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  • Where are the Women in Drum & Bass? [beatportal]

  • The 21 most important products and innovations in music technology history [Computer Music]

  • The beginner’s guide to: Berlin techno [Future Music]

  • Behind the conflict in Yemen [MSF]

  • Consider the cost - Bibidi Netanyahu is underestimating the risks of annexation [The Economist] we need a real #TwoStateSolution with 1967 Borders. Netanyahu still facing many corruption charges, by the way.

  • Portraits of protest in America - Four African-American photographers explain what it’s like to document the demonstrations sparked by George Floyd’s death [1843 magazine]

  • The Agile Family Meeting [Harvard Business Review]

  • Yemen crisis: Five years of hunger, five years of war [BBC News]

  • Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World [Bloomberg]

  • What doctors have learned about fighting COVID-19 [Reuters]

  • Biden slams Trump over reported bounties placed on US troops [AL-Jazeera News]

  • A Disastrous Summer in the Arctic [The New Yorker]

  • How to stop your glasses from fogging up when you wear a mask [The Verge]

  • US must release children from detention centers due to Covid-19, judge rules [Vox]

  • YC to cut the size of its investment in future YC startups [TechCrunch]

  • Human rights activists want to use AI to help prove war crimes in court [MIT Technology Review]

  • ‘Real men wear masks’: Nancy Pelosi says Trump should ‘be an example to the country’ [Business Insider]

  • Outrage over Trump’s retweet of supporter shouting ‘white power’ [The Guardian]

  • How We Got Here: Writers on Race and Racism in America [The New York Times]

  • Homework In A McDonald’s Parking Lot: Inside One Mother’s Fight To Help Her Kids Get An Education During Coronavirus [HuffPost]

  • The Pandemic Forced These Teens to Sail Home Across the Atlantic [The Atlantic]

  • Voter Registrations Are Way, Way Down During The Pandemic [FiveThirtyEight]

  • The data is in: Fox News may have kept millions from taking the coronavirus threat seriously [The Washington Post]

  • Municipales: les écologistes donnés largement vainquers à Lyon et Strasbourg, Anne Hidalgo en tête à Paris [Le Monde]

  • 12 free and printable Black Lives Matter posters from Black artists [Mashable]

  • Future Humans Can Mine Black Holes for Energy by Feeding Them, Experiment Suggests [Vice]

  • Here’s how to stop the virus from winning [National Geographic]

  • Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest [Nautilus]

  • Black Doctors Say Pandemic Reveals Enduring Racial Inequality Medicine Alone Cannot Fix [NPR]

  • UC Students Must Ready For An Online, Socially Distanced Fall [CapRadioNews]

  • À la conquête des océans polaires [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Foreign Worker Visas Are the Tech Industry’s Dirty Secret - Trump’s suspension of visas will only prolong the recession. Here’s how to reform them instead. [Foreign Policy]

  • The Secret to a Safe Reopening - Why the End of Lockdown Looks So Different Around the World [Foreign Affairs]

  • Kazakhstan on the Edge - In 2019, Kazakhstan was catapulted into political transition. 2020 has yielded its own shocking changes. [The Diplomat]

  • Pandemics, Warning and the Intelligence Community [The Cipher Brief]

  • New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles [Quanta magazine]

  • Développée pour le LHC a haute luminosité, une ligne supraconductrice de transport d’électricité a établi un nouveau record d’intensité: 54 000 ampères transportées sur 60 mètres [CERN_FR]

  • NASA Completes Artemis Space Launch System Structural Testing Campaign [NASA]

  • INTERPOL hosts police chiefs meeting to combat ‘Ndrangheta [INTERPOL]

  • NORAD Intercepts 4 Russian Reconnaissance Planes Near Alaska [Air Force Magazine]

Hello there! It is already 100F and it’s not even August. Please stay hydrated. Here’s a new report. Right now I’m excited about the latest season of Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.S., old episodes of Quantum Leap, Knight Rider, and got about a little over 1 more season of Gotham left. If you have young ones, you can always introduce them to your favorite superheroes via their cartoons, since they are too young to watch the movies. There’s a Batman cartoon, Superman cartoon, Justice League. Growing up I’d watch Spider-man cartoons every saturday morning. If you’d like to introduce them to anime, there’s Naruto, Bleach, DBZ, and many more. Staying busy with Project Management, Data Science, and music work.

Until next time!

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  • Nabta Playa: The world’s first astronomical site was built in Africa and is older than Stonehenge [Astronomy magazine]

  • AUTO #30 [Federation Internationale de L’Automobile]

  • Tesla Cybertruck is at the Petersen Museum, and we photographed it from every angle [Autoblog]

  • McLaren Celebrates Legendary Le Mans Victory with Limited-Run 720S [IMSA]

  • Beatport Launches new Organic House/Downtempo Genre [Beatportal]

  • 5 things that music makers need to know about Apple’s switch from Intel to silicon processors [Computer Music]

  • Control and sequence: how to combine software and hardware in your studio [Future Music]

  • MSF helping to curb COVID-19 in nursing homes in US [MSF]

  • Facebook Dealt Blow as German Court Strikes Business Model [TechMeme]

  • Confronting systemic racism - Big brands pulling ads from Facebook over hate speech will barely dent its revenue. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign is asking businesses to hit the social media platform where it hurts. The effort is “also about the symbolic impact” of publicly calling out Facebook. [Quartz]

  • Black authors are on all the bestseller lists right now. But publishing doesn’t pay them enough. [Recode]

  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 demo is coming in August [TheNextWeb]

  • Is It Safe to Eat at Restaurants Yet? [Eater]

  • Jim Kwik: 3 Tips for Improving Your Memory [Inc.]

  • Giving Facebook less data is a good idea. Even better: Just use it less [Fast Company]

  • How Do I Stop Forgetting What I Learned So Quickly? [Medium]

  • How to Start a Side Hustle With Little or No Money [Entrepreneur]

  • Apple’s Intel Breakup Will Reshape Macs—and Beyond [WIRED]

  • We Believe Black Lives Matter [This Week In Tech]

  • PS5 Impressions: My Thoughts! [MKBHD]

  • iOS 14 Beta: 14+ Updates to be Excited About [Sam Sheffer]

  • Razer Blade Stealth 2020 - Cursed by Intel [Dave Lee]

  • Content moderation issues are taking stage in the presidential election campaign [Casey Newton]

  • iOS 14 and all the WWDC updates! [iJustine]

  • Beware of scams using INTERPOL’s name [INTERPOL]

  • Congress Wants to Know SOCOM’s Plan to Counter New Threats, Reform Command Culture [Air Force Magazine]

Hi there! Super busy because work-life balance and what not, but here’s a new report. Hopefully I can catch up on some Gran Turismo. If you’re sad that South Park is gone from Hulu, don’t worry, it’s still out there, but now it’s on HBO MAX.

It’s almost July! Meteor Shower season is almost upon us! Only 23 more episodes until JETLAG RADIO 200! Will we witness our THIRD interstellar object in our Solar System? Tune in!

Until next time!


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  • The Best Deep House On Beatport You May Have Missed [Beatportal]

  • Jean-Michel Jarre just performed live in virtual reality for the first time [Computer Music]

  • How to banish writer’s block in your DAW: creative hacks to kickstart your creativity [Future Music]

  • “No one chooses to be a refugee” [MSF]

  • Global leadership is missing in action - Seventy-five years ago the world’s leaders designed the peace even as they fought the war. Today’s leaders need to do something similar, says Daniel Franklin [The Economist]

  • The internet, mon amour [1843 magazine]

  • Using Nanotechnology to Identify those Most at Risk from COVID-19 [AZO Nano]

  • Health Care Workers Protect Us. It’s Time to Protect Them. [Harvard Business Review]

  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt on beating lockdown online [BBC News]

  • From California to Texas, 100-Degree Heat Set to Bake the West [Bloomberg]

  • ‘Astonishing’ giant circle of pits found near Stonehenge [Reuters]

  • Russia, US hold arms control talks as key pact’s expiry looms [AL-Jazeera News]

  • “MR. JONES” Remembers when Stalin Weaponized Famine [New Yorker]

  • Apple WWDC 2020 keynote: how to watch today’s live stream online [The Verge]

  • A national US power grid would make electricity cheaper and cleaner [Vox]

  • To create the jobs our economy needs, the US must expand immigration [TechCrunch]

  • The pandemic will change how we watch sports [MIT Technology Review]

  • Google billionaire Sergey Brin has a secret charity that sends ex-military staff into disaster zones on a superyacht [Business Insider]

  • ‘State-sanctioned violence’: US police fail to meet basic human rights standards [The Guardian]

  • Federal Authorities Investigating Noose in Bubba Wallace’s Garage [The New York Times]

  • COVID-19 Will Rage ‘Like A Forest Fire’ In Unprepared America, Top Doc Warns [HuffPost]

  • What It Means to Understand Bruce Lee [The Atlantic]

  • Virtual Church Services Mean More Work For This Audio Engineer [FiveThirtyEight]

  • What military leaders can do now to prevent Trump from using them in the election [The Washington Post]

  • Les trente propositions des députés LRM à Emmanuel Macron pour “l’après” [Le Monde]

  • North Face, Patagonia, and REI boycott Facebook ads to #StopHateForProfit [Mashable]

  • SpaceX Wants You to Try Getting Internet From Space with Starlink [VICE]

  • In public toilets, flushing isn’t the only COVID-19 risk [Nat Geo]

  • T. Rex Was a Slacker - A natural wonder of the big theropod was how it conserved energy. [Nautilus]

  • Trump Wants to Move On, But The Coronavirus Is Surging In Parts Of Red America [NPR]

  • California’s Vacation Industry Is Open For Business. Proceed With Caution. [CapRadioNews]

  • Episode 4. Question de proportion - Le Podcast du “Diplo” [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Trump Wants to Label Anti a Terrorist Organization. What About the KKK? [Foreign Policy]

  • How to Prevent a War in Asia - The Erosion of American Deterrence Raises the Risk of Chinese Miscalculation [Foreign Affairs]

  • The Pandemic’s Hidden Casualty: Human Rights [The Diplomat]

  • Equal Justice and National Security [The Cipher Brief]

  • Dark Matter Experiments Finds Unexplained Signal [Quanta magazine]

  • La stratégie européenne pour la physique des particules est mise à jour [CERN_FR]

  • Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds [NASA]

  • Exploiting Isolation: Sexual Predators Increasingly Targeting Children During Covid Pandemic [Europol]

  • The Next CSAF Lays Out Top Priorities [Air Force Magazine]

Hello there! It’s finally Summer! That does mean triple-digits weather, so maybe everybody could be a bit nicer to Greta Thunberg when she says that Climate change is ‘as urgent’ as coronavirus because she is correct. All the geeks and nerds at NWS have ran computer models for 2030-2050 and it looks pretty fucking scary. We’re in 2020, so 2030 is merely 10 years away. Yes, we are in a pandemic, but Climate Change is next, and it’s not going to take a pause. Rising sea levels, even more migrations, etc etc. All the stuff that Al Gore warned everybody about, and he got fed up and went to go bowling. When you watch the new season of COSMOS or old episodes of “Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman,” you understand that the Earth is a fragile speck in the Universe. Let’s cherish it because it will fight back. Mother Earth doesn’t mess around, let’s not mess around with it. All the kids remember playing Final Fantasy 7, where the evil Shinra Corporation kept sucking the Energy out of the Earth, and the Earth was dying. That’s what’s happening. Let’s invest in Nature and the Environment. Let’s stop cutting down the Amazon forest. There’s so much work that needs to be done. There is no Planet B. This is our home. We must protect it.

Until next time!

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  • Winners of the Beatport Producer Challenge Announced [Beatportal]

  • The best DAWs 2020: the best digital audio workstations for PC and Mac [Computer Music]

  • 808 State: “How many great pieces of music are buried in crap production?” [Future Music]

  • Brazil’s COVID-19 nightmare is far from under control [MSF]

  • The power of protest and the legacy of George Floyd [The Economist]

  • How to go on holiday in a pandemic [1843 Magazine]

  • Confronting Racism at Work: A Reading List [Harvard Business Review]

  • America’s Supreme Court protects gay and trans workers against discrimination [The Economist]

  • Life-saving coronavirus drug ‘major breakthrough’ [BBC News]

  • Sweeping Police Reform Won’t Happen Overnight [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • WHO moves to update COVID-19 guidance after ‘great news’ in drug study [Reuters]

  • Liberals warn Biden: Do more on policing or lose Black support [AL-Jazeera News]

  • The Trayvon Generation [The New Yorker]

  • Google is bringing Microsoft Office and other Windows apps to Chromebooks [The Verge]

  • “I am very scared” : What it’s like for pregnant essential workers in the pandemic [Vox]

  • Chris Sacca advices new fund managers to strike right now [Techcrunch]

  • A cheap steroid might be the first covid-19 drug to save lives [MIT Technology Review]

  • A man charged with killing a federal officer during George Floyd protests is tied to the far-right ‘Boogaloo’ movement, authorities say [Business Insider]

  • ‘It’s only important if you eat food’ / Inside a film on the honeybee crisis [The Guardian]

  • Seeking Dark Matter, They Detected Another Mystery [The New York Times] #Astronomy

  • FBI launched database on police use of force last year, but only 40 percent of police participated [The Washington Post]

  • “Biens mal acquis” : quatre ans de prison et confiscation du vaste patrimoine de l’oncle de Bachar Al-Assad en France [Le Monde]

  • Mark Zuckerberg wants to register 4 million new voters but keep showing them Trump’s posts [Mashable]

  • The Milky Way Contains 36 Contactable Alien Civilizations, Scientists Estimate [VICE]

  • Our team climbed Everest to try to solve its greatest mystery [Nat Geo]

  • Einstein’s Lost Hypothesis [Nautilus]

  • 2020 Electoral Map Ratings: Biden Has An Edge Over Trump, With 5 Months To Go [NPR]

  • New Classical Tracks: Oratorio Shines A Light On Underground Railroad Conductor William Still [CapRadioNews]

  • Therapie de choc ou gradualisme? [Le monde diplomatique]

  • Revolution Happen. This Might Be Ours [Foreign Policy]

  • The Looming Hunger Pandemic [Foreign Affairs]

  • Can the Taliban really be expected to sever all ties with al-Qaeda? [The Diplomat]

  • The Boogaloo Movement - From Eccentric Distraction to Domestic Terror [The Cipher Brief]

  • Dark Matter Experiment Finds Unexplained Signal [Quanta magazine]

  • La fonction d’un détecteur est d’enregistrer et de visualiser les explosions de particules résultant des collisions dans les accélérateurs [CERN_FR}

  • 4,000th Comet Discovered by ESA & NASA Solar Observatory [NASA]

  • COVID-19 impact on migrant smuggling and human trafficking [Interpol]

  • AFA members are part of a unique community focused on service before self, taking care of our Air Force family and providing unique networking and professional development opportunities. We mobilize our support community through more than 200 chapters and states [Air Force Magazine]

  • Exclusive first look at Bruce Lee 30 for 30 ‘Be Water’ [ESPN]

Hi there! Here’s a new report. It’s time for Joe Biden to announce his VP. He needs to bring calm to the 2020 Presidential Elections.

#BlackLivesMatters, and if you’re a Republican and you don’t speak out against the KKK (and yes, that does mean rooting out the KKK from the Police, a topic that is very delicate but needs to be discussed by the FBI, ATF & Interpol), you are in big trouble. Democrats are going to vote all of you out of office in 2020 & 2022. You can’t just let the KKK protests peacefully and then shoot tear gas at black protesters. Are you fucking crazy?

Still focusing on Project Management and Data Science, but always here to make a few reports and podcasts. Stay strong. We have less than 5 months until the Election. I know it seems like Obama doesn’t talk much, but trust me, I’m sure he has a plan to save us from Trump’s ridiculous behavior.

Kind of an embarrassing topic but, as you know I love the X-files and while I’m all for being Mulder and look for aliens, Scully’s new TV show is about Sex Education. It’s important. If you’re gonna be active, be smart about it. Use a condom. If you’re just 18, maybe you should wait a little longer to get pregnant. Focus on an education, so that you may support your child. Etc etc.

I saw the Hasan Minaj about college tuition. It’s true, we need Free Tuition, especially that everything is online. Why pay $50K/year for online classes? Why not just get EDX/Coursera/Masterclass, etc? I’m glad Newsom is making college tuition cheaper in California.

Whatever you do for work, keep up the good work, I believe in you, you can do it. If you think your job is tough, remember, there’s always someone else with a job even harder. So please, stop complaining that you have to stay home often and sit on the couch while Essential Workers are still out there doing their thing.

My thoughts are with the Firefighters who are about to endure a new Summer Fire Season. Let us hope and pray for not too much wind, and cutting down all the trees near powerlines. We may not get much rain in California, but let’s hope that we get as much as we can to avoid a large drought.

GRAN TURISMO 7 GOT ANNOUNCED FOR PS5! HOORAY!

I’m listening to Lupe Fiasco on repeat. You should too.

I understand many of you were unwilling to read 1,200 pages from Thomas Piketty’s new book so good news, he’s coming out with a documentary about why Capitalism needs reform. Income Inequality is real and must end.

I finished watching the F1 Netflix documentary. It was great! I’m looking forward to F1 2019 on PS4 until the next iteration comes out.

Until next time!


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  • Get ready to take the Sample Challenge! MusicRadar and Future Music’s big summer event is coming [Computer Music]

  • Beyonce Urges Fans to Sign Petition for George Floyd [Complex]

  • Unregulated market for personal protective equipment puts lives at risk [MSF]

  • The grim racial inequalities behind America’s protests [The Economist]

  • What Your Youngest Employees Need Most Right Now [Harvard Business Review]

  • U.S. Police are Being Trained by Israel—And Communities of Color Are Paying the Price [TheProgressive]

  • James Mattis: Trump’s former defence secretary denounces president [BBC News]

  • Fired Watchdog Says He Told Pompeo Aides of Probe Into Spending [Bloomberg]

  • Trump Represents a Bigger Threat Than Ever to U.S. Democracy [The New Yorker]

  • Former Facebook employees forcefully join the chorus against Mark Zuckerberg [The Verge]

  • The president is a danger to the US military - Even Trump’s former Secretary of Defense James Mattis agrees [Vox]

  • Black tech leaders issue call to action to fight racial injustice in the Bay Area [TechCrunch]

  • Instagram’s blackout means well — but doing these 4 things is more useful [MIT Technology Review]

  • Some people may have an immunological ‘head start’ against the new coronavirus, even if they’ve never been exposed, new research finds [Business Insider] o_0?

  • Murder charges filed against all 4 officers in George Floyd’s death as protests against biased policing continue [The Washington Post]

  • Pourquoi l’Allemagne fait figure d’exemple dans sa gestion de l’epidemie due au coronavirus [Le Monde]

  • Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia [The Intercept]

  • Goldfein and Wright: USAF Needs to Have ‘Difficult’ Conversations About Race [Air Force Magazine]

  • Premier League return plans: VAR, points per game and neutral venues outstanding issues [ESPN]

  • BERNIE BLACKOUT - An investigative deep dive into the corporate news media’s coverage of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign that asks: who actually gets a say in American politics? | VICE VERSA [YouTube]

Hi there! I just wrote this report. I was very glad that Former SecDef Jim Mattis spoke out against this atrocious Administration. Let’s thank Esper for going toe-to-toe with 45. That’s very hard to do, while keeping a job. Everybody that has spoke out has lost his or her title. That took balls for Esper. Let’s give him that. But especially Mattis because the hour was grim. Trump was trying to divide rather than unite not just the people of America, but even the Military. And quite frankly, with the Coronavirus, the Pentagon can’t afford such quarrels.

It’s great news that Obama spoke out, but it’s time for Joe Biden to do more speeches. If he’s gonna be the nominee, it’s time for not just weekly speeches but almost daily speeches to address the nation. You must keep the people ready to vote this November. Protesting and all that is great if you want, but if you don’t vote at the ballot box, the Republicans win. Don’t let that happen. Did you see what they did in Ferguson? They said “oh hell naw” and they elected a black woman. Did you read about that White Nationalist Steve King? They voted him out of office. That’s the type of action we must keep doing, until Election Day in November. It is your f*cking civic duty. Please. Vote. Everybody knows we can’t afford 4 more years of this. I thank you.

Until next time!

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  • Five things we can do to protect people on the move during COVID-19 [MSF}

  • Make music from start to finish with the new issue of Computer Music! [Computer Music]

  • How the world’s most powerful country is handling covid-19 [The Economist]

  • How to Monitor Your Employees — While Respecting Their Privacy [Harvard Business Review]

  • Coronavirus: How the pandemic in US compares with rest of world [BBC News]

  • Trump is Taking a Political Gamble With the U.S. Economy—and Maybe Your Life [Bloomberg Businessweek]

  • If Trump kicks out Twitter, there’s always Germany [Reuters]

  • Women Make Science: Greece’s Dolphin Sanctuary [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Can Christopher Nolan Save the Summer [The New Yorker]

  • Please don’t buy this fake $350 anti-5G USB stick [The Verge]

  • How I made new friends during the pandemic [Vox]

  • SpaceX gets FAA permission to fly its Starship spacecraft prototype [TechCrunch]

  • The 3-D Printer That Could Finally Change Manufacturing [MIT Technology Review]

  • Virtual therapy is growing in popularity during COVID-19, and it may be making counseling more accessible [Business Insider]

  • Searching for Superman: why Henry Cavill deserves another chance as the Man of Steel [The Guardian]

  • Americans are scared about what will happen if pandemic relief is not renewed [The New York Times]

  • Conway: Mail Voting for Me But Not For Thee! {Huffington Post]

  • Why Americans Might Not Trust the Election Results - Many are already worried about the integrity of November’s vote [The Atlantic]

  • The Voters Who Don’t Like Trump Or Biden [FiveThirtyEight] Bernie Sanders was winning but the Establishment stopped him. This is still bullshit and Bernie Sanders should remain on the ballot for remaining Primaries and receive maximum number of Delegates.

  • Public schools face a fall with a lot more costs and a lot less funding [The Washington Post]

  • Jean Tirole: “Le grand danger serait d’oublier l’avenir de la France et de l’Europe” dans la reponse à la crise [Le Monde]

  • Students in Tunisia aid hospitals running out of supplies by 3D printing 1000 face shields [Mashable]

  • The Noisey Questionnaire of Life - Adam Devine [VICE News]

  • ‘They treat us like stray dogs’: Migrant workers flee India’s cities [National Geographic]

  • 14 Million People In Latin America, Caribean At Risk Of Hunger, U.N. Report Says [NPR]

  • ‘Food Is Social Adhesive,’ So Questlove Is Hosting A Virtual Potluck [CapRadioNews]

  • Pourquoi il faut se mefier des chiffres chinois sur le coronavirus [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Taliban, Afghan Government Hint at Progress as Cease-Fire Expires [Foreign Policy]

  • The Spanish Flu Didn’t Wreck the Global Economy [Foreign Affairs]

  • What COVID-19 Means for the US-Japan Alliance [The Diplomat]

  • The Problem(s) with the Administration’s Approach to Arms Control and Open Skies [The Cipher Brief]

  • Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes [Quanta magazine]

  • The Higgs boson: What makes it special? [CERN]

  • NASA STEM Engagement [NASA]

  • Getting the Job Done Despite a Global Pandemic [Air Force Magazine]

Hi there! Here comes another report. Let me just say that I am pissed as much as any other citizen about the latest police brutality in Minneapolis. We really have to say it out loud, white nationalists were allowed to invade a state capitol with AK-47s sitting one inch from cops and nothing happened, but when black protest in the street, they’re attacked with tear gas. What is this shit? This is embarrassing for our country. I am brown. Do you realize what would happen if I walked down the street with a weapon? I’d get shot on sight! Thankfully I’m so liberal I’m left handed, and my only weapon of choice is a large bamboo stick. Look, I can’t be Obama’s Angry Translator forever. We got about 5 more months until Election Day. Do you remember those scenes in movies where the dude says “hold….”hold…..." then he says “go now!” That’s essentially our state of affairs. We need to hang on this goddamn situation for about 5 more months, then we vote. I want Bernie Sanders president, but if we can’t get that, we vote for Joe Biden. We need a Democrat in the White House, because the GOP has been exposed. They’ve been exposed for only caring about rich people and making tax cuts just for them, letting the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. We need Bernie Sanders’ policies to jumpstart our Economy again. An Economy that works for every American. Not for the Pundits on CNBC who just yap and yap and yap, trying to support Trump while 100,000 people died. How many times does Bernie Sanders have to explain to you that Democratic Socialism is not the same as Soviet Union Communism? Listen to him, damnit.

There’s a new documentary on Dalai Lama, I’m so excited.

Remember, keep your cool. We got less than 160 days until Election Day. We can do this. Remember what the ancestors of our great nation had to deal with during WW II. Surely you can stay home, quarantine/isolate, hang it there, until we can mass produce a vaccine for COVID19. Hopefully doctors can get this done within the next 12 months, and not 18 months.

Until next time!

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  • Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials Solutions for COVID-19: Diagnostic Testing, Antiviral and Antimicrobial Coatings and Surfaces, Air-Borne Filtration, Facemasks, PPE, Drug Delivery and Therapeutics [GlobalNewswire]

  • MSF condemns this outrageous attack, this senseless act of cowardly, destructive violence in Kabul, Afghanistan [MSF] there will be hell to pay for those responsible.

  • Universal basic income isn’t just a solution during the pandemic—it’s right for after it, too [The Economist]

  • Masks cover your face but your choice of style reveals much about you [1843 magazine]

  • In Times of Crisis, a Little Thanks Goes a Long Way [Harvard Business Review]

  • Israeli PM Netanyahu goes on trial for corruption [BBC News]

  • California Will Get So Hot That Mountain Streams Could Kill [Bloomberg Green]

  • Coronavirus ‘cover-up’ is China’s Chernobyl: White House adviser [Reuters] #UmbrellaCorporationInvestigation

  • Is Capitalism Racist? A scholar depicts white supremacy as the economic engine of American history [The New Yorker]

  • Google Messages may finally be adding end-to-end encryption for RCS [The Verge]

  • How the coronavirus is changing science [Vox]

  • This image could be the first direct evidence of a planet being born [MIT Technology Review]

  • What the lessons from Auschwitz teach us about the choices we make [The Guardian] (Maybe treating the Palestinians with more humanity and not keep them behind cages like the Nazis did to the Jews?)

  • Inequality Has Been Laid Bare by the Outbreak. Now What? We’re seeing how we have compares with what others have, and the differences can matter a lot. [New York Times]

  • “Un jour tout va bien, un jour je m’ennuie, un jour je suis heureuse”: dans les carnets de bord de collégiens confinés [Le Monde]

  • Bow Humans: Trillions of Cicadas Are Going to Rule America [VICE]

  • Inside the Influential Evangelical Group Mobilizing to Reelect Trump [The Intercept]

  • From Camping To Dining Out: Here’s How Experts Rate The Risks Of 14 Summer Activities [NPR]

  • Celebrating Beethoven And Brubeck [CapRadioNews]

  • Ces indésirables réfugiés syriens [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Why the White House Should Propose More Economic Stimulus [Foreign Policy]

  • America’s Opportunity in the Middle East - Diplomacy Could Succeed Where Military Force Has Failed [Foreign Affairs]

  • A General’s View of Future Information Wars [The Cipher Brief]

  • Symbolic Mathematics Finally Yields to Neural Networks [Quanta magazine]

  • Color My Space with NASA Coloring Activities for Young Students [NASA}

  • Air Force Removes Height Requirement for Pilot Applicants [Air Force Magazine]

  • Celebrate 40 years of Casio keyboards, synths and pianos in less than 4 minutes [Computer Music]

Hi there! Hope that everybody is having a good Eid celebration. Also it’s Memorial Day Weekend. Those that I know who served usually don’t tend to like to talk about this holiday because it reminds them of their men in arms they have lost. At the very least, please take a moment of silence for those we lost. I thank you. Also, because it’s a long weekend, lots of people on the road. Remember, always wear a seatbelt, it’s vital. No ands, ifs, or buts. If you’re gonna drive, please drink a 0.0% beer. It’s just not worth taking the risk. Get a designated driver. Remember, a nice holiday weekend can be completely negated if you don’t get home safely.

A lot of people are thinking that maybe education is useless. That way of thinking is not correct. Education is important, but it should be free. That’s why we need #FreeTuition someday. Because trust me, boys, and girls, when everything reopens, and you’re looking for a job, they’re gonna ask you if you got that college degree or not. They say they don’t care, but they do. Whether it is a degree, or a certificate, use your time under quarantine/isolation wisely. Sure you can play some PS4/XBOX/PC (I do too), but allocate some time for study and work. Don’t fall behind. Do you want to know the secret about school? Don’t skip class (in other words, don’t skip lesson). Why? Because any freshman will tell you, any class that they skipped once, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten times. They will fall so behind that they can’t keep up and have to drop the class. So don’t do that. Teachers are super stressed out because they want a good future for you. They will help you, but you have to listen to them.

We really need more stimulus checks, and the $2000/month stipend that Senator Sanders, Senator Harris and others are working on. Main Street is hurting while Wall Street is striving. The rich kept getting richer and the poor kept getting poorer. Capitalism needs reform. We need a system where everybody wins, not every man or woman for themselves.

Work as a team with your partner/loved ones. If you work together, you can accomplish a lot.

Spending more time on a DAW! Lots to learn! Thank God for Computer Music magazines.

Until next time!

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  • Apple Logic Pro X 10.5 released with Live Loops, new samplers and fresh beat creation tools [Computer Music]

  • The coronavirus reaches the Rohingya refugee camps [The Economist]

  • Leading Through Anxiety [Harvard Business Review]

  • Space Plane: Mysterious US military aircraft launches [BBC News]

  • The US government is getting ready to sue Google for monopolizing online ads [The Verge]

  • Read Obama’s inspiring commencement address to 2020’s high school graduates [Vox]

  • 3 views on the future of work, coffee shops and neighborhoods in a post-pandemic world [TechCrunch]

  • An AI algorithm inspired by how kids learn is harder to confuse [MIT Tech Review]

  • ‘Llamas are the real unicorns’: why they could be our secret weapon against coronavirus [The Guardian]

  • How to Let Your Children Be Upset - A series of children’s books can help start conversations about deeply uncomfortable subjects [The New York Times]

  • Grading the electoral college: C for chaos [The Washington Post]

  • Robert Pattinson: A Dispatch From Isolation [Gentlemen’s Quarterly]

Hi there! As much as I love treehugger mentality, I understand there are some factions who say to stop Productivity. But here’s the thing, if some people stopped manufacturing masks for our healthcare workers, how would they go to work? I know it’s tough to stay productive, but get into a routine. For me, it’s as simple as making that cup of coffee, loading up the laptop, and opening two windows, side by side. In one window, I have my website opened, and in the other, I am reading and curating my articles. And making new music podcasts of course!

Looking forward to the last two episodes of the Michael Jordan documentary!

Until next time!


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  • What can past wars teach us about conquering coronavirus? [The Economist Radio Podcasts]

  • The best drum machine VST plugins 2020: beatmaking software for your DAW [Computer Music]

  • New music from Daft Punk on the way in upcoming film score [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Flume Remixes Eiffel 65 “Blue (DA BA DEE)” to Sweet, Sad, Quarantine Perfection [Your EDM]

  • On Our Radar: May 2020 [beatportal]

  • A Timeline of The Weeknd’s Career, From Drake’s Co-Sign to ‘After Hours’ Domination [billboard]

  • Send your masks to healthcare workers without leaving your house [Mask Match]

  • Gamers Not Amused With May 2020 PS Plus Free Games [VGR]

  • Drake Promises to Collab with Lil Wayne on New Music [XXL]

  • Lil Wayne and Eminem Admit They Google Their Own Lyrics to Make Sure They Aren’t Repeating Rhymes [XXL]

  • Mike Skinner shares The Streets’ new single “Where the Fuck Did April Go” [Fader]

  • Chance the Rapper Rates Elon Musk, Deep Dish, and Tattoos [Pitchfork]

  • JAY-Z & Roc Nation Call For Justice In Ahmaud Arbery Case [HipHopDx]

  • Weezer Give The Simpsons’ Theme Song the Rock Concert Treatment [SPIN]

  • Kygo Reveals Tracklist for Upcoming Album ‘Golden Hour’ [EDM Sauce]

  • Remembering Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider [Resident Advisor]

  • Fail Forward: Lessons learned from a career AF Special Tactics operator [Air Force Special Tactics (24 SOW)]

  • New article about the Air Force SR-72 [redacted]


Hello there! I understand many of you lack the motivation to do work, or study right now, due to the quarantine/isolation we are under. I want to tell you a story about resiliency. Imagine someone sitting at a coffee shop. Then picture this person, sitting at that coffee shop, every day, waiting for someone. Someone that may or may not come. Then imagine waiting a year. 2 years. 5 years. 10 years. How long will this person wait? When it will be the final straw? Well, after 17 years, this person had enough. This person used the power of music to build something. Build what? He was not sure. While most albums and playlists had 10 tracks/songs, most of his playlists had over 50 songs. Some were over 100. One time he got so upset, his playlist was over 300 songs. What he did not realize, is that all of his various music podcasts and playlists turned into some kind of music-based Operating System. This was his way to deal with his Mental Health. After the trauma he experienced. It’s not as glamorous as the “Baby Driver” movie plot, but imagine someone’s whose life has been turned completely upside down, and music saved him. That person is me. Resilience is very important. People make fun of you? People think you’re inadequate? Work on a project. Do a little bit, every day. Just keep building. They’ll laugh at you, they’ll think this is a joke. But when you work on something for so many years. Then it just clicks. I hope many people who deal with Mental Health will read my blog from the beginning, and see how far I’ve came along, and why I love the Deus Ex videogame franchise.

On an another serious note, due to coronavirus, there are lower reported cases of child abuse, but the statistics are still scary because these children aren’t on school grounds, and unable to tell a teacher or other adults. There are reported cases of “dungeons” where people are kept. Currently, FBI, ATF and Interpol are working in conjunctions with local authorities nationwide and on an international level, in order to save those in needs. If you know of anything, please contact local authorities. Even sending just one tip can make a huge difference. I thank you.

I’m currently reading Harvard Business Review’s 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness. I’m listening to various DJs podcasts, and I’m trying to beat the damn 510 in the videogame “The Crew” on PS4.

Keep working hard, build yourself from the ground up. You can do it. Never give up.

Dear Makers of Fast & Furious 9, don’t make us wait 2-3 years. Just release it on Streaming, and we promise, we’ll still go to the Movie Theater when it’s safe.

Dear Senator Kamala Harris, thank you for working in conjunction with Senator Sanders on a $2000 per month stipend for Americans until this coronavirus is over.

I’m re-reading (yet again) Thomas Piketty’s latest book, this time in english, on Income Inequality, and why Capitalism needs reform. Remember, reading is fundamental. Read a book.

Until next time!


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  • Opinion: 5 Ways Dance Music Should Radically Change After Coronavirus [beatportal]

  • Music theory basics: what are notes, intervals, scales and chords? [Computer Music]

  • How pandemics have inspired art, music and literature [The Economist]

  • Can we escape from information overload? [1843 magazine]

  • Which Covid-19 Data Can You Trust? [Harvard Business Review]

  • COVID-19 - How to work from home — comfortably [BBC Worklife]

  • In leaked call, Obama describes Trump handling of virus as chaotic [Reuters]

  • Living under a lockdown in Europe has brought back memories of my childhood in Gaza during the Palestinian uprising [AL-JAZEERA]

  • The Underground Efforts to Get Masks to Doctors [The New Yorker]

  • How one professional soccer player is adapting to life as a FIFA pro [The Verge]

  • 4 reasons state plans to open up may backfire - and soon [Vox]

  • California turns to vote-by-mail to keep residents safe come November [TechCrunch]

  • Is getting pregnant “medically necessary” right now? [MIT Technology Review]

  • Astronomers just stitched together an unprecedented portrait of Jupiter in infrared — and realized its Great Spot is full of holes [Business Insider]

  • Premier League begins crunch talks with no help from Boris Johnson [The Guardian]

  • Can the Democrats Avoid Trump’s China Trap? [The New York Times]

  • In the early days of the pandemic, the U.S. government turned down an offer to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America [The Washington Post]

  • “J’ai peur pour nos enfants, pour nos seniors, si une seconde vague arrive” : a la veille du deconfinement, quatre maires temoignent [Le Monde]

  • Watch Spike Lee’s 3-minute short film tribute to New York, New Yorkers, and healthcare workers [Mashable]

  • Former Sen. Harry Reid Believes in Aliens, Urges Politicians to Not Be Afraid [VICE]

  • Space Force | Official Teaser | Netflix [YouTube]

  • When is the next episode of The Grand Tour season 4 on Amazon Prime Video? [Techradar]


Hello there! Stay safe, stay healthy. Here’s another update. F1 2019 for PS4 is really awesome but very hard! Anyway, enjoy the podcasts! I got another AKAI controller for FL Studio 20, it’s really fun! I’m enjoying watching all these DJs’ livestreams on various platforms. I gotta say, with the lockdown, only electronic dance music keeps us sane! I can’t wait to listen to all these new albums that are going to come out later this year and in 2021! They’re going to be amazing! All the DJs and Producers are working really hard!

Until next time!