/13/2015. The only way to combat the vicious ISIS/ISIL ideology, is by utilizing smart tactical train of thoughts, and for France to realize that while in France, there is a real separation of Church and State, we still must respect millions of Muslim people living in France. It’s time for modernization in Islam, but it does not work when a white guy talks about it. It is up to Muslims to get these new philosophies implemented. The way that UAE is going to let people drink alcohol and people live together even before marriage. Macron cannot call himself a champion of human rights, if we only talk about the Two State Solution in Palestine and Israel once a year, then go back to eating a sandwich. You want global stability, I can help. But you need to stop treating brown people with such disregard. This notion that “the white guy is always the good guy” and the “Arab or Brown guy is always the bad guy” has got to stop. In America, the majority of terrorist attacks this past year was from White Nationalists. Dear Macron, please focus on students. There was nothing more aggravating after my first degree when I had finally graduated college, only to wake up in a recession, applied to 200 posts, and not receiving a single interview. You need to persevere and tell these kids that they will have a job, eventually, but it takes time. It took a while, but eventually I did get my 9 years of experience as an Analyst.

Don’t forget to wear a mask! Only a few more months until the vaccine starts getting implemented!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 224 | BENKYO RADIO 224

  • Pfizer and Biontech Announce Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 Achieved Success in First Interim Analysis From Phase 3 Study [Pfizer]

  • Microsoft says it detected three APTs, from N. Korea and Russia, that launched attacks on at least seven companies developing a COVID-19 vaccine or treatments [TechMeme]

  • The loudest silences. Many world leaders have been quick to express their congratulations to US president-elect Joe Biden in various forms. These words, often tweeted out in 240 characters or less, are small, expected tokens of soft power—but that makes them all the more glaring when omitted. With help from Jane Li, Quartz’s Europe reporter Annabelle Timsit breaks down what to make of the silence from the leaders of Russia, Turkey, and China (though Xi Jinping belatedly spoke up). —Katherine Ellen Foley, health and science reporter [Quartz]

  • Is social media ready for a Covid-19 vaccine? Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are bracing for more misinformation. [Recode]

  • If you know machine learning is important, but you’re not sure how, this training is for you [TheNextWeb]

  • Just Opt Out of Thanksgiving [Eater]

  • What President Joe Biden Means for YouThe former vice president won the top job, but undoing Trump's discordant legacy won't be easy. [Inc.]

  • A new study on ‘super-spreader’ COVID businesses is more bad news for restaurants [Fast Company]

  • My Impressions on Using a Raspberry Pi 4 as a Desktop Replacement [Medium]

  • Improve Your Posture While Working From Home with This Kickstarter-Funded Tool [Entrepreneur]

  • Desperate Gamers Camp Out in the Pandemic for $700 GPUs [WIRED]

  • Secure and Protect your Mac with macOS Big Sur [TWIT]

  • HomePod Mini Review: Big Sound, Tiny Box! [MKBHD]

  • MacBooks with M1 Chips! [Dave Lee]

  • Facebook reaches for balance - Can fresh data alter the belief that it's a right-wing echo chamber? [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • Ultimate iPhone 12 Camera Test! Pro, Max and Mini! [iJustine]

  • The Weeknd Set to Headline Super Bowl Halftime Show, Justine Bieber, BTS Get Into the Holiday Spirit; More News [Billboard]

  • Resources in the Fight Against Police Brutality and Systemic Racism [Pitchfork]

  • 2 Chainz, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Youngboy Never Broke Again and More: New Projects This Week [XXL]

  • Obama Addresses Trump’s Election Fraud Claims: ‘The President Doesn’t Like to Lose And Never Admits Loss’ [COMPLEX]

  • Germany Says Techno Is Music, Nightclubs To Receive Ticket VAT Cuts [HypeBeast]

  • X-Men: The Animated Series Star Urges Disney to Stop “Ignoring” Calls for a Revival [ComicBook]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 224 & BENKYO RADIO 224.

It is good to know that there is a vaccine that Pfizer and Biontech are working on. This is extremely good to hear because it has been extremely stressful since March 2020. Dr. Fauci reminded us that until the vaccine is fully ready and implemented and given to millions of Americans, it is imperative to understand that do not take life for granted. This does mean the sad news of more than likely canceling big gatherings for Thanksgiving. It’s just not worth it. Let’s skip 1 thanksgiving, and have the next ones for future decades when things calm down.

People are still petrified of the current state of affairs. It is our job as leaders to keep them sane because we still have two more months of this infuriating Trump Show. Biden overwhelmingly won, and Trump has yet to concede. I’m pretty upset, because Trump not conceding, as John Kelly put it, “putting National Security” in jeopardy. Many are afraid to speak out because then they’re not getting paid and lose their jobs. Well, I haven’t gotten paid in a really long time, even though I am more than qualified, so I don’t mind speaking out my mind. It is really important.

Let’s keep each other shoulder-to-shoulder (metaphorically since we have to social-distance), but we MUST stand strong. Biden will take office in 67 days.

Until next time!