JETLAG RADIO 344 | BENKYO RADIO 344

• On Our Radar: August 2021 [beatportal]

• Could the Sequential Take 5 synth give you the Prophet-5 sound in a compact and more affordable keyboard? [Computer Music]

• Tascam Portastudio meets Teenage Engineering OP-1 in retro-hipster cassette loop heaven [Future Music]

• August 2021 (UK) - PRINTED — Sold out [DJ Mag]

• Test Event COVID Cases Found to Be in Line with Community Infection Rates [Mixmag]

• Kaskade shares two-hour 4K stream of legendary SoFi Stadium set [Dancing Astronaut]

• Calvin Harris Reveals Story Behind “Feel So Close” One Decade After its Release [Your EDM]

• The Weeknd Lists Swedish House Mafia as Inspiration for New Album, Fueling Speculation of Collab [EDM.com]

• ATB & Ben Samama - Like That [EDM Sauce]

• Newsletter [Modern Finance]

• The Random Show — Life-Extension Misadventures, Blockchain/Crypto Investing, NFT Experiments, Dogecoin, Zen Buddhism, and Weathering Sharp Elbows (#527) [Kevin Rose & Tim Ferriss]

• 87 days until new book release from Gary Vaynerchuck [GaryVee]

• “We are all afraid”: Settler attacks against Palestinians in Hebron on the rise [MSF]

• The world needs a proper investigation into how covid-19 started [The Economist] #UmbrellaCorporation!?!

• The Problem with Saying “It’s No Big Deal” [Harvard Business Review]

• Afghanistan: Sport bodies call for emergency evacuation of female players [BBC Sport]

• Herd Immunity Moves Further Away the Closer We Get to Original Goals [Bloomberg]

• Euro 2020 final at Wembley was a "superspreader" event [Reuters]

• US, Germany warn of growing security threats at Kabul airport — ‘Potential security threats’ prompt US and German embassies to warn their citizens against travelling to Kabul airport. [AL-Jazeera News]

• As Told To: The Flight From Kabul [The New Yorker]

• Google has already discontinued the Pixel 5 [The Verge]

• Biden backs school districts in fight against GOP mask mandate bans [Vox]

• Razer Sneki Snek Bobblehead [Razer]

• Apple is reportedly releasing a redesigned, more powerful Mac mini this fall [engadget]

• Get your pitch-off on with our Disrupt Startup Alley companies on upcoming episodes of Extra Crunch Live [TechCrunch]

• Saturn’s insides are sloshing around [MIT Technology Review]

• Vaccines give good protection against Delta, and fully vaccinated people with a previous COVID-19 infection are the best-protected group, real-world data shows [Insider]

• Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts [The Guardian]

• ‘Nursing Is in Crisis’: Staff Shortages Put Patients at Risk — “When hospitals are understaffed, people die,” one expert warned as the U.S. health systems reach a breaking point in the face of the Delta variant. [The New York TImes]

• Biden Considers Bringing In Commercial Airlines To Aid In Afghanistan Evacuation [Huffington Post]

• America’s Lie — One family’s bid to escape Afghanistan is emblematic of how the United States is failing to help those who risked their lives to work with Americans. [The Atlantic]

• Afghanistan Has Fallen To The Taliban. How Will Americans Judge Biden’s Decision To Withdraw? [FiveThirtyEight]

• Turn watermelon into refreshing cocktails and sip your way to summer’s end [The Washington Post]

• Erosion du désir, impuissance, déprime… Des hommes lèvent le voile sur le tabou de l’andropause [Le Monde]

• 'Ted Lasso' nails the needle drop in 'Rainbow' [Mashable]

• Elon Musk's 'Tesla Bot' Is a Shitpost [VICE News]

• Anand Gopal and Richard Ojeda on Afghanistan — A journalist and a former soldier discuss what their experience in Afghanistan taught them about the war. [The Intercept_]

• A week after Haiti’s deadly earthquake, hope is hard to find [Nat Geo]

• 'A Beautiful Feeling': Refugee Women In Germany Learn The Joy Of Riding Bikes [NPR]

• Biden Touts 'Incredible' Evacuation Operation From Kabul, But Warns Of Ongoing Danger [CapRadioNews]

• Ce que penser veut dire [Le Monde diplomatique]

• A Taliban Challenge: To Learn the Lessons of History — What an ancient citadel can teach us about Afghanistan’s past—and its potential future. [Foreign Policy]

• The Shattering of Yemen — Why Ending the War Is More Difficult Than Ever [Foreign Affairs]

• Delhi’s Anti-Muslim Riots Robbed Dozens of Children of Their Fathers [The Diplomat]

• Putin’s Calculated Afghanistan Play [The Cipher Brief]

• How Big Data Carried Graph Theory Into New Dimensions [Quanta Magazine]

• Voici l'une des nouvelles petites roues d'@ATLASexperiment. Les nouvelles petites roues font partie du spectromètre à muons amélioré et sont installée à chaque extrémité de l'expérience. Regardez leur installation récente ici: [CERN_FR]

• Drought Makes its Home on the Range [NASA]

• Colombian police take down criminal group behind human trafficking [INTERPOL]

• With Full FDA Approval in Hand, Pentagon Moves to Make COVID Vaccine Mandatory [Air Force Magazine]

• The Toyota Supra Celebrates Its 35th Birthday With a JDM Special Edition [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 344 & BENKYO RADIO 344.

I want to thank President Biden for coordinating more flights out of Afghanistan for Afghan refugees. The commercial airlines will help getting more refugees out.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 343 | BENKYO RADIO 343

• The World’s Largest Computer Chip — In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big. [TechMeme]

• Biden and national security team discuss counter-terror ops in Afghanistan [AXIOS]

• The number of working women in Afghanistan has risen more than 50% since 2011. The statistic is emblematic of just how much Afghan women had been able to accomplish in the past decade—and how much they risk losing now that the Taliban is back in power. [Quartz]

• The Virtual Future of Restaurants [Recode]

• How a simple crystal could help pave the way to full-scale quantum computing [TheNextWeb]

• The Best Summer Tomato Recipes, According to Eater Editors [Eater]

• What's on the Minds of the Leaders Running the Fastest-Growing Companies in the U.S.Every year, we survey Inc. 5000 honorees. The major takeaway this year? The continued fast growth of their companies -- through a crisis, no less -- surprised even them. [Inc.]

• Job titles do matter. Here’s why and how to get the right one — If your job title doesn’t reflect your daily responsibilities it could mean you’re not being paid fairly and prevent you from getting a better position in the future. [Fast Company]

• Book Your Face — Some initial thoughts on Facebook Horizon Workrooms [Medium]

• How the Pandemic Got Me to Shift My Priorities [Entrepreneur]

• 18 Face Masks We Actually Like to Wear — Face coverings are back. Read our updated tips on how to pick an effective mask—whether you’re heading back to the office or just want to stay safe and stylish. [WIRED]

• This Week in Google 625 — You Can’t Handle the Waffle! [TWIT]

• Explore our planet’s most unique places and cultures [Google Blog]

• Two New Datasets for Conversational NLP: TimeDial and Disfl-QA [Google AI Blog]

• Rare Commodity — Aristotle’s relationship goals. [Lapham’s Quarterly]

• 2021 Essential Products Guide [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 343 & BENKYO RADIO 343.

On 9/11/2001, 343 firefighters lost their lives. Why 343? The Prime Factorization of 343 is 7x7x7, or 777 (Jackpot). Now, let us ask ourselves, who benefited the most from this dark event in our American history? The Military-Industrial-Complex, and the “Mafia-Operating-Super-System-AD-vertising” (MOSSAD). As you can see, if there’s anybody you REALLY want to be mad about, it’s Dick Cheney and the Neoconservatives, who got us in this mess. A long war in Afghanistan , while UBL was right across the border in Pakistan which so many in the U.S. Intelligence Community admit to themselves that yes, ISI (Pakistan’s intelligence unit) probably knew about it. But then, why didn’t America get upset? That’s because Pakistan is nuclear. Why don’t we invade North Korea? Because North Korea is Nuclear. Why was there a war in Afghanistan? It was to test weapons. It’s been 20 years of “nation-building,” yet no major highway systems. Why? Plus, an unnecessary war in Iraq.

Now, we’re all mad and upset. But now, we know who to blame. It was Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and the rest of the NeoCons. I used to be very upset at George W Bush, but trust me, he is no mastermind, he’s actually a pretty normal dude, and he was so traumatized from everything that he has experienced, that now he’s just making paintings, and all the proceeds go to Military Families and Veterans.

Don’t make Americans wait until 2051 for a declassified report on 9/11/2001 (involvement of MK-ULTRA). Firefighters have a right to mourn and have peace of mind. The Military-Industrial-Complex must be scolded.

Some of you watch Anime. To those that don’t, please watch Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The level of corruption was at the high brass in the military. When you find out what “The Philosopher’s Stone” is, you will realize that this is the “Devil’s research” and that it must not be pursued.

I want to see Benjamin Netanyahu in jail. If he does not go for war crimes against humanity, at least we can get him on corruption charges.

It’s the 23rd anniversary of Rainbow Six! Looking forward to the next iteration, and a big shoutout to all Rainbow Team Members around the world, especially GIGN. Thank you for your hard work after the terrorist attacks of 13th of November 2015 in France.

I’m not gonna include a morbid video on this grim blogpost, I want to include something happy. to celebrate life. Here is a video from one of my favorite music groups, 2 Unlimited.

Until Next Time!

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• Listen to Disclosure’s New “Never Enough” EP [beatportal]

• 6 things you need to think about before you rent a recording studio space [Computer Music]

• XILS-lab KaoX review [Future Music]

• Skrillex Drops New Single, ‘Don’t Go’, with Justin Bieber and Don Toliver: Listen [DJ Mag]

• REVIER SÜDOST has Closed Following Complaints of Racism and Homophobia [Mixmag]

• Disclosure’s week of consecutive releases concludes with ‘Another Level’ [Dancing Astronaut]

• Dillon Francis Reveals New Album ‘Happy Machine’ & Infectious Single “Reaching Out” [Your EDM]

• David Guetta Resurrects “Titanium” with Electrifying Future Rave Remix: Listen [EDM.com]

• ALOK & VINTAGE CULTURE — Domino (Feat. Oxia) [EDM Sauce]

• Listener Reviews [Modern Finance]

• Gary Vaynerchuk Reveals Where the Smart Money is in NFTs [GaryVee]

• Death, destruction and thousands of injured people in wake of Haiti earthquake [MSF]

• Biden’s debacle: What it means for Afghanistan and America [The Economist]

• My family fought alongside the Taliban. But I’m afraid for my friends [1843 Magazine]

• Let Your Top Performers Move Around the Company [Harvard Business Review]

• India approves world’s first DNA Covid vaccine [BBC News]

• We Can’t Educate Our Way to Racial Economic Equity — Black workers are still being left behind by their White peers regardless of their level of education. Ensuring their success requires a bolder approach. [Bloomberg Opinion]

• Rain falls at Greenland ice summit for first time on record [Reuters]

• Pacquiao eyes Philippine presidency as he fights for boxing crown [AL-Jazeera News]

• David Petraeus on American Mistakes in Afghanistan — The former general defends Afghan troops and blames the speed of the withdrawal for the government’s collapse. [The New Yorker]

• Peloton’s app indicates a rowing machine may finally be coming [The Verge]

• The West’s megadrought is so bad, authorities are airlifting water for animals [Vox]

• California’s gig worker Prop 22 ruled unconstitutional by superior court [TechCrunch]

• What are the ingredients of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine? [MIT Technology Review]

• A former Pence adviser said Trump had 4 years to help Afghan allies leave the country but Stephen Miller's 'racist hysteria' blocked it from happening [Insider]

• How racist propaganda inspired riots in America’s biggest cities – 360 video — Anti-Black racism in school curriculums, newspapers and film set the scene for a week of racial violence in Chicago and Washington DC [The Guardian]

• The Quiet Rage of the Responsible [The New York Times] #COVID19 and dealing with anti-mask / anti-vaxx people

• Lindsey Graham’s Hypocrisies Laid Bare In Scathing ‘Daily Show’ Biography [Huffington Post]

• What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban [The Atlantic]

• What Americans Think About The End Of The Afghanistan War And Biden’s Handling Of It So Far [FiveThirtyEight]

• Opinion: The mujahideen resistance to the Taliban begins now. But we need help. [The Washington Post]

• 24 Heures du Mans : Alpine entre dans la cour des grands [Le Monde]

• 9 verified GoFundMe campaigns if you want to help Afghans in crisis [Mashable]

• Evangelion Fans Are Finally Happy [VICE News]

• Congressman seeking to relaunch Afghan War made Millions in Defense Contracting — Florida Republican Michael Waltz made up to $25 million from the sale of Metis Solutions, a defense contractor with a spotty record training Afghan security forces [The Intercept]

• 5 possible climate futures—from the optimistic to the strange [Nat Geo]

• Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing A Dramatic Surge In New COVID Cases. Here's Why [NPR] They didn’t vaccinate Palestinians, they are inhumans.

• Latest Updates: Caldor Fire Conditions, Evacuations And Closures As Fire Grows Near Pollock Pines [CapRadioNews]

• De la gauche et de l’art [Le Monde diplomatique]

• An Anti-Taliban Front Is Already Forming. Can It Last? [Foreign Policy]

• Failure in Afghanistan Won’t Weaken America’s Alliances — U.S. Allies Know Washington Needs Them More Than Ever [Foreign Affairs]

• US-Vietnam Relations in 2021: ‘Comprehensive,’ But Short of ‘Strategic’ [The Diplomat]

• ‘This Doesn’t Need to be Defeat. But at the Moment, it Damn Well Feels Like It’ [The Cipher Brief]

• How Big Can the Quantum World Be? Physicists Probe the Limits. [Quanta Magazine]

• Cette photo montre l'éplucheur de charge de Linac3, fait à partir de feuilles de carbone.— Il sert à augmenter la charge de ions en retenant les électrons du faisceau. Les ions continuent ensuite leur trajet vers les expériences. [CERN_FR]

• Tropical Storm Henri Continues to Strengthen [NASA]

• The International Day of #VictimOfTerrorism is an opportunity to honour and recognize all those affected around the world. INTERPOL stands in solidarity with all terrorism victims and survivors. [INTERPOL]

• USAFE Fighter Wings Conduct Rare Air-to-Air Live Fire Training [Air Force Magazine]

• Watch the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2021 EXCLUSIVELY on the MotorTrend App [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 342 & BENKYO RADIO 342.

I think it’s time to demand calm from all sides. For a very long time, millions of people asked for an end to the war in Afghanistan, and now that President Biden is ending it, he is being ruthlessly scolded. That’s not fair. We can stop the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex, get the majority of our troops home, and then still go after Terrorists when necessary. If you look at the gear of a SEAL and the gear of a Talib, there are no comparisons. The SEAL can obliterate him. If U.S. Military Personnel calls for an airstrike, he or she can do massive damage to the Taliban. It’s obvious. As everybody knows, I support Senator Sanders and AOC, but I answer to President Biden because he’s President. Thank you for ending the longest war, but the exit was botched, we should have spent months slowly getting military and Afghans out, but now it’s quite the shitshow. It’s time to salvage the situation. Please continue to support organizations that can help Afghan translators/interpreters and Afghan refugees. I thank you.

On a happier note, don’t forget to enjoy the 24 Hrs of Le Mans this weekend! It’s going to be awesome! Best of luck to all the teams!

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 341 | BENKYO RADIO 341

• Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022 [TechMeme]

• First look: Truman Project urges Biden to evacuate more Afghans [Axios]

• Don’t pity the women of Afghanistan, support them [Quartz]

• What companies can do to speed up board diversity [Recode]

• If AI only had a brain: Is the human mind the best model to copy? [TheNextWeb]

• What Should We Eat on Our Way to Mars? One Seattle Chef Set Out to Make a Menu. [Eater]

• Meet the Startups Helping Businesses Reach an Untapped Talent Pool of 61 Million — These companies have developed tech platforms to bridge the gap between job seekers with disabilities and the businesses that want to hire them. [Inc.]

• When will Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine recipients get a booster? [Fast Company]

• (Irish) Pub Life [Medium]

• Ami-Chan, the doll with artificial intelligence that accompanies the elderly in confinement [Entrepreneur]

• The US Is Getting Covid Booster Shots. The World Is Furious — The White House’s plan to roll out third shots for any American adult is raising profound questions about global equity. [WIRED]

• Tech News Weekly 197 [TWIT]

• Samsung Z Fold 3 Review: Let’s Talk Ambition! [MKBHD]

• Apple’s MagSafe Battery: would you buy this? [Sam Sheffer]

• The Framework Laptop is a Risky Gamble... But I Love It. [Dave2D]

• No new videos [iJustine]

• Tokens of Appreciation [Lapham’s Quarterly]

• The Sky This Week: View the Blue Sturgeon Moon [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 341 & BENKYO RADIO 341.

There’s some pretty cool stuff going on with SPACEWERX & AFWERX, but please remember, while they are many in the spotlight, there are a bunch of people who work behind the scenes and hardly get any recognition. Please think of them. Thanks in advance.

Until Next Time!

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• Dutch Promoters and DJs Urge Fans to join UnMute Protest — Against Latest Covid Restrictions [beatportal] Dutch DJs may have a point. Most people in Holland are indeed vaccinated. Since they’re actually smart, they actual are close to Herd-Immunity, at least at concerts/festivals.

• Be prepared to have fun building the Oskitone Scout open-source synth [Computer Music]

• Topic - 5 things I’ve learned about music production: “Why do you even want to sound like anyone else?” [Future Music]

• How Carl Cox became known as the ‘Three-Deck Wizard’ [DJ Mag]

• When girls learn how to read, write and do sums, they lead longer, healthier lives. They are less likely to become child brides or teenage mums and are also less likely to suffer domestic violence [The Economist]

• Managing Introverts and Extroverts in the Hybrid Workplace [Harvard Business Review]

• Afghanistan: 'I feel lucky to leave but we must not forget those left behind' [BBC World]

• Idled Planes, Wrong Camouflage: How the U.S. Blew Billions in Afghanistan [Bloomberg]

• U.S. judge signs off on $850 million Boy Scouts sex abuse settlement [Reuters]

• Israel approves resumption of Qatar aid to Gaza [AL-Jazeera News]

• Chasing the Lava Flow in Iceland [The New Yorker]

• Ghost of Tsushima’s purring cats might be my favorite PS5 feature [The Verge]

• The US needs to meet its moral obligation to Afghan refugees [Vox]

• A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs [TechCrunch]

• Solar panels are a pain to recycle. These companies are trying to fix that. [MIT Technology Review]

• Most American workers want their jobs to require the COVID vaccine [Insider]

• A billion children at ‘extreme risk’ from climate impacts – Unicef [The Guardian]

• Three Years After Greta Thunberg’s Strike, Adults Are Failing Children on a Global Scale [The New York Times]

• Fox News Employees Ordered To Disclose Vaccine Status Amid COVID Concerns [Huffington Post]

• Vaccine Refusers Risk Compassion Fatigue — After the horrors that health-care workers have endured during the pandemic, many are struggling to sympathize with people who won’t protect themselves. [The Atlantic]

• Why The Domestic Political Fallout From The Afghanistan War Is So Hard To Assess [FiveThirtyEIght]

• U.S. to add bases for Afghan evacuations as Biden vows to help all U.S. citizens leave [The Washington Post]

• Un an après l’affaire Navalny, Angela Merkel réclame sa « libération », Vladimir Poutine refuse [Le Monde]

• Apple postpones return to office until 2022 [Mashable]

• Afghanistan’s Opium Business Boomed Under US Occupation — The Taliban banned production of the poppy in 2000. After twenty years of war, Afghanistan is now responsible for 82% of the world’s opium supply. [VICE News] #INTERPOLINVESTIGATION

• U.S. Media Organizations Scramble to Get Hundreds of Afghan Colleagues to Safety — The process to resettle Afghans who worked with U.S. media is riddled with red tape, and confusing guidelines are leaving some journalists behind. [The Intercept_]

• How does COVID-19 affect the brain? A troubling picture emerges. [Nat Geo]

• The Simple Steps You Can Take Right Now To Help Afghan Refugees [NPR]

• Caldor Fire's 'Explosive Growth' Following Dixie Fire's Playbook [CapRadioNews]

• Que reste-t-il du communisme en Chine ? [Le Monde diplomatique]

• After Afghanistan Collapse, Iraqis Fear They Could Be Next [Foreign Policy]

• Bangladesh Factories Open as Economic Worries Trump COVID [The Diplomat]

• Written in Taliban: U.S. Veterans Voice Anger Over Afghanistan [The Cipher Brief]

• How Big Can the Quantum World Be? Physicists Probe the Limits. [Quanta magazine]

• L’antimatière, matière d’importance — La #PhotoDeLaSemaine vous emmène à ALPHA, une expérience qui étudie la symétrie entre la matière et l'antimatière, et qui fabrique, capture puis étudie des atomes d’anti-hydrogène. [CERN_FR]

• How Satellite Maps Help Prevent Another ‘Great Grain Robbery’ [NASA] #DROUGHT #PrayForRain

• RED NOTICE: Adolfo Manuel Sandoval [INTERPOL]

• Biden Promises to Evacuate All Americans and Afghans Who Helped Coalition Forces [Air Force Magazine]

• 2023 Integra Will Be Acura's New Flagship—and Entry-Level Vehicle [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 340 & BENKYO RADIO 340.

Please arrest Dick Cheney. It’s time. He’s a war criminal, and he must answer for his crimes against humanity, and we need some answers about the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex. Thanks in advance.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 339 | BENKYO RADIO 339

• FTC files a new antitrust complaint against Facebook, after a judge dismissed the first complaint in June; Facebook has until October 4 to respond. [TechMeme]

• 7,000 people evacuated from Kabul since Aug. 14, Pentagon says [Axios]

• Toyota will cut global production by 40%. The worldwide microchip shortage has finally caught up with the automaker, which will slow production to 540,000 vehicles from a planned 900,000 over the next two months, mostly in Japan and the US. [Quartz]

• The controversy over Apple’s plan to protect kids by scanning your iPhone [Recode]

• Fears grow over Taliban using biometric systems to identify US collaborators [TheNextWeb]

• The Delta COVID Surge Is Here: What It Means for Dining Out [Eater]

• How Tending to Small-Town Infrastructure Grew This Company More Than 2,000 Percent in Three Years — It's cheaper to fix a water tower than to build a new one, and that's where this Midwest painting company wins big. [Inc.]

• What will happen to the U.S. embassy in Kabul? [Fast Company]

• Can the World Computer Save the World? Part 1: Wicked Problems [Medium]

• Dear Brit: 'What's an Elevator Pitch, and Why Do I Need One?' [Entrepreneur]

• On Roblox, Kids Learn It’s Hard to Earn Money Making Games — A new report claims that the massive video game platform can exploit young developers. [WIRED]

• Hands-On Tech 154 — Modal Skulptsynth SE Review [TWIT]

• Get to know the Pixel 5a with 5G, arriving on August 26 [Google Blog]

• Mapping Africa’s Buildings with Satellite Imagery [Google AI Blog]

• 1674 | London — Job Interview — William Wycherley on friends true and false. [Lapham’s Quarterly]

• Throwback: Observing peculiar galaxies, 40 years ago — Discover some of the most peculiar galaxies in the cosmos in this story from the Astronomy archives. [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 339 & BENKYO RADIO 339.

I want you to know that I know how gruesome life can be as a teenager. I’m here for you! GTO!

Until Next Time!

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• Enrico Sangiuliano & Charlotte de Witte’s “The Age Of Love” Remix [beatportal]

• Songwriting basics: how to use repetition and variation to create melodic hooks [Computer Music]

• Native Instruments adds a Picked Nylon option to its Session Guitarist range [Future Music]

• 66% of Artists Have Experienced Burnout at Least Once, Study Finds [DJ Mag]

• An Online Archive is Documenting 30 Years of Dance Music History [Mixmag]

• Tiësto, Karol G pair for what could be producer’s next platinum hit, ‘Don’t Be Shy’ [Dancing Astronaut]

• Dillon Francis Teases Brand New Album & Final Single Out Tomorrow [Your EDM]

• ADE 2021 Hangs in the Balance After Dutch Government’s “Disastrous” COVID-19 Nightlife Restrictions [EDM.com]

• Azteck & Afrojack Are Going ‘All Night Long’ With Newest Release [EDM Sauce]

• Medical needs urgent as ever in Afghanistan after Taliban takeover [MSF]

• MoFi Consensus [August 13th] - JPEG Summer [Modern Finance]

• VaynerX Presents: Marketing for the Now Episode 26 with Gary Vaynerchuk [GaryVee]

• A Taliban-run Afghanistan will be less isolated than the West may hope — But no country will feel comfortable with it [The Economist]

• Managing Star Performers in High-Pressure Situations [Harvard Business Review]

• Afghanistan crisis: 'Many here will be deeply fearful for their future' [BBC World]

• China Won’t Have Much Time to Enjoy America’s Misfortune — Afghanistan’s stability is no laughing matter for its biggest neighbor. [Bloomberg Opinion]

• War over masks deepens in U.S. South where COVID-19 cases are highest [Reuters]

• Afghans desperate to leave country remain stuck at Kabul airport [AL-Jazeera News]

• Trying to Assist the Afghan who Saved Me — Twelve years ago, Tahir Luddin helped us both escape after we were kidnapped by the Taliban. Now I am struggling to get his family out of Kabul. [The New Yorker]

• Apple’s Attempt at Podcast Subscriptions is off to a Messy Start [The Verge]

• Democrats have finally identified the greatest threat to voting rights — the Supreme Court [Vox]

• The hottest fintech market you aren’t paying attention to [TechCrunch]

• Afghans are being evacuated via WhatsApp, Google Forms, or by any means possible — The only hope for many caught by the Taliban takeover is a chaotic and sometimes risky online volunteer response. [MIT Technology Review]

• Bitcoin to $100,000 and ether to $5,000: Famed investment strategist Lyn Alden explains her bullish predictions for the largest cryptos in 2022, and why there are only 2 altcoins worth watching [Insider]

• Red Cross sounds vaccines alarm as deaths soar [The Guardian]

• The Truth About Long Covid Is Complicated. Better Treatment Isn’t. [The New York Times]

• Top General: No Intel That Afghan Government Would Fall In 11 Days [HuffPost]

• Delta Has Changed the Pandemic Risk Calculus [The Atlantic]

• Boo The Astros All You Want, But Cheer For Zack Greinke [FiveThirtyEight]

• ‘Now is the time where you bend the rules’ — Inside a US Marine veteran’s fight to get his Afghan interpreter to safety [Task & Purpose]

• With the Taliban now in control, here’s what Afghans are seeing in Kabul [Washington Post]

• Incendie dans le Var : « Ce feu est hors norme par sa vitesse, son ampleur et sa complexité » [Le Monde]

• I drove a hydrogen fuel cell electric car. EVs make more sense. [Mashable]

• Government Scientists Have Made a Fusion Energy Breakthrough [Motherboard, Tech by VICE]

• Josh Gottehimer’s Rebellion was in Trouble from the Start — The New Jersey Democrat doesn’t have the clout to play hardball with Nancy Pelosi over infrastructure bill [The Intercept_]

• How centuries of strife shaped modern Afghanistan [Nat Geo]

• Education Department Will Erase $5.8 Billion In Loans For Borrowers With Disabilities [NPR]

• Air Quality Forecast To Remain Unhealthy In Sacramento Region Through Thursday [CapRadioNews]

• Femmes arabes dans le piège des images [Le Monde diplomatique]

• The Taliban Can—and Can’t—Be Trusted: There’s good news on international terrorism—and bad news on plenty else. [Foreign Policy]

• The Shattering of Yemen — Why Ending the War Is More Difficult Than Ever [Foreign Affairs]

• Afghanistan and the Real Vietnam Analogy — The war in Vietnam showed the abject failure of nation-building – and the imperial logic behind such efforts. But the U.S. repeated its mistake in Afghanistan. [The Diplomat]

• Computer Scientists Discover Limits of Major Research Algorithm [Quanta Magazine]

• Accueillir des élèves, une tradition — en 1982 avec Ernst Michaelis répondant à des questions. Ce physicien a travaillé sur le synchrocyclotron (SC) et a initié un programme d'amélioration dans les années 70. [CERN_FR]

• INTERPOL issues global alert as fraudsters target governments with COVID-19 vaccine scams [INTERPOL]

• Jumper: Time for ‘a New Reckoning’ on Air and Space Power [Air Force Magazine]

• 2022 Hyundai Elantra N First Look: Small Sport Sedan, N-gage [MOTORTREND]

• Here’s what you can do to help Afghan interpreters and refugees — A list of resources you can use to help the more than 70,000 Afghan interpreters and refugees trying to escape the Taliban [Task & Purpose]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 338 & BENKYO RADIO 338.

Creativity takes time. My best recommendation is that you do a little bit every day, and eventually it will be a lot of work.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 337 | BENKYO RADIO 337

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• How This Company Turned Tap Water, Salt, and Vinegar Into a Serious Covid Killer — An unexpected early run-in with the EPA briefly slowed growth at cleaning products company Force of Nature. But it gave the business a crucial edge when Covid hit. [Inc.]

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• The 7 Types of Cryptocurrencies You Must Know [Medium]

• Mark Cuban Says Dogecoin Is the 'Strongest' Cryptocurrency and Elon Musk Responds [Entrepreneur]

• NASA’s Lucy Mission Gets Ready to Fly by the Trojan Asteroids [WIRED]

• This Week in Tech 836 [TWIT]

• Google Pixel 5A: Spot the Difference! [MKBHD]

• No new video [Sam Sheffer]

• The Pixel 6 Needs to be Awesome. [Dave2D]

• How To Stop Spam Calls! [iJustine]

• Google Tensor debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall [Google Blog]

• The C4_200M Synthetic Dataset for Grammatical Error [Google AI Blog]

• Work Spouse [Lapham’s Quarterly]

• 25 facts about the upcoming 2024 total solar eclipse [Astronomy magazine]

• 3 Tips To Improve Marketing Workflows and Grow Relationships With Slack [Salesforce blog]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 337 & BENKYO RADIO 337.

I guess by now we can all agree that the pullout of Afghanistan has been a disaster and I am glad that Democrats have stated that there will be a full inquiry. We need answers from all the Neo-conservatives. This so called “War-On-Terror” has been people kneeling to the Military-Industrial-Complex instead of its real mission of catching Terrorists. It’s imperative that the Secret Service increases security on George W. Bush. It was not his fault that he was seduced by Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney must answer for his sins before he dies like Rumsfeld. Let’s make it happen. Congress inquiry asap. Thanks in advance. A lot of veterans are feeling humiliated by such a ridiculous fall of Afghanistan. While Hollywood is busy making TV shows about Clinton’s infidelity, I pray that VICE News and The Intercept_ work in conjunction with many reporters to write about how the Afghanistan war “nation-building” and “saving women” was simply about testing weapons of warfare, and once they mastered them, they just bounced and left. It’s embarrassing, and now you all know why Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood was on my book club. The level of corruption reaches the high brass, just like Colonel Mustang when he found out.

20 years of hope for women and growth is no more. Women and little girls we able to go to school, work, become a part of society and help their families. In a matter of 20 days everything is done. Women can no longer attend work and little girls can no longer attend school or have dreams of a future.

How did I get so lucky? I get to work, have dreams and get an education without having the fear of my life being taken from me.

What will happen to those little girls? Those mothers who have no man in their life who need to provide. What will they do ? How will they survive ?

What will the future of Afghanistan be now?

- written by a relative of mine, who is a college-educated Afghan-American woman living in California

Please pray for our SEALs, because remember my expression “if I want to flip a table, when I’m upset, imagine how they feel, they don’t just punch a boxing bag, the boxing bag no longer exists after 3 minutes.”

I demand that weed is legal in all 50 states for veterans ASAP. Please let them deal with their Mental Health. I thank you in advance.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 336 | BENKYO RADIO 336

• America may pay dearly for defeat in Afghanistan [The Economist]

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• What we know about how the delta variant of covid is spreading [MIT Technology Review]

• Frontline workers are tired of policing masks and vaccines — and now they're demanding government intervention [Business Insider]

• ‘We see silence filled with fear’: female Afghan journalists plead for help [The Guardian]

• Biden Administration Prompts Largest Permanent Increase in Food Stamps [The New York Times]

• Malala Yousafzai ‘Deeply Worried About Women, Minorities’ As Taliban Takes Kabul [Huffington Post]

• Biden’s Betrayal of Afghans Will Live in Infamy [The Atlantic]

• Club Soccer Predictions [FiveThirtyEight]

• Opinion: Listen to the voices of Afghan women [The Washington Post]

• « Une protection immédiate doit être accordée aux anciens interprètes et auxiliaires afghans de l’armée française » [Le Monde]

• 4 simple ways to manage your Delta variant anger [Mashable]

• Reddit Quarantines AntiMask Antivax Subreddit [VICE News]

• The Fall of Kabul — Joe Biden claimed “zero” parallels between U.S. withdrawals from Afghanistan and Vietnam. As the Taliban take Kabul, he’s proved wrong. [The Intercept_]

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• 4 Reasons A Taliban Takeover In Afghanistan Matters To The World [NPR]

• Sacramento’s Plan To Build 20 New Shelter Sites For Homeless Residents Gets Approval, Draws Criticism [CapRadioNews]

• Quand les djihadistes étaient nos amis [Le Monde diplomatique]

• What Went Wrong With Afghanistan’s Defense Forces? [Foreign Policy]

• Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold — Why America Failed in Afghanistan [Foreign Affairs]

• What Does National Security Mean in a +2 Celsius World? [The Diplomat]

• How Steven Weinberg Transformed Physics and Physicists [Quanta magazine]

• Avez-vous vu le dernier vlog #ColliderDiaries? Les jeunes qui travaillent sur le @FCCstudy se livrent sur leur vie quotidienne et parlent de leur travail sur ce qui pourrait devenir le plus grand accélérateur au monde. [CERN_FR]

• University Students Prepare to ‘Rocket’ Experiments Into Space from NASA Wallops [NASA]

• Another Ndrangheta mafia boss captured following cooperation between Italy and Spain under the banner of INTERPOL’s I-CAN project. I-CAN is our global response to defeating Italy’s most powerful mafia. Together we can #StopNdrangheta [INTERPOL]

• USAF Will be Able to Airlift ‘Thousands’ from Afghanistan as More Troops Arrive in Kabul [Air Force Magazine]

• We Can Only Hope the 2023 Acura Integra Is as Rad as These Renders [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 336 & BENKYO RADIO 336.

The disaster continues in Afghanistan. We must save as many Afghans as we can. I call upon many countries around the global who can accept refugees.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 335 | BENKYO RADIO 335

• Niantic’s CEO believes the metaverse could be a ‘dystopian nightmare’ [TechMeme]

• Scoop: Joint Chiefs chairman moves up terrorist threat in Afghanistan [AXIOS]

• Heavy rainfall in Japan leads to mass evacuation warnings. Japanese authorities are encouraging more than 2 million people to seek shelter after “unprecedented” torrential rains have caused massive flooding and landslides across the country. [Quartz]

• The Amazon union drive isn’t over yet [Recode]

• Google’s ‘time crystals’ could be the greatest scientific achievement of our lifetimes [TheNextWeb]

• The Delta Wave Has Arrived: Here We Go Again [Eater]

• How the conversation around vaccine hesitancy is changing for the better [Platformer]

• The Senate Passed a $1 Trillion Infrastructure Deal. What's in It for You? — Among other things, count on access to valuable construction contracts, energy efficiency advice and grant money for upgrades. [Inc.]

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• On ‘We’re All Alone In This Together,’ Dave Finds A Happy Medium Between Sympathy And Empathy [UPROXX]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 335 & BENKYO RADIO 335.

It’s time to show some airpower in Afghanistan. The U.S. Air Force must display some firepower against these Taliban. They aren’t that powerful. Don’t tell me they can beat advanced weaponry from the sky. I understand that we need an end to this war since it was the military-industrial-complex, but you don’t invest $2 trillion dollars and watch it burn in less than 20 days. This is insulting and aggravating. Just display some airpower in front of the Taliban, and explain to them that they must let women/girls go to school, and men/boys to enjoy TV/Radio as they have been for these past 20 years. Don’t let the country turn into a new ISIS HQ. Even I heard that the Pentagon is not too thrilled with the latest developments out of the Middle East. All you have to do is flex some muscle using the U.S. Air Force. Let’s do it.

Until Next Time!