JETLAG RADIO 231 | BENKYO RADIO 231

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  • It’s OK to Disconnect Sometimes: How to Prevent Mental Fatigue & Information Overload [TechMeme]

  • Hardware companies like Peloton, Variis, and Mirror combine streaming workouts with bikes, treadmills, and other exercise equipment. [Quartz]

  • You can buy a robot to keep your lonely grandparents company. Should you? [Recode]

  • How to spot shooting stars from the Geminid meteor this week [TheNextWeb]

  • Verified Explains - What kind of fabric mask is best? [United Nations blog]

  • How to increase Twitter followers: A 101 Guide [Twitter blog]

  • DataCamp 2.0 [DataCamp]

  • Hundreds of Foster Kids are Sleeping in Hotels and Offices [MotherJones]

  • The New Soul Food of Paris [Eater]

  • Trump’s Election Lies Failed, but the Damage Is Done [The Nation]

  • Elon Musk’s Big Government Grift - The Tesla mogul says he wants to be left alone. But he’s been living off the taxpayer’s dime for years. [TheNextRepublic]

  • All the President’s Pens - Barack Obama’s newly revealed pick for his favorite pen is not fit for a former president, if you ask me. This one is. [Slate]

  • Why Donald Trump is failing at making his dictator dreams a reality [salon]

  • How to Bring Employees Back to Work When They’re Getting Vaccinated at Different Times [Inc.]

  • Santa can’t do his normal mall visits this year, so he’s taking to Zoom [Fast Company]

  • Why To-Do Lists Fail and How the Blue Work/Red Work Balance Can Fix Them [Medium]

  • Are the "Console Wars" Still Happening?: The Battle Between Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo [Entrepreneur]

  • 19 Delightful Gifts for Music Lovers and Audiophiles [WIRED]

  • This Week In Tech - Episode 801 - [TWIT]

  • The iPhone with a Piece of the Moon? The Caviar Story [MKBHD]

  • Inside the First NYC Yellow Tesla Taxicab [Sam Sheffer]

  • My Personal Setup from 2020 [Dave Lee]

  • 7 questions and answers about the Facebook antitrust case [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • AirPods Max 🎧 Unboxing and First Impressions! [iJustine]

  • Shawn Mendes Achieves Fourth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘Wonder’ [billboard]

  • Watch Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin Cover Drake’s “Hotline Bling” [Pitchfork]

  • Kid Cudi teases Man on the Moon Series Might not Be Over After All [XXL Magazine]

  • The Best Video Games of 2020 [COMPLEX]

  • Nike's Self-Lacing Adapt Auto Max Surfaces in a "Jetstream" Colorway [HypeBeast]

  • PlayStation 5 Fan Catches Walmart Employees Trying to Buy Store's Entire PS5 Stock Before Customers [comicbook]

  • Anime Viewership on Netflix in U.S. is 'Up Over 100%' in 2020 [AnimeNewsNetwork]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 231 & BENKYO RADIO 231.

It’s time for some celebration. Today, the Electoral College will cast their vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Finally. It’s time for things to calm down. There are only about 30-some days left until Joe Biden is sworn into office. As you know, while millions of Americans are feeling high level of stress and turmoil, there are many of us who sworn not to Trump and his cronies, but to the U.S. Constitution. The Election took place. Joe Biden won. He will be our next President. He will become the 46th President of these United States. America needs leadership. America does not need a man who ran a chain of hotels and only paid $750 in taxes for the past decade and half. I need to read and analyze my copy of Foreign Affairs, and Le Monde diplomatique. I need to make decisions. That’s what people in the Intelligence Community and Military folks, and Diplomats have to do EVERY FUCKING DAY. We do not have time for a “Trump Reality Show” and trust us, after January 20th 2021, we’ll CANNOT wait to drink a celebration beer/liquor and say WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS PAST 4 YEARS, ESPECIALLY 2020. I want Biden to be boring. I want him to be super boring. I want him to do his job, for his staff to do their job. I want all that to happen, because we gotta focus on Operation Warp Speed for the next couple of months. It is imperative that we vaccinate the entire American population. The sooner we do that, the sooner we keep wearing masks, the sooner we can return to life back to normal. Please follow current lockdown guidelines. The hospitals are running out of ICUs. Stay strong. Remember, you’re not asked to storm Normandy beach. You’re asked to stay home, and wear a mask, and social distance. We do need to subsidized wages by the government. Canada is doing it, Japan, Norway, Germany, France, England and Italy. USA? 0.0% of wages. This is an outrage. Let’s make a change. Congress cannot go on break until they resolve this. We must pass a COVID-19 relief bill, and a second stimulus check. I’ve called my congressman, and my senator. I suggest you do the same thing.

I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I’ll try to post one more update before Christmas if I can.

I’m also done almost done reading the Naruto manga! There are 72 volumes! Sheesh! Just in time until Trump is done and Biden begins! Woohoo!

Cyberpunk 2077 looks amazing! I can’t wait for the upcoming patches so I can play this!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 230 | BENKYO RADIO 230

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  • Artist of the Month: Even in Lockdown, The Legend of Carl Cox Grows [beatportal]

  • Róisín Murphy: “I’ve got an Ableton rig... I really just need a laptop, an interface and a mic” [Computer Music]

  • SampleScience releases a free VST upright piano plugin that sounds like it was recorded in your living room [Future Music]

  • Performing Artists and Musicians Exempt from Quarantine Regulations in England [DJ Mag]

  • Pioneer DJ Reports 82% Rise in the Sale of Entry-Level DJ Controllers During Lockdown [Mixmag] =)

  • Good Morning Mix: deadmau5 celebrates the late i_o with mau5trap radio tribute mix [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Elon Musk Teases Vegas Loop with “Tunnel Rave” set to the sounds of Avicii to distract us of his tax evasion of BILLIONS of dollars during a PANDEMIC [EDM.com] #TaxTheRich

  • GTA V Unveils Los Santos Music Locker w/ Moodyman, Keinemusik, Palms Trax + more [Your EDM]

  • Fear of violence, poor living conditions in South Sudan’s largest displacement camp [MSF]

  • How to Start [Gary Vee]

  • Volkswagen’s boss takes on the unions - The fight may cost him his job [The Economist]

  • The primal thrill of striking a match [1843 magazine]

  • The Secret to Becoming a Market Leader [Harvard Business Review]

  • Covid: Fauci warns Christmas is 'greater challenge' than Thanksgiving [BBC News]

  • Elon Musk Moves Foundation to Texas (for Tax Evasion), Fanning Relocation Speculation [Bloomberg Wealth]

  • 'The people have spoken': Judges reject two more U.S. election challenges [Reuters]

  • Macron rejects calls to get tough with Egypt’s el-Sisi on rights [AL-Jazeera News] there are Human Rights violations in Egypt. Macron must do more to explain this to el-Sisi.

  • Countdown to a Coronavirus Vaccine [The New Yorker]

  • Cyberpunk 2077 is Huge, Ambitious, and Safe [The Verge]

  • Everything that needs to go right for Democrats to win the Georgia runoffs, explained [Vox]

  • Netflix's Transformers: War for Cybertron: Earthrise Trailer Revealed [IGN]

  • SNL's Eminem Parody About Wanting A PS5 For Christmas Is Very Relatable [GameSpot]

  • Batman: Detective Comics is getting a historic new writer in 2021 [Polygon]

  • Will wearing the American flag feel less gross post-Trump? [INPUT]

  • Why a Classic Physics Phenomenon Could Prevent Prevent Future Car Crashes [INVERSE]

  • Could Biden cancel student debt? [Mic]

  • Apple reportedly testing Intel-beating high core count Apple Silicon chips for high-end Macs [TechCrunch]

  • “None of us were ready” to manufacture genetic vaccines for a billion people [MIT Technology Review]

  • Pentagon advisor resigns in protest, saying the Trump administration is putting the nation 'at risk' by purging posts to fill them with loyalists [Business Insider]

  • An investigation by the Cartel Project can reveal that a 10th Mexican journalist - editor of the country’s foremost investigative magazine - was targeted with the “Pegasus” spyware sold by the Israeli company NSO Group, according to technical analysis by Amnesty International. [The Guardian]

  • Biden plans to tap a retired four-star Army general as the first Black defense secretary [The New York Times]

  • The Marines And The Racist Porn Actor Who Tried To Start A ‘Modern Day SS’ [Huffington Post]

  • The Voyagers Found a Small Surprise in Interstellar Space [The Atlantic]

  • Are The Jets Tanking, Or Are They Just This Bad? [FiveThirtyEight] they just want to win the first-round draft pick

  • Amid history of mistreatment, doctors struggle to sell Black Americans on coronavirus vaccine [The Washington Post]

  • Ce logiciel, les analystes de l’ONG Amnesty International, qui ont étudié le message pour le compte du « Projet Cartel », une enquête du collectif Forbidden Stories qui a mobilisé 25 médias, dont Le Monde, pendant plusieurs mois, l’ont reconnu : il s’agit de Pegasus, un outil développé par l’entreprise israélienne NSO. [Le Monde]

  • Seth Meyers targets Trump's revealing self-own about how 'hard' he's working [Mashable]

  • Uber Is Asking the CDC to Give Drivers Priority Vaccine Access [Motherboard by VICE]

  • Armed Trumpers in MAGA Gear Threatened Michigan's Top Election Official at Her Home [VICE News]

  • PFAS CHEMICAL ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE COVID-19 [The Intercept_]

  • WHO set to approve a COVID-19 vaccine by end of 2020—increasing hopes for equitable access [National Geographic]

  • NPR’s Book Concierge [NPR]

  • Think Health Care Workers Are Tested Often For The Coronavirus? Think Again [CapRadioNews]

  • Un trumpisme sans Donald Trump [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • U.S. Diplomats and Spies Likely Targeted by Radio Frequency Energy, Long-Withheld Report Determines [Foreign Policy]

  • The United States Must Marshal the “Free World” [Foreign Affairs]

  • Mongolia Grapples With Its First Real COVID Wave [The Diplomat]

  • CIA’s Unlucky Yet Meaningful Journey [The Cipher Brief]

  • A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics [Quanta magazine]

  • Pouvez-vous nommer un des aimants du LHC ? Certains d'entre eux portent en fait le nom de personnes qui ont contribué au projet ! Les cylindres bleus contiennent la culasse magnétique de l'aimant . #LHC #HiLumiLHC: [CERN_FR]

  • United Launch Alliance Wins Multi-Year Competitive Contract Award to Launch Critical National Security Space Missions for the U.S. Space Force [ULA]

  • INTERPOL’s secure, intelligent platform for enhanced criminal analysis [INTERPOL] (Investigating Israel’s NSO’s Pegasus, and Mossad war crimes in Palestine)

  • Here’s What the Air Force Can’t Get Rid Of, According to the Draft NDAA [Air Force Magazine]

  • The Grand Tour Presents: Pirate Treasure in Madagascar - Official Trailer [Amazon Prime]

  • Living Long-Term with Mental Illness [The School of Life] #StopTheStigma

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 230 & BENKYO RADIO 230.

It’s Christmas month! Time to enjoy some good time among family. Due to COVID-19, it’s important to seclude yourselves, because this holiday might be worst than Thanksgiving. The good news is that, the vaccine is coming, and the WHO will make sure that it gets distributed equally to everybody. Only 44 days until the Biden/Harris administration takes office. There were so many people working hard to keep “running the ship.” All while Trump was busy watching Newsmax, and golfing. People who worked while you sleep. These people are tired. They want relief. They want a stimulus check. They are tired of Income Inequality. They want jobs that pay a decent wage. If we are “the greatest country on Earth,” why do so many of us need two or three jobs to pay the bills? This must change. This is ridiculous. Bernie Sanders already mentioned that most other western countries have offered assistance to its people. Did you know that Germany is offering aid to small employers and to freelancers — and freelancers in Berlin can get over $5,000 in assistance? This should be embarrassing to Trump’s Administration.

Everybody wants to have fun again, and in a little over 40 days, we finally will have a real President. Someone that reads his daily briefings. I’m so excited! You should be too, because that means we can focus on other things. Keep working on that education or sport or music or etc. Focus on your family and stay out of trouble (remember JR/BR 183 blogpost). Don’t let yourself feel down. You will face hardships, but remember, you will get over it. As someone who has experienced trauma a few times in his life, things get better in due time. If there was someone who didn’t take you seriously a few years ago, now they will, and all you can do is wait for their apology letter. Remember, if someone calls you a f*g, you tell them, f*g backwards is gaf, or General at the Air Force. Can’t wait to play NBA 2K21 on PS4 for Christmas!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 229 | BENKYO RADIO 229 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 051

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  • How to Get Started DJing: How and What to Play [beatportal]

  • Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 and Korg’s Volca Beats top Reverb’s lists of the best-selling synths and drum machines of 2020 [Computer Music]

  • Shlohmo: "I kind of see myself as a graphic designer who uses Ableton" [Future Music]

  • Could This New App Save Ibiza’s 2021 Season? [DJ Mag]

  • The North Quarter Launches New Mixtape Project with ‘NQ State of Mind, Vol 1’ [Mixmag]

  • Spotify Wrapped 2020 is here [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Dillon Francis Drops Yet Another New Remix, This Time Taking On Hot Chip’s “Straight To The Morning” [Your EDM]

  • MSF providing medical care and assistance in Sudan to people fleeing violence in Ethiopia [MSF]

  • Wallpapers [Gary Vaynerchuk]

  • The end of the embarrassment - The assumption that Republicans will remain in thrall to Donald Trump could be misplaced [The Economist]

  • The anguish of grandparenting in a pandemic [1843 magazine]

  • Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany. [Harvard Business Review]

  • Ex-Arizona politician sentenced for adoption scheme [BBC News]

  • Pelosi, Schumer Back Using Bipartisan Plan in Stimulus Talks [Bloomberg]

  • U.S. to accuse Google of labor violations in clampdown on protests, fired employees say [Reuters]

  • Afghan gov’t, Taliban announce breakthrough deal in peace talks [AL-Jazeera News]

  • How the Fight Against COVID-19 Is Bringing About a Perilous Rise in Preventable Diseases in Poorer Nations [The New Yorker]

  • Climate change is already a disaster to health, doctors say [The Verge]

  • AI has cracked a problem that stumped biologists for 50 years. It’s a huge deal. [Vox]

  • This project is attempting to trace the origins of enslaved ancestors [INPUT]

  • PS5 Restock: Target, Costco, Popfindr, and More Restocks Before Christmas [INVERSE]

  • The best part? They’re free of antibiotics and don’t require the slaughter of any animal. [Mic]

  • iPhones can now automatically recognize and label buttons and UI features for blind users [TechCrunch]

  • This is the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way ever made [MIT Technology Review]

  • US lawmakers are set for a historic vote on decriminalizing marijuana — here's what you need to know [Business Insider]

  • Biden plans to urge all Americans to wear masks for 100 days after inauguration [The Guardian]

  • Trump Associates Said to Have Been Scrutinized in Suspected Pardon Scheme [The New York Times]

  • Rachel Maddow Urges Americans To Do 1 Thing Regarding Trump As COVID-19 Surges [Huffington Post]

  • The Supreme Court Is Colliding With a Less-Religious America - Justices’ drive to promote “religious liberty” may only become more intense. [The Atlantic]

  • The NFL Is Running Out Of Wiggle Room [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Vaccines offer hope for end to pandemic, but brutal months lie ahead [The Washington Post]

  • Défense : feu vert éthique pour la recherche sur le « soldat augmenté » [Le Monde]

  • Facebook will now finally ban COVID-19 vaccine misinformation [Mashable]

  • Mysterious Monolith Update: Police Are Investigating the Destruction of California Monolith [Motherboard by VICE]

  • COVID Is Much Deadlier for People of Color Than the CDC Thought [VICE News]

  • Biden Is the Perfect Figurehead for the Post-Trump National Security Establishment [The Intercept_]

  • These scientists set out to end blindness. Their innovations just won them $3 million. [National Geographic]

  • A Model for a Just COVID-19 Vaccination Program - The pandemic exposed racial injustice in healthcare. Vaccine distribution must not. [Nautilus]

  • Vaccine Cards And Second-Dose Reminders Are Part Of Warp Speed's Immunization Plan [NPR]

  • Health Experts: California's Stay-At-Home Order Is Right Move, But Pandemic ‘Heading Into A Really Bad Place’ [CapRadioNews]

  • La tyrannie de la bienveillance [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Afghanistan Needs Truth Before It Can Have Reconciliation [Foreign Policy]

  • Fear of Trump’s Populism Might Save American Alliances [Foreign Affairs]

  • Afghanistan’s Biggest Fight: Climate Change [The Diplomat]

  • Biden’s Russia Challenge [The Cipher Brief]

  • Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe [Quanta magazine]

  • INTERPOL warns of organized crime threat to COVID-19 vaccines [INTERPOL]

  • Hypersonic Missile Coming Five Years Faster Thanks to Acquisition Reform [Air Force Magazine]

  • The Million-Mile 2007 Toyota Tundra Pickup: The Teardown [MOTORTREND]

  • AUTO #31 [FIA]

  • FIFA 21 [Next-Gen] [IGN]

  • PS Plus Free PS5 And PS4 Games For December 2020 Available Now [GameSpot]

  • Everything we actually know about Matrix 4 [Polygon]

  • The Lakers will play the Clippers on opening night [SB Nation]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 229 & BENKYO RADIO 229. I’ve also included LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 051.

There are 47 days left until Biden is finally sworn in as President. COVID-19 is getting worse by the way, all because, inconsiderate percentage of Americans decided not to wear a mask. Hospitals are full, ICUs are full, Doctors/Nurses/EMTs are exhausted. I specifically said Trump needed to concede. He did not listen. More Americans are suffering. Biden says that for his 100 first days in office, people should wear masks. We should be doing that already.

People of Israel, keep working hard, soon you will have a new leader, and Bibidi Netanyahu will finally answer to his crimes of corruption. The sooner you make peace with Palestinians, the easier you will sleep at night.

WE NEED MEDICARE FOR ALL. WE NEED A NEW STIMULUS CHECK. Why do people not take AOC seriously because she is a young woman and she was a waitress? She is a congresswoman now and you will respect her. Obama did not respect her before, but now he has to, because people reminded him that he is the past, Biden is the present, and AOC is the future. We need to tax the rich. It’s a pandemic. millions of Americans have lost their jobs. People are just getting by, meanwhile, the big tech companies like Amazon and Tesla have made BILLIONS!?! This is criminal behavior!

Decriminalizing weed is an important step because too many black and brown people are in jail for minor weed infractions. This must stop. Just remember, you cannot smoke and drive. That’s dangerous.

The vaccine is coming. Hopefully it doesn’t take forever, but it’s on its way. I want you to keep the faith, because everybody that works on Operation Warp Speed is working hard for you, the American People, unlike President Trump.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 228 | BENKYO RADIO 228 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 050

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  • Alphabet’s DeepMind says it has solved the key “protein folding problem”, cutting the job down from months to hours, which could speed up drug discovery [TechMeme]

  • Kick off each morning with coffee and the Daily Brief (BYO coffee) [Quartz]

  • Spotify has 300 million users. It wants more of them to listen to podcasts. [Recode]

  • Hard Lessons and Simple Routines Helped These Founders Beat the Stress of 2020 [Inc.]

  • Remote work can’t change everything until we fix this $80 billion problem - The U.S. rural areas still suffer from limited broadband availability. Addressing that may take both government investment and new technologies. [Fast Company]

  • “The reality is that Britney Spears made those millions. Not James Spears. His ass isn’t the one giving those performances. His work is minimal — he merely decides what his practically forty-year-old daughter can and cannot do.” [Medium]

  • Storytelling Total: the story of companies that survive in time [Entrepreneur]

  • The Future of Work: ‘The Long Tail’ by Aliette de Bodard [WIRED]

  • This Week In Tech 799 - Don’t Tweet the Fleet - Hosted by Leo Laporte [TWIT]

  • The FIRST MKBHD Product: ICONS! [MKBHD]

  • iPhone 12 Mini Review: No Place I’d Rather Be [Sam Sheffer]

  • Cyberpunk 2077 Loot Unboxing [Dave2D]

  • Snapchat’s million-dollar idea [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • Magic Oven! Breakfast in the Brava 🍳 [iJustine]

  • BTS ‘Life Goes On’ Launches as Historic No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 [billboard]

  • Dua Lipa’s Studio 2054 Livestream: Here’s What Happened [Pitchfork]

  • Every Tupac Shakur Album Ranked [XXL magazine]

  • Here Are Spotify’s Top Artists, Songs, and Albums of 2020 [COMPLEX]

  • More Antitrust Lawsuits Against Google and Facebook Are Coming [HypeBeast]

  • NASA Reveals “Unknown Object” Speeding Toward Earth [Comicbook]

  • Gintama: The Final Film Gets Novel Adaptation in January [AnimeNewsNetwork]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 228 & BENKYO RADIO 228. I’ve also included the latest LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO episodes.

As I just had some (decaf) coffee and warming up some water for some Ramen after eating a salad, I am feeling a sense of weird feeling. I got myself some Pioneer DDJ-400 turntables which I told myself: “I would only celebrate with them if Biden wins.” It was very surreal. I mean, we have been living in this COVID-19 nightmare since March 2020. Since March 2020, as we’ve read in Bob Woodward’s new book, we’ve known the complete lack of leadership to tackle this virus due to Trump. It’s time to tell it like it is: everybody was scared shitless of Trump, not just because they would lose their job, but because of the large numbers of White Nationalists that surround him. The Trump-Russia connection. This mafia/mobster mentality that went unchecked. The fact that the Manhattan’s District Attorney’s office is impatiently waiting to press some charges. I tried to be patient because we’re about almost forty-some days until Biden takes office. But, Trump needs to concede. I’m tired of this MGS 2 Tanker intro revisit. We are NOT going to let these White Nationalists collaborating with Russians steal the new Metal Gear. It’s time for Trump to concede. This is life. Life is real. Mr. Trump, life is not HOME ALONE 2 - Lost in New York. We know you’re going to launch a Newsmax-type conspiracy site. That’s fine, go do that. The American people don’t have time to deal with this bullshit. Let the Biden Administration get to work. Let people relaunch the Economy. Most important of all, let me PLEASE read my fucking copy of The Economist, and play my video-games, and listen to my Techno. COVID-19 is depressing. You, Mr. Trump, are depressing. You’ve made everything about you, and you didn’t realize that you work for the American people, it was your fucking job to take care of Americans. Your whole methodology was “America, First!” and you did NOT deliver. I have the luxury to tell you like it is, because I work for free. I haven’t had a paycheck in a year+. I work because tens of thousands of people in my field are fucking sick and tired of your shit. It’s over. You didn’t win the Popular vote. You didn’t even win the Electoral College. So please, get off the news. The Intelligence Community has a lot of shit to do. Your inability to read and research are putting a lot of people in jeopardy.

The next few weeks of pandemic COVID-19 statistics are going to be grim. That’s got to do with the President’s stupid behavior of telling people not to wear masks. You have to wear a mask. It’s imperative.

Let Operation Warp Speed team members do their job. Go back to your couch and listen to Rush Limbaugh.

It’s December. It’s Christmas. NORAD is following Santa, and we all want to enjoy a little bit of time among our loved ones.

It’s 2020. If in this day in age, you find the time to criticize Barack Obama, a black man, who showed up to work for 8 fucking years, but don’t criticize Trump for his mistakes which are immense (barely shows up to work, always out golfing), you need to go fuck yourself. There are things I love about Obama, there are things I hate about Obama. But at least, I’m still gonna read his new 700 page book. What the fuck is Trump’s book going to be about? Do we even dare to ask?

Dear unknown number of people in Israel who actually do believe in empathy, thank you for releasing that Palestinian prisoner who was on a hunger strike for 103 days. We live in a global pandemic. It’s time to think about peace between both sides. I want everybody around the world that whenever they are eating green olives, they do a little prayer for the Israel/Palestinian conflict.

RIP Paul Walker. It’s been 7 years, but it still feels like yesterday.

Dear Fellas, please read this article, I found it helpful: No game days. No bars. The pandemic is forcing some men to realize they need deeper friendships (Washington Post).

Mitch McConnell has 24-hrs to pass a COVID-19 / stimulus bill before he looks at himself in the mirror, realizing that he will burn in hell. Millions of Americans are waiting.

Until next time!


JETLAG RADIO 227 | BENKYO RADIO 227 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 49

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  • US Techno Wunderkind i_o Has Died [beatportal]

  • Fraser T Smith – 10 songs that changed my life: “It’s impossible not to feel haunted by the isolation and nihilism of Ian Curtis’ performance“ [Computer Music]

  • M-Audio’s Oxygen Pro MIDI keyboards offer smart features and “maximum control” [Future Music]

  • Why trance works [DJ Mag]

  • The Weeknd Calls Grammys “Corrupt” Following Nominations Snub [Mixmag]

  • Dancing Astronaut Gives Thanks 2020 [Dancing Astronaut]

  • No Man’s Sky Players Create Dedicated Rave Planets [Your EDM]

  • Staff entry restrictions forces MSF to withdraw from COVID-19 response in Venezuela hospital [MSF]

  • 6 Ways to Stay Positive During Quarantine [Gary Vaynerchuck]

  • Covid-19 has shone a light on racial disparities in health [The Economist]

  • Why Companies and Skilled Workers Are Turning to On-Demand Work [Harvard Business Review]

  • Coronavirus: The agonising Thanksgiving dilemma facing millions of Americans [BBC News]

  • Amazon’s $3,000 Signing Bonuses Irk Workers Who Got $10 Coupons [Bloomberg]

  • ‘We’re drowning’: COVID cases flood hospitals in America’s heartland [Reuters]

  • COVID-19 vaccines explained in maps and charts [AL-Jazeera News]

  • A Victory for Democracy: Trump Allows the Transition to Begin [The New Yorker]

  • Samsung’s Odyssey G9 Does the Work of Three Monitors [The Verge]

  • Dark matter holds our universe together. No one knows what it is. [Vox]

  • Apple wants to weaken protections offered by Uighur forced labor bill [Input]

  • This is How the Apollo Mission changed Thanksgiving [Inverse]

  • Scientists have caught a black hole turning a star into "spaghetti" [Mic]

  • Gift Guide: 5 solid tech gifts to help decrease stress and increase sleep [TechCrunch]

  • Biden names John Kerry climate czar, in a recommitment to global cooperation [MIT Technology Review]

  • Elon Musk promoted coronavirus misinformation for months. Then his own infection kept him out of SpaceX's astronaut launch. [Business Insider]

  • Fauci urges Americans to sacrifice traditional Thanksgiving to save lives [The Guardian]

  • How to Cook a Turkey [NYT Cooking]

  • Can We Guess What You’re Thankful For? There’s so much to be thankful for. [BuzzFeed]

  • Sotomayor Calls Supreme Court’s N.Y. Pandemic Ruling A ‘Deadly Game’ [Huffington Post]

  • Pandemic Data Are About to Go Sideways - States are likely to report fewer coronavirus cases, but not because things are getting better. [The Atlantic]

  • What We’ve Learned About The Biden Administration From His Staffing Choices So Far [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Friendsgiving is an epidemiologist’s nightmare. But its absence is hitting some young people hard. [The Washington Post]

  • Les jeunes de plus en plus menacés par la pauvreté [Le Monde]

  • 25 best movies on Netflix to stream this long Thanksgiving weekend [Mashable]

  • Utah Officials Find Mysterious Metal Monolith In Remote Wilderness [Motherboard by VICE]

  • How the Criminal Justice System Fails People with a Mental Illness - “I found your baby,” Michelle Durden recalls the police officer saying after her son went missing. “He’s alive. And he’s in jail.” [The Intercept_]

  • COVID-19 forces families to come to terms with a different Thanksgiving - As Americans consider the health risks of gathering for Thanksgiving, they’re struggling with the separation from loved ones and the loss of traditions. [National Geographic]

  • How Einstein Reconciled Religion to Science [Nautilus]

  • Biden And Trump Offer Jarring Contrast Minutes Apart On Thanksgiving Eve [NPR]

  • California Turkeys Will Likely Trot North As Climate Warms, But May Not Leave The Suburbs [CapRadioNews]

  • Maradona, la politique en crampons [Le Monde diplomatique] « Ce qu’Israël fait aux Palestiniens est honteux »

  • Biden Likely to Lift Sanctions on ICC Chief Prosecutor [Foreign Policy] “And in December 2019, Bensouda sought permission from the court’s judges to pursue an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Israeli forces during the 2014 conflict in the Gaza Strip.”

  • The Strategies Are Foreign, but the Corruption Is American - A Response to “The Rise of Strategic Corruption” [Foreign Affairs]

  • Can COVID-19’s Impact on Democracy in Southeast Asia be Reversed? [The Diplomat]

  • The Challenging Vaccine Distribution Mission [The Cipher Brief]

  • The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding [Quanta magazine]

  • La jolie expérience LHCb - @LHCbExperiment tente de faire la lumière sur les raisons pour lesquelles nous vivons dans un Univers qui semble être composé presque entièrement de matière, en étudiant les "quarks beauté", d'où le nom de l'expérience. [CERN_FR]

  • From Capsules to Cranberries, NASA Helps Keep Thanksgiving Food Safe [NASA]

  • INTERPOL marks a decade of tackling serious organized environmental crime [INTERPOL]

  • Pentagon Begins Transition to Biden Administration [Air Force Magazine]

  • 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 First Ride Review: Big Talent [MOTORTREND]

  • The 4 advantages of a stay-at-home Thanksgiving in 2020 [SB Nation]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 227 & BENKYO RADIO 227.

We are about a little over fifty-some days away from Inauguration. The Biden Transition Team is at work. I am extremely thankful, because many of us can finally sleep a little easier. These past 4 years have been very tough, and the Election season was nerve-wracking. Finally, America will regain its respect around the world. Slowly but surely.

It’s Thanksgiving, so be sure to be thankful for what you have. This pandemic reminded all of us that Medicare For All is desperately needed in America. We needed people to wear masks. Some people are still having a large Thanksgiving, to the discontent of Dr. Fauci. Operation Warp Speed, worked extremely hard to get these vaccines to combat COVID-19. For us electronic dance music enthusiasts, please refer to Dyro’s Warp Speed track, as featured on JETLAG RADIO 167. We must hang on. Only a few more months before life returns to normal. I am calling on the brightest minds in “Logistics & Supply Chain Management.” There was an article on BBC News about discussing an important topic: “how do you administer a vaccine to over a billion people?” It’s time to start thinking hard about that. Time to brainstorm.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 226 | BENKYO RADIO 226 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 048

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  • Squarespace’s new feature could help more business survive the pandemic [TechMeme]

  • Joe Biden made his first economic address. The US president-elect warned of a dangerous winter ahead and that “more people may die” from the coronavirus if president Donald Trump continues refusing to cooperate with the incoming Democratic administration. Biden urged Congress to pass more relief legislation and expressed support for mask mandates. He will name key members of his administration today. [Quartz]

  • How Biden’s FCC could fix America’s internet [Recode]

  • Zoom is getting rid of its 40-minute limit, but just for Thanksgiving [TheNextWeb]

  • Chicago Inches Closer to Capping Grubhub and DoorDash’s Fees [Eater]

  • A Debilitating Mental Health Crisis Almost Ended His Life. Now He Wants to Save Others [Inc.]

  • How the Netherlands became a plant-based protein powerhouse [Fast Company]

  • Working In Tech & Worrying About Getting “Too Old” [Medium]

  • Fed up with COVID-19? You could have pandemic fatigue [Entrepreneur]

  • Ancient Dog DNA Reveals Their Enduring Connection With People [WIRED]

  • The Tech Guy 1748 - Soundbar Replacements for a Home Theater System [TWIT]

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

  • Super 73 RX review: the best ebike is back! [Sam Sheffer]

  • M1 MacBook Review + Mac Mini [Dave2D]

  • Facebook’s antitrust showdown approaches [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • All 3 New M1 Macs Unboxed! MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13in and Mac Mini! [iJustine]

  • BTS’ ‘Be’ Is Here: Stream It Now [Billboard]

  • Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace [Pitchfork]

  • Lil Yachty Remixes Saved By the Bell Theme Song for Show’s Comeback: Listen [XXL]

  • Stream Jeezy's New Album 'The Recession 2' [COMPLEX]

  • Philadelphia Cream Cheese Takes a Bite Out of the Gaming World With Philly Series 5 Cheesecake [Hypebeast]

  • Shazam! Fury of the Gods Director Shares Insane Crossover Poster Featuring Star Wars and Marvel Heroes [ComicBook]

  • Evangelion's Final Film Finishes Dialogue Recording [Anime News Network]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 226 & BENKYO RADIO 226.

We are only about a little over 60 days until Inauguration. Biden is President-Elect. Trump needs to concede. It’s long overdue. Many of us have dealt extreme hardships with our Mental Health. I want you all to remain calm. Just 2 more months. We have a little of November left, December, a few weeks in January, and then Joe Biden’s Administration can finally repair all the damage done by the Trump Administration. Whoever the fuck Emily Murphy is, she needs to answer why she hasn’t started paperwork for the transition to the Biden Team. This is fucking ridiculous. How the fuck do you expect people to concentrate at work when more people keep dropping like flies, we are ready to see a sign of hope. We want Biden to take over and get to work. Put the pressure on Emily Murphy. Americans demand answers.

I’m not having a big thanksgiving like many Americans because COVID-19 is too alarming. This will be a very scary winter if we are not careful. Remember, do you want to jeopardize the lives of your loved ones and only have 1 Thanksgiving, or do you want to sit this one out and be able to have the next 20-30 years of Thanksgivings together? Think long-term.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 225 | BENKYO RADIO 225 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 047

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  • For an Industry Ravaged by COVID, There’s One Shining, Bright Spot [beatportal]

  • Logic Pro 10.6 released: M1 silicon Mac support and the option to control the step sequencer from your iPad or iPhone [Computer Music]

  • Ableton Live 11 beta: an overview of Hybrid Reverb, Spectral Resonator and Spectral Time [Future Music]

  • Afrojack Revives House and Techno Alias, Kapuchon, on New Track ‘10 Years Later’: LISTEN [DJ Mag]

  • The Cover Mix: Overmono [Mixmag]

  • Drake expects people to ‘hate on’ forthcoming LP, says it’s ‘music to evolve to’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • David Guetta and MORTEN Bring Future Rave to Musical Freedom on “Save My Life” [Video] [YourEDM]

  • Kindness is the Ultimate Strength [GaryVee]

  • Step up for TB report 2020 [MSF]

  • Fighter aircraft will soon get AI pilots [The Economist]

  • How to train your algorithm: lessons from the pointless and important world of TikTok [1843 magazine]

  • A Way Forward for Working Parents [Harvard Business Review]

  • Covid-19: Normal life back next winter, says vaccine creator [BBC World]

  • Biden Virus Advisers Say a National Lockdown Isn’t on Agenda [Bloomberg]

  • We can stop COVID-19: Moderna vaccine success gives world more hope [Reuters]

  • We stand with Afghan scholars and students under attack [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Herman Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, and the Battle Over “Citizen Kane” [New Yorker]

  • Guide to Streaming: From Disney Plus and HBO MAX to NBA League Pass and Crunchyroll [The Verge]

  • Love, delayed - As the pandemic rages on, single people are feeling the anxiety of missed opportunities.[Vox]

  • Watch SpaceX launch its historic first NASA astronaut crew mission live [TechCrunch]

  • It’s not too late to cancel Thanksgiving - Here’s your risk of having a guest with covid-19 at your holiday gathering. [MIT Technology Review]

  • Barack Obama rules out role in Biden cabinet - ‘Michelle would leave me’ [The Guardian]

  • Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Records 1 Million New Cases in a Week - “The health care system is breaking, literally breaking,” a Biden adviser says. New York City schools remain open, for now. [The New York Times]

  • In Ruins, Syria Marks 50 Years Of Assad Family Rule [Huffington Post]

  • The Role-Playing Game That Predicted the Future - Mike Pondsmith created Cyberpunk in 1988. Now it’s the inspiration for a highly anticipated video game—and an unlikely oracle. [The Atlantic]

  • How A Record Number Of Republican Women Will — And Won’t — Change Congress [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Businesses race to battle back new coronavirus restrictions as U.S. faces deadly new surge [The Washington Post]

  • Jean-Michel Blanquer : « Un tiers des professeurs titulaires sera augmenté dès 2021 » [Le Monde]

  • Baby Yoda tags along on SpaceX's first operational crewed mission for NASA [Mashable]

  • How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps [VICE]

  • Israelis Take on Netanyahu and Coronavirus Restrictions in Wave of Civil Disobedience [The Intercept] “Their message since the election has been: “Trump’s out, Bibidi you’re next.”

  • Meet the fearless women sailors taking on the ‘Everest of the seas’ [National Geographic]

  • Are You Yoda or Darth Vader? How to recognize your light and dark sides. [Nautilus]

  • National Security Adviser Says It Looks Like Biden Has Won The Election [NPR]

  • Sacramento Pushes To Get Flu Shot To Underserved Communities As A ‘Dry Run’ For Potential COVID-19 Vaccine [CapRadioNews]

  • Petit peuple et bon vaccin [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • The Biden Transition - All the new hires and plans in one place. [Foreign Policy]

  • Why the Middle East Still Matters to America [Foreign Affairs]

  • China and the Coming Biden Presidency [The Diplomat]

  • Forget the AI Race. Let’s Invest in a Data Grid for AI. [The Cipher Brief]

  • Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography [Quanta magazine]

  • Avant la découverte du #BosonDeHiggs, les scientifiques ont utilisé des simulations de collisions produisant des Higgs [Image : ATLAS, 1995]. ♥ - Découvrez les derniers résultats de @ATLASexperiment et de @CMSExperiment du début de l'année sur le sujet : [CERN_FR]

  • NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TV [NASA]

  • Wildlife and forestry crime: Worldwide seizures in global INTERPOL-WCO operation [INTERPOL]

  • What a Flournoy Pentagon Could Mean for the Air Force [Air Force Magazine]

  • If Porsche’s 919 Le Mans Racer Had a Successor, It’d Be This Vision 920 [MOTORTREND]

  • Holiday Deals start now! [Dutch Bros Coffee]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 225 & BENKYO RADIO 225.

The inauguration is about 60-70 days away. That means just 2 more months. Biden has won the election. Now we just have to be patient for two more months. But alas, Trump has yet to concede, and he needs to. For the sake of the Operation Warp Speed regarding the Coronavirus, Trump needs to go back to his corner. We know where he’s going. He’s gonna be a talk show host / TV celebrity again. That’s fine. Go be Rush Limbaugh 2.0. The rest of the American people does not have time for your disregard of the U.S. Constitution. There is a lot of activity. America has to deal with the Coronavirus, and Russia & China threat.

Hurricane season still in full swing, so be safe out there if you live in those regions.

Recently is the 5th anniversary of the French Terrorist Attacks of November 13th 2015. It’s always hard to talk about it, since life has changed a lot for many French people afterwards. Whether you are a French citizen, army, policeman, etc. This time of year, I always think hard about the GIGN. The lump in your throat that Americans felt on 9/11/2001, that’s the same feeling French people felt on 11/13/2015. The only way to combat the vicious ISIS/ISIL ideology, is by utilizing smart tactical train of thoughts, and for France to realize that while in France, there is a real separation of Church and State, we still must respect millions of Muslim people living in France. It’s time for modernization in Islam, but it does not work when a white guy talks about it. It is up to Muslims to get these new philosophies implemented. The way that UAE is going to let people drink alcohol and people live together even before marriage. Macron cannot call himself a champion of human rights, if we only talk about the Two State Solution in Palestine and Israel once a year, then go back to eating a sandwich. You want global stability, I can help. But you need to stop treating brown people with such disregard. This notion that “the white guy is always the good guy” and the “Arab or Brown guy is always the bad guy” has got to stop. In America, the majority of terrorist attacks this past year was from White Nationalists. Dear Macron, please focus on students. There was nothing more aggravating after my first degree when I had finally graduated college, only to wake up in a recession, applied to 200 posts, and not receiving a single interview. You need to persevere and tell these kids that they will have a job, eventually, but it takes time. It took a while, but eventually I did get my 9 years of experience as an Analyst.

Don’t forget to wear a mask! Only a few more months until the vaccine starts getting implemented!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 224 | BENKYO RADIO 224

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  • Pfizer and Biontech Announce Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 Achieved Success in First Interim Analysis From Phase 3 Study [Pfizer]

  • Microsoft says it detected three APTs, from N. Korea and Russia, that launched attacks on at least seven companies developing a COVID-19 vaccine or treatments [TechMeme]

  • The loudest silences. Many world leaders have been quick to express their congratulations to US president-elect Joe Biden in various forms. These words, often tweeted out in 240 characters or less, are small, expected tokens of soft power—but that makes them all the more glaring when omitted. With help from Jane Li, Quartz’s Europe reporter Annabelle Timsit breaks down what to make of the silence from the leaders of Russia, Turkey, and China (though Xi Jinping belatedly spoke up). —Katherine Ellen Foley, health and science reporter [Quartz]

  • Is social media ready for a Covid-19 vaccine? Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are bracing for more misinformation. [Recode]

  • If you know machine learning is important, but you’re not sure how, this training is for you [TheNextWeb]

  • Just Opt Out of Thanksgiving [Eater]

  • What President Joe Biden Means for YouThe former vice president won the top job, but undoing Trump's discordant legacy won't be easy. [Inc.]

  • A new study on ‘super-spreader’ COVID businesses is more bad news for restaurants [Fast Company]

  • My Impressions on Using a Raspberry Pi 4 as a Desktop Replacement [Medium]

  • Improve Your Posture While Working From Home with This Kickstarter-Funded Tool [Entrepreneur]

  • Desperate Gamers Camp Out in the Pandemic for $700 GPUs [WIRED]

  • Secure and Protect your Mac with macOS Big Sur [TWIT]

  • HomePod Mini Review: Big Sound, Tiny Box! [MKBHD]

  • MacBooks with M1 Chips! [Dave Lee]

  • Facebook reaches for balance - Can fresh data alter the belief that it's a right-wing echo chamber? [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • Ultimate iPhone 12 Camera Test! Pro, Max and Mini! [iJustine]

  • The Weeknd Set to Headline Super Bowl Halftime Show, Justine Bieber, BTS Get Into the Holiday Spirit; More News [Billboard]

  • Resources in the Fight Against Police Brutality and Systemic Racism [Pitchfork]

  • 2 Chainz, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Youngboy Never Broke Again and More: New Projects This Week [XXL]

  • Obama Addresses Trump’s Election Fraud Claims: ‘The President Doesn’t Like to Lose And Never Admits Loss’ [COMPLEX]

  • Germany Says Techno Is Music, Nightclubs To Receive Ticket VAT Cuts [HypeBeast]

  • X-Men: The Animated Series Star Urges Disney to Stop “Ignoring” Calls for a Revival [ComicBook]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 224 & BENKYO RADIO 224.

It is good to know that there is a vaccine that Pfizer and Biontech are working on. This is extremely good to hear because it has been extremely stressful since March 2020. Dr. Fauci reminded us that until the vaccine is fully ready and implemented and given to millions of Americans, it is imperative to understand that do not take life for granted. This does mean the sad news of more than likely canceling big gatherings for Thanksgiving. It’s just not worth it. Let’s skip 1 thanksgiving, and have the next ones for future decades when things calm down.

People are still petrified of the current state of affairs. It is our job as leaders to keep them sane because we still have two more months of this infuriating Trump Show. Biden overwhelmingly won, and Trump has yet to concede. I’m pretty upset, because Trump not conceding, as John Kelly put it, “putting National Security” in jeopardy. Many are afraid to speak out because then they’re not getting paid and lose their jobs. Well, I haven’t gotten paid in a really long time, even though I am more than qualified, so I don’t mind speaking out my mind. It is really important.

Let’s keep each other shoulder-to-shoulder (metaphorically since we have to social-distance), but we MUST stand strong. Biden will take office in 67 days.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 223 | BENKYO RADIO 223 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 046

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  • Beatport ReConnect x When The Music Stops: #YouAreNotAlone [beatportal]

  • Ólafur Arnalds: "This might sound like new age mumbo jumbo, but there’s a layer to music that we don’t hear, we just feel" [Computer Music]

  • UVI launches Synth Anthology 3 with 55 new instruments including the ARP 2600, Moog One, Teenage Engineering OP-1 and Behringer Deepmind [Future Music]

  • Top 100 DJs 2020: live results countdown [DJ Mag]

  • ASE MANUAL: FINDING FREEDOM THROUGH MUSIC [Mixmag]

  • Donald Glover details next Childish Gambino album to come, alludes to ensuing ‘Atlanta’ seasons [Dancing Astronaut]

  • EDM Twitter Is A Party Today, Celebrating Joe Biden’s Presidential Win [YourEDM]

  • Career Advice in a Pandemic [Gary Vaynerchuck]

  • New strategies at work in eleventh Ebola outbreak in DRC [MSF]

  • US election results: Joe Biden beats Donald Trump [The Economist]

  • A Philadelphia story: on the streets of America’s most crucial swing state [1843 magazine]

  • AI Can Make Bank Loans More Fair [Harvard Business Review]

  • Afghanistan conflict: Fighting for a future in a war without end [BBC News]

  • Biden Calls for Unity, Tolerance as Trump Refuses to Concede [Bloomberg]

  • Rolling back Trump's rollbacks: Biden seen reversing climate deregulation [Reuters]

  • Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urges Biden to 'strengthen' Palestinian-US ties [AL-Jazeera News]

  • The Biden Era Begins - American democracy has survived Donald J. Trump. [The New Yorker]

  • Mass Effect Legendary Edition is a remaster of the original trilogy coming to PC and consoles [The Verge]

  • World leaders react to Biden’s win as Americans take to the streets in celebration [Vox]

  • Human Capital: The gig economy in a post-Prop 22 world [TechCrunch]

  • Half the Milky Way’s sun-like stars could be home to Earth-like planets [MIT Technology Review]

  • Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris Ushers In ‘New Day For America’ In Victory Speech [Huffington Post]

  • Why Biden Won - His victory wasn’t about his campaign. It was about him. [The Atlantic]

  • Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down. [FiveThirtyEight]

  • ‘Welcome back’: America’s allies celebrate Biden win and hope for a U.S. return to global politics [The Washington Post]

  • Elections américaines 2020 : la victoire de Joe Biden suscite un énorme soulagement en Europe [Le Monde]

  • Trump is proving himself to be the most antidemocratic president in modern US history [Business Insider]

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ends truce by warning ‘incompetent’ Democratic party [The Guardian]

  • Make it work. If you want a leg up on your career while working from home, seek feedback and be open to volunteer for tasks. There are new tools on LinkedIn to help you raise your professional profile. And make sure you continue to get outdoors to help combat seasonal affective disorder. [NY Times]

  • Urban Legend - ‘Polybius’ is real - Video gaming’s most notorious urban legend turns out to have been all too true. [INPUT]

  • A YEAR AFTER COVID-19, 2 FACTORS ARE CRITICAL TO MAKING IT THROUGH 2021 [Inverse]

  • A mysterious radio signal from space may have come from within our galaxy [Mic]

  • Twitter celebrates another victory: Dogs back in the White House [Mashable]

  • OK, What Is Room-Temperature Superconducting and Will It Change Everything? [VICE]

  • Kamala Harris will be first woman vice president. Meet the VP contenders who paved the way [National Geographic]

  • World Leaders Congratulate Biden On Win, And Some Celebrate Trump's Defeat [NPR]

  • Hope, Healing And 'Better Angels': Biden Declares Victory And Vows Unity [CapRadioNews]

  • La fronde des Sud-Coréennes [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • How President-Elect Biden Could—Believe It Or Not—Help to Heal America [Foreign Policy]

  • The Long Road to Suffrage - How Women Won the Right to Vote [Foreign Affairs]

  • Can the UK Achieve Its Naval Ambitions in the Indo-Pacific? [The Diplomat]

  • Cipher [Fandom]

  • Disorder Persists in Larger Graphs, New Math Proof Finds [Quanta magazine]

  • Aujourd'hui, de nombreux outils pour la préservation des données du nous aident également à préserver le patrimoine numérique tels que les pages web et les vidéos.[CERN_FR]

  • NASA Invites Public to Share Excitement of First Crew Rotation Flight on US Commercial Spacecraft [NASA]

  • View and search public Yellow Notices for missing persons [INTERPOL]

  • What a Biden Administration Means for Defense [Air Force Magazine]

  • Affordable Racing Sim Gear Review: Logitech G923 Wheel and GTR GTA Pro Simulator [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 223 & BENKYO RADIO 223.

Wow, what a sense of relief. You wouldn’t believe how much of a “soulagement” it is that Biden will be our 46th President of these United States. There was so much scariness. The KKK was making a comeback, I mean what in the fuck. There was a great photo that turns the USA map from Red to Blue with the important words “Land does not vote, people do.” And that’s so important. First of all, Biden was winning the popular vote by over 4 million votes. It felt neck in neck for the Electoral College, but eventually Biden had over 290 votes. Do you have any idea how much calmer the nation is? To have a President who will do his job and not just watch “Fox & Friends” and tweet all day? Joe Biden will be inundated with meetings as soon as he takes office. Kamala Harris is a strong black woman. She will be very hardworking VP. There is so much to do, if you only knew.

The amount of stress being cut by over 30% means I can finally resume playing on the PS4 (can’t wait to open my copy of Watch Dogs Legion), looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077, and the Call of Duty: Cold War release. I still have a ton of PM work to do, but it will be nice to have some leisure time again. I have a lot of writing to do.

I’d like to specifically address people who thought they were petrified of a 2nd Trump term. I want you to remain calm. You can do it. You will survive. You “shall overcome” This country was built on the back of slaves. Black People saved this election, so that means Biden/Harris better do something about Mass Incarceration. FBI & ATF are after some really bad guys, so the Police needs to stop having to worry about every little weed subjugation. The Opioid Crisis must be resolved. Biden was personally affected in his family, therefore I am sure that he will make this a top-priority for his Administration.

A Biden/Harris Administration means standing up to Bully Bibidi Netanyahu. It’s time to reconcile with the Palestinian people. It’s time to hire all the best diplomats and policymakers, and resolve conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

It’s also time for love. Go to your families and loved ones, and tell them you love them, and that this dystopian Trump nightmare is almost over. It’s back to reality. It’s back to get your hands dirty. Pull up your sleeves, and get to work.

I want Biden to take this fucking COVID-19 seriously. I want a real shutdown for 2 months straight with 100% masks wearing to contain and isolate the virus so that it doesn’t spread and kill more of our beloved Americans. If we are at 200,000 deaths, let the death-count go to 300,000, not 500,000. Put the fucking big-boy pants on, and think hard about this dilemma. Do we care about solely money and the almighty dollar or will we implement solutions over the winter months to save our fellow Americans? We went to fucking war over 3,000 deaths on 9/11. Why can’t we go to war on COVID-19? Why can’t we really destabilize it? Is it really because a handful of macho men can’t be reluctant to wear a fucking mask? Think of the children, goddamnit. I will contact our leaders to work on mandating individuals who should be tested at the suspicion that they are “superspreaders.” This can be various age groups. It can be a child, an adult, or an elderly person. Trump was a superspreader. He didn’t wear a mask, and held rallies where hundreds of people didn’t wear masks. If you didn’t know you were a superspreader, you get tested, you then quarantine. But if you’re superspreading on purpose, goddamnit, police must put you in jail.

I watched The Good Doctor Season 4 Episode 1. I was tearing up. One of the doctors had to sleep in his garage. His wife left a meal with a note saying “I love you.” Do you have any idea how hard that is? How demoralizing that is, to be unable to hold your loved one, to be in the same room, work all fucking day at the hospital, then come back to sleep in the garage? How about some fucking EMPATHY FOR OUR DOCTORS AND NURSES? Wear your fucking masks. Practice social-distancing. Use hand-sanitizer.

Trump didn’t work at 3AM, the rest of us did.

In 2021, we return to working by day. Well, at least most of us. Shoutout to those of you working through the middle of the night, I have had first-hand experience. Phew, it is hard.

I CAN FINALLY OPEN MY NEW TURNTABLES! HOORAY. I CAN LEARN FL STUDIO.

#MentalHealth #StopTheStigma

There’s a new Mass Effect project!

Remember, with great powers, comes great responsibility.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 222 | BENKYO RADIO 222

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  • Wish Spotify streamed on Apple Watch? The time has arrived for many [TechMeme]

  • Are all these polls worth the effort? The experience of American elections has arguably become more stressful thanks to the proliferation of polls, but the alternative would be much worse. [Quartz]

  • Technical glitches on Election Day are annoying, but they are not unusual [Recode]

  • WhatsApp just made it easier to clear up space on your phone [TheNextWeb]

  • Restaurant Dress Codes Frequently Target Black Customers. It’s Past Time for Them to Go. [Eater]

  • These 17 Ballot Measures Could Reshape Small Businesses Across America [Inc.]

  • 21 ways to distract yourself on Election Day [Fast Company]

  • Six Powerful Quotes That Slapped Me Square in the Face [Medium]

  • How to Navigate Election Tensions at Work [Entrepreneur]

  • How to Watch the Election Results Tonight—and Beyond [WIRED]

  • MacBreak Weekly 738 [TWIT]

  • PlayStation 5 Unboxing & Accessories! [MKBHD]

  • The Keyboard of the Future: Lumi Keys! [Sam Sheffer]

  • RTX 3070 Review - Worth the $500? [Dave Lee]

  • The platforms hold their breath [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • 5G Explained with Francesca Sweet from Apple! [iJustine]

  • Watch Dogs: Legion - Launch Trailer [IGN]

  • Mass Effect Trilogy Cast Reunites For A Panel On N7 Day [GameSpot]

  • Lupin III: The First and Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle of Cagliostro are a perfect double bill [Polygon]

  • Here Are All the Musicians Supporting Joe Biden & Donald Trump in the 2020 Election [billboard]

  • Without a Pandemic, How Would the Music World Have Organized Against Trump? [Pitchfork]

  • These Rappers Claim They're Better Than Another Artist, You Be the Judge [XXL]

  • Here Are the 2020 Election Results for Each State [COMPLEX]

  • Twitter and Facebook Will Fight Misinformation Surrounding the U.S. Presidential Election [HypeBeast]

  • DONALD TRUMP’S FIRST TERM: The graphic novel [ComicsBeat]

  • Attack on Titan The Final Season Anime Reveals Cast for Warrior Candidates [AnimeNewsNetwork]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 222 & BENKYO RADIO 222.

It’s going to be a long night. Let’s hope Biden wins. He’s going to win the Popular Vote, but alas, the stupid Electoral College might screw us up. That’s what it was so important for people to vote all over the country, including these Swing States. One thing we know for sure, we must abolish this archaic system. We also must make Election Day a National Holiday.

STAY IN LINE! VOTE!

#Wearamask

Until next time!