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  • Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days [LiveScience] “67” #Universe #Space #TwoStateSolution #Palestine #Israel

  • Think Politics and Dance Music Don’t Mix? Think Again [beatportal]

  • 10 things about music theory that every producer needs to know [Computer Music]

  • Take the Sample Challenge: your chance to enter and win [Future Music]

  • Women and girls face greater dangers during COVID-19 pandemic [MSF]

  • Pandemic-proofing the planet [The Economist]

  • In lockdown with a conspiracy theorist - Coronavirus was only one of Mary’s worries. Her mother had become obsessed with the QAnon conspiracy. And Q always came first. [1843 mag]

  • How the Cult of Sleep-Deprivation Affects Work and Mental Health [Harvard Business Review]

  • How much of your body is your own? [BBC Earth]

  • Biden’s Lead Grows, But So Do Dangers for Democracy [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • Democratic presidential candidate Biden says he is targeting early August to announce his vice presidential pick [Reuters]

  • What makes a ‘humanitarian crisis’? [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Populists inflame the Coronavirus outbreak Across Latin America [The New Yorker]

  • This isn’t a COVID-19 wave — it’s a tsunami [The Verge]

  • On Buddhism and Blackness [Vox]

  • Let’s stop COVID-19 from undoing diversity gains [TechCrunch]

  • I used an algorithm to help me write a story. Here’s what I learned [MIT Technology Review]

  • The coronavirus still kills hundreds of people in the US every day, but Americans have stopped caring — and it’s not entirely their fault [Business Insider]

  • Harry Potter fan sites distance themselves from JK Rowling over transgender rights [The Guardian]

  • As Neo-Nazis Seed Military Ranks, Germany Confronts ‘an Enemy Within’ [New York TImes]

  • Leaders Across The U.S. Urge Mask-Wearing Ahead Of July Holiday [HuffingtonPost]

  • Watching Hamilton Is Like Opening a Time Capsule [The Atlantic]

  • How To Convince People To Stop A Pandemic [FiveThirtyEight]

  • The big factor holding back the U.S. economy recovery: Child care [Washington Post]

  • Le nouveau premier ministre, Jean Castex, se présente en “homme politique local” qui “croit aux territoires” [Le Monde]

  • What are the best video games of all time? I asked our team to help decide [Mashable]

  • How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime [VICE]

  • Pulling down statues? It’s a tradition that dates back to U.S. independence [NatGeo]

  • The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics [Nautilus]

  • Widespread Use of Face Masks Could Save Tens Of Thousands Of Lives, Models Project [NPR]

  • Sacramento Approves Two Police Reform Measures But Activists Want More [CapRadioNews]

  • Tourisme, année zéro [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • These Countries Reformed Their Brutal, Biased Police. The U.S. Can, Too. [Foreign Policy]

  • The Rise of Strategic Corruption - How States Weaponize Graft [Foreign Affairs] #giuliani #corruption #realestate

  • Afghan Media Struggle to Survive the Pandemic [The Diplomat]

  • For decades, America’s primary terrorist threat came from groups based abroad. Today, a new crop of terrorist actors is emerging from within our own borders. What was mostly a monochromatic threat from Salafi-jihadist groups like al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (IS), and those individuals they sought to inspire, has now become a kaleidoscope with new threats from “boogaloo bois,” white supremacists, neo-Nazis, shadowy anarchist elements, and the extreme fringe of violent incels—politicized involuntary celibates fueled by a hatred of women. [The Cipher Brief]

  • A Number Theorist Who Solves the Hardest Easy Problems [Quanta magazine]

  • 1964: Scientifiques etincelants - Giuseppe et Maria Fidecaro, qui travaillent toujours au CERN 56 ans plus tard, travaillent sur la chambre a etincelles du Synchrotron a protons en 1964. [CERN_FR]

  • Radar Points to Moon Being More Metallic Than Researchers Thought [NASA] #Transformers?

  • Germany supports INTERPOL in its digital transformation [INTERPOL]

  • Black Airmen Talk Race in the Air Force [Air Force Magazine]

Hi there! Hope everybody has a nice July 4th. Remember, wear a mask, perform social distancing, and preferably do not drive. If you have to drive and you’re designated driver, drink a 0.0% beer. Always wear a seatbelt. You can also use a Uber/Lyft/Train/Bus/etc. Remember, have a great weekend is great, but only if you arrive home safely. If you’re gonna use fireworks, be responsible, especially around children.

I have reached JETLAG RADIO 180th episode! What a big milestone. Also, other 4 main podcasts are at 033! 180 refers to Sento Yousei Yukikaze when Lt. Fukai is being chased by a bad guy and is about to be obliterated. At the last microsecond, his plane’s onboard AI takes over, says “I HAVE CONTROL,” does a 180 maneuver that defies the laws of physics, use his sentry gun, and destroys the bad guy. Moments later, Lt. Fukai wakes up from his headache, wondering what the hell just happened, and his onboard screen says “You have control, Lt. Fukai.” He has to fight bad guys, and can only trust his bestfriend and his airplane, Yukikaze. My 33rd birthday reminds me of when the entire staff of a team I was on were celebrated for their individual birthdays, except for mine. I was deeply hurt. Not only was I contributing massive amount of work, but they made feel not part of the team. I vowed to myself never to get disrespected like that again. It is important to note that the only person on the entire team who did not forget my birthday, was the black guy. I worked very hard, and it’s been 4 years now. I now advise people who make a difference. We like to champion about equality, but here I was, a brown person, being stigmatized. This affected my Mental Health. Since then, I eventually wrote an algorithm which took me 6 years, and has Scientists, and Generals stupefied. Everybody who took me for granted now has to take me seriously and respect my research. I mean I get to [redacted] [redacted] SR-72. I’m pretty sure I met Optimus Prime. Any guy would give his left nut for this job.

I’m so excited about Thomas Piketty’s documentary, talking about Income Inequality. I’m reading Naruto manga to remind myself of the important responsibility of having a multiplier. People are suffering, and that’s why we need Bernie Sanders to advise Joe Biden to make some big changes in 2021. We need to rally the vote. We need to elect more women like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her group of 4. Please remember we still need to do something about Mass Incarceration. There are too many people in jail who only smoked weed. I still think Scared Straight is an important TV show because I want teenagers to strive for an education, because it opens doors. Read, read as much as you can. Write.

I stopped by the bookstore to grab a magazine on music theory and Richard Haass’ latest book on world affairs. Still busy with Project Management work and Data Science. Listening to so much music. In order to reach a wider audience, I’ve decided to launch MU RADIO, for alternative & rock & roll, and OMEGA RADIO, for Hip-Hop, Rap, and R&B. While I am able to listen to electronic music dance all day, a lot of people are unable to do that, so I will make playlists that caters to them.

Fighting Human Trafficking continues. I have been able to accomplish some very important serious missions. The next one includes toppling human organs harvesting. This is a global op.

DIA has launched a podcast, please check out the work they are doing against Fentanyl.

I want to wish a Happy 4th of July to everyone deployed and who are unfortunately unable to spend time with their families. I will be raising a glass to a special group of guys.

The IMSA WeatherTech 240 is taking place at Dayton! Be sure to check out the race!

Thank you to Dennis Ruyer for uploading the archive of Radio 538 Dance Department on Soundcloud. I got to re-listen to episode 075, where you read my fan letter. I cried when I listened to it again. It meant the world to me. I’m in the process of increasing my DJ list. Remember, you can google them to find their work. Their work is so important because it changes the life of others. Remember the way you were excited as a child to listen to a cassette of a rockband? Imagine the same thing when Afrojack releases a new album.

I cannot wait for Dalai Lama’s album coming out! It’s going to be so great!

Only about 25 more days until Transformers on Netflix comes out!!!

Now is the time to talk to your friends and family about the November election! Make sure everybody is on board to elect Joe Biden because we can’t afford four more years of Trump!

Until next time!

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  • Beatport is Expanding its Techno Categories [beatportal]

  • Get Daft Punk and Herbie Hancock’s vocoder of choice with the X201 plugin [Computer Music]

  • Teenage Engineering PO-137 Rick & Morty Limited Edition review [Future Music]

  • Life in an open-air prison: living under the bombs in Idlib [MSF]

  • Why the world neglects the Uighurs [The Economist]

  • The virtual couch - What happens when psychoanalysis moves onto Zoom? [1843 mag]

  • The Strategic Side Gig [Harvard Business Review]

  • Football commentators must address racial ‘bias’ says PFA [BBC Sport]

  • CityLab: This week’s most popular stories [Bloomberg]

  • One positive in latest Premier League COVID-19 tests, total now 19 [Reuters]

  • Pompeo calls report of forced sterilisation of Uighurs ‘shocking’ [AL-Jazeera News]

  • The Walkman, Forty Years [The New Yorker]

  • Twitch temporarily bans President Trump [The Verge]

  • Democrats’ infrastructure bill has a special delivery: Electric mail trucks [Vox]

  • A virtual Tour de France kicks off this weekend on the online racing platform Zwift [TechCrunch]

  • A supermassive black hole lit up a collision of two smaller black holes [MIT Technology Review]

  • German officials were so alarmed by Trump’s conversations with Angela Merkel that they took extra steps to make sure they stayed secret, according to a CNN report [Business Insider]

  • Democrats to unveil bold new climate plan to phase out emissions by 2050 [The Guardian]

  • “It has been clear for some time that Russia does not wish us well in Afghanistan” [NY Times]

  • Obama Reportedly Names Racist Trump Insult That ‘Still Shocks And Pisses Me Off’ [HuffPost]

  • The coronavirus crisis is revealing the instability a sudden move away from petroleum would bring—but also giving us the chance to help countries make the necessary transition [The Atlantic]

  • How Do You Play Sports In The Middle Of A Pandemic? [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Republicans once again face questions about why Trump isn’t tougher on Russia [The Washington Post]

  • Detournement de fonds publics : deux ans de prison ferme pour Francois Fillion [Le Monde]

  • Apple’s next macOS update, Big Sur, features a big Safari redesign [Mashable]

  • How to Take Stunning Pictures of Space at Home [Vice]

  • As monuments fall, how does the world reckon with a racist past? [NatGeo]

  • The Mystery of the Dark Asteroid That Scorched Russia - A new theory emerges to explain the enigmatic Tunguska Event [Nautilus]

  • Famous New York Public Library Lions Mask Up To Set An Example [NPR]

  • A Conversation With Retiring Maestro Michael Neumann [CapRadioNews]

  • New Left Review [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Why Race Matters in International Relations - Western dominance and white privilege permeate the field. It’s time to change that. [Foreign Policy]

  • America’s Original Sin - Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy [Foreign Affairs]

  • Japan’s Pragmatic Approach to COVID-19 Testing [The Diplomat]

  • US Government officials, civilians and military, alike may be facing unusual tests in the next four months: Does their loyalty rest with the oath they took to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, or to President Trump? [The Cipher Brief]

  • Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA [Quanta magazine]

  • La collaboration entre le CERN et la societe britannique Paragraf pourrait ouvrir la voie a des mesures plus precises des champs magnetiques locaux. Lisez aussi l’article originel en version longue et en anglais sur le @CERNCourier. [CERN_FR]

  • NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP Satellite Analyzes Saharan Dust Aerosol Blanket [NASA]

  • Crimes against children - Children are some of the most vulnerable members of our society and can be victims of various forms of violence [INTERPOL]

  • The SR-72: Going Hypersonic (And Being Loaded With Missiles)? [National Interest]

Hello there! Here’s a new report. Trump’s course of action is really inexcusable and I highly recommend that VP Mike Pence is in charge for these remaining 4 months prior to the November election. It is imperative for not only for Black Lives Matter, but also troop moral in our military, and motivation in our intelligence community. A lot of us really have it up to here. Remember one of my old blogpost, if all I want to do is “flip a table,” imagine what a soldier wants to do to a punching bag after he’s reading allegations about Russia disturbing the peace process in Afghanistan, and Trump looking the other way. That is simply no bueno.

Anyway, everybody, be there for one other, stay strong, it’s about to be July, we got about 4 more months. If you haven’t registered to vote, better get to it. We need Joe Biden to beat Trump. Please listen to Jon Stewart. Joe has dealt with grief in his lifetime, and as a result, it has humbled him. Joe has learned a lot over the years. I still feel Bernie was the better candidate but, we simply cannot afford 4 more years of Trump. So, pretty please, register to vote, and get involved on local, state, and national levels of the 2020 elections. I thank you.

Until next time!

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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!