JETLAG RADIO 354 | BENKYO RADIO 354

September 06, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

Meet the Winner of Beatport’s 2021 Global Producer Challenge [beatportal]
Focusrite Clarett+ USB audio interfaces announced: is this “premium” range ageing like a fine wine? [Computer Music]
Reason Studios Reason 12 review [Future Music]
1 in 3 have experienced discrimination on the dancefloor, new report finds [DJ Mag]
What Do Your Parents Think? 4 South Asian DJs Share Their Family’s Reception to a Music Career [Mixmag]
Swedish House Mafia to make their MTV VMAs debut [Dancing Astronaut]
Steve Aoki & Armin van Buuren Rinse Out New Collab ID “Music Means Love Forever” [Your EDM]
Odesza Confirm New Music in 2022 [EDM.com]
Tungevaag x Bassjackers - “Written in The Stars” [EDM Sauce]
Modern Finance on Twitter [Modern.Finance]
Hey, HODINKEE! Winding Weirdness, Watch Wear Wisdom, And Heirloom Watches, Part Deux [HODINKEE]
Henry Shukman — Zen, Tools for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Using Wounds as the Doorway (#531) [tim.blog]
Reminder: Twelve and a Half: GaryVee’s upcoming new book [GaryVee]
Afghanistan: Medical needs grow as international organizations suspend activities [MSF]
Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalises abortion [The Economist]
Hard acts to follow, from Angela Merkel to the Queen [1843 magazine]
Rediscover Joy at Work [Harvard Business Review]
Nxivm sex cult co-founder Nancy Salzman sentenced to prison [BBC News]
Teachers Drowning in Debt [Bloomberg]
Taliban interim government agrees to let foreigners leave Afghanistan [Reuters]
Taliban must allow departures from Afghanistan, Blinken says [AL-Jazeera News]
Putin’s Crackdown on the Press [The New Yorker]
Razer’s Basilisk V3 has more LEDs and a brilliant scroll wheel [The Verge]
Democrats have a high-risk, high-reward plan to save Roe v. Wade [Vox]
‘The Matrix Resurrections’ is returning to a world the original film predicted and shaped [Mic]
This AI program will create a mashup DJ set from any songs you want [INPUT]
NBA Live Goes Free-to-Play? One Major Force is Stopping EA [INVERSE]
Sony Brought Its PlayStation A-Game Today [Kotaku]
7 Clever Ways You Can Use Your French Press (Other Than Making Coffee) [LifeHacker]
Twitter wants you to tweet to interest-based communities, not just followers [TechCrunch]
NASA’s Perseverance rover finally scooped up a piece of Mars [MIT Technology Review]
Senate Democrats weigh extending Biden's monthly $300 checks to families to 2024 in $3.5 trillion social spending plan [Insider]
Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11 [The Guardian]
Trump Wants Your Money. Again. [The New York Times]
Obama Enters CA Fray: No on Recall [Huffington Post]
After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong [The Atlantic]
2021 NFL Predictions [FiveThirtyEight]
After Ida, New Orleans residents find a source of hope: The ‘hurricane station’ — At the radio station that also remained on air through Katrina, hosts are sleeping in the office to broadcast round-the-clock. For many people in this powerless city, it’s a lifeline. [The Washington Post]
« Les attentats du 13-Novembre sont le point d’orgue du djihadisme européen, qui s’est structuré à partir du 11-Septembre » [Le Monde]
'Steve from 'Blue's Clues' returned and fans are coming to terms with growing up [Mashable]
Something Unexplained Is Sending Radio Signals From Our Galaxy's Center [VICE News]
General Failure: How the U.S. Military Lied About the 9/11 Wars [The Intercept_]
How harnessing the powers of venom could lead to new medicines [Nat Geo]
Biden Lays Out Plan To Mandate Vaccines Or Testing For Millions Of Workers [NPR]
Kamala Harris Headlines California Rally As Democrats Link Recall To National Battles [CapRadioNews]
Tout était pourtant écrit [Le Monde diplomatique]
How the U.S. Got 9/11 Wrong — The lone superpower inadvertently taught the rest of the world how to fight it—and win. [Foreign Policy]
Sound and Fury in the Post-9/11 Middle East [Foreign Affairs]
Don’t Underestimate Tajikistan in the Afghanistan Crisis [The Diplomat]
What the CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism Looks Like Now [The Cipher Brief]
How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron? [Quanta magazine]
Elémentaire mon cher Sheldon Right-pointing 🔎 #ThrowbackThursday avec une conférence de Sheldon Glashow en 1979. — Sheldon Glashow a reçu le @NobelPrize de Physique avec Abdus Salam et Steven Weinberg pour leur travail sur les particules élémentaires. [CERN_FR]
NASA Innovations Will Help U.S. Meet Sustainable Aviation Goals [NASA]
Good to meet with @DHSgov Deputy John Tien during the #G7 Ministerial. The US is one of INTERPOL’s strongest partners in our united action to combat all forms of transnational crime and terrorism. [INTERPOL]
Austin Warns Al-Qaida May Reemerge in a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan [Air Force Magazine]
Focused on strategic competition, Air Force Secretary Kendall confident “One Team, One Fight” will lead to success [Airman Magazine]
Tesla Model S Plaid Finally Set The Nurburgring Record For Production EVs [JALOPNIK]

BLOGPOST UPDATE IN PROGRESS

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 354 & BENKYO RADIO 354.

As I impatiently wait for my next copy of Thomas Piketty’s latest book on equality (it talks a lot about income inequality throughout history), I have finally researched what the evil organization that is ruling the world. They have about $9 Trillion in assets, and they are called “BlackRock.” They basically own Wall Street. That’s what Showtime’s BILLIONS show is based on. I thought it was based on Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos, but those two are pistachios compared to “BlackRock.” I would like news organizations such as VICE News and The Intercept to please make new documentaries about this craziness, and why I had never heard of them before since just now. Thank you.

Please submit your ballot in the mail! Vote NO on the Recall on Gavin Newsom! We cannot afford another Trump-like figure to be in charge of California! They would destroy any progress we’ve made to defeat the COVID-19 virus and its mutations.

I’m listening to NPR lately, here is a new Throughline podcast episode about Afghanistan.

The new Matrix trailer is out! Remember, it’s just a movie. “Zion” is not suffering, but the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are. Israel has plenty access to COVID-19 vaccines. Palestinians do not. THAT is what’s REAL.

Get vaccinated! Wear a mask! Practice social-distancing! Wash your hands!

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 353 | BENKYO RADIO 353

September 01, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

Ethereum Rival Solana Climbs to Seventh in Crypto Top 10 [TechMeme]
El Salvador buys 400 bitcoin ahead of making it legal currency [AXIOS]
Major crypto tokens are trading at their highest level since May, with bitcoin up 20% in the past month to more than $50,000, and ethereum up 40% to more than $3,900. Crypto prices tend to ping-pong around on the latest speculation [Quartz]
The ISS could be gone by 2024 — what does it mean the future of space travel? [TheNextWeb]
This Simple Dishwasher Magnet Is an Argument Ender [Eater]
How to Keep Up the Momentum After a Viral Hit [Inc.]
Why the ‘metaverse’ will prove to be more than a buzzword [Fast Company]
Play to Earn how playing on-line games can pay your bills [Medium]
Don't Be the Smartest Guy in the Room [Entrepreneur]
Amazon Fire Tablets And Kindles Are on Sale Right Now [WIRED]
This Week in Tech 839 [TWIT]
This $650 Laptop is AMAZING! [Dave 2D]
Testing the 2021 Ford Bronco - Sasquatch Edition! [iJustine]
Music, memories and mental health: An homage to Avicii [Google Blog]
Introducing Omnimattes: A New Approach to Matte Generation using Layered Neural Rendering [Google AI Blog]
Edgar Allan Poe Needs a Friend — Revisiting the relationships of “a man who never smiled.” [Lapham’s Quarterly]
Astronomers identify a new class of habitable planet [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 353 & BENKYO RADIO 353.

Here’s another reminder to please wear masks, practice social-distancing, wash your hands, and get vaccinated if you have not already. The COVID-19 vaccine for young children won’t be ready until late 2021, so the well-being of the children in the Community depends on YOU get vaccinated.

Also, I would like the FBI and local PD to please increase their investigation in Church Summer Camps around the country where there were no vaccinations and no mask wearing for signs of child sex abuse. Thanks in advance.

If you’re reading this, that means you survived Labor Day Weekend 2021 (LDW2021). Good job, that means you listened to the PSA about using a Designated Driver, and always wearing a seatbelt. It really makes a difference. Please prevent the trauma placed on CHP. They’re the guys/gals who show up at the scene of the accident, it gives them PTSD. Do you realize how much they hate having to constantly make PSAs during large holidays, and then some people still don’t listen and don’t wear a seatbelt? Wear a seatbelt, please. Do it for yourself, and your children. I thank you.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 352 | BENKYO RADIO 352

August 30, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

As part of Beatportal’s series on the history of electronic dance music, Harold Heath explores the roots, rise and continued development of tech house, from the early ‘90s to today. [beatportal]
9 quick ways to improve your mix [Computer Music]
DJ Seinfeld: "The debate is not whether lo-fi’s good or bad, but if that raw quality can bring something to a track" [Future Music]
11 emerging artists you need to hear this September [DJ Mag]
How DJ Diversity Clauses Can Make Dance Music a Better Place [Mixmag]
Franky Wah, Carl Cox unite for ‘We Are One’ [Dancing Astronaut]
Hardwell Returns with Rare Private Party Set b2b Ran-D in the Netherlands [Your EDM]
Porter Robinson Hired the Company Behind the Wizarding World of Harry Potter for his Music Festival [EDM.com]
In Search Of Sunrise 17 Mixed By Markus Schulz, Kryder & Kyau & Albert [EDM Sauce]
Editors’ Picks — HODINKEE’s 15 Best Dive Watch Stories [HODINKEE]
Listen on CryptoCurrency podcast MODERN FINANCE on various portals, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, and Amazon [modern.finance]
Sir James Dyson — Founder of Dyson and Master Inventor on How to Turn the Mundane into Magic (#530) [tim.blog]
Overrated or Underrated: Fortnite, McDonald’s, Twitch, The Rock, Robinhood & More! [GaryVee]
Lifesaving TB medicines still out of reach for children in high-burden countries [MSF]
After Afghanistan, Europe wonders if France was right about America [The Economist] (don’t get upset, I’m including various points of view)
Never order tabbouleh outside Lebanon [1843 magazine]
Why Business Leaders Need to Mandate the Covid-19 Vaccine [Harvard Business Review]
Child sex abuse lawsuits find prince and priests [BBC News]
Apple Should Shed Google and Build Its Own Search Engine [Bloomberg]
Biden orders declassification review of documents related to Sept. 11 attacks [Reuters] he will probably mention Saudi Govt involvement (Big Oil OPEC Cartel), but stay mute on MK-ULTRA
US seen funding Afghan humanitarian aid, but not the Taliban [AL-Jazeera News]
Forgetting my First Language [The New Yorker]
Christopher Lloyd plays Rick Sanchez in new Rick and Morty promo [The Verge]
The staggering implications of the Supreme Court’s Texas anti-abortion ruling [Vox]
For VCs, the game right now is musical chairs [TechCrunch]
How to keep the power on during hurricanes and heat waves and fires and… — Hurricane Ida offers the latest reminder that we need to rapidly rebuild our systems to withstand increasingly extreme events [MIT Technology Review]
Women's employment takes a massive hit as Delta surges and childcare becomes harder to find — and to afford [Insider]
California firefighters ‘stretched to limit’ as devastating blazes become the norm [The Guardian]
White House Seeks $65 Billion for ‘Apollo’ Plan to Prepare for Future Pandemics [The New York Times]
Charles Barkley Hits Anti-Vaccine Sports Stars With A Blunt Reminder [Huffington Post]
Is This How Democrats Break Their Midterm Curse? [The Atlantic]
Most Parents Want Their Kids Back In The Classroom. Fewer Agree On The COVID-19 Safety Measures. [FiveThirtyEight]
The covid endgame: Is the pandemic over already? Or are there years to go? [The Washington Post]
Football : l’équipe de France se contente d’un match nul en Ukraine [Le Monde]
'Shang-Chi' gives Marvel fans their first live-action look at the multiverse [Mashable]
Scientists Discovered a New Arctic Warning Signal for Catastrophic Winter Weather [VICE News]
Stuck at the border, migrant mothers confront a complex maze [Nat Geo]
Poison Control Centers Are Fielding A Surge Of Ivermectin Overdose Calls [NPR]
Not Enough Subs: California Schools Face Severe Teacher Shortage [CapRadioNews]
Le chemin de Kaboul [Le Monde diplomatique]
U.N. Return to Afghanistan: ‘This Is Completely Insane’ — A month ago, the United Nations was pulling its staff out of Afghanistan. Now, it’s headed back in to avert a major humanitarian crisis. [Foreign Policy]
Afghanistan’s Corruption Was Made in America — How Self-Dealing Elites Failed in Both Countries [Foreign Affairs]
What Will the Taliban Do With Their New US Weapons? [The Diplomat]
The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does [Quanta magazine]
Le Portail de la science du CERN prend forme Star-struck — La première structure tubulaire du #CERNScienceGateway a été installée. Avec ses 10 m de diamètre et 80 m de long, elle accueillera les expositions permanentes et temporaires du CERN. [CERN_FR]
Mars Perseverance Rover Gathers Rock Sample [NASA]
Pleased to meet with @Europol Executive Director Catherine De Bolle at their headquarters in The Hague (where we will soon discuss War Crimes by Israel). Our discussions focused on recent shifts in global crime, as well as the situation in #Afghanistan. [INTERPOL]
House Impatient With Air Force’s and Navy’s Electronic Warfare Progress [Air Force Magazine]
Hondas, Acuras, Oh My! An Old Skool Honda Meet Brings Out the '80s and '90s [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 352 & BENKYO RADIO 352.

PSA: It’s Labor Day Weekend. Please drive safe, and utilize a Designated Driver. Always wear your seatbelt, I implore you. Thank you.

I’m reading HODINKEE magazine recently. I wanted to support Kevin Rose, because I remember many years ago when millions of us geeks used to wait impatiently for that next episode of DiggNation, a podcast where him and his best friend Alex Albrecht drank beers and talked about all things Tech. It was really fun.

The U.S. Secretary of State is traveling to Qatar and a U.S. Base in Germany. The Germans are going to help with the efforts for Afghan Refugees. French Diplomats are working tirelessly around the clock making things happen too. Americans in various organizations are also using backchannels to help out as well.

The video below is about another Drum & Bass documentary. Remember my DnB Radio Show / podcast “GT RADIO” is available on Spotify.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 351 | BENKYO RADIO 351

August 28, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

Linux/BSD command line wizardry: Learn to think in sed, awk, and grep — "Do people really write these long, convoluted commands?" In a word: yes. [Ars Technica] #LINUX
New AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation to Make Quantum Computing More Efficient [Tom’s Hardware] #AMD
Nvidia’s new voice A.I. sounds just like a real person [digitaltrends] #NVIDIA
Introducing Intel Arc [Intel] #IntelCorporation
Windows 11 won’t include Android app support at launch [TechMeme]
Why the startup world needs to ditch "unicorns" for "dragons" [AXIOS]
The US has left Afghanistan. The final evacuation flight took off a minute before the midnight deadline, after military personnel disabled US Humvees and aircraft left at the airport. The US will not have a diplomatic presence in the country either. The Taliban fired celebratory shots in the air to proclaim “full independence.” [Quartz]
Amazon’s favorite electric vehicle company is going public at a very tricky time [Recode]
Why the Pentagon’s probably drooling over the upcoming Age of Empires 4 launch [TheNextWeb]
The Ultimate Guide to Tequila [Eater]
You Made the Inc. 5000! Congratulations! Now What? [Inc.]
Flipboard’s new system for identifying your interests isn’t AI: It’s you [Fast Company]
You Don’t Need An Excuse to Work Less [Medium] especially if they are behind on your paychecks
How to Win Bigger Deals and Avoid Getting Ghosted [Entrepreneur]
The $150 Million Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive [WIRED]
This Week in Tech 838 [TWIT]
Preventing overdose: Google parents share their stories [Google Blog]
Recreating Natural Voices for People with Speech Impairments [Google AI Blog]
Tokens of Appreciation [Lapham’s Quarterly]
Ask Astro: Why do we have meteor showers every year? [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 351 & BENKYO RADIO 351.

Taking a diplomatic approach with Afghanistan will result in fewer American casualties, according to President Biden. Let’s see if the talks in Qatar amount to anything. There are still some Americans stranded in the country. I expect NATO and European Diplomats to work on this issue. I’m sure my coworkers in France have a plan. I’ve already told you, you think the magic is always coming from the USA, but European Diplomats do a lot of fucking work. Why do you think we/they drink so much coffee in France?

20 years was a long time for a fucking war. Please reach out to your Military/Veterans friends. If all they request is that you pray for them, do so, even if you’re not religious. It means a lot to them. I myself am just spiritual with a little bit of Zen Buddhism and believe in Optimus Prime and the Autobots, but I will gladly sit down during service and pray for fallen comrades. Remember, I’ve dealt with Mental Health (stable for 10 years). Imagine what they’re going through. Their burden is a lot more complicated. Be there for them. It could be as simple as having a beer or a shot of liquor with them.

Along with many people, I am watching a few UFO documentaries, while I eat my sunflower seeds. Remember, the most we know is that yes indeed they exist and that the U.S. Military has done “reverse-engineering” to create spy planes. That’s why when you look in the sky and you think it’s aliens, 99% of the time it’s not, it’s just the U.S. Military flying around. I’ve already told you, the SR-72 is pretty bad-ass. You’ll just have to wait a decade or so to hear more about it.

Don’t forget to vote NO on the California Governor Recall! Can’t afford any new leadership that looks like Trump! We will not abide by their Death-Cult! We want people to get vaccinated and wear masks so we can return to reality! Do I need to remind you that it will soon be 2 years of this pandemic? Do you want it to go into year 3 and year 4? If not, we need to keep our Democratic Governor!

Please get vaccinated if you have not yet. When more and more children end up in hospitals because adults weren’t vaccinated, it’s time to put some of these people in jail. No more BSing around. This shit is serious. Thanks in advance.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 350 | BENKYO RADIO 350

August 27, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

Vaccine inequality will cost money as well as lives [The Economist]
Editor’s Picks: August 30th 2021 [Economic Radio]
You’ve Built a Racially Diverse Team. But Have You Built an Inclusive Culture? [Harvard Business Review]
Cristiano Ronaldo: Man Utd complete move to re-sign forward [BBC Sport]
Apple Plans to Add Satellite Features to iPhones for Emergencies [Bloomberg]
Blinken vows to help Americans still in Afghanistan [Reuters]
Palestinian president, Israeli defence minister hold rare talks [AL-Jazeera News]
Biden’s Chaotic Withdrawal from Afghanistan is Complete [The New Yorker]
Apple Cares about Privacy, Unless You Work at Apple [The Verge]
Is it really the right time to end pandemic unemployment insurance? — The dangerous delta variant is spreading. The future of schools is unclear. And millions of workers are about to be kicked off unemployment. [Vox]
Square to launch a new paid subscription, Invoices Plus [TechCrunch]
Why capturing carbon is an essential part of Biden’s climate plans [MIT Technology Review]
A record-breaking 44 container ships are stuck off the coast of California [Insider]
Fox News accused of stoking violence after Tucker Carlson ‘revolt’ prediction [The Guardian]
To Save Lake Tahoe, They Spared No Expense. The Fire Came Over the Ridge Anyway. [The New York Times]
Former Fox News Editor: Network ‘Failed’ To Stand Up To Trump [HuffPost]
Vaccine Refusers Don’t Get to Dictate Terms Anymore — People who opt out of shots shouldn’t expect their employers, health insurers, and fellow citizens to accommodate them. [The Atlantic]
The War In Afghanistan Is Officially Ending. Now What? [FiveThirtyEight]
An Afghan politician spent her life working for women’s rights. She barely made it out of the country. [The Washington Post]
Plusieurs pays européens privilégient la sécurité à la solidarité avec les réfugiés [Le Monde]
A beginner's guide to podcasting: What apps and software do I need? [Mashable]
Lorde Is Proof That Even Pop Stars Get Burnout [BuzzFeed.News] #JEXI
A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into Highway Patrol Car [VICE News]
Andrew Quilty and Rep. Ilhan Omar on Afghanistan [The Intercept_]
Planet 9 may be closer and easier to find than thought—if it exists [Nat Geo]
After Lionshead, threat of megafires looms large on Warm Springs reservation [NPR]
California Just Closed All National Forests Through Sept. 17 [CapRadioNews]
Tous à l’école jusqu’à 18 ans ! [Le Monde diplomatique]
The Taliban Can’t Control Afghanistan. That Should Worry the West. [Foreign Policy]
Who Won the War on Terror? [Foreign Affairs]
The Fall of Afghanistan Echoes in Myanmar [The Diplomat]
Why We Need a New National Defense Strategy [The Cipher Brief]
Banach-Tarski and the Paradox of Infinite Cloning [Quanta magazine]
Voici l'installation du tube de faisceaux à l'intérieur du détecteur de @CMSExperiment. . C'est là dedans que les faisceaux du LHC entrent en collision au point d'interaction. [CERN_FR]
An Accidental Discovery Hints at a Hidden Population of Cosmic Objects [NASA]
‘Continued imperative to combat ISIS’ –INTERPOL Secretary General [INTERPOL]
F-35 Not as Survivable as Previously Hoped, HASC Chair Says [Air Force Magazine]
Nissan Considering NISMO-Branded Trucks, SUVs for U.S. [MOTORTREND]

BLOGPOST UPDATE IN PROGRESS

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 350 & BENKYO RADIO 350.

Benjamin aka Bibidi Netanyahu killed 66 children over a period of 11 days in the Palestinian Territories. He is not above the law. He is no longer Prime Minister. He must face justice. The best way you can confirm that “Israel doesn’t control the world” is to have a proper judicial event and charge Netanyahu for his horrific war crimes against Humanity. Thanks in advance.

U.S. Troops are out but Afghanistan is not “over.” Listen to Paul Rieckhoff for the latest.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 349 | BENKYO RADIO 349

August 26, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

Square Plans to Build a Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange, Says Jack Dorsey [TechMeme]
“Extremely dangerous” Hurricane Ida lashes Louisiana coast [AXIOS]
Africa’s entertainment industry, including video streaming services, is in a rapid growth phase. Spurred by a young population and increasing internet connectivity, it is gaining a larger audience and raising record amounts of funding. [Quartz]
Why no one really knows how bad Facebook’s vaccine misinformation problem is [Recode]
WTF is Science Corp? Neuralink co-founder creates secretive brain-hacking company [TheNextWeb]
A San Francisco Oyster Institution Was Called Out for Racism. Will It Change? [Eater]
Wildfire Tech Finally Sees Investor Momentum [Inc.]
Vaccines could affect how COVID-19 evolves—but that’s no reason to skip your shot [Fast Company]
🤬🐈 Aww, they’re pretending to do twitters! [Medium]
2 Reasons Why Striving to Be Bored is Solid Business Advice [Entrepreneur]
20 Amazingly Addictive Couch Co-Op Games [WIRED]
Cloth Face Mask [TWIT]
Final Fantasy 14 birthday cake will make you want to eat a moogle [PC Gamer]
The Sky This Week: The Moon meets Uranus [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 349 & BENKYO RADIO 349.

Just like the previous blogpost, I am including a video about COVID-19 and its reality. Please get vaccinated. It won’t be safe out there for you and your family unless you’re vaccinated. Thanks in advance.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 348 | BENKYO RADIO 348

August 25, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

Relive EE x Beatport Presents: Parallel with Yousef, Hot Since 82, DJ Paulette, and more. [beatportal]
Go on a field recording adventure in new PlayStation game Season [Computer Music]
Rudosa: "It seems like Logic is an afterthought for Apple, and I'd sooner work on a DAW that's a company's main focus" [Future Music]
Pioneer DJ Launches Professional Rekordbox Plan with Unlimited Dropbox Storage [DJ Mag]
Outkast’s ‘Atliens’ Gets Special Edition to Celebrate 25th Anniversary [Mixmag]
Insomniac to require proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test result for all events [Dancing Astronaut]
Martin Garrix & Maejor aka AREA21 Drop Dance/Pop Crossover “Lovin’ Every Minute” [Your EDM]
Taliban Bans Public Music in Afghanistan [EDM.com]
Damon Fletcher X Robbie Rosen – Catchin’ Dreams [EDM Sauce]
MoFi Consensus — Art Blocks, H=N NFT platform, Avalanche yield farming, and a $35 NFT Kevin is collecting [Modern Finance]
Books by Tim Ferriss [tim.blog]
Twelve and a Half [GaryVee]
Amid uncertainty, hospitals are still full in Afghanistan [MSF]
The Social Democrats’ surge upends Germany’s election campaign [The Economist]
San Francisco’s recovery is stuttering—why is the home of innovation so poorly governed? [Economist Radio]
How to Ask a Colleague to Mask Up [Harvard Business Review]
Cristiano Ronaldo: Man Utd 'reach agreement' to re-sign Juventus forward [BBC Sport] Thank you, Sir Alex Ferguson
England gets ready for mass COVID inoculations for 12- to 15-year-olds [Reuters]
US intel community remains ‘divided’ on COVID-19 origin —Intelligence agencies fail to shed light on whether the virus came from an infected animal or a Chinese laboratory. [AL-Jazeera News]
Is the Digital Age Costing Us the Ability to Wander? [The New Yorker]
The Windows 11 upgrade situation just got less and more confusing [The Verge]
The lab leak hypothesis — true or not — should teach us a lesson [Vox]
The remote work argument has already been won by startups [TechCrunch]
The miracle molecule that could treat brain injuries and boost your fading memory [MIT Technology Review]
Biden said the US will 'hunt' down ISIS-K over deadly Kabul attack, but his options are limited [Insider]
Unvaccinated teacher infected half her students with Covid, CDC finds [The Guardian]
Flight Attendants’ Hellish Summer: ‘I Don’t Even Feel Like a Human’ [The New York Times]
Delta Is Coming For Jails And Prisons, And The System Isn’t Ready To Protect The Incarcerated [Huffington Post]
Americans Are Losing Sight of the Pandemic Endgame [The Atlantic]
UEFA Champions League Predictions [FiveThirtyEight]
How the pandemic set back women’s progress in the global workforce [The Washington Post]
En Irak, Macron confronté à l’onde de choc afghane - Le chef de l’Etat français a rencontré l’émir du Qatar pour discuter de la poursuite, via Doha, de l’évacuation de civils afghans menacés par les talibans. [Le Monde]
Netflix saves the canned NBC series 'Manifest' for one final season [Mashable]
Pipeline to Water Golf Courses in Drought-Stricken West Is US’ ‘Stupidest Project’ [VICE News]
These women fled Afghanistan. What's at stake for those left behind? [Nat Geo]
Indian Boarding Schools' Traumatic Legacy, And The Fight To Get Native Ancestors Back [NPR]
Interview: Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn Discusses Decision To Retire [CapRadioNews]
L’Union chrétienne-démocrate, ou la droite allemande élastique [Le Monde diplmomatique]
In Taliban’s New Afghan Emirate, Women Are Invisible — “All the women of Afghanistan have one fear, the Taliban,” said former deputy defense minister Munera Yousufzada. [Foreign Policy]
How the Good War Went Bad — America’s Slow-Motion Failure in Afghanistan [Foreign Affairs]
To Compete With Beijing, the Quad Must Remain Pro-Asia, Not Anti-China [The Diplomat]
What We Need to Know About the Taliban and Its Sharia Rule [The Cipher Brief]
The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does [Quanta magazine]
Les portes d'@ALICEexperiment ont été fermées en juillet, marquant symboliquement la fin d'un travail d'amélioration mais soulignant aussi à quel point nous sommes proches du #Run3 du #LHC. [CERN_FR]
SpaceX Cargo Launches to International Space Station [NASA]
Inside a French police crackdown on the Eurasian mob [INTERPOL]
Q&A: Welcome Back, Secretary Kendall [Air Force Magazine]
2J-Geez! How to Get 2,400 HP Out of Two Mk4 Toyota Supras [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 348 & BENKYO RADIO 348.

I’m including a video about the reality of COVID-19 because people need to realize how dangerous it is, and how important it is to be vaccinated, so we can enjoy large gatherings again. Get vaccinated. Thanks in advance.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 347 | BENKYO RADIO 347

August 24, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

“Tribe AI got more done in 4 weeks than our in-house team did in a year.” [TechMeme]
Driving the news: Chinese officials had no knowledge of the virus prior to its initial outbreak, according to the report, though it doesn't rule out the lab leak or animal transmission theories. The intelligence community "remains divided." [AXIOS]
The US may have a new top secret space weapon. What is it? [Quartz]
Apple has changed its App Store rules, and Apple’s critics aren’t satisfied [Recode]
Virgin Hyperloop wants to get you excited about riding its ultra-fast pods — but there’s a long way to go [TheNextWeb]
I Don’t Think This Is What People Meant by ‘Three Square Meals a Day’ [Eater]
All the most popular posts on Facebook are plagiarized [Platformer]
Why Mandating Covid-19 Vaccines Is Good for Business — Helping your employees get vaccinated or requiring them to do so isn't just good for the overall health of your workplace, it may also save you money. [Inc.]
Why the Pumpkin Spice Latte will never die [Fast Company]
#VaccinesSaveLives [Medium]
Krispy Kreme is Giving Away Millions of Free Doughnuts to Americans [Entrepreneur]
New Vaccine Decisions, an Influx of Mandates, and More Coronavirus News [WIRED]
The Tech Guy 1822 [TWIT]
Samsung Z Flip 3 Review: The First Big Step! [MKBHD]
No new videos [Sam Sheffer]
No new videos [Dave2D]
No new videos [iJustine]
Fitbit Charge 5: Redefining strength [Google Blog]
Google too lazy to update Google AI Blog. Last updated on August 12, 2021. [Google AI Blog]
The Lonely Generation — Twenty-first-century relationships, by the numbers. [Lapham’s Quarterly]
"Tiger Stripes" on Enceladus could be even more unique than previously thought [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 347 & BENKYO RADIO 347.

This blog post is about Drum & Bass. Over the past 2-3 blogposts, I’ve included a documentary about the genre. It’s a style of Electronic Music which is making a big comeback. Who helped with this comeback? The entire DnB community. Also, a couple years ago, I started GT RADIO and loved the genre so much, that it’s quickly catching up to JETLAG RADIO! I am currently at GT RADIO 204, but you can go ahead and enjoy older episodes. Now, reach out to your Drum & Bass Gods such as Netsky, and etc, and tell them you want to hear more new Drum & Bass music!

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 346 | BENKYO RADIO 346

August 22, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in music, reading, blog

Instantly access a world of music. [Beatport Link]
The Urban Puncher plugin promises to make a good fist of beefing up your drum sounds [Computer Music]
The video for Caribou's new single is the only cute dog footage you'll need this week [Future Music]
10 new music documentaries to watch online [DJ Mag]
More than 1,000 Latitude Festival Attendees Have Tested Positive for COVID [Mixmag]
GUMMiBEAR turns in brand new original work, ‘BMW’ featuring Mark Dohner [Dancing Astronaut]
Deadmau5 Is Launching His Own Virtual World, Oberhasli, An Interactive Music/Entertainment Experience [Your EDM]
Watch NFL Superstar J.J. Watt Try to Explain Eric Prydz’s Music [EDM.com]
Best Earplugs For Concerts [EDM Sauce]
Bloomberg Studio 1.0 — Vitalik Buterin [Emily Chang]
The Solana Blockchain: Ethereum Killer or Piece of a Larger Puzzle [Modern Finance (Kevin Rose)]
Sunscreens and sun protection with Dr. Brian Diffey [The Darya Rose Show]
Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, on Wikipedia’s Real Genesis Story, Best Business Decisions, Understanding Financial Markets, Developing a Questioning Mind, and the Value of Optimism (#528) [Tim Ferriss]
Twelve and a Half: Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success [GaryVee]
Seeking healthcare in Taiz, a city split by a frontline [MSF]
Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, said that about 1,500 American citizens remain in Afghanistan, and a third are known to want to leave. The Biden administration has placed 45,000 phone calls and sent 20,000 emails to those it suspected of being in the country in its effort to airlift them out by August 31st. American forces have entered Kabul on several occasions and brought evacuees to the airport—most recently on Tuesday by helicopter. More than 82,000 people have been evacuated since the Taliban seized the capital. [The Economist]
Physics is in flux—the search for a new theory of everything [The Economist Radio - Podcasts]
What We Still Need to Learn about AI in Marketing — and Beyond [Harvard Business Review]
Delta variant: How to keep kids safe as they return to school [BBC News]
Roughly 1,500 U.S. citizens likely still in Afghanistan -Blinken [Reuters]
More than 10,000 waiting to be evacuated at Kabul airport: US [AL-Jazeera News]
Microsoft wants Chrome OS users running Office web apps, not Android apps [The Verge]
How California’s bizarre recall system could elect a Republican governor [Vox]
Using AI to reboot brand-client relationships [TechCrunch]
The Mind issue [MIT Technology Review]
Lucid says its first electric car drove 445 miles from Los Angeles to San Francisco without charging, easily besting Tesla's range [Insider]
Bob Woodward’s third book in Trump trilogy to cover handling of pandemic [The Guardian]
U.S. Warns Americans of Threat at Kabul Airport: ‘Leave Immediately’ [The New York Times]
Billionaire Erik Prince Charges $6,500 Per Person To Evacuate Afghanistan: Report [HuffPost]
The Coronavirus Could Get Worse [The Atlantic] Especially if Republicans like Trump come back to power. It would be an even bigger disaster
Some NBA Summer League Stars Look ‘Too Good’ To Be There. What Does That Mean For Their Futures? [FiveThirtyEight]
When your friend group has that one person who won’t get vaccinated [The Washington Post]
Afghanistan : le G7 renonce à la prolongation des évacuations au-delà du 31 août [Le Monde]
'Spider-Man: No Way Home' trailer sees Peter Parker seeking help from Doctor Strange [Mashable]
A Signal from Space Is on a 16-Day Cycle. Scientists Just Ruled Out an Explanation [VICE News]
Anand Gopal and Richard Ojeda on Afghanistan [The Intercept_]
CDC, FDA, NIH—what’s the difference? [National Geographic]
COVID Booster Shots Are Coming. Here's What You Need To Know [NPR]
As Sacramento Welcomes A New Wave Of Afghan Refugees, Housing And Mental Health Struggles Could Be Challenges [CapRadioNews]
Bienvenue au « Sahelistan » ! [Le Monde diplomatique]
How Biden Can Save His China Strategy After Afghanistan [Foreign Policy]
The Good Enough Doctrine — Learning to Live With Terrorism [Foreign Affairs]
Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan Stokes Bangladesh’s Terrorist Fears [The Diplomat]
What Intelligence was there on Afghanistan? [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]
NASA Invites Media to Launch of Lucy Mission to Study Trojan Asteroids [NASA]
Dubai Police arrest two of Italy’s most wanted [INTERPOL]
European Bases Increase Support for Fleeing Afghans as Airlift Continues [Air Force Magazine]
Track-Devouring 2000 Acura Integra Packs a 241-HP TSX Heart [MOTORTREND]
Protecting GPS is the Space Force’s most important job, according to their new commercial — “Space is hard.” [Task & Purpose]
Help Afghan families [IRC]

Many of you have now received your ballot in the mail for the Recall in California. It is imperative that you vote NO on the Recall. Just imagine if a Republican like Trump was running California, we would face an Apocalypse. Don’t let that happen. They want to remove mask mandates and vaccines. That would increase the number of dead Americans from 600,000 to 2 million people over the next year. Bob Woodward is writing another book, be sure to pick it up. We can’t afford Trump and his cronies to leading our government. They are pathetic at managing situations. They have so many fiascos, and more to come. Do not forget that the FBI is still investigating Trump. It’s bad. It’s really, really bad. We need to keep Gavin Newsom. He needs to continue handling the COVID-19 crisis, and provide support to Firefighters for the fire season. It’s almost September! Just need to go through September and October, and we shall (hopefully) have some rain in California! Hooray!

I am happy to let you know that Reach Out Worldwide is getting involved in helping Afghan refugees, including medical care, hygienic products, clothes, food, water, etc. There will be more details soon. This means the world to me. Thank you, guys.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 345 | BENKYO RADIO 345

August 21, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

A look at Vaccine Talk, a tightly moderated Facebook group for vaccine skeptics with ~70K members that aims to change their minds with evidence-based info [TechMeme]
ICU beds are running out again [AXIOS]
The rise of hybrid and remote work has been a boon for Best Buy as shoppers upgrade their electronics more frequently. The retailer’s stock closed up 8% on Tuesday following an earnings beat and a more positive full-year outlook. [Quartz]
Employees hate their commute, not the office [TheNextWeb]
Explore Punch, Your Source for All Things Drinking [Eater]
The platforms’ Taliban dilemma [Platformer]
The FDA Grants Full Approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine. Expect a Flurry of Employer MandatesThe vote of confidence is expected to give employers greater legal and moral runway to require vaccinations. [Inc.]
5 ways to manage the pressure you’re feeling on the job [Fast Company]
UFO - A data science approach [Medium]
How to Stop Getting Distracted and Regain Your Focus [Entrepreneur]
How Caffeine Has Fueled History [WIRED]
MacBreak Weekly 780 [TWIT]
The Tesla Bot: Explained! [MKBHD]
The Best $150 Custom Keyboard [Dave2D]
NEW LEGO Luigi and LEGO Mario sets! [iJustine]
These researchers are bringing AI to farmers [Google Blog]
Mutual Aid and Support [Lapham’s Quarterly]
The Sky This Week: View the Blue Sturgeon Moon [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 345 & BENKYO RADIO 345.

I’d like to thank everybody who is actively doing their best to help Afghan interpreters and refugees escape the turmoil of Afghanistan which has been taken over by the Taliban.

Thank you to State Department Secretary of State for supplying COVID-19 vaccines to Palestinians which have been ignored by Israel.

Thank you to H.N. for what you do. Please tell conservatives to get vaccinated and wear a mask, or, we will never have Herd Immunity.

The COVID-19 vaccine is FDA-approved! If you haven’t been vaccinated yet, please do so. The vaccines for age 2 to 12 has been delayed until late 2021. Please don’t jeopardize the lives of our youth in this country. Continue to wear masks, and get vaccinated, because Vaccines Save Lives.

Until Next Time!