JETLAG RADIO 284 | BENKYO RADIO 284

• We dig into the at-times mysterious world of music publishing to find out what every artist should know. [beatportal]

• Ableton Loop Create is a free online event for music-makers from around the world [Computer Music]

• Ultimate Guitar owner Muse Group acquires Audacity, pledging to keep it free and open-source [Future Music]

• Tomorrowland Announces First Names for Virtual Festival 2021 [DJ Mag]

• Ibiza Tourism could Begin by the Start of June “At the Latest” [Mixmag]

• ZHU shines on junior LP ‘DREAMLAND 2021’ [Dancing Astronaut]

• Porter Robinson Has 12 ‘Nurture’ Tracks Charting on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs [YourEDM]

• “So Much Bigger than Trance”: Jeffrey Sutorius on Mental Health and Post-Dash Berlin Future [EDM.com]

• Wolfgang Gartner Shares New Single “Octopus Teeth” [EDM Sauce]

• Four questions on India’s second wave of COVID-19 [MSF]

• Prepare for 5/5 [GaryVee]

• Battered by covid-19, Narendra Modi is humiliated by Indian voters [The Economist]

• “I've mortally offended Putin by surviving”: why Alexei Navalny keeps fighting [1843 magazine]

• The Fear Black (and Brown) Employees Carry [Harvard Business Review]

• Manchester United v Liverpool game postponed after fan protest [BBC Sport]

• Can Evangelical Christians Become Woke? [Bloomberg Opinion]

• Ethereum breaks past $3,000 to quadruple in value in 2021 [Reuters]

• US top diplomat: China acting more ‘repressively, aggressively’ [AL-Jazeera News]

• How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.S Seriously [The New Yorker]

• President of Elon Musk’s Neuralink venture tweets that he’s left the company [The Verge]

• Republicans and Democrats agree we need an infrastructure bill. That’s about all they agree on. [Vox]

• Sony announces investment and partnership with Discord to bring the chat app to PlayStation [TechCrunch]

• How megacities could lead the fight against climate change [MIT Technology Review]

• SpaceX has safely landed 4 astronauts in the ocean for NASA, completing the US's longest human spaceflight [Business Insider]

• ‘It’s terrifying’: parents’ struggle to get help for children with long Covid [The Guardian]

• Day 1 of the End of the U.S. War in Afghanistan [The New York Times]

• Prince Harry Says Access To COVID-19 Vaccine Should Be ‘Basic Right’ [Huffington Post]

• Millions Are Saying No to the Vaccines. What Are They Thinking? [The Atlantic]

• American Politics Now Has Two Big Racial Divides [FiveThirtyEight]

• Opinion: Elected Republicans are lying with open eyes. Their excuses are disgraceful. [The Washington Post]

• Elections régionales : en Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, la gauche divisée face au Rassemblement national - Le candidat d’extrême droite (Nazi) est donné en tête du premier tour. Les écologistes, La France insoumise et la présidente PS sortante partent en rangs dispersés. [Le Monde] #NonAuFrontNational #SOSRacisme la Gauche doit gagner en 2022. Il est temps de dire ON A MARRE DE LA DROITE & L’EXTREME-DROITE MAGOUILLES, FUCK LA WORLD COMPANY

• Do you have 600 or more Twitter followers? You can use Twitter Spaces now. [Mashable] Awesome news! Still waiting on Twitter SuperFollow.

• Europol Just Took Down One of the World’s Largest Dark Web Child Porn Sites [Motherboard, Tech by VICE]

• 14 Songs That Give Us Hope For The Future [Noisey, Music by VICE]

• COVID Herd Immunity in the US Is Never Going to Happen Now [VICE News] The sooner we get people to get vaccinated, the sooner things can calm down. Remember what doctors said. The people who came to the hospital and weren’t vaccinated died. The people who were vaccinated did not die. Don’t be stupid. Do it for yourself and your loved ones. Get vaccinated.

• Empire Politician - A half-century of Joe Biden’s stances on war, militarism, and the CIA [The Intercept]

• Future COVID-19 vaccines might not have to be kept so cold [Nat Geo]

• You're Probably Not As Open-Minded As You Think. Here's How To Practice [NPR]

• Pediatricians Weigh In On What's Safe And Not Safe For Unvaccinated Children [CapRadioNews]

• Rwanda, l’énigmatique silence africain [Le Monde diplomatique]

• What Comes After the Forever Wars [Foreign Policy]

• Semiconductors and the U.S. - China Innovation Race [Foreign Policy]

• How to Transform the Pentagon for a Competitive Era [Foreign Affairs]

• The Missing Pieces of the US Cyber Strategy of ‘Persistent Engagement’ [The Diplomat]

• Why the Istanbul Summit May be Afghanistan’s Last Chance [The Cipher Brief]

• How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility [Quanta magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 284 & BENKYO RADIO 284.

It appears that Elon Musk will have his Dogecoin sketch this weekend. Cryptocurrency is huge. Don’t listen to dinosaur Warren Buffett. He’s simply an old geezer that the Wall Street Journal keep stroking him because he’s really rich. The future belongs to normal people, not the rich. Cryptocurrency will be the next gold standard. I believe in dogecoin. I will hold for a while because we all remember the Bitcoin (BTC) story: 2013, $1 = 1 Bitcoin, 2020, $50,000 = 1 Bitcoin. You have to admit that. You have to admit that Coinbase went IPO and is worth billions of dollars. Cryptocurrency is no longer a joke. It’s real. And for millions of us who are barely getting by, paycheck per paycheck, or waiting for Unemployment or Stimulus Checks, a small cryptocurrency investment can make a huge difference. Do NOT invest your lifesavings. ONLY invest a little bit, and watch your fruits go.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 283 | BENKYO RADIO 283

• Wed. 04/28 - CES Says: “We’re Doing It Live!” [TechMeme]

• Microsoft Office is ditching Calibri. Five new custom fonts—Tenorite, Bierstadt, Skeena, Seaford, and Grandview—are in the running to be the new default. [Quartz]

• This Barack Obama adviser is quietly investing $250 million in startup founders of color [Recode] This guy needs to give me a call!

• CDs: Forgotten, but still amazing [TheNextWeb]

• Vaccinated Diners Can Go Maskless When Seated Outside, Says CDC [Eater]

• India censors the platforms [Platformer]

• Biden Wants to Spend $1.8 Trillion to Buoy Families. He Won't Get It Without a Fight [Inc.]

• This breakthrough new malaria vaccine could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year [Fast Company]

• Why among the People You Date the Most Attractive Ones Tend to Be Jerks [Medium]

• Stop Calling It a Side Hustle [Entrepreneur]

• The WFH Exodus Creates an Opportunity for Small Cities [WIRED]

• This Week in Google 609 [TWIT]

• OnePlus Watch Review [MKBHD]

• iOS 14.5 Features: Unlock iPhone with Mask! [Sam Sheffer]

• The MECHANICAL Alienware Laptop! [Dave2D]

• I’m fully Vaccinated!!! #shorts [iJustine]

• Weary of Work [Lapham’s Quarterly]

• Humans have been living on the International Space Station for 20 years [Astronomy magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 283 & BENKYO RADIO 283.

I’m so excited about the month of May! It’s my birthday month. I have some projects to focus on as well. I wanted to highlight this month as a friendly reminder that whenever you feel as though the major countries of the G7 disrespect Palestinians by ignoring their problems, by ignoring the fact that Israel isn’t vaccinating them, causing ethnic cleansing, I want you to remember that you always have a friend in me. I raised awareness in the dance music community, and I am forever thankful that Beatport is showcasing Sama’ Abdulhadi’s incredible Techno DJ sets. We pray for peace and love for our Palestinian brothers and sisters.

As the pull-out begins to take place in Afghanistan, the Taliban must realize how stupid their rhetoric is. Killing innocent civilians won’t help them win the hearts and minds of everyday Afghan men and women. The United States confirmed that they are beginning to withdraw troops. There should be no more attacks. Need I remind you that the United States Air Force holds some pretty intense weapon systems. You should be thankful that we have a Democratic President. He could easily blow up Afghanistan to smithereens but he chooses not to because we are decent human beings. We are all human beings on this planet. Whether you are Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, other, or non-religious, we are all living on Planet Earth. And if you remember Carl Sagan’s speech from the satellite photo near Saturn, our world is nothing but a tiny blue dot. “God” or The Universe could easily burp and make us all disappear. You’ve seen how a pandemic virus brought us down to our knees. We need to work together. It’s time for the United States to lead the effort and give the patent of the vaccine to MSF (Doctors Without Borders) and Red Cross, so they can begin vaccinating the whole globe.

Summer is upon us. Let us pray for our firefighters who have a long fire summer season upon themselves. Let us pray for rain. Do a rain dance if you can. While #ClimateChange was the hashtag everybody was using, I want you to start using hashtag #ClimateChangeEmergency to raise the alarm. Sunrise Movement, keep holding the pressure on our elected officials. I know everybody thinks John Kerry is boring and annoying, but he’s here to get shit done. He’s here to work on our diplomatic ties with people around the world to work on the Climate Emergency.

Lastly, I am launching CYBERPUNK RADIO, my latest podcast series. Cyberpunk 2077 is such an amazing game and world. Please be patient, with version 1.22, and even more patches to come, it will be even better. Just imagine the DLCs…just imagine the sequels. For those of you who like VR, just imagine walking around Night City in VR. I have stickers, coffee mugs, t-shirt, hoodie, etc. I absolutely love this world. It’s cool and futuristic and I adore the music.

Please continue to support your favorite football (soccer) players in the EPL. Many have been subjugated to harassment and racism on Social Media. Racism has no place in Football.

The 2021 6hr of Spa-Francorchamps is taking place this weekend! Best of luck to all the drivers! Can’t wait to see these Hypercars!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 282 | BENKYO RADIO 282

• Beatport Next: IMANU is a Production Prodigy, and the Future is Bright [beatportal]

• The 40 greatest synth sounds of all time, No 23: Daft Punk - Da Funk [Computer Music]

• 15 questions for... Blay Vision: "I played Sonic the Hedgehog to listen to the music rather than enjoy the game" [Future Music]

• LoopMasters Announce Loopcloud 6 with AI Search [DJ Mag]

• Ticket Touts are Threatening the Safety of Festivals this Summer [Mixmag]

• Porter Robinson discusses depression in new interview, feared he, ‘wouldn’t be able to ever make music again’ [Dancing Astronaut]

• Nicky Romero & Teamworx Drop Progressive House Gem “World Through Your Eyes” [YourEDM]

• Beatport to Accept Bitcoin as Payment, Launches Collaborative NFT Partnership with Crypto.com [EDM.com]

• JWILLI Unveils Highly Nostalgic ‘Recover’ [EDM Sauce]

• Pumps, bicycles and satellites: fighting malaria in Burundi [MSF]

• How to Make a Cryptocurrency or NFT Wallet [GaryVee]

• The West’s armies are getting more serious about climate change [The Economist]

• America and the taco: an immigrant story [1843 magazine]

• Eliminate Strategic Overload [Harvard Business Review]

• Lockdowns hurt child speech and language skills - report [BBC News]

• Vaccinated Americans May Get Clearance to Not Wear Masks Outdoors [Bloomberg]

• Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of ‘apartheid’ crimes against Palestinians [Reuters]

• Israel uses ‘apartheid’ to subjugate Palestinians: HRW - Policymakers must shift focus for Israeli-Palestinian peace away from a political solution to a rights-based approach, Human Rights Watch says. [AL-Jazeera News]

• Satire: Trump Blasts Biden for Firing Almost No One in First Hundred Days [The New Yorker]

• Twitter is adding a COVID-19 vaccine fact box box to users’ timelines [The Verge]

• Why the new iOS update is such a big deal [Vox]

• Daily Crunch: Spotify adds support for paid podcasts [TechCrunch]

• The US has pledged to halve its carbon emissions by 2030 [MIT Technology Review]

• Read the résumé a college senior used to land her dream internship at Spotify and praise from CEO Daniel Ek [Business Insider]

• Police killings of Black Americans amount to crimes against humanity, international inquiry finds [The Guardian]

• C.D.C. Eases Some Outdoor Mask Guidance [The New York Times]

• Democrats Pressure Joe Biden To Go Bigger On Checks For Parents [Huffington Post]

• India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing [The Atlantic]

• A Majority Of Americans Think Climate Change Should Be A Political Priority [FiveThirtyEight]

• Biden urges unvaccinated people to ‘go get the shot' [The Washington Post]

• Anorexie, boulimie… La crise sanitaire provoque une hausse inquiétante des troubles alimentaires chez les jeunes adultes [Le Monde]

• Netflix's 'Yasuke' trailer sees LaKeith Stanfield voicing a legendary Black samurai [Mashable]

• Update Your iPhone So You Can Tell Apps to Stop Tracking You [Motherboard - TECH by VICE]

• How Prince Influenced a South Asian Kid in Birmingham [Noisey - MUSIC by VICE]

• Space Force Is Totally Serious, Stop Laughing [VICE News]

• Contributions to Swing District Democrats by AOC Add Obstacle for Challengers [The Intercept_]

• How India’s second wave became the worst COVID-19 surge in the world [Nat Geo]

• CDC: If You’re Vaccinated, You Don’t Need To Mask Outdoors (Unless You’re In A Crowd) [NPR]

• Expanding Cal Grant Would Help A Quarter Million Older Students — And Cost Hundreds Of Millions More Dollars [CapRadioNews]

• Vous avez dit unité? [Le Monde diplomatique]

• ‘We Can Turn It Around’ -John Kerry [Foreign Policy] #ClimateChange

• “Israel will soon find Palestinians’ calls for civil rights protections impossible to ignore.” [Foreign Affairs]

• Pakistan’s COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign Crawls Along [The Diplomat]

• Reviewing America’s Nuclear Capabilities & Posture [The Cipher Brief]

• Cosmic Map of Ultrahigh-Energy Particles Points to Long-Hidden Treasures [Quanta magazine]

• A l'occasion du #jourdelaterre 🌐/ #EarthDay2021 🌐, découvrez les technologies de pointe du CERN qui se traduisent par des solutions pour un avenir plus vert. [CERN_FR]

• NASA Astronaut Paints a Picture of Success Growing Plants in Space [NASA]

• Taking a stand against online stalking [INTERPOL]

• Who is Cipher? [Fast 9 Wiki]

• Make-or-Break Time for the F-35 [Air Force Magazine] The team in charge of updating the software must work around the clock ASAP.

• United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches NROL-82 Mission to Support National Security [ULA]

• Retweet to join us in wishing our Ally Flag of Netherlands the #Netherlands a good National Day! #koningsdag2021 #koningsdag #WeAreNATO [NATO]

• 2021.5 NISMO Special Edition GT-R [SuperStreet]

What’s up everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 282 & BENKYO RADIO 282.

I presume that everybody is excited that Summer is almost upon us. It’s a bit problematic for some of us in California because we have barely gotten any rain. With a megadrought upon us, it’s a bit alarming. Especially with fire season about to begin. Please listen to every PSA from Cal Fire. Thanks in advance.

Cyberpunk 2077 is really awesome, and I love the music. For those who enjoy that kind of sound and vibes, I am launching CYBERPUNK RADIO sometime in May 2021. Episodes will be available on Spotify.

There are rumors that Oasis is getting back together at the end of the month. I hope that’s true!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 281 | BENKYO RADIO 281

• Twitter complies with an emergency order from India and hides 50+ tweets, some of which were critical of Modi’s handling of COVID-19, from users in the country [TechMeme] this is ridiculous, Modi is obviously a terrible ruler.

• Being known around the world for good coffee isn’t good enough for Italy. A brewing dispute over a Unesco designation for coffee heritage has left many Italians with a bitter taste in their mouths. Pietro Lombardi and Cecilia Butini spill the tea in the Wall Street Journal by filtering the single origin issue through the history of cultural conflict between Italy’s north and south. Omitted by all parties though is coffee’s true origins: East Africa and the Middle East. —David Yanofsky, Things editor [Quartz]

• Elon Musk’s $150 million charity spending spree [Recode] I guess he really did not want to pay his taxes. At least it’s going to charity.

• iOS 14.5 is rolling out next week — here are its best new features [TheNextWeb]

• How Figma went remote [Platformer]

• New Netflix Show Explores the Vital Influence of Black Culture on America’s Kitchen [Eater]

• The Pandemic Taught Adi Tatarko to Never Say 'Never' [Inc.]

• How one group of doctors is helping Latinx New Yorkers get vaccinated [Fast Company]

• 8 Things Christians Say That Just Ain’t True [Medium]

• You Are Not a Leader Until You Face These 5 Pains [Entrepreneur]

• The Plane Paradox: More Automation Should Mean More Training [WIRED]

• FLOSS WEEKLY [TWIT]

• The New Purple iPhone 12! [MKBHD]

• AirTags: Apple's New Tracking Gadget! [Sam Sheffer]

• iMacs + AirTags - Let’s Talk [Dave2D]

• Reacting to Sanders Sides TIK TOKS! - We Take Requests [Thomas Sanders]

• New Purple iPhone 12! [iJustine]

• Bureaucratic Drift [Lapham’s Quarterly]

• The Sky This Week: It’s a Pink Super Moon! [Astronomy magazine]

What’s up, everybody, here are JETLAG RADIO 281 & BENKYO RADIO 281.

I was really disappointed by the European Super League announcement. It lasted 48 hours. It was a terrible idea. That’s a hint about the Mafia-Operating-Super-System-AD-vertising (MOSSAD). All the big club owners are Americans and were driven by greed. Real Football (Soccer) supporters and fans were not going to have it. There are a lot of people who are poor or middle-class, and for them, Football (Soccer) is their religion. Their ability to watch their favorite team on the weekend is what they live for. They adore their club. It’s not like the NBA where when your favorite player leaves, you suddenly become a bandwagon fan. I have been a Manchester United supporter since the early 1990s, meaning before I was even 10 years old. I still have yet to make the pilgrimage to Manchester which I hope to make someday. Football is here to stay, and once everybody is vaccinated, the stadiums will be filled with fans, and they will cheer their favorite teams once again. The players have been playing without fans for over a year, and it’s been tough on them.

The video below is in French. If you do not speak French, I apologize. If you speak French, great! If you don’t, you should learn it! It’s a great language. Check out Duolingo.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 280 | BENKYO RADIO 280

• We talk to Richie Hawtin About Deeper Focus, his Collaborative Soundscape with Endel AI to get you Focused [beatportal]

• The 40 greatest synth sounds of all time, No 32: Underworld - Born Slippy [Computer Music]

• Serato announces Support for Big Sur and Apple M1 Chips [DJ Mag]

• Underground House Syria: Meet the Duo Building a House Music Community against All Odds [Mixmag]

• BBC Radio 1 Announced Prince Philip’s Death in the Middle of a Techno Song—and TikTok had a Field Day [EDM.com]

• City of Stockholm to Build Memorial for Avicii in HumbleGarden Park [EDM Sauce]

• What is Social Listening and Why is it Important? [GaryVee]

• Why America’s white evangelicals shy away from covid jabs - And what can be done to change their minds [The Economist]

• Tony’s Chocolonely: the risks of being a woke brand [1843 magazine]

• A Five-Week Guide to Getting a Job [Harvard Business Review]

• Rebuilding Notre-Dame cathedral... with 1,000 oak trees [BBC World]

• U.S. Vaccinations Reach 200 Million as Campaign Picks Up Speed [Bloomberg]

• Drug companies to face first opioid trial following pandemic delays [Reuters]

• Thousands of Palestinians attend Friday prayers at al-Aqsa mosque [AL-Jazeera News]

• Leaving Afghanistan, and the Lessons of America’s Longest War [The New Yorker]

• What to expect from Apple’s ‘Spring Loaded’ event [The Verge]

• The state of the plant-based food industry [Vox]

• Reform the US low-income broadband program by rebuilding Lifeline [TechCrunch]

• Geoffrey Hinton has a hunch about what’s next for AI [MIT Technology Review]

• Dogecoin extends record-shattering weekly gain to 520% after another inscrutable tweet from Elon Musk [Markets Insider]

• Innovative gun violence program saved many lives and millions of dollars, researchers find [The Guardian]

• Watch Live: Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Hold News Conference [The New York Times]

• Borat Trolls Donald Trump’s Election Lies In Never-Before-Seen Footage Teaser [Huffington Post]

• America Has Pandemic Senioritis - Being so close (and yet so far) is a stress all its own. [The Atlantic]

• In Formula One, Does The Driver Or Car Matter More? [FiveThirtyEight]

• With a sense of betrayal and relief, Afghans eye a future without U.S. troops [The Washington Post]

• La France, l’Allemagne et l’Ukraine appellent au retrait des troupes russes de la frontière ukrainienne [Le Monde]

• Curable is a helpful tool in your chronic pain treatment arsenal [Mashable]

• Grocery Delivery Workers at Imperfect Foods Vote to Unionize [Motherboard - TECH by VICE]

• How Many Artists Have to Say They're Struggling Before We Listen? [NOISEY - MUSIC by VICE]

• Anti-Vax Activists Are Quietly Bending State Politics To Their Will [VICE News]

• The New Mexico Spring - How progressives took power in the state’s Democratic Party. [The Intercept_]

• Avoid crowds at the 10 least-visited U.S. national parks [National Geographic]

• A 'Worst Nightmare' Cyberattack: The Untold Story Of The SolarWinds Hack [NPR]

• All Federal Inmates To Be Offered Vaccine By Mid-May, BOP Director Says [CapRadioNews]

• BFM TV, CNews, LCI… Les fléaux de l’information, avec Sophie Eustache [Le Monde diplomatique]

• Biden Just Made a Historic Break With the Logic of Forever War [Foreign Policy]

• The SolarWinds Hack Is Just the Beginning - The United States Must Learn to Live With Cyber-Espionage [Foreign Affairs]

• How South Korean Soldiers and YouTube Catapulted a K-Pop Girl Group to Fame [The Diplomat]

• A Worldwide Threats Hearing Guide from the Bleachers [The Cipher Brief]

• The New Historian of the Smash That Made the Himalayas [Quanta magazine]

• [Communiqué de presse] La Lettonie va devenir État membre associé du

  @CERN Les représentants du CERN et de la République de Lettonie ont signé aujourd'hui un accord qui octroie à la Lettonie le statut d'État membre associé du CERN [CERN_FR]

• NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins, Crewmates Return Safely to Earth [NASA]

• Fake medicines [INTERPOL]

• Jolly Green II Finishes Developmental Test [Air Force magazine]

• First Look at a Modified Toyota FR 86 & BRZ [SuperStreet]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 280 & BENKYO RADIO 280.

As you know, I believe some police work is important, whether it is to fight Organized Crime, or INTERPOL’s Counter-Terrorism Task Forces, or even fighting Human Trafficking.

But, the trial of George Floyd is extremely important to African-Americans, because that officer was clearly in the wrong, and I hope that the family of the individual wins. It’s important if we want this nation to heal. Black Lives Matter. I thank you for listening.

Also, I demand that President Biden gives the patent away for the COVID-19 vaccine to MSF (Doctors Without Borders) so that they begin vaccinating the entire planet. There are millions of people in the world who need the vaccine, and if we want this global pandemic under control, you need to make this happen. People are dying. Please. Thanks in advance.

One more thing, it’s time to make ClearMask available in every store. I have been reached out by the deaf community and they told me how hard it is for them to communicate because they can’t read lips. Thanks in advance.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 279 | BENKYO RADIO 279

• US sanctions Russia for 2020 election interference and SolarWinds hack, blacklisting six tech companies that provide support to Russian intelligence services [TechMeme]

• A Covid-19 variant first seen in India was detected in the UK. Scientists worry the variant, which contains two mutations in its spike protein, could be more infectious, but more research is needed. And Pfizer’s chief said people will likely need to take a third shot of the Covid-19 vaccine within a year. [Quartz]

• What is a Vaccine Passport? and Where can I get one? [Recode]

• What Giant Radio Pulses could teach us about radio signals from beyond the Milky Way [TheNextWeb]

• Six Recipes That Got Us Through Another Week [Eater]

• At LinkedIn, Mindfulness Is Serious Business [Inc.]

• These 40 creative gifts will delight your mom (or anyone) this Mother’s Day [Fast Company]

• On resting vs working [Medium]

• Frustrated With a Colleague? Expectations May Be Why. [Entrepreneur]

• The FBI Takes a Drastic Step to Fight China’s Hacking Spree [WIRED]

• Windows Weekly - Episode 720 [TWIT]

• Retro Tech: Wearables [MKBHD]

• gmail dark mode on desktop is hidden, but it’s there - settings (top right, the cog) - all settings - themes tab (all the way on the right) - DARK [Sam Sheffer]

• The Ultimate 2D Tech Playlist [Dave 2D]

• Autism Acceptance: I Can’t Believe I NEVER KNEW... [Thomas Sanders]

• New Electric Bike! Turbo Como SL! [iJustine]

• Nature’s Rival - Claudian on a derided remake [Lapham’s Quarterly]

• The Sky This Week: The Lyrid meteor shower peaks [Astronomy magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 279 & BENKYO RADIO 279.

I wanted to take this time to pray for Peace in Afghanistan, and hope for our troops to come home safely soon. The war lasted a very long time due to #MilitaryIndustrialComplex. Only Bernie Sanders wanted to discuss this subject. I am glad that President Biden had the cojones to say enough is enough, and that we cannot continue this course of action. The best is to now monitor from Satellites and Space. Only Education can save Afghanistan. An internet without censorship can help Afghanistan educate its population (utilizing MOOCs and other education programs).

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 278 | BENKYO RADIO 278

• Sama’ Abdulhadi Takes Over Beatport’s Livestream Residency in April [beatportal]

• Podcasting and streaming with your NT-USB Mini microphone just got a whole lot easier with Røde Connect - and it's free! [Computer Music]

• The 40 greatest synth sounds of all time, No 31: Prince - 1999 [Future Music]

• NI Maschine+ review: the ultimate standalone music-making device? [DJ Mag]

• Raves not War: How Shum is Building a New Future for War-Torn Eastern Ukraine [Mixmag]

• Premiere: Innellea creates techno intangibles with lead single from upcoming EP, ‘It’s Us’ [Dancing Astronaut]

• Subsidia Releases Third Installment Of Its ‘Dawn’ Collection, With Loads Of New Melodic Bass [Your EDM]

• Kitchen Rave: Spotify Data Proves that Despite Uncertain Times, Dance Music Thrived during the Pandemic [EDM.com]

• COLD BLUE Puts His Uplifting Touch To Richard Durand & Christina Novelli’s “Save You” [EDM Sauce]

• Sustainable solutions for children and adolescents at risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis [MSF]

• “Gary, my podcast only has 1 listener, should I stop recording?” {GaryVee]

• Coinbase goes public with a pop [The Economist]

• Are you into productivity porn or yak shaving? [1843 magazine]

• Designing the Hybrid Office [Harvard Business Review]

• Crypto firm Coinbase valued at more than oil giant BP [BBC World]

• Black Americans Are Embracing Stocks and Bitcoin to Make Up for Stolen Time [Bloomberg Wealth + Equality]

• 'Time to end the forever war': Biden to begin U.S. Afghanistan exit on May 1 [Reuters]

• ‘Super-spreader’: Over 1,000 COVID positive at India’s Kumbh Mela [AL-Jazeera News]

• Recently, for the first time in its thirty-two-year history, B’Tselem declared Israel an apartheid regime [The New Yorker]

• Introducing a New Spotify Experience Across Desktop App and Web Player [Spotify]

• Like it or not, you should probably start paying attention to bitcoin [Vox]

• Ford takes aim at Tesla, GM with its new hands-free driving system [TechCrunch]

• Are you ready to be a techno-optimist again? [MIT Technology Review]

• Officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright charged with manslaughter [The Guardian]

• ‘No Victory Dance’: Veterans of Afghan War Feel Torn Over Pullout - President Biden’s decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 is met with relief and anguish, frustration and regret among those who served there. [The New York Times]

• Defense Medical Expert In Chauvin Trial: Car Exhaust Could Have Played A Role [Huffington Post]

• Biden tells Americans ‘we cannot continue the cycle’ in Afghanistan as he announces troop withdrawal [The Washington Post]

• « Si les gens savaient… » : à l’hôpital Bichat, une troisième vague de Covid-19 violente avec des patients de plus en plus jeunes [Le Monde]

• How to get a Covid-19 vaccination appointment in every state [Mashable]

• FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks [Motherboard - Tech by VICE]

• Dave Grohl and Mick Jagger’s Pandemic Song Is Even Worse Than It Should Be [NOISEY - Music by VICE]

• Chauvin’s Defense Called Its First Witnesses. It Did Not Go Well. [VICE News]

• Rep. Betty McCollum Leads Effort to Block Israel from Using U.S. Aid to Destroy Palestinian Homes [The Intercept_]

• Air pollution kills millions every year, like a ‘pandemic in slow motion’ [Nat Geo]

• Coinbase, A Bitcoin Startup, Goes Public. Is Crypto Really The 'Future Of Finance'? [NPR]

• Celebrating Blue Note Records During Jazz Appreciation Month [CapRadioNews]

• Déradicalisation, enquête sur un fiasco [Le Monde diplomatique]

• Biden’s Withdrawal Plan Sets the Clock Ticking in Afghanistan - With troops to depart on Sept. 11, the next five months are critical for any chance of peace. [Foreign Policy]

• What a U.S. Withdrawal Means for Afghanistan [Foreign Affairs]

• Biden Announces Plan for US Exit from Afghan War, Urges Attention to Future Challenges [The Diplomat]

• How Technology is Driving US Intelligence [The Cipher Brief]

• How Radio Astronomy Reveals the Universe [Quanta magazine]

• Brazil: Two arrested in global hunt to catch child predators [INTERPOL]

• Biden: ‘It’s Time to End the Forever War’ [Air Force magazine]

• NATO Secretary General meets US Secretary of State and US Secretary of Defense [NATO]

• Autism Awareness Car Show [SuperStreet]

• You can finally run Windows 10 along with Ubuntu Linux on Apple M1 Mac computers [betanews]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 278 & BENKYO RADIO 278.

I wanted to let you know that I have completed the COVID-19 vaccination process. It was great. I got two shots of vaccine within 2-3 weeks of one another. I want you to know that it was easy, and that you should do it too. By vaccinating myself, I am now eager to hug family / relatives & friends whom I have not seen in a very long time. Doctors in hospitals implore you, they have people in ICUs on ventilators. This pandemic is no joke. I cannot wait to sit down in a coffee shop and read a book, while watching rain on the window. I also look forward to a trip to the Irish Pub, and watch some football (soccer) while drinking a beer. Can’t wait until everything starts to reopen!

Zack Snyder’s Justice League was pretty good! It was long, so it took a few viewings so I could watch the whole thing.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 277 | BENKYO RADIO 277

• Cyberpunk 2077 PATCH 1.2 — LIST OF CHANGES [Cyberpunk 2077]

• The G7 urged Russia to de-escalate on the Ukraine border. Foreign ministers of the group, plus the European Union, warned Moscow against its military buildup in the region, where tensions have run high in recent weeks. [Quartz]

• Why a global chip shortage is screwing up America’s pickup trucks [Recode]

• What we know about Coinbase’s April 14 IPO [TheNextWeb]

• Eat Shrimp on a Stick, Watch ‘Waffles & Mochi,’ and More Weekend Entertainment [Eater]

• Announcing Sidechannel, a new community for Platformer subscribers [Platformer]

• The CDC Changed Its Guidance on Cleaning. Here's What That Means for Your Business [INC.]

• Why universal childcare is the crucial infrastructure the economy needs [Fast Company]

• Being A Nice Guy Will Get You Nowhere [Medium]

• Don't just teach your audience about your product or services. Entertain them. [Entrepreneur]

• 100 Million More IoT Devices Are Exposed—and They Won’t Be the Last [WIRED]

• This Week in Tech 818 [TWIT]

• The World's Largest Smartphone Camera! [MKBHD]

• 2021 Tesla Model Y Review! [Sam Sheffer]

• Dave2d on Instagram [Dave2D]

• Black History: I Can’t Believe I NEVER KNEW… [Thomas Sanders]

• Epic Drone Flying Day! [iJustine]

• “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” —ELBERT HUBBARD, 1911 [Lapharm’s Quarterly]

• 40 years since the first space shuttle mission, STS-1 - Only 20 years — to the day — after the first human ventured to space, Columbia became the first reusable space shuttle to take humans into orbit. [Astronomy magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 277 & BENKYO RADIO 277.

Cyberpunk 2077 is awesome! It’s keeping me busy until Mass Effect: Legendary edition comes out next month in May. Even so, I’ll still be going through Night City until the DLCs come out.

I wanted to talk to you about “The Power of Tiny Gains.” 1% better every day is 1.01^365 = 37.78. 1% worse every day is 0.99^365 = 0.03. If you go back to what I discussed during the beginning of the pandemic, I mentioned the importance of keeping up with your studies. This is imperative because the job market is becoming extremely competitive. I am working on Project Management. A year or so ago, I had just begun. I am now taking my 6th class. With BENKYO RADIO, I am encouraging young people to keep up with their studies. You do not need to become a rocket scientist overnight. You just need to study a little bit every day. If you study a little bit every day, after a long period of time you will reap the benefits. But, it takes time.

With JETLAG RADIO, I am showcasing music from all my favorite DJs as we anticipate their upcoming albums that are coming out later which they’ve worked on, due to a year being indoors. I am also including music from various parts of the world. The other various podcasts have different styles of genres of music.

While I love Doctor Strange, I am not Doctor Strange. I just got a cup of coffee, then I wrote and showcased my thoughts and ideas and work. I did that for years.

Coinbase is going to go IPO soon. That means that DOGECOIN will be listed on its platform soon, and skyrocket. Very eager about that. I am still disappointed that nobody has donated to my Paypal, but hopefully, I can get some funding via investing in Bitcoin/Dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies. All in due time.

Looks like Adidas and South Park are introducing the Towelie shoe on 4/20! Check it out!

Hope you have a very blessed Ramadan to all of those who are celebrating.

Get your vaccination shots this month! It’s time! Let’s beat COVID-19!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 276 | BENKYO RADIO 276

• Marcus Barnes hears the history of SCI+TEC Records, straight from label founder Dubfire. [beatportal]

• Casio launches a new range of Casiotone keyboards aimed at “everyday music-makers” [Computer Music]

• Issue 369 of Future Music is on sale now [Future Music]

• What are NFTs and why should electronic music care? [DJ Mag]

• Stand Together Unites Drum ‘N’ Bass Labels to Tackle Racism, Launches Compilation and Fundraiser Event [Mixmag]

• Vicetone share debut LP embodying ‘the type of music they stand for’ [Dancing Astronaut]

• Swedish House Mafia Sign with Sal Slaiby, Manager to The Weeknd, Doja Cat & More [YourEDM]

• He Survived Addiction, a Brain Tumor and the Military: there’s no Stopping D-NAMX [EDM.com]

• Zeds Dead Release Spellbinding 13-Track ‘Catching Z’s’ Mixtape Via Altered States [EDM Sauce]

• In DRC, measles is spreading and killing again in what seems to be a never-ending fight [MSF]

• Will We Ever Go “Back to Normal?” [GaryVee]

• Riding high in a workers’ world - A jobs rebound, shifting politics and technological change could bring a golden age for labour in rich countries [The Economist]

• History’s best comebacks, from Jesus to John Travolta [1843 magazine]

• Making Quantum Computers a Commercial Reality [Harvard Business Review]

• The 'Iron Man' body armour many of us may soon be wearing [BBC News]

• Netflix Gets ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Jumanji’ in Multiyear Sony Deal [Bloomberg]

• Judge hands Amazon a setback in New York lawsuit over COVID-19 shortfalls [Reuters]

• Qatar Red Crescent to launch global refugee vaccination project [AL-Jazeera News]

• Why it’s so Hard for America to End its Wars - Is there any way for Biden to achieve peace with honor in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan? [The New Yorker]

• Hasbro’s new $700 Optimus Prime toy can finally transform all on its own [The Verge]

• Why the author of Girl, Stop Apologizing had to apologize twice in a week [Vox]

• Building the right team for a billion-dollar startup [TechCrunch]

• Got your covid shots? You might have to prove it. [MIT Technology Review]

• Bitcoin tops $60,000 and sets new high over the weekend as Elon Musk aims towards the "moon" [Business Insider]

• Hideki Matsuyama holds nerve to become Masters champion [The Guardian]

• Blackout Hits Iran Nuclear Site in What Appears to Be Israeli Sabotage which jeopardizes the 2015 Iran Nuclear Peace Deal talks [The New York Times]

• Unionizing Amazon Warehouses was Never Going to Be Easy [The Verge]

• Saudi Arabia’s Yemen blockade is starving millions. Democrats want Biden to stop it. [Vox]

• Biden Acknowledges Black Community’s ‘Pain And Trauma’ After Daunte Wright’s Killing [Huffington Post]

• ‘I Never Thought China Could Ever Be This Dark’ - Leaving Xinjiang has not meant Uyghur women are free of Beijing’s grasp. [The Atlantic]

• Why Americans Can’t Resist A Celebrity Political Candidate [FiveThirtyEight] we do not need a celebrity candidate, we need AOC & Nina Turner for 2024 and transform this country

• Domestic terrorism incidents surge, led by white supremacists, far-right [The Washington Post]

• Noël Mamère : « L’attente de la société civile pour un rassemblement des forces de gauche et de l’écologie n’a jamais été aussi insistante » [Le Monde]

• Photos: 60 years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space [Mashable]

• Canadian Military Documents UFO Sightings, Intelligence Report Reveals [Motherboard - Tech by VICE]

• Ten Years Later, Soulection Is Still The Standard for Music Discovery [NOISEY - Music by VICE]

• Leaked Chats Show ‘White Lives Matter’ Movement in Shambles After Antifa Infiltration [VICE News]

• A Billionaire-Funded Website with Ties to the Far Right is Trying to “Cancel” University Professors [The Intercept_]

• Why Ramadan is the most sacred month in Islamic culture [National Geographic]

• How to Conquer COVID-19 Amid a Confederacy of Dunces - Science can’t be democratic, says an outspoken virologist. [Nautilus]

• The Country That Vaccinated 93% Of Adults In Under 2 Weeks [NPR]

• Can Vaccines Stop Variants? Here's What We Know So Far [CapRadioNews]

• Dialogue tendu entre Washington et Téhéran [Le Monde diplomatique]

• Israel’s Government Has Nobody at the Wheel - A cycle of deadlocked elections has left the country without a functioning administration—and a foreign policy set on autopilot. [Foreign Policy] it’s time for Benjamin aka Bibidi Netanyahu to step down. For the sake of Israel, for the sake of the Peace Plan with the Palestinians. He must finally face his corruption charges. The only worst person than him on the entire Planet Earth is Trump.

• A Dark Pandemic Year Could Still Portend a Brighter Future - The World After COVID-19 Could Be as Good as or Better Than the One Before [Foreign Affairs]

• Pakistan Police Arrest Radical Islamist Party Head in Lahore [The Diplomat]

• The Pentagon’s ‘All Hell Breaking Loose’ Scenario for Climate Change [The Cipher Brief]

• Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture [Quanta magazine]

• 1959 : l'expérience #gminus2 au CERN - Pour le #TBT, nous nous souvenons des débuts de l'expérience avec l'un de ses anneaux de stockage. Félicitations encore à @Fermilab pour les résultats d'hier ! En savoir plus avec le @CERNCourier (en anglais) [CERN_FR]

• Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed to No Earlier than April 14 [NASA]

• 500 rescued and 195 arrested following INTERPOL human trafficking and migrant smuggling operation [INTERPOL]

• Department of the Air Force Begins Work on Second Disparity Review [Air Force Magazine]

• 2022 Toyota GR 86 First Look: New Name, Same Sports Car Formula [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 276 & BENKYO RADIO 276.

I’m so excited about the vaccination process! Once vaccinated, 2 weeks thereafter, you can safely go places and stay indoors. I am eager to sit at a Coffee Shop once more, it’s been too long.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 275 | BENKYO RADIO 275 | MU/OMEGA/DISCO/DEEP HOUSE RADIO 018

• The FBI arrested a far-right extremist who allegedly plotted to destroy AWS data centers in Virginia with C-4; FBI was tipped off by posts following Jan. 6 riot [TechMeme]

• A kitchen tool goes global. For many households, the humble rice cooker is an essential tool, saving home chefs the time and effort of having to watch over a pot, while reliably delivering perfectly cooked rice. But this is no mere kitchen implement—the rice cooker’s history is a tale of innovation and globalization, tracing an arc from post-World War II Japan to modern international success. We’re tucking in to the backstory with the Quartz Weekly Obsession. [Quartz]

• Vaccine-themed gear is in high demand on Etsy [Recode]

• Physicists working with Microsoft think the universe is a self-learning computer [TheNextWeb]

• Halal Restaurants in Philly Prepare for Another Ramadan in a Pandemic [Eater]

• Survey: Employees Would Rather Quit Than Lose Remote-Work Flexibility - Some employees say they don't want to return to the office five days a week. But few want to remain completely remote. [Inc.]

• Why anti-vaccine propaganda still runs rampant on Instagram

  Despite Facebook’s countermeasures, the photo-sharing app remains a nexus for content that sows doubt in the COVID-19 vaccines. [Fast Company]

• Stop Consuming. Start Creating. [Medium]

• Start Making Money by Launching a Profitable Side Hustle Freelancing [Entrepreneur]

• The Best Rain Jackets to Help You Brave the Elements [WIRED]

• This Week in Tech 817 [TWIT]

• The Ultimate Gaming Phone! [MKBHD]

• Sam Sheffer’s birthday is June 19, and he joined Twitter in March 2009 [Sam Sheffer]

• This Gaming Phone is a MONSTER!!! [Dave2D]

• NEW Thomas Sanders Vine Compilation | THOMAS SANDERS Newest Vines 2020 (Merry Christmas) [Thomas Sanders]

• McLaren GT - My New Car! [iJustine]

• Prometheus’ Toolbox [Lapham’s Quarterly]

• Infinity & Beyond — Episode 17: What are Pulsars? [Astronomy magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 275 & BENKYO RADIO 275.

For this post, I wanted to emphasize the importance of Mental Health, especially while we all have “Pandemic fatigue.” For DJs, it’s about the “next level.” What does that mean? That means that once you start a series of podcasts, you want to think about the next episode. That can put a lot of pressure on a musician. It can make you self-conscious and sometimes stressed out. It’s important to talk to fellow DJs and family & friends in the industry. I look forward to reading Gareth Emery’s book about working in the industry.

Until next time!