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

We look at 10 artists leading the French house revolution. [beatportal]
Music theory basics: notes, intervals, scales and chords explained [Computer Music]
Native Instruments celebrates 25th anniversary with new free instrument and limited-edition hardware [Future Music]
Album of the Month: Eris Drew ‘Quivering In Time’ [DJ Mag]
Manchester Community Radio Station Announces Party for its First Anniversary [Mixmag]
Ross From Friends releases glitzy new album, ‘Tread’ [Dancing Astronaut]
Swedish House Mafia Announce First US Tour In 10 Years, Release New Single With The Weeknd [Your EDM]
EDM.com’s 2021 Halloween Event Guide [EDM.com]
Emma McGann — Teary Eyed [EDM Sauce]
A Complete Newbie Attempts To Understand How A Watch Actually Works [HODINKEE]
18 days until next book release! [GaryVee]
Enter third-wave economics [The Economist]
“It’s a wonderful place...a playland.” The Hong Kongers fleeing to Blackpool [1843 magazine]
What to Do About “Back to the Office” Jitters [Harvard Business Review]
US white supremacists face a legal reckoning [BBC World]
Shiba Inu Surges to Record as Robinhood Petition Passes 300,000 [Bloomberg]
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now [Reuters]
25th Anniversary — The price of truth: AL Jazeera marks 25 dangerous years [AL-Jazeera News]
Joe Manchin’s Deep Corporate Ties [The New Yorker]
Photoshop will get a ‘prepare as NFT’ option soon [The Verge]
Is ignoring the pandemic a crime against humanity? [Vox]
An all-electric Range Rover is coming in 2024 [TechCrunch]
How AI could solve supply chain shortages and save Christmas [MIT Technology Review]
An Artificial Intelligence Strategy for NATO [LinkedIn]
Biden condemns ‘acolyte of Trump’ in crucial Virginia governor’s race [The Guardian]
Why ‘Evangelical’ Is Becoming Another Word for ‘Republican’ [The New York Times]
The Most Popular Spooky Children's Movie In Each State [Huffington Post]
Four Measures That Are Helping Germany Beat COVID [The Atlantic]
Americans Don’t Trust Their Congressional Maps To Be Drawn Fairly. Can Anything Change That? [FiveThirtyEight]
Formula One racing is gaining traction in the United States, and an emerging fan base is along for the ride [The Washington Post]
A Saint-Etienne, Emmanuel Macron se fait le chantre d’une France conquérante — En déplacement dans la Loire, lundi, le chef de l’Etat a déconstruit les thèses déclinistes, attaquant sans le citer Eric Zemmour. [Le Monde]
Netflix's 'Cowboy Bebop' trailer hints at Spike Spiegel's mysterious past [Mashable]
Black and Latinx People Care More About Climate Change Than White People: Poll [VICE News]
Mostly rich people avoid paying $600 billion a year in taxes, in part through lack of income reporting to the IRS that Biden is trying to change. [The Intercept]
Helping kids overcome a fear of shots [Nat Geo]
Record rainfall drenches drought-stricken California and douses wildfires [NPR]
What you need to know about COVID boosters [CapRadioNews]
Climat, une conférence à la recherche du temps perdu [Le Monde diplomatique]
The Pentagon’s Office Culture Is Stuck in 1968 [Foreign Policy]
The International Order Isn’t Ready for the Climate Crisis [Foreign Affairs]
Beijing and the UN [The Diplomat]
How Tadayuki Watanabe Disproved a Major Conjecture About Spheres [Quanta Magazine]
Excited about @CERN's #QuantumTechnology Initiative? Stay tuned to our LinkedIn channel to keep track of all the latest activities and updates related to #CERNqti: #honestbroker #particlephysics [CERNquantum]
NASA Invites Media to Learn About S-MODE Mission [NASA]
A good meeting with Ikramov Azizbek, Uzbekistan’s Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs to discuss a range of issues including combating terrorism and border security. [INTERPOL]
Alternate Fighter Plan: Cut F-15EX, Extend F-22, Buy New Stealth Jets, More F-35s [Air Force Magazine]
Wekfest Makes Its Triumphant Return to the Heart of L.A. [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

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Right now, we basically have a choice between Democrats, who are upstanding citizens, and Republicans who act like Slavery never happened in America. I implore you to read Obama & Bruce Springsteen’s latest book as soon as you can, which is on my Bookclub for December.

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

Blockchain gaming companies call on Valve to reverse its NFT ban [Protocol]
Welcome to the world’s most popular manga! Jump right in to experience explosive action and sensational storytelling! [SHONEN JUMP]
The 12 Best Games on PlayStation Now [KOTAKU]
Patch 1.31 for Cyberpunk 2077 is now available on PC, consoles, and Stadia. [Cyberpunk 2077]
There Will Be No Sexy Knuckles in The Sonic 2 Movie [IGN]
Gran Turismo 7 Has Over 400 New Cars, New Video Teases [GameSpot]
Let’s break down that Halo Infinite campaign trailer [Polygon]
Bring back 1UP.com please! [1up.com]
Study: Fear of debt keeps Latinos out of college [AXIOS]
Best Companies for Remote Workers 2021 [Quartz]
Apple Saved Music. Why Not TV? [Recode]
Ethereum’s upgrade is finally coming — will it overtake Bitcoin? [TheNextWeb]
The Eater Guide on How to Help During the Crisis [Eater]
The Whiskey Unicorn Goes Crypto [Punch Drink]
Why You Don't Need to Be an Expert in Your Field to Start a Billion-Dollar Company [Inc.]
You can finally buy rapid at-home COVID-19 tests on Amazon [Fast Company]
Ten Different Types of Coffee Drinks Explained [Medium]
4 Unconventional Ways to Increase Productivity While Staying Sane During Your Work Day [Entrepreneur]
Dystopia Is Upon Us. Are You Ready? [WIRED]
This Week in Tech 846 [TWiT]
Climate change is humanity’s next big moonshot [Google Blog]
Deciding Which Tasks Should Train Together in Multi-Task Neural Networks [Google AI Blog]
A Long American Tradition [Lapham’s Quarterly]
The Sky This Week: Spot the moment Venus reaches dichotomy [Astronomy Magazine]
From Zero to Google and How Getting Certifications Pays Off [Salesforce Blog]

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I want to thank Hideo Kojima for releasing a volume 2 soundtrack to Death Stranding. This game has been extremely therapeutic during the pandemic. I really hope he releases the PS5 Director’s Cut version for PC.

Have you seen Major Dad on Netflix? It’s a really good show.

Until Next Time!

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

Masters at Work and Harvey Sutherland Remix New Surprise Chef EP [beatportal]
Arturia's V4.0 MicroFreak firmware update adds WaveUser synth engine and 64 new presets [Computer Music]
The 10 best synth presets in history - and where to hear them [Future Music]
Wu-Tang Clan Video Game Reportedly in Development [DJ Mag]
The Vinyl Straw: Why the Vinyl Industry is at Breaking Point [Mixmag]
Watch Lil Nas X make a surprise appearance during Diplo’s EDC performance [Dancing Astronaut]
DJ Snake Releases Latest Mega-Collab With Ozuna, Megan Thee Stallion, & LISA of BLACKPINK, “SG” [Your EDM]
Meet Nebula, Manhattan’s Biggest Nightclub to open since 2020 [EDM.com]
LUM!X, MOLOW Drop Electro Halloween Anthem “Trick Or Treat” [EDM Sauce]
Watching Movies Owen Wilson Heads To Sea With A Rolex Pepsi GMT In 'The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou' [HODINKEE]
Nearly 400 people rescued from the Mediterranean need a place of safety [MSF]
21 days until Sixth Major Book Release! [GaryVee]
A real-time revolution will upend the practice of macroeconomics [The Economist]
How to get 120 Afghans out of Kabul [1843 magazine]
Chappelle slams cancel culture amid Netflix furor [BBC News] if you’re more upset about Dave Chappelle’s special than Korea’s Squid Game, something is wrong with you, not with Dave (Source: Bill Maher)
Stop Playing Nice With Russian Computer Hackers — State-sponsored digital pirates aren’t going away and need to be met with more coordinated and forceful action. [Bloomberg Opinion]
Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine protective, safe in young children [Reuters]
Kashmiris beaten, Shami abused after India loses to Pakistan [AL-Jazeera News]
Revisiting “The 4-Hour Workweek” [The New Yorker]
MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 MAX Impressions: Giving the People What They Want [The Verge]
Who should get a Covid-19 booster shot right now? [Vox]
macOS Monterey is now live [TechCrunch]
How AI is reinventing what computers are [MIT Technology Review]
Hertz is ordering 100,000 Teslas in the largest electric-vehicle purchase ever [Insider]
Worst of US pandemic likely behind us but we can’t drop our guard, experts say [The Guardian]
Tax the Rich, Help America’s Children [The New York Times]
12 Ways To Sneak In Mental Health Breaks Throughout Your Day [Huffington Post]
The Facebook Papers — ‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’ — Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it. [The Atlantic]
All The Science You Need To Make Your COVID-19 Decisions [FiveThirtyEight]
CDC director encourages kids to go outside on Halloween and ‘enjoy your trick-or-treating’ [The Washington Post]
Quels sont les rêves de la jeunesse rurale en France ? [Le Monde]
Add some pizazz to your space with these smart light bars on sale [Mashable]
Internet Service Providers Collect, Sell Horrifying Amount of Sensitive Data, Government Study Concludes [VICE News]
As Sen Joe Machin’s Star Rose in West Virginia, The FBI and IRS Probed his Closest Allies [The Intercept]
How to travel the world—by radio [Nat Geo]
In a new book, Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen envision a more unified America [NPR]
Sacramento went from record drought to record rain. Climate change may make that more common. [CapRadioNews]
« Le Monde diplomatique » en Algérie [Le Monde diplomatique]
The United States Needs to Get Serious — Washington isn’t behaving like a competent great power due to partisan gridlock, recycling of discredited ideas, and a lack of focus on real threats. [Foreign Policy]
How to Vaccinate Africa — America Can Help, But It Needs the Right Partner [Foreign Affairs]
India Hits 1 Billion Vaccine Doses — However, there is a huge gap between the numbers who have received one shot and those who are fully immunized. [The Diplomat]
The Cipher Brief Open Source Report for Monday, Oct 25, 2021 [The Cipher Brief]
An Ultra-Precise Clock Shows How to Link the Quantum World With Gravity [Quanta magazine]
We are excited to reveal #CERNqti’s international #advisoryboard! Follow the link to meet prominent #quantumtechnologies experts guiding @CERN’s Quantum Technology Initiative: #honestbroker #quantumgovernance [CERN_FR]
Chandra Sees Evidence for Possible Planet in Another Galaxy [NASA]
Cash, guns, cocaine and a suspected terrorist captured in international border operation [INTERPOL]
More than 53,000 Afghan Evacuees on US Bases as Pentagon Monitors Readiness [Air Force Magazine]
Vaughn Gittin Jr. Gittin a Break From Drifting While the Gittin's Good [MOTORTREND]

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There seems to be a disconnect, therefore let me spell it out into words that you can comprehend. You should not let your kids watch “Squid game.” What you should make them watch is “Orange is the New Black.” That’s right, every time your teens complain, make them watch that show, and they will be “scared-straight.” There’s nothing glamorous about jail, it’s not a funhouse, There are 91 episodes. That’s enough episodes so that they make good choices by the time they are done watching the show.

Did you get your COVID-19 booster shot yet? If you are eligible, it will immunize you from the virus for an additional 6 months.

Until Next Time!

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October 23, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

Meet the productivity app influencers [TechMeme]
Pelosi expects “billionaire’s tax” to pay for Biden social spending [AXIOS]
Researchers analyzed 700-plus songs known to give people chills. Here’s the playlist [Quartz]
Remote work is bringing the city to the suburbs [Recode]
20 years later, the iPod is still my favorite gadget [TheNextWeb]
The Return of the American Rail Dining Car [Eater]
Why Facebook is rebranding [Platformer]
Chuck Palahniuk has been writing again on his Substack. Check it out. [Chuck Palahniuk]
Arianna Huffington on the Secrets to Beating Founder Burnout [Inc.]
Yes, you can only work 5 hours and call it a day. Here’s how to make it productive [Fast Company]
Drinking Coffee Every Day is Great for Your Health [Medium]
How to Create an Authentic Brand [Entrepreneur]
Want a Better PC? Try Building Your Own [WIRED]
This Week in Tech 845 [TWIT]
The Rivian R1T is an Incredibly Fun Electric Pickup! [MKBHD]
The New MacBook Pro - M1 Max/Pro [Dave2D]
Microsoft Surface Duo 2 - It's back and better than before! [iJustine]
Google for Creators: Helping creators learn and grow [Google Blog]
Baselines for Uncertainty and Robustness in Deep Learning [Google AI Blog]
All the World’s a Painting [Lapham’s Quarterly]
What colors are the planets in our solar system? And why are they so different? [Astronomy Mag]
How to Build Your Personal Brand And Get Ahead [Salesforce Blog]

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We did it. We politely yet impatiently asked Jesus, Allah, Buddha, (and the Autobots) for rain for the past couple of months, and now, Northern California will receive some. The downside is that there will be some mud slides and dangerous weather-related activity near the Lake Tahoe region. The upside is that it ought to be the end of Summer Fire Season in the region. If projections stay: “Once In A Century Type Storm’ Sunday To Monday is on its way. Be prepared, and be careful.

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October 20, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

Sign up for newsletter [beatportal]
Bill behaviour: Benn Jordan entices ducks with food and gets them to play a free-range jazz beat on his MPC [Computer Music]
Behringer takes on the Moog DFAM with the Edge semi-modular percussion synth [Future Music]
The fight against the opioid crisis in US clubbing [DJ Mag]
Swedish House Mafia Seemingly Confirmed as Coachella 2022 Headliners [Mixmag]
NFT collectors revealed as buyers of one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album [Dancing Astronaut]
Electric Daisy Carnival Becomes First Music Festival in the Roblox Metaverse [Your EDM]
Kavinsky Announces Release Date of First Single in Eight Years [EDM.com]
Yash Bansal – ‘What Is It Like To Be Loved?’ EP [EDM Sauce]
EndTB clinical trial for multidrug-resistant TB completes enrolment [MSF]
WIRED [Seiko] AGAM601 Metal Gear Solid V | Watch Showcase [YouTube]
GaryVee on Snapchat [GaryVee]
The new order of trade — Trade has been about growth and efficiency. Now other goals are competing for attention, says Soumaya Keynes [The Economist]
The EU’s “Fit for 55” proposals to reduce emissions by at least 55% by 2030 represent a clear effort to codify its pledges via amendments to the Emissions Trading System. What could these proposals mean for your business? Find out here: [The EIU]
How Do I Get Through My Mid-Career Crisis? [Harvard Business Review]
How green politics are changing Europe [BBC News]
Democrats May Pass Their Agenda After All [Bloomberg Opinion]
French parliament approves extension of COVID health pass measures [Reuters]
Palestinians demand mobilisation to save hunger-strike prisoners [AL-Jazeera News]
Edward Steed’s “Beasts and Beauties” [The New Yorker]
PSA: You can stream Dune a day early on HBO Max [The Verge]
Why so many people undercharge for their work [Vox]
Elon Musk’s Boring Company gets initial OK to expand Loop under Las Vegas Strip [TechCrunch]
read website in Japanese [MIT Technology Review]
Twilio is going after Salesforce, Adobe, and Oracle with a new marketing product built from its $3.2 billion acquisition of Segment [Insider]
Solar storm confirms Vikings settled in North America exactly 1,000 years ago [The Guardian]
“My Great-Great-Grandfather Taught Freed People How to Read” [The New York Times]
New York City Declares Racism A Public Health Crisis [Huffington Post]
‘Do Not Abandon the Afghans’ — A former Army Ranger asks President Biden to airlift America’s allies out of harm’s way. [The Atlantic]
Polls Show A Close Governor’s Race In Virginia [FiveThirtyEight]
Opinion: Afghanistan needs aid, but that won’t fix our broken nation. Uplifting girls will. [The Washington Post]
Pédocriminalité dans l’Eglise : « Le rapport Sauvé a mis en pleine lumière les ravages de la sacralité excessive placée sur le prêtre » [Le Monde]
The best early Black Friday deals on Apple products [Mashable]
Paris Hilton Just Spoke Out About Her Time in the ‘Troubled Teen Industry’ [VICE News]
Colin Powell was a Nice Man who Helped Destroy Iraq — As secretary of state in 2003, Powell lied at the United Nations about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. [The Intercept_]
Meet some of the women firefighters battling flames in California [Nat Geo]
From bankruptcy to IPO in a year? It's a tune Guitar Center might play [NPR]
Early season storms heading for Sacramento and the Sierra into next week [CapRadioNews]
La résistance incessante des femmes afghanes, quels soutiens internationaux ? [Le Monde diplomatique]
U.S. Army Failed to Warn Troops About COVID-19 Disinformation [Foreign Policy]
The Myth of Russian Decline — Why Moscow Will Be a Persistent Power [Foreign Affairs]
What’s Wrong With Mongolia’s Naadam Festival? [The Diplomat]
The Cipher Brief Open Source Report for Tuesday, Oct 19, 2021 [The Cipher Brief]
A Hint of Dark Matter Sends Physicists Looking to the Skies [Quanta Magazine]
Want to know more about #QuantumComputing applications to high-energy #physics? Make sure to register for the IEEE's #QuantumWeek2021 starting today 👇 [CERN_FR]
NASA Challenges Students to Design Moon-Digging Robots [NASA]
In my address to the International Police Summit in Korea, I underlined INTERPOL’s continued commitment to global law enforcement cooperation in the face of today’s crime challenges which demand a coordinated, worldwide and streamlined response. [INTERPOL]
Climate Change Likely to Lead to Instability, Increased Risks For Pentagon, Report Says [Air Force Magazine]
At Altitude: Brig. Gen. Jeffery D. Valenzia discusses ABMS [AIRMAN MAGAZINE]
Building a Record-Setting Honda Civic Type R in Just 7 Months [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

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I hope everybody had fun at Amsterdam Dance Event 2021 and the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs party. Congrats to all the winners! Looks like David Guetta won this year. Check out one of my favorite songs by him “Everytime We Touch.” Sama Abdulhadi should have made the list, and I hope she does next year. Very excited about Amelie Lens being on the list.

I think that Nick Bostrom has made a lot of progress on his next book (He wrote “Superintelligence”). Can’t wait for his next writings!

I just got AIRWOLF on DVD. About 10 years ago I was MEDEVAC from a serious car accident. I’d like to think those guys/gals are still out there saving lives. They are real-life superheroes. I think of them everyday.

I’m hoping for new avatars on the way, including Bumblebee, which I’m crazy excited about!

I got 2 NFTs from DC Fandome, including Wonder-woman and Superman. I’d love to get Batman.

“Coffee with Zack (Zaki)” blogposts are #MadeWithBlade

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October 18, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

Microsoft begins letting Windows 11 beta testers try Android apps from the Amazon Appstore, starting with 50 apps including Kindle, Apple Music, and Signal [TechMeme]
Where it stands: Weed policies by U.S. sports league [AXIOS]
Facebook doesn’t need a new name. It needs new people. [Quartz]
The problem with corporate “values” [Recode]
The breakout star of Apple’s MacBook Pro event is a $19 cleaning cloth [TheNextWeb]
Use French Fried Onions on Everything [Eater]
A New Place for Underrepresented Founders to Get Help With Funding: the NBA [Inc.]
Why Hasan Minhaj says it is beautiful to be “one scroll away from being forgotten” [Fast Company]
Apple’s Faster Horses — Some thoughts on Apple’s “Unleashed” MacBook event [Medium]
Burger King opens its first 100% vegetarian restaurant in Madrid [Entrepreneur]
More Covid Vaccine Boosters Are Coming. Who Should Get Them? [WIRED]
FLOSS Weekly 652 - Faces of Open Source [TWiT]
NBA fans can get closer to the game with Google and Pixel [Google Blog]
An ML-Based Framework for COVID-19 Epidemiology [Google AI Blog]
Astronomers identify a new class of habitable planet [Astronomy Magazine]
What Is the Trailblazer Community? [Salesforce Blog]

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it appears that the Zidane rumors to Manchester United are somewhat true. It would be a wonderful thing and make sure that we reach the Champions League final in 2022.

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October 17, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

Playlist of the Week: Sonny Fodera [beatportal]
Roland releases Zentracker, a free multitrack audio recording app for iOS and Android [Computer Music]
Wondering what happened to all those fidget spinners? Turns out they’re being used to control NoodleVolt’s Eurorack LFOs [Future Music]
The Story of Roger Sanchez’s ‘Another Chance’: [DJ Mag]
Major Streaming Services are Proposing “Lowest Rates of Pay in History” for Artists [Mixmag]
Disclosure issues a club-focused DJ-Kicks mix via !K7 Records [Dancing Astronaut]
Insomniac Launches New Cannabis Initiative With “Official Flower” of EDC, ‘RNBW’ [Your EDM]
EDC Las Vegas 2021: Set Times, COVID-19 Guidelines, and Everything Else You Need to Know [EDM.com]
Spinnin Concludes World’s Biggest Demo Drop With Over 1900 Demos Submitted [EDM Sauce]
Buying, Selling, & Collecting Some Speedmasters Have Accelerated Beyond Attainability [HODINKEE]
Counter terrorism “adds salt to the wound” in providing medical care in conflict [MSF]
GaryVee on TikTok [GaryVee]
All 50 Republicans in the Senate voted to block a bill designed to strengthen voting rights for the third time this year. The Freedom to Vote Act would make it easier to vote while improving election security, among other measures. Democrats say it is especially necessary after Republican state legislatures passed laws imposing new restrictions on voting after the elections in 2020. [The Economist]
On Babbage—inventor, mathematician and engineer [Economic Podcasts]
All Afghans have the right to a passport - Taliban [BBC News]
Emboldened Bitcoin Bulls Shoot for Moon After Smashing Record [Bloomberg]
NATO to agree master plan to deter growing Russian threat, diplomats say [Reuters]
Kabul orphanage struggles to feed its children as cash runs low [AL-Jazeera News]
Trader Joe Wrote a Memoir [The New Yorker]
A first look at Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Android apps support [The Verge]
The past, present, and future of body image in America [Vox]
Snapchat to introduce family safety tools to protect minors using its app [TechCrunch]
Reimagining our pandemic problems with the mindset of an engineer [MIT Technology Review]
Elon Musk wants to sell Tesla 'Giga Beer' in a Cybertruck-inspired bottle [Insider]
Backlog of cargo ships at southern California ports reaches an all-time high [The Guardian]
The True Cost of Upgrading Your Phone — Buying a $1,000 iPhone can be equivalent to giving up $17,000 in retirement savings or 2,500 cups of coffee. [The New York Times]
Remains Found In Hunt For Brian Laundrie, Fiancé Of Gabby Petito [Huffington Post]
‘I Don’t Know That I Would Even Call It Meth Anymore’ — Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem. [The Atlantic]
Many Of The NHL’s Best Teams Are Still Getting To Know Their Goalies [FiveThirtyEight]
Biden abruptly accelerates his involvement in agenda talks — From universal pre-K to dental benefits to college aid, President Biden is laying down specifics as tight deadlines converge and time grows short. [The Washington Post]
Le prix Sakharov récompense « l’immense courage » d’Alexeï Navalny — Décerné à l’opposant du Kremlin, ce prix du Parlement européen intervient deux semaines après le Nobel de la paix attribué au rédacteur en chef du journal russe « Novaïa Gazeta ». [Le Monde]
8 TikTok accounts to follow if you're tired of COVID misinformation [Mashable]
Scientists Have Discovered Traces of Stars From the Dawn of Time [VICE News]
Lies Are Being Told About Sally Rooney Because She Refuses to Ignore Israeli Apartheid [The Intercept_]
This sacred valley could become America’s next national monument [Nat Geo]
CDC says toss onions if you don't know where they came from to avoid salmonella [NPR]
Pianist Lara Downes re-centers the music of the Great Migration [CapRadioNews]
Le footballeur et le chercheur [Le Monde diplomatique]
Pakistan Needs a Homegrown Counterterrorism Policy [Foreign Policy]
How Apartheid Endures — The Betrayal of South Africa [Foreign Affairs]
Thailand to Cease Using Sinovac Vaccines After Supplies Are Exhausted [The Diplomat]
Chris Inglis and the Gathering Cyber Storm [The Cipher Brief]
Neuron Bursts Can Mimic Famous AI Learning Strategy [Quanta Magazine]
Le deuxième binôme de scientifiques du #CERN tente de percer les mystères des boîtes conçues par les écoles primaires et sans les ouvrir ! Plus d'info: [CERN_FR]
DART Arrives at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Its Final Stop Before Launch [NASA]
Cultural property crime thrives throughout pandemic says new INTERPOL survey [INTERPOL]
Reimagining the Reaper [Air Force Magazine]
Don't Dismiss This Slammed Audi A4 Outright—Take a Closer Look [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

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No matter what your journey in life dealing with #MentalHealth, Music Therapy has helped me a lot. I hope it does the same for you. I’m not as familiar with Rock & Roll & Alternative as I am with Dance Music, but please enjoy these 37 episodes of MU RADIO. Yes, there will be more episodes.

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October 16, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

US Commerce Department announces rules banning the export or resale of hacking tools to China, Russia, and other countries of concern [TechMeme]
White House unveils plan to "quickly" vaccinate kids ages 5-11 [AXIOS]
India’s second wave of Covid-19 may have protected it from a devastating third wave [Quartz]
The real stakes of Apple’s battle over remote work [Recode]
How the laws of physics could prevent us from ever meeting aliens [TheNextWeb]
Apple Garibaldi [Punch]
9 Can't-Miss Events at This Year's Inc. 5000 Vision Conference [Inc.]
Want to learn to code? Play this Super Nintendo-style video game [Fast Company]
The National Intelligence University is different than any other university in the country. [Medium]
McDonald's in the United States is willing to pay $ 21 an hour for staff shortages [Entrepreneur]
Facebook Can't Hide Its Problems Behind a New Name [WIRED]
More personal, more powerful: Meet Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro [Google Blog]
Self-Supervised Learning Advances Medical Image Classification [Google AI Blog]
Summon Up Remembrance [Lapham’s Quarterly]
The Sky This Week: Observe the Moon [Astronomy Magazine]
Your New Job — Making Employees Happy [Salesforce Blog]

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I am very excited about RazerCon 2021! There are going to be lots of cool and fun announcements! I hope we hear more about the “concept” laptop that slides down two additional screens to turn into a super 3 monitor setup. We may be a few more years away from this, but damn, that would be so cool and futuristic! If Intel is sponsoring the event, I hope we hear more about ARC (GPU), but I hope we still get new AMD options. It would be fun also if Razer did a Samsung Odyssey style super big monitor. Also, please announce that Steam and other gaming app are compatible with Windows 11, so we have better peace of mind before we upgrade. I want to upgrade, but not if all my apps stop working. Super excited that FL Studio will make a presentation! Love some inspiration!

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October 14, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

Beatport and Black Artist Database Announce Platform Integration and Editorial Partnership [beatportal]
Roland’s free TR-8S and TR-6S editor lets you dive deeper into your drum machine than ever before [Computer Music]
Akai MPC 2.10 review [Future Music]
Snoop Dogg Launches Rap Supergroup with New Project, ‘The Algorithm’ [DJ Mag]
Lack of Bouncers Could Be a “Threat to Public Safety” - Warns NTIA [Mixmag]
Chris Schambacher delivers ‘For Your Love’ via ‘Anjunabeats Rising Volume 10’ [Dancing Astronaut]
Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd “Moth To A Flame” Drops This Week [Your EDM]
Lane 8 Announces Release Date of Fourth Album, “Reviver” [EDM.com]
Tiësto Reunites Fans Worldwide With ‘Together Again’ EP, A Package Of Dance Floor Bangers [EDM Sauce]
MoFi covers all things cryptocurrency, DeFi, yield farming, NFTs, FIRE, robo-investing, finance hacks, and more. Join entrepreneur and technology venture capitalist Kevin Rose as he interviews experts and the entrepreneurs building modern finance tools. [Modern.Finance]
How I Built The Tim Ferriss Show to 700+ Million Downloads — An Immersive Explanation of All Aspects and Key Decisions (Featuring Chris Hutchins) (#538) [Tim Ferriss]
Road to Twelve and a Half: Optimism [GaryVee]
Clinical trial results offer hope to DR-TB patients with short, effective treatment [MSF]
Millions of lives depend on how the pandemic ends [The Economist]
How can finance help economies decarbonise? [Economic Podcasts]
The Project Economy Has Arrived [Harvard Business Review]
Karim Benzema: French sex tape blackmail case trial starts — “The maximum sentence for complicity in attempted blackmail is five years in jail and a €75,000 (£63,000) fine.” [BBC News]
From Hot Vax Summer to Winter of Discontent—Stagflation-Lite Could Rock the Global Recovery [Bloomberg]
U.S. FDA clears Moderna, J&J COVID-19 boosters, backs use of different vaccine for boost [Reuters]
Stop being polite – Colin Powell was a killer [AL-Jazeera News]
Can Masterclass Teach You Everything? [The New Yorker]
On The Verge is Happening October 22nd and 23rd, and You’re Invited [The Verge]
Bitcoin’s big day on Wall Street — This cryptocurrency fad isn’t going away. [Vox]
Amazon’s Fire TV news app now offers local channels in 60 more cities [TechCrunch]
This NASA spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter’s mysterious asteroid swarms [MIT Technology Review]
Millions of sidelined workers won't come back 'unless the math makes better sense to them' [Insider]
Biden visits the home town of Scranton to pitch huge investment agenda [The Guardian]
Small Needles and Short Lines: Biden’s Plan to Vaccinate Young Children [The New York Times]
Voting Rights Legislation Filibustered By Republicans For A Third Time [Huffington Post]
Dune Is Epic, but That’s Not Why It’s Great [The Atlantic]
How Democrats’ Failure To Pass A Voting Rights Bill Fits A Pattern Of Failing Voters Of Color [FiveThirtyEight]
Opinion: To police officers who refuse to be vaccinated, we say: Good riddance. [The Washington Post]
Fragments de France : explorez les 100 reportages du « Monde » à travers le pays [Le Monde]
AMC theaters across the country will now host onscreen captions [Mashable]
Bitcoin Just Hit an All Time High Price: $67,000 [VICE News]
Biden Faces Deadline for Release of More JFK Assassination Papers [The Intercept_]
How sea otters help protect underwater meadows [National Geographic]
Is It Laziness, Or A Sign You Need To Slow Down? [NPR]
Newsom declares drought emergency across California [CapRadioNews]
Droit du travail : vers des « jugements automatiques » [Le Monde diplomatique]
‘The Worst Bloody Job in the World’ — U.N. sanctions inspectors feel unsupported and unsafe. [Foreign Policy]
The Technopolar Moment — How Digital Powers Will Reshape the Global Order [Foreign Affairs]
A Remote Corner of Afghanistan Offers a Peek Into the Future of the Country [The Diplomat]
National Security Virtual Briefings [The Cipher Brief]
How Wavelets Allow Researchers to Transform, and Understand, Data [Quanta Magazine]
The #CERNqti roadmap is now live! Read it to find out about the strategy
@CERN is undertaking to investigate the #quantumtechnologies field: #honestbroker #quantumroadmap #particlephysics [CERNquantum]
NASA Announces Winners of Deep Space Food Challenge [NASA]
GA-1972-41-RES-07 - Hostages and blackmail [INTERPOL]
Unmanned Flying Teammates [Air Force Magazine]
This Custom 1993 Mazda RX-7 R1 Was Built for Longevity [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 376 & BENKYO RADIO 376.

There are rumors that the Director’s Cut update will come to the PC Steam version of Death Stranding. I hope they are true!

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 375 | BENKYO RADIO 375

October 12, 2021 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, reading

MacBook Pro updates show Apple listened to pro users, who never warmed to the Touch Bar or lack of ports [TechMeme]
Jan. 6 committee recommends contempt charges against Bannon [AXIOS]
WTF Is bitcoin doing today? Oh, new ETF [Quartz]
Apple's China Problem — Much of Apple’s success is built around its relationship with China, which is both one of Apple’s largest markets as well as where most of its products are manufactured. It’s a complicated relationship that has seen Apple make compromises with an authoritarian regime over privacy and human rights in pursuit of huge profits.
This episode is produced in collaboration with reporter Wayne Ma and the technology and business publication ‘The Information.’ [Recode]
Everything Apple announced at its 2021 MacBook Pro event [TheNextWeb]
A Toasty Bulgogi Melt Recipe From TikTok’s the Korean Vegan [Eater]
How NFTs are creating a generational divide between platforms [Platformer]
Gary Vaynerchuk's Next Act: Spreading the Gospel of 'Kind Candor'Soft skills are the brash media executive's secret weapon. He explains his philosophy--and why he's not a walking contradiction. [Inc.]
What’s old is new: Apple’s latest MacBook Pro proves that novelty is overrated [Fast Company]
I Wrote Over 52,000 Words Last Month Thanks to an AI Writing Assistant [Medium]
Stress-Less Leadership (by Nadine Greiner) [Entrepreneur]
Google's Much-Hyped Pixel 6 Undercuts Its Peers at Just $599 [WIRED]
TWiT News 377 - Apple Unleashed Event - M1 Pro & M1 Max MacBook Pro [TWIT]
NEW M1 Max MacBook Pro Reaction: The Ports are Back! [MKBHD]
Driving the Rivian R1T in NYC: electric pickup truck! [Sam Sheffer]
The TEAL Gaming PC [Dave2D]
The most POWERFUL MacBooks are HERE! M1 Pro and M1 Max! [iJustine]
Google Tensor is a milestone for machine learning [Google Blog]
Google at ICCV 2021 [Google AI Blog]
Digital Get Down -- How we come together online. [Lapham’s Quarterly]
Martian floods filled Jezero Crater, Perseverance finds [Astronomy Magazine]
What Is a Trailblazer? [Salesforce]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 375 & BENKYO RADIO 375.

While everybody is excited about the new Apple products, here is something that we must remember. Apple pushed all of us to use a bunch of adaptors for USB-C, and 5 years later, they’re essentially selling us a 2008 laptop. It’s nice that it has HDMI and SD card slot but still no regular USB ports, you’ll still need an adaptor for those. These new laptops sound incredibly amazing, but still out of reach for the average user. Tim Cook has a chance to redeem himself by doing the following: releasing a new Mac Mini with M1 Pro & M1 Max. He can definitely make it affordable because it won’t have a screen and it’s not a laptop. A new Mac Mini (available in the rainbow colors of the new iMac) would sell like hotcakes. Please make it happen. If you want me to dip my toes into Logic Pro again, please release a new Mac Mini ASAP. Don’t make us wait many more months. Need I remind you that there are huge Microsoft announcements on the horizon including #RazerCon2021. I can either go for a Mac Mini soon, or start working on a “Starship Enterprise”-looking monitors setup. Thanks for listening.

Until Next Time!