JETLAG RADIO 248 | BENKYO RADIO 248

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  • SAP is buying Berlin business process automation startup Signavio [TechMeme]

  • A WHO-led team starts its investigation of Covid-19 origins in Wuhan. The experts have completed their two-week quarantine and will look for answers to how the virus jumped to humans. [Quartz]

  • A big hurdle for older Americans trying to get vaccinated: Using the internet [Recode]

  • How to get back your sense of smell after COVID-19, according to science [TheNextWeb]

  • The Pandemic Reveals Racial Gaps in School Meal Access [Eater]

  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Post-Pandemic Plan: Give Women a Hand [Inc.]

  • This breakthrough mask is a ‘smoke detector’ for COVID-19 [Fast Company]

  • Introducing the brand-new Anchor: a better-looking way to say it all [Medium]

  • Fear of Success: The 5 Reasons Fears Paralyze You (and How To Overcome Them) [Entrepreneur]

  • Worrisome New Coronavirus Strains Are Emerging. Why Now? [WIRED]

  • This Week in Tech - Episode 807 [TWIT]

  • The Only REAL “Pro” Smartphone?! [MKBHD]

  • How to Play Xbox Games on Android [Sam Sheffer]

  • Be Careful Buying a Gaming Laptop... [Dave Lee]

  • I’m vlogging again! New studio setup! [iJustine]

  • Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people. -Shirley Chisholm, 1970 [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • LISTEN: Five planets resonate to a fascinating rhythm [Astronomy magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 248 & BENKYO RADIO 248.

The Super Bowl is in one week! Who do you think will win? The Chiefs or the Buccaneers?

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 247 | BENKYO RADIO 247

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  • John Summit Lands another Beatport Number 1 with “Beauty Sleep” [beatportal]

  • How to make a chord progression fit a melody in your DAW [Computer Music]

  • Reason+ puts the rack-based DAW and plugin on a subscription service, with more sounds added every week [Future Music]

  • What will Brexit really mean for touring UK and EU artists? [DJ Mag]

  • The Cover Mix: Bicep [Mixmag]

  • Dancing Astronaut presents Supernovas 001: Dylan Matthew [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Porter Robinson’s “Look at the Sky” Official Lyric Video is Simply Beautiful [YourEDM]

  • COVID-19 leaves Amazonas health system saturated, overloaded and struggling [MSF]

  • Advertising Through The Years: The Evolution of Attention [Gary Vee]

  • Why an American president’s first 100 days matter [The Economist]

  • Fear and hope on Biden’s inauguration day [1843 magazine]

  • 7 Strategies to Build a More Resilient Team [Harvard Business Review]

  • Covid-19: Vaccine divides in the Middle East [BBC News]

  • Thanks, Robinhood, but These Traders Now Want Professional Help [Bloomberg]

  • GameStop stock surge hits fourth day, hedge funds walk away [Reuters]

  • ‘Psychological war’: Iran dismisses Israel military action threat [AL-Jazeera News] Trump is gone. It’s time to return to 2015 Nuclear Deal Talks.

  • Biden’s Pandemic Plan Might Just Work [The New Yorker]

  • Peloton Bike Plus: an Upgrade at a Crucial Time [The Verge]

  • White rage won’t just go away [Vox]

  • SAP launches ‘RISE with SAP,’ a concierge service for digital transformation [TechCrunch]

  • Plex’s new subscription service lets you stream retro games via cloud [INPUT]

  • The Writer who taught Batman to love [INVERSE]

  • Bling Empire leans into crazy-rich Asian representation while forgetting the rest of us [Mic]

  • Why more countries need covid vaccines, not just the richest ones [MIT Technology Review]

  • GameStop nearly died in 2019. Now hedge funds are scrambling to deal with the company's exploding stock. Here's what's going on. [Business Insider]

  • Doomsday clock panel welcomes Biden win but keeps hands at '100 seconds to midnight' [The Guardian]

  • Live Updates: Biden Signs an Array of Executive Orders Focused on Climate Change [The New York Times]

  • Feds: Trump Supporter With Pipe Bombs Discussed Targeting Twitter, Democrats [The Huffington Post]

  • How to Be the Chief Well-being Officer of Your Own Life [Thrive Global blog by Arianna Huffington]

  • The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship [The Atlantic]

  • Biden’s Initial Batch Of Executive Actions Is Popular [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Going to bed hungry [The Washington Post]

  • La longue marche de la France pour atteindre 100 % d’énergies renouvelables [Le Monde]

  • Vivid images show the powerful cyclone deluging California [Mashable]

  • Silicon Valley Thinks You're Stupid and It Will Pay a Lot to Make It True [Motherboard via VICE]

  • The 100 Best Albums of 2020 [Noisey - Music by VICE]

  • Roger Stone Used Oath Keepers as Security on the Eve of the Capitol Riot [VICE News]

  • How Biden’s FCC Could Bring Fast Relief to Students Struggling with Remote Learning [The Intercept_]

  • ‘It’s definitely not easy.’ How flight attendants are handling travel during COVID-19. [National Geographic]

  • Is Life Special Just Because It’s Rare? [Nautilus]

  • In Phone Call, Biden Presses Putin Over Cyber Breach, Navalny [NPR]

  • As California Loosens COVID-19 Rules, Experts Say Public Must Take Precautions To Prevent Another Spike In Cases [CapRadioNews]

  • « Taisez-vous ! » [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Russia Is in Agony, but Putin’s Dictatorship Is Going Down [Foreign Policy]

  • The Sting in COVID-19’s Tail - For Poor Countries, What Comes Next Could Be Worse [Foreign Affairs]

  • Silence in Kashmir on India’s Republic Day - In Kashmir, the holiday means internet blackouts and pre-emptive detentions amid heightened security protocols. [The Diplomat]

  • Inside the Bureau of Intelligence and Research [The Cipher Brief]

  • Physicists Study How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide [Quanta magazine]

  • [Information Presse] BASE ouvre de nouvelles perspectives dans la recherche de matière noire froide : [CERNpress]

  • NASA’s Perseverance Rover 22 Days From Mars Landing [NASA]

  • Interpol Yellow Notice - Bossicot Jean Baptiste, Sinan Saiden [INTERPOL]

  • Editorial: What History Tells Us [Air Force Magazine]

  • 1996 Nissan 180SX Type X (S13) - Happy Wife, Happy Life [Super Street]

  • “The reality we now face implores us to act.” - Al Gore (Founder & Chairman, The Climate Reality Project) [The Climate Reality Project] #ClimateChange

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 247 & BENKYO RADIO 247.

We finally got some rain in Central California! It’s great to see, but as always, please be careful out there, for some reason, Californians always forget how to drive in the rain.

I’m looking forward to watching Press Conferences from various parts of the Biden Administration. It’s so nice to see grown adults back into the White House. There is so much work to do, especially since we endured 4 years by (how an old classmate used to say) LES INCOMPETENTS?

I am halfway through the Barack Obama Memoir VOL 1. It’s a great read. He really reminds me of Dr. King Jr. or Malcolm X. How throughout history, there is great injustice, and how people try to blame Black and other Minority people when instead it was White Nationalism which was the problem. Obama didn’t create the “Military-Industrial-Complex,” it was here long before him. Bernie Sanders has been preaching for 40 years about many topics, and everybody know he is right. Let us listen to him. Progressives are happy that Biden is President, but don’t you forget that we’re still biting our lips over how Corporate Democrats royally fucked up the IOWA caucus when it was clear that Bernie had won. We want #MedicareForAll. We want #FreeTuition. We want #FightFor15. We want #DACA. We want more stimulus checks. We want recurring $2,000 checks monthly until this Pandemic is over.

Somebody PLEASE tell the Israeli Govt that they MUST vaccinate Palestinians. Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Bididi Netanyahu looks pretty fucking stupid today because he is attempting to cause ethnic cleansing against Palestinians. There were only a few brave Democrat Senators/Congressmen/Congresswomen who spoke out. Everybody was quiet. If you do not speak out, you are COMPLICIT. You have rooms of thousands of soldiers looking at stupid goddamn PowerPoint presentations asking “why do they hate us? Why do brown people hate us?” Well, allow me to explain to you, IT’S BECAUSE OF SHIT LIKE THIS. Vaccinate Palestinians, immediately, get MSF & Red Cross on board if you need be. I don’t want any more additional fucking terrorist attacks because Bibidi Netanyahu is being a fucking asshole.

I just binge-watched the first season of Spycraft on Netflix. It was pretty good! A big warning to many of you against “femme-fatales.” Especially with the Russia & China threats out there.

Alright, I got to go to Casa Bonita and help Mysterion, his sister has been abducted (South Park DLC).

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 246 | BENKYO RADIO 246

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  • The Biden administration updates WhiteHouse.gov with several new accessibility features, including dark mode, a large text mode, and more [TechMeme]

  • Joe Biden became the 46th US president. The Capitol steps ceremony may have been unusually sparse due to the pandemic, but it was a peaceful one—a far cry from the chaos at the same setting two weeks earlier. [Quartz]

  • Why right-wing extremists’ favorite new platform is so dangerous [Recode]

  • The White House website reinstates Spanish version that Trump removed [TheNextWeb]

  • Following Prop 22 Victory, Postmates Slaps California Customers With Biggest Fees Yet [Eater SF]

  • Biden's Immigration Overhaul: Bring on the Entrepreneurs - The comprehensive reform bill, dubbed the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, includes a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented residents--and clears the way for a group of people eager to start businesses. [Inc.]

  • Essential workers are risking their lives for us. What do we owe them? - Since March, essential workers have put themselves in danger to keep the country running. What do we owe them when we’re on the other side of the pandemic? [Fast Company]

  • Einstein’s Formula for a Happy Life [mind cafe on Medium]

  • The Strange Theater of Watching the Inauguration Online [WIRED]

  • The C64 ‘Maxi’ Review [TWIT]

  • What Happened to OnePlus? [MKBHD]

  • we have a new president and I’m still stunned [Sam Sheffer]

  • The PS5 Controller is AMAZING! [Dave Lee]

  • Biden defends The Truth [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • THE COFFEE CHALLENGE! /w iJustine! [iJustine]

  • Tallying Votes - The Buddha creates an election process. [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • Dark matter: Taking a closer look at the (un)usual suspects [Astronomy magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 246 & BENKYO RADIO 246.

Shout-out to our 46th President, Joe Biden! He is our new President! On his first day, he already signed 17 executive orders on a various spectrum of things, to get the country back on track. There is a lot to resolve. Looking forward to what Vice-President Kamala Harris will bring to the table as well. Thank you to all the National Guards who kept the peace today, millions of Americans thank you.

Picture that Arianna Huffington is talking to you in her sexy Greek accent. “You worked very hard, now you need to rest! Get enough sleep, sleep during the night and work during the day, you are not a vampire!” No more all-nighters. Thank you, Jesus, Allah & Buddha.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 245 | BENKYO RADIO 245

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  • Artist of the Month: Spain’s Fatima Hajji has Become one of Techno’s Leading Lights [beatportal]

  • Korg is set to take its Gadget app into another dimension with a VR version [Computer Music]

  • Universal Audio to celebrate “60 years of analogue tone” with… what, exactly? [Future Music]

  • UK funky isn’t back — it never left [DJ Mag]

  • The Arp 2600 M is a Portable Version of Korg’s Iconic Semi-Modular Synth [Mixmag]

  • Tomorrowland New Year’s Eve sets from Major Lazer, Tchami, Martin Garrix, and more land on Apple Music [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Watch Madeon Throw Down at wwFest: VALORANT [YourEDM]

  • MSF teams ramp up support as violence escalates [MSF]

  • Someone doing an “86%” compared to your “subjective 100%” is better than not doing it at all. [Gary Vee]

  • Tracking Joe Biden’s first 100 days [The Economist]

  • Managing the Unintended Consequences of Your Innovations [Harvard Business Review]

  • Americast: Trump’s last day [BBC News]

  • Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Ant, Alibaba Crackdown [Bloomberg]

  • Biden leads observance of America's 400,000 COVID-19 dead on eve of inauguration [Reuters]

  • Billions in aid needed to help Afghan children in 2021: NGO [AL-Jazeera News] Every Billionaires who made an abundance amount of additional billions during the Pandemic could easily pay for this. Especially Bezos & Musk

  • Have we Already Been Visited by Aliens? [The New Yorker]

  • Covid-19 Cases in the Capitol are Only the Tip of the Iceberg [The Verge]

  • How people in the UK, Germany, and France feel about Joe Biden [Vox]

  • Reflections on the first all-virtual CES [TechCrunch]

  • Police are flying surveillance over Washington. Where were they last week? [MIT Technology Review]

  • Biden cries during farewell address from Delaware ahead of inauguration, says 'we should be introducing' his late son Beau as president instead [Business Insider]

  • Syria's White Helmets awarded £1.17m to make PPE [The Guardian]

  • The Complete List of Trump’s Twitter Insults (2015-2021) [The New York Times]

  • Biden’s First Act As President: Executive Orders On Pandemic, Climate, Immigration [Huffington Post]

  • A Tragic Beginning to a Presidency [The Atlantic]

  • Why Police Aggression Is Far More Pronounced Against Left-Leaning Protesters [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Les élus locaux alertent sur la lente arrivée des vaccins [Le Monde]

  • Startup shows off electric car batteries that charge in 5 minutes [Mashable]

  • Vlogging the Syrian War - Source Material [VICE News]

  • Trump's Presidency Ends Wednesday. His Legacy Will Haunt America for Years. [VICE News]

  • Twenty-five thousand National Guard troops arrive in D.C. for Joe Biden’s inauguration, more than three times the number present at Trump’s inauguration. [The Intercept_]

  • Past inaugural addresses show the way forward through times of crisis [National Geographic]

  • What You Can Learn from Living in Antarctica [Nautilus]

  • Here's What Biden Plans To Do In His 1st Day As President [NPR]

  • California’s Capitol On Guard: Sacramento Prepares For Possible Inauguration Day Protests [CapRadioNews]

  • Pour une géographie volontaire [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Pompeo Declares China’s Crackdown on Uighurs ‘Genocide’ - The Trump administration’s final parting shot at Beijing poses a diplomatic challenge for Biden on his first day in office. [Foreign Policy]

  • How to Contain Putin’s Russia - A Strategy for Countering a Rising Revisionist Power [Foreign Affairs]

  • The Asia-Pacific in 2021: What to Expect [The Diplomat]

  • America’s Allies Shocked by Storming of the Capitol [The Cipher Brief]

  • Mathematicians Resurrect Hilbert’s 13th Problem [Quanta magazine]

  • Une partie de l’installation de test à gradient élevé du CERN déménage à l’Université de Melbourne.[CERN_FR]

  • Exploring the Solar Wind With A New View of Small Sun Structures [NASA]

  • Investment fraud via dating apps [INTERPOL]

  • How the Air Force Is Protecting the 59th Inauguration [Air Force Magazine]

  • 2020 Toyota GR Supra Long-Term Review Update 3: Road Trip Report [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 245 & BENKYO RADIO 245.

Today is Election Day! I’m watching the coverage. I am so thankful for the many people who have raised awareness to get out the vote through various means, as I did with my blog. We finally kicked Trump out of the Oval office! It was a hard tough battle, but we a Democratic President, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate majority. It’s time to get a lot of work done. This also means that many of us can focus less on staring at the news channel all day long, because we have various jobs that we work on. I can now re-focus on Technology. I have Project Management skills to continue building. I have music to work on. I have reports to write. I have podcasts to catch up to.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 244 | BENKYO RADIO 244

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  • Offline Travel App Maps.Me Raises $50M in Funding Round Led by Alameda Research [TechMeme]

  • France’s central bank will start limiting fossil-fuel investments. By 2024, it will no longer invest in firms that generate revenue from coal, and divest from companies making more than 10% and 50% of revenue from oil and gas, respectively. [Quartz]

  • The big decision before Elon Musk, now the richest person in the world [Recode]

  • About time! Toyota finally announces an all-electric vehicle [TheNextWeb]

  • To Combat Cooking Burnout, Do It All at Once [Eater]

  • Using Inclusive Capitalism to Make Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream Real [Inc.]

  • The damning ‘MLK/FBI’ doc shows how poorly Martin Luther King Jr. was treated in his time [Fast Company]

  • Thank you, California [Kamala Harris on Medium]

  • An Introduction to Ethereum [Entrepreneur]

  • How to Bust Your Spotify Feedback Loop and Find New Music [WIRED]

  • Ant Pruitt [TWIT]

  • The Biggest Ultrawide Monitor! [MKBHD]

  • Mustang Mach-E Test Drive - An Absolute Winner! [Sam Sheffer]

  • M1 MacBook Review + Mac Mini [Dave Lee]

  • Twitter dumps Trump [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • Samsung Galaxy S21 and S21 Ultra Unboxing! [iJustine]

  • Democracy’s indigenous origins in the Americas. [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • Snapshot: Hubble captures bursts of star formation in the Fireworks Galaxy [Astronomy]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 244 & BENKYO RADIO 244.

There is one more day until Joe Biden becomes President. What a relief! Let’s hope things go smoothly!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 243 | BENKYO RADIO 243

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  • Beatport Next will provide six emerging artists with a year of dedicated support. [beatportal]

  • Korg goes back to its roots with the miniKorg 700FS, a new version of its first analogue synth [Computer Music]

  • Mackie’s new Onyx mixers promise premium analogue quality and multitrack USB recording [Future Music]

  • New Short Film Series Gives Insight into Artists’ Creative Process [DJ Mag]

  • Why you Should Add Pioneer DJ’s DDJ-FLX6 Controller to Your Home Setup [Mixmag]

  • Dancing Astronaut celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Bandsintown Launches Exclusive Live Concert Streaming Service [Your EDM]

  • Yemen’s “These sanctions have to make clear that they do not apply to humanitarian aid” [MSF]

  • Books [Gary Vee]

  • In serious cases, covid-19 symptoms can linger for a long time [The Economist]

  • How the pandemic wiped the smile off our faces (literally) [1843 magazine]

  • To Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy, We Need a Better Patient Experience [Harvard Business Review]

  • Aditya Singh: Man found 'living in airport for three months' over Covid fears [BBC News]

  • Online Extremism Expert Says Far Right Has Adapted ISIS Playbook [Bloomberg Businessweek]

  • Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says [Reuters]

  • A post-Trump Palestine [AL-Jazeera News]

  • The Long Prologue to the Capitol Hill Riot [The New Yorker]

  • Hundreds of Parler videos from Capitol riot republished in chronological timeline [The Verge]

  • Why the FBI is vetting the National Guard ahead of the inauguration [Vox]

  • Apple’s Macbook revival plan is stupid smart: Bring back old features [INPUT]

  • A Poverty of the Spirit Stands in Contrast to our Scientific Abundance. [INVERSE]

  • Can people of color be Karens, too? (Yes) [Mic]

  • Threat of inauguration violence casts a long shadow over social media [TechCrunch]

  • What the complex math of fire modeling tells us about the future of California’s forests [MIT Technology Review]

  • How Silicon Valley banished Donald Trump in 48 hours [Business Insider]

  • FBI vets thousands of troops amid fears of insider attack on Biden inauguration [The Guardian]

  • Pentagon Accelerates Efforts to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in the Ranks [The New York Times]

  • 127 Republicans Who Voted To Overturn The Election Results Are Now Praising MLK - By refusing to certify the Electoral College results, these GOP lawmakers were denying the voices of Black voters who turned out heavily for Joe Biden. [Huffington Post]

  • The Coming Republican Amnesia - How will the GOP recover from the Trump era? Pretend it never happened. [The Atlantic]

  • Since The Capitol Attack, Trump’s Approval Rating Has Plummeted At A Record Rate [FiveThirtyEight]

  • FBI probes possible connections between extremist groups at heart of Capitol violence [The Washington Post]

  • Championnat du monde de handball : la France l’emporte dans la douleur face à la Suisse [Le Monde]

  • 12 cool classes to take on Khan Academy for free [Mashable]

  • FAA Says You Can No Longer Be A Maskhole on a Plane [Motherboard by VICE]

  • Trump's Presidency Ends Wednesday. His Legacy Will Haunt America For Years. [VICE News]

  • Doctor who Joined Capitol Attacks Leads a Far-Right Campaign Against COVID-19 Vaccine [The Intercept_]

  • Why whale watching is having a moment—in New York City - With cleaner waters and more available food, humpbacks are making a splash in the Big Apple to the delight of whale watchers and conservationists. [The National Geographic]

  • Can You Treat Loneliness By Creating an Imaginary Friend? [Nautilus]

  • Documentary Exposes How The FBI Tried To Destroy MLK With Wiretaps, Blackmail [NPR]

  • Black Americans Are Getting Vaccinated At Lower Rates Than White Americans [CapRadioNews]

  • 6 janvier 2021 : un « coup » qui fera date [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Washington Must Treat White Supremacist Terrorism as a Transnational Threat [Foreign Policy]

  • America Needs a Democracy Summit More Than Ever - How to Bring the Free World Together Again [Foreign Affairs]

  • Official Costs of Tokyo Olympics Up by 22% to $15.4 billion [The Diplomat]

  • Special Report: Attack on Democracy [The Cipher Brief]

  • A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos [Quanta magazine]

  • NASA to Host Virtual Briefing on February Perseverance Mars Rover Landing [NASA]

  • Future RED Notice: Bibidi Netanyahu - corruption [INTERPOL]

  • Feds Screen National Guardsmen for Insider Threats to Inauguration [Air Force Magazine]

  • Cutting the Cord: EVs Are Moving to Wireless Battery Management [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 243 & BENKYO RADIO 243.

Can you believe it? Only two days left until the Trump nightmare is over. This is so exciting!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 242 | BENKYO RADIO 242

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  • DuckDuckGo surpassed 100M daily search queries for the first time on Jan. 11; since August 2020, the search engine began seeing over 2B search queries per month [TechMeme]

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Day’s namesake would have been 92 years old for the 2021 celebration of his accomplishments in the US. [Quartz]

  • The Capitol rioters put themselves all over social media. Now they’re getting arrested. [Recode]

  • Gas emitted by merging galaxies is stopping stars from forming [TheNextWeb]

  • The Soothing Bento YouTube Videos That Will Inspire You to Get Back in the Kitchen [Eater]

  • Michael Dubin Makes His Exit From Dollar Shave Club — Five years after selling his company to Unilever, one of the most innovative marketers in the DTC sector is looking for something else to disrupt. [Inc.]

  • The rise, fall, and future of Parler, the right-wing site that Amazon shut down [Fast Company]

  • Intel Outside - Can an old school CEO restore the company as a certain “lifestyle” company once did? [M.G. Siegler] I told Bob Swan multiple times I applied, he wasn’t interested. Maybe this CEO will ask for help? But if he does not, there’s not much I can do. [Medium]

  • Don't Just Sell Yourself, Communicate Your Value: 6 Valuable Tips [Entrepreneur]

  • The US Government Needs to Invest in Digital Design [WIRED]

  • This Week In Tech 806 [TWIT]

  • Huge Apple 2021 Rumor Reactions! [MKBHD]

  • 30-year-old boomer attempts to livestream! [Sam Sheffer]

  • Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra - First Look! [Dave2D]

  • How the Capitol attack is reviving facial recognition tech [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • Turning my garage into a gym! Nordic Rower review [iJustine]

  • Fans Choose Zayn's 'Nobody Is Listening' as This Week's Favorite New Music [billboard]

  • Bruce Springsteen and Foo Fighters to Play at Biden-Harris Inauguration Event [Pitchfork]

  • Is Dr. Dre Working on Detox Album Again Following Brain Aneurysm? [XXL magazine]

  • Zack Snyder Confirms 'Justice League' Will Be 4-Hour Movie Instead of Miniseries [COMPLEX]

  • Hasegawa Releases 1993 Taisan STP Nissan GT-R Skyline R32 1/24-Scale Model [HypeBeast]

  • King in Black: Black Panther #1 Preview [comicbook]

  • Gintama The Final Film Adds Screenings with Commentary by Voice Cast [AnimeNewsNetwork]

  • The Sky This Week: The Moon meets Mars and Uranus [Astronomy]

  • In the People’s House There Are Many Mansions [Lapham’s Quarterly]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 242 & BENKYO RADIO 242.

We are so close! Less than 3 days until the Inauguration! Please have it indoors at the White House, and stream it on TV. The Biden/Harris Administration must not let itself be intimidated by this Trump mob. We will get through this!

We need #MedicareForAll, we need #FreeTuition. We need #FightFor15. We need Immigration Rights. We need Veterans Rights. We need so many things. In about 60-70 hours, it’s the dawn of a new day. We have so much work to do! Let’s go!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 241 | BENKYO RADIO 241

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  • DJ Minx Delivers a Politically Charged Jam with “Blind Amerikkka” [beatportal]

  • How to make practicing piano or keyboard scales more fun [Computer Music]

  • Yamaha goes big while you’re stuck at home with the YC73 and YC88 gig-ready stage keyboards [Future Music]

  • DJ Mag's artists to watch in 2021 [DJ mag]

  • A new Book Celebrates London’s Best-Loved Record Stores [Mixmag]

  • Listen to Tiësto’s new ‘AFTR:HRS Sessions’ mix series with inaugural episode by VER:WEST [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Hardwell Ends Decade-Long Radio Show with Epic Finale, On Air 500 [Your EDM]

  • Providing assistance to people in Ethiopia and Sudan in wake of Tigray violence [MSF]

  • Life After High School: All of the Above [Gary Vee] my advice is, continue to study, and take school seriously, but on the side, work on projects that interest you. Remember. even if you work a tiny amount every-day for 1-2 years straight, you will be bewildered by the results. This will help your portfolio.

  • Donald Trump’s reckoning [The Economist]

  • How to Keep Your Cool in High-Stress Situations [Harvard Business Review]

  • Biden inauguration: Executive orders to reverse Trump policies [BBC News]

  • Man Arrested Near Capitol with Gun, 500 Rounds of Ammunition [Bloomberg]

  • Retired doctors and more syringes: Biden lays out plan to get America vaccinated [Reuters]

  • The dark side of Israel’s vaccine success story [AL-Jazeera News] Israel refusing to vaccinate millions of Palestinians but vaccinate Jews. It is time to ask the question: Is Mossad the so-called “Umbrella Corporation?”

  • Why Trump Must Go on Trial [The New Yorker]

  • Cyberpunk 2077 full development reportedly didn’t start until 2016 [The Verge]

  • Trump’s Twitter and Facebook bans are working [Vox]

  • This next-gen Rubik’s Cube is actually a mixed-reality game console [INPUT]

  • Measuring Exercise Intensity Comes Down to One Vital Detail [Inverse]

  • The list of tech companies that have banned Trump and his supporters is staggeringly long [Mic]

  • Twitter’s decentralized future [TechCrunch]

  • We may have only weeks to act before a variant coronavirus dominates the US [MIT Technology Review]

  • The FBI has questioned dozens of people about the killing of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick [Business Insider]

  • America is broken – can Biden and Harris put it back together? [The Guardian]

  • Valerie Gilbert posts dozens of times a day in support of an unhinged conspiracy theory. The story of this “meme queen” hints at how hard it will be to bring people like her back to reality. [The New York Times]

  • Biden Outlines ‘Day One’ Agenda Of Executive Actions [Huffington Post]

  • Yes, the Pandemic Is Ruining Your Body - Quarantine is turning you into a stiff, hunched-over, itchy, sore, headachy husk. [The Atlantic]

  • How Has The Radical Right Evolved Under Trump? [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Off-duty police were part of the Capitol mob. Now police are turning in their own. [The Washington Post]

  • Bruno Le Maire, l’écrivain de Bercy [Le Monde]

  • 12 ambient music sources to stream free online [Mashable]

  • Parler GPS Data Shows Users Posting from Military Bases - The analysis comes as Congress wants to know how much white supremacy has penetrated the military. [Motherboard - Tech by VICE]

  • The Proud Boy Who Smashed a US Capitol Window Is a Former Marine [VICE News]

  • Maryland Democrats Rethink Planned Domestic Terror Bill After Criticism [The Intercept]

  • The polar vortex is coming—and raising the odds of intense winder weather [National Geographic]

  • Dreaming Is Like Taking LSD [Nautilus]

  • Police Arrest Man With Handgun, Woman Impersonating Officer Near D.C. Checkpoints [NPR]

  • California’s Capitol On Guard: Despite FBI Warnings, No Armed Protest In Sacramento On Sunday [CapRadioNews]

  • En Tunisie, les braises persistantes de l’esprit de révolte [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • America and the World: How to Build Back Better [Foreign Policy]

  • The Insurrection Hiding in Plain Sight - How Thousands of Americans Were Convinced to Storm the Capitol—and What Comes Next [Foreign Affairs]

  • How Biden Can Navigate a New Era in South Korean Politics [The Diplomat]

  • The IC Must Move Forward, Not Go Back [The Cipher Brief]

  • Palestine: 2020 in Review [IMEU]

  • Galaxy-Size Bubbles Discovered Towering Over the Milky Way [Quanta magazine]

  • Dans un article publié aujourd'hui, deux chercheurs du CERN et de #DESY, décrivent une nouvelle technique pour rechercher les #OndesGravitationnelles, ces ondulations du tissu spatio-temporel observées pour la première fois en 2015. En savoir plus : [CERN_FR]

  • The U.S. Postal Service to Issue NASA Sun Science Forever Stamps [NASA]

  • Secretary General warns of parallel crime pandemic in CNN interview [INTERPOL]

  • DOD Grapples With Extremist Troops as Congress Urges Investigation [Air Force Magazine]

  • My Doctor the Car? Future Cars Might Monitor Drivers' Health and Wellbeing [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 241 & BENKYO RADIO 241.

Almost there. 3 more days until Joe Biden is President! In 72 hours, we have this huge lift off our shoulders. This is huge! Can you believe it? I am so excited. I can’t even imagine the next PBS Frontline special describing the past 4 years. We are going to watch it and be like OMFG.

Manchester United is on the top of the English Premier League! To all my fellow Red Devils supporters, I will drink a pint and think of you! GO UNITED!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 240 | BENKYO RADIO 240

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  • Tech titans give S.F. the finger as they flee. But this billionaire is staying and working to make it better [TechMeme] The rest of them went to Texas to pay less taxes, meaning they are greedy bastards who care more about money than people.

  • The dream job doesn’t exist. It’s no surprise that rewarding careers—whether you’re a lighthouse keeper, park ranger, or deep-ocean researcher—come with a lot of work. But doing what you “love” obscures how these jobs often mean low pay, long hours, and little agency. As Clio Chang writes in The New Republic, no matter how much you love what you do, at the end of the day a job is still a job. Perhaps our focus shouldn’t just be about finding meaningful work, but also making sure it’s a decent job that allows us to lead a decent life. —Michelle Cheng, reporter, Quartz at Work [Quartz]

  • What is Signal, and why is everybody downloading it right now? [Recode]

  • Scientists figured out how to turn black holes into power sources [TheNextWeb]

  • Biden’s Plan to Help Battered Restaurants Is Unclear as He Pushes for $1,400 Stimulus Checks [Eater]

  • Businesses Step Up Security, Anti-Violence Rhetoric in the Wake of D.C. Riot [Inc.]

  • These are the top-paying remote jobs and how you can land one [Fast Company]

  • How to use Spotify’s listening features to grow your show [Medium]

  • 4 Steps to Demonstrate Your Commitment to Diversity [Entrepreneur]

  • If Covid-19 Did Start With a Lab Leak, Would We Ever Know? [WIRED]

  • This Week In Tech 805 [TWIT]

  • PlayStation 5 Review: Next Gen Gaming! [MKBHD]

  • Visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art from your smartphone in AR: The Met Unframed! [Sam Sheffer]

  • NEW AMD + RTX 3080 Gaming Laptops From Asus [Dave2D]

  • Inside the WhatsApp privacy freakout [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • Meet the BMW iX Virtual Assistant! It’s the Future Calling! [iJustine]

  • 25 Things We'd Like to See Happen in 2021 [billboard]

  • Dr. Dre Released From Hospital After Brain Aneurysm [Pitchforker] I implore Eminem to choose better album titles. I complained to him about that 3 albums ago.

  • Hip-Hop Reacts to President Trump Being Impeached Twice [XXL magazine]

  • Study Shows Election Misinformation Dropped 73 Percent After Trump's Twitter Suspension [COMPLEX]

  • UPDATE: Sony's First PlayStation 5 Restock of 2021 Instantly Sells Out [HypeBeast]

  • Ryan Reynolds Shares Heartfelt Message for Deadpool Fan With Cancer [Comicbook]

  • This Week in Games - All The King’s Fighters [AnimeNewsNetwork]

  • Astronomers edge closer to detecting background “sea” of gravitational waves [Astronomy]

  • Uncivil Liberty - The labor of democracy never ends [Lapham’s Quarterly]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 240 & BENKYO RADIO 240.

I can’t believe it. 4 more days until Joe Biden becomes President! Trump is a menace and tried to overthrow the government. VP Pence must be in charge for a few more days. I am asking everybody to please hold on. We can do this. It’s not 4 MORE YEARS, it’s 4 MORE DAYS. It’s almost over. Go get yourself some beer/liquor/non-alcoholic beverage that you prefer. It’s time for a celebration. We are ALMOST there. Stay safe, drink with moderation. We can party, soon, but let’s not be stupid. Let’s continue to wear masks, practice social-distance. Recently, The Ohio State University Football team lost the National Championship game but it was a blessing in disguise. As a result, people on OSU campus did not have a large gathering, unlike Alabama who did, and as a result they had a huge superspreader event. Most of those people will get sick of COVID-19 if they weren’t wearing masks. There were hundreds of people together in that video. It was not smart.

I’m really getting impatient like millions of Americas, but just remember, we are almost going to wake up from the Trump nightmare. Stand together. In the words of MLK, we shall overcome.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 239 | BENKYO RADIO 239

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  • Label Of the Month: Shall Not Fade [beatportal]

  • Rane’s One DJ controller has motorised turntable platters for authentic vinyl-style performance [Computer Music]

  • Issue 366 of Future Music is on sale now [Future Music]

  • International Nightlife Association Condemns Illegal Raves, Calls for Maximum Penalty for Organisers [DJ Mag]

  • Dr. Fauci says Concerts could Return sometime in the fall [EDM]

  • Armin van Buuren preps 950-song playlist flaunting the best of ‘A State of Trance’ ahead of 1000th episode [Dancing Astronaut]

  • 3LAU Helps Battle Student Debt with $10,000 Scholarship via Bold.org [Your EDM]

  • Palestinian Artist Muqata’a to Release New Album ‘Kamil Manqus كَامِل مَنْقوص' [Mixmag]

  • Fractioning doses of yellow fever vaccine can help save more lives [MSF]

  • Text #garyveebook to Gary Vaynerchuk to get messages on his new book coming out later this year [GaryVee]

  • How understanding light has led to a hundred years of bright ideas [Technology Quarterly by The Economist]

  • They stormed the Capitol, then posed for selfies [1843 magazine]

  • How to Talk with Your Team About the Violence at the U.S. Capitol [Harvard Business Review]

  • FBI fears armed protests by Trump supporters ahead of Biden inauguration [BBC World]

  • Impeach, Convict and Disqualify [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • Deutsche Bank will not do future business with Trump: NYT [Reuters]

  • Israel announces new illegal settler homes in occupied West Bank [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Trump Can’t Be Allowed to Escape Justice Yet Again [The New Yorker]

  • The Google union just passed 700 members [The Verge]

  • Whiteness is at the core of the insurrection [Vox]

  • This Japanese shoulder bag is the last bag you’ll ever need [INPUT]

  • “Insomnia-like” Sleep Patterns can Predict Future Stress [INVERSE]

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger is our strange, sword-wielding unifier [Mic]

  • Sony reveals more details on its secretive Vision-S sedan [TechCrunch]

  • Without leadership on vaccine rollout, scams are inevitable [MIT Technology Review]

  • Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn are clustering in the night sky in a rare, three-planet conjunction event. Here's how to see it on Monday. [Business Insider]

  • Israel is a non-democratic apartheid regime, says rights group - policies perpetuate supremacy of Jews over Palestinians [The Guardian]

  • How White Evangelical Christians Fused With Trump Extremism [The New York Times]

  • Congress Can Expel Members Who Supported Riot [Huffington Post]

  • Fans Think The Weeknd's Plastic Surgery Look Is A Reference To Ex Bella Hadid [BuzzFeed]

  • The Next Phase of Vaccination Will Be Even Harder [The Atlantic]

  • The Cleveland Browns have a 2% chance to win the Super Bowl [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Secret Service launches massive security operation to protect Biden inauguration [The Washington Post]

  • Le « passeport vaccinal », qui faciliterait les voyages pendant la pandémie de Covid-19, ne convainc pas tout le monde [Le Monde]

  • Razer unveils 'smart mask' concept that's basically COVID-friendly rave gear [Mashable]

  • Gig Workers Are Being Excluded From Vaccine Priority List [Motherboard, Tech by VICE]

  • Cops Found This Terrifying Weapons Arsenal in a Pickup at the Capitol Riot [VICE News]

  • Sheldon Adelson’s Fortune Helped Turn the GOP into the Party of Israeli Apartheid [The Intercept_]

  • How the Confederate battle flag became an enduring symbol of racism [National Geographic]

  • Humans Have Rights and So Should Nature [Nautilus]

  • Joint Chiefs Remind U.S. Forces That They Defend The Constitution [NPR]

  • California Lifts Stay-At-Home Order For Greater Sacramento Region [CapRadioNews]

  • La génération de l’inquiétude [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • If Vice President Pence refusing to invoke the 25th Amendment, an impeachment vote is expected on Wednesday. Read our rolling coverage of the aftermath of the deadly U.S. Capitol attack. [Foreign Policy]

  • Washington Wakes Up to the Dark Reality of Online Disinformation [Foreign Affairs]

  • Latest Phase of Intra-Afghan Peace Talks Off to Slow Start [The Diplomat]

  • New Quantum Algorithms Finally Crack Nonlinear Equations [Quanta magazine]

  • La version améliorée du trajectographe aux petits angles pour les muons, l'un des principaux sous-détecteurs de @ALICEexperiment a été installée dans la caverne en décembre. [CERN_FR]

  • Cargo Dragon Undocks from Station and Heads for Splashdown [NASA]

  • Trafficking in human beings [INTERPOL]

  • Joint Chiefs Condemn Capitol Attack, Say Inauguration Will Proceed [Air Force Magazine]

  • Mitsubishi 3000GT vs. Porsche 911 vs. Toyota Supra: ’90s Turbo Power [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 239 & BENKYO RADIO 239.

It’s upon us! Only 1 week left until Joe Biden becomes our 46th President of these United States.

I think the public underestimated the White Nationalism movement in America. I call upon the FBI & ATF to mobilize quickly prior to January 20th. We must have a smooth transition to Biden/Harris and must consider having the inauguration indoors in the White House. There is just too much volatility right now. Things are unpredictable.

Until next time!