JETLAG RADIO 241 | BENKYO RADIO 241

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Donald Trump’s reckoning [The Economist]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Twitter’s decentralized future [TechCrunch]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Dreaming Is Like Taking LSD [Nautilus]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Palestine: 2020 in Review [IMEU]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 240 | BENKYO RADIO 240

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • This Week In Tech 805 [TWIT]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 239 | BENKYO RADIO 239

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Impeach, Convict and Disqualify [Bloomberg Opinion]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Humans Have Rights and So Should Nature [Nautilus]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Trafficking in human beings [INTERPOL]

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

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

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

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

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

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 238 | BENKYO RADIO 238

  • Zuckerberg says Facebook is extending the block it has placed on Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts “indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks” [TechMeme]

  • The Capitol rioters put themselves all over social media. Now the FBI is watching. [Recode]

  • Elon Musk is now the world’s richest person. Tesla’s Thursday gains pushed his net worth to $185 billion. [Quartz] #TaxEvasion

  • CD Projekt stock down 20% since Cyberpunk reviews hit the internet [TheNextWeb] it will go up after January & February patches for Cyberpunk 2077

  • Viennetta, the Fanciest Dessert of the ’90s, Is Back [Eater]

  • Why Student Debt Is Crippling Entrepreneurship With Covid-19 battering the economy, helping aspiring business owners seems like a no-brainer. So, where's the relief? [Inc.]

  • Why introverted leaders may have an advantage with remote work [Fast Company]

  • A Coup of the Soul [500ish by M.G. Siegler on Medium]

  • This Company Is Keeping Hundreds of Ugandan Women Employed During Covid [Entrepreneur]

  • Post-Riot, the Capitol Hill IT Staff Faces a Security Mess [WIRED]

  • This Week in Tech Episode 804 [TWIT]

  • 2021 Tech I’m Ready For! [MKBHD]

  • 20 wallpapers [Sam Sheffer]

  • A Fresh Setup for the New Studio [Dave Lee]

  • The platform walls close in on Trump [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • Switching Lives with Ro! [iJustine]

  • Taylor Swift Has the Top-Selling Album of the Year in U.S. for Historic Fifth Time [Billboard] Taylor Swift making millions of dollars making album complaining about her ex-boyfriends, continues to find it insulting if a man would approach her methodology concerning women of his past. #EqualityMatters

  • Why So Many Pop Stars Are Trying to Be Working-Class Heroes Now [Pitchfork]

  • 21 Savage puts YK Osiris on Blast for his Outfit - ‘You Look like a Suitcase’ [XXL Magazine]

  • How Music Artists Adapted to Covid-19’s New Normal [COMPLEX]

  • 1997 Dodge Viper GTS Coupe Hits Auction Block With Only 17 Miles [HypeBeast]

  • Resident Evil Netflix Series Reportedly Reveals New Characters and Filming Date [Comicbook]

  • Evangelion: 3.333 Film's IMAX Screenings Pushed Back by 1 Day After Audio Issue [AnimeNewsNetwork]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 238 & BENKYO RADIO 238.

We are about 12 days away from the transition to the Joe Biden administration.

Be sure to check in the Mental Health of your Family & Friends, it’s very important. I always hear sad stories but it does not have to be this way. We survived 4 years of Trump. We are survivors. I especially am thinking hard about our friends in the LGBTQ+ community who really had a tough time these past 4 years. We are 12 days away from a brighter day. Also, teenagers, anybody who bullies you, tell me, and I will go GTO on their asses.

Anyway, I’m off to help the 4th graders from the 8th grader bullies (South Park videogame season pass DLC)

I saw Bass’ subtweet on Facebook. She then tried to make up for it with a Mental Health post. My work is one of the most important research work out there, so watch out how you criticize. If you need your increase your vocabulary, I suggest you talk to Barbara M. Barrett about my work process.

Hey Bass, who inspired the Space Force? Was it Trump? Really? It was Trump? Please say it with a straight face. Source: JETLAG RADIO 047 - Anthropic Universe - Sarah Schachner - Nov 9th 2016.

If you want to have a meeting, set a date and time at Travis AFB and I will gladly stop by.

Thankfully I ate some tuna the other day and I feel better.

Many of us spoke about the importance to have more women in leadership positions. Don’t taint it by increasing arguments among peers. Remember, it’s fine to be a great soldier and report to a woman, there’s nothing wrong with that.

Making some progress on Barack Obama’s new book. There’s still a lot left. Great writing, and it’s been fun to read. I really wish he’d write a glassdoor review.

Finished Call of Duty: Cold War campaign. Spoilers, thank you for raising awareness about MKUltra. Definitely need to think about a lawsuit.

Basketball regular season is happening! Let’s go Cavs, Kings, and Blazers! Looking forward to NBA 2K21 campaign.

I haven’t made MU/OMEGA/DISCO/DEEPHOUSE mixtapes in a while. I’m gonna try to work on that this weekend. Apologies, it’s a long process.

Cards Against Humanity: Family Edition is amazing! I highly recommend it.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 237 | BENKYO RADIO 237

  • Beatport and Pioneer DJ Launch Monthly DJ Competition, The Big Break [beatportal]

  • Native Instruments Komplete 13 Ultimate Collector’s Edition review [Computer Music]

  • How to understand and play diatonic chords on a piano or MIDI keyboard [Future Music]

  • Early Jungle and D&B Scenes Celebrated in New Book, Who Say Reload [DJ Mag]

  • The Year of No Gigs [Mixmag]

  • Jean-Michel Jarre performs VR show inside virtual Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral [Dancing Astronaut]

  • DJ Sama’ Abdulhadi Released After 8 Days In Palestinian Jail [Your EDM]

  • “For one year no one came here” to provide medical care in the West Bank [MSF]

  • Stress in the Workplace: 3 Takes for You to Consider [Gary Vee]

  • Democrats win two run-offs in Georgia—and control of the Senate [The Economist]

  • I feel bad about my lockdown [1843 magazine]

  • Are They Mad at Me…or Are They Just Blunt? [Harvard Business Review]

  • Georgia Senate election: Democrats take control with Warnock and Ossoff wins [BBC World]

  • Pence Hits Breaking Point With Trump in Blessing Biden Win [Bloomberg]

  • Philippine students battle to take online classes [Reuters]

  • Mahmoud Abbas has called on the UN to convene a new peace conference on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with all major stake-holders and it seems this move has already gained the support of Jordan and Egypt.[AL-Jazeera News]

  • This Violent Insurrection is what Trump Wanted [The New Yorker]

  • It’s Time to Deplatform Trump [The Verge]

  • It’s official: Congress has formally recognized Joe Biden’s victory [Vox]

  • Twitter, it’s Time to Delete Donald Trump’s Account [INPUT]

  • The 5 Best Batman: The Animated Series Episodes of All Time [INVERSE]

  • Both Republicans and Democrats want Trump impeached — again — after the siege at the U.S. Capitol [Mic]

  • Tech leaders speak out about platforms’ roles in US Capitol riots [TechCrunch]

  • Covid-19 immunity likely lasts for years - A new study shows immune cells primed to fight the coronavirus should persist for a long time after someone is vaccinated or recovers from infection. [MIT Technology Review]

  • World leaders and top US allies condemn Trump and his supporters' violent attempted coup [Business Insider]

  • Linkedin Learning removed a 30+ hours long PMP class. If you’re going to remove it because it’s outdated, you must update it with new content. We don’t pay over $30/month for nothing. Thanks in advance [Linkedin]

  • Why Deaf interpreters are a crucial tool during the pandemic [The Guardian]

  • Biden’s Win Is Confirmed; Top Democrats Join Call for Trump’s Removal [The New York Times]

  • Biden Calls Out Racist Double Standard In Response To Capitol Riot [Huffington Post]

  • And the Word of the Year Is… “Resilience” [Thrive Global]

  • If You've Read All Of The "Harry Potter" Books, You're Guaranteed To Pass These 7 In-Depth Quizzes [BuzzFeed] JEXI

  • The Capitol Riot Was an Attack on Multiracial Democracy [The Atlantic]

  • What Trumpism Has Cost The GOP And The Nation [FiveThirtyEight]

  • All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory [The Washington Post]

  • Restrictions, vaccination, dépistages…, les principales annonces de la conférence de Jean Castex [Le Monde]

  • Facebook blocks Trump indefinitely, Zuckerberg says the risks 'are simply too great' [Mashable]

  • Rioters Had Physical Access to Lawmakers’ Computers. How Bad Is That? [Motherboard by VICE]

  • Police's Failure to Control the Pro-Trump Mob at the Capitol Was a 'Blatant Display of White Privilege' [VICE News]

  • Could Trump still Try to Attack Iran? [The Intercept_] #NoWarWithIran

  • Canadian documentary retraces efforts to salvage Afghan cinematic heritage [RCI]

  • Inside the Capitol: ‘It was the ugliest moment I have ever seen in America’ [National Geographic]

  • We Didn’t Evolve for This [Nautilus]

  • Army Secretary Says A 'Non-Scalable' 7-Foot Fence Is Going Up Around U.S. Capitol [NPR]

  • ‘Will Not Be Intimidated’: After Insurrection, Congress Blocks State Objections [CapRadioNews]

  • Les États désunis d’Amérique [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • U.S. Congress Certifies Biden Win After Mob Attack [Foreign Policy]

  • The EU Is the Military Ally the United States Needs - Take the Pressure Off of NATO States and Embrace the Union’s Defense [Foreign Affairs] #NATO

  • China Is Already Using the Storming of the US Capitol for Propaganda [The Diplomat]

  • This is how we end deforestation to avert pandemic, climate and societal collapse [Insurge Intelligence by Nafeez Ahmed] #ClimateChange

  • The Year in Math and Computer Science [Quanta magazine]

  • Le traitement des données au CERN 👽 [CERN_FR]

  • NASA, NSF Sign Agreement to Advance Space, Earth, Biological, Physical Sciences [NASA]

  • International operation disrupts supply of firearms to terrorists [INTERPOL]

  • Hyten: JROC Will Soon Set Joint Spectrum Requirements [Air Force Magazine]

  • Best-Looking Cars, Trucks, and SUVs for 2021 and Beyond [MOTORTREND]

  • If armed people of color; black, Latino, Muslim- stormed the US Capitol to disrupt the transfer of power following an election, there'd be no 'tear gas & rubber bullets phase' of the response. They'd be shot dead before they got 10 steps into the grounds. [Edward Norton]

  • South Park™: The Fractured but Whole™ Towelie: Your Gaming Bud [PSN]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 237 & BENKYO RADIO 237.

Well, we did it, the nightmare is almost over. After a failed coup on the Capitol by White Nationalists, Congress has certified Biden’s Electoral College. Even VP Mike Pence said enough is enough, and was tired of Trump’s immature behavior. It got so bad, they removed his access to FB & Twitter. Veterans’ Associations including Paul Rieckhoff remind us that Trump still has access to the Nuclear codes, so it’s important that he’s in a timeout until January 20th, 2021. We do NOT want a war with Iran. Secretary of State has 13 days left in office. Don’t do anything stupid. Stick to keeping America and its national interests secure. There was a recent security breach from Russia. Work on that, and stop attempting to fight Iran. What you SHOULD be doing is write your fucking long report with your entire team, to be handed over the next administration. Need I remind you that the Peace Plan in Afghanistan include a number of Troop Withdrawal by May 2021. That means there is still a long of fucking work to be done. That means all our family and friends in the Military need good leadership. That means we didn’t spend 19 fucking years there just to give it back to the Talibans. There needs to be a good Peace Process. Nobody want a return to the 19th century in Afghanistan. There are millions of Afghan men and women and children who just want to a better life for themselves. They have a right to a life of happiness and goodness. If you watch all the various TV stations in Afghanistan, people are smiling, they are happy, they just want life to go on. They are tired of these extremists who attack their premises. If America leaves Afghanistan in May 2021, I don’t want Kabul to return to a mode where tv/radio is banned again. Everybody watched The Kite Runner. No repeat please. Instead of spending yet another trillion of weapon warfare, maybe we should teach sex education, so that women are not stuck with ten children. There is a serious problem of sexual repression in Afghanistan. When I was doing my University Studies in Ohio, taking classes on International Studies, we discussed about Extremists, Group Dynamics, and Identity Crises. These young men truly thought that when they died they’d be greeted by many dozen virgins. There’s a real disconnect. They don’t need to blow themselves up. They just need to have a normal life, marry someone, and there might be sex! But because sex is such a taboo topic, there’s all this madness. So once again, no more additional $1 trillion weapon warfare additional budget, just a few million of dollars on sex ed. Let the majority of the troops return home to their families. Old Snake is ready to finally take on the Military Industrial Complex / War Economy. Bernie Sanders cannot be the only Senator willing to speak out. Let’s focus on Russia & China, and not have over 100 bases around the world all spread thin. Also, stop insulting German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She has a doctorate in quantum chemistry and worked as a research scientist. If you ask me, that’s a whole lot more sexy than all these bimbos on E! Entertainment News. Stability in the European Union is immensely important, especially since Macron did a few errors, and Boris Johnson royally fucked up with Brexit. Unfortunately it’s time for French diplomats to scream at the sky, drink some coffee, and wait patiently until the next British PM to salvage relationships, and bring the UK back in the European Union.

I’d like to point out I still haven’t got a chance to relax and watch my ADE 2020 conference videos, and play Cyberpunk 2077. I have more PM classes that start soon.

I’d like to thank The Washington Post for their $30/year special so I could resume my subscription during this important time in our Nation’s history. If anybody knows when The Cipher Brief will offer a coupon code for their yearly subscription, please let me know.

Hang on, guys & gals, only two more weeks until Biden is President. We can do this. If the Cleveland Browns can get to the NFL playoffs, surely anything is possible. Let’s stay calm.

I know a lot of people were like “Fuck you, 2020!” and “Hooray, 2021!” but please understand that we still have lockdown/isolation until September 2021. That’s 9 more months. Dr. Fauci is doing everything in his power, but understand he was stuck with the Trump administration. In two more weeks, Biden will give him everything at his disposal to really expedite Operation Warp Speed. We must vaccinate faster. Let’s get it done.

Listening to the 538 Dance Department Yearmix 2020, it’s pretty good!

I got some cool SR-72 news, but we’ll have to wait until The National Review posts something about it within the next few months or so. I am not at liberty to comment but Holy Fucking Shit this fucking airplane is insane.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 236 | BENKYO RADIO 236

  • beatport Insider—2020 [beatportal]

  • 40 basic music theory terms you need to know [Computer Music]

  • Octo Octa and Eris Drew: "The future of music is manifesting in bedrooms all over the world" [Future Music]

  • PALESTINIAN DJ SAMA’ ABDULHADI ARRESTED FOLLOWING EVENT AT HISTORICAL SITE [DJ Mag] Let her DJ streaming on for NYE! She has the right to do so!

  • CARL COX: "IT'S IRRESPONSIBLE TO BE PARTYING DURING THE PANDEMIC" [Mixmag]

  • New Year’s Eve livestream guide: David Guetta, Martin Garrix, Major Lazer, and more [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Grimes Announces Full “Rave Edition” Of Most Recent Album With Rezz, Richie Hawtin, & More [Your EDM]

  • Trying to survive a three-year nightmare in Mozambique [MSF]

  • 5 Winter Wine Cocktails for Easy Drinking! [Gary Vee]

  • How malaria has shaped humanity [The Economist]

  • Stop Micromanaging and Give People the Help They Really Need [Harvard Business Review] the help they really need is a paycheck, managers are getting away with not providing a paycheck to their employees during a pandemic

  • Sama Abdulhadi: Activists call for release of 'Palestinian techno queen' [BBC News] they are trying to prevent her from having a New Year’s Eve Streaming DJ set. She can unite the world on Palestinian Rights’ awareness through her music and her techno.

  • Sluggish Vaccine Campaign Raises Specter of U.S. Dysfunction [Bloomberg]

  • Pandemic made my last year in office the hardest, says emotional Merkel [Reuters]

  • Bitcoin heads for $29,000, quadrupling in value in 2020 [AL-Jazeera News]

  • The Trümperdämmerung Is a Fitting End to 2020 [The New Yorker]

  • 26 great apps for your new 2020 Windows PC [The Verge]

  • Are we doomed? An investigation [Vox]

  • Nintendo launches 'Animal Crossing' merch with Dodo pilot jackets [INPUT]

  • “Sci-fi has Always Been a Big Part of my Life.” [INVERSE]

  • The enduring image of 2020 will be Minneapolis's Third Precinct burning [Mic]

  • Still waiting on my winning check from TechCrunch Disrupt.

  • Startups are racing to reproduce breast milk in the lab [MIT Technology Review]

  • The Trump administration will fall far short of its goal to start vaccinating 20 million Americans by year's end, as logistical challenges stack up for states [Business Insider]

  • Defense Intelligence Agency is not issuing my paychecks. DIA is also intimidating tech recruiters who want to offer me a salary job [DIA]

  • Democrats battle for soul of party as Biden win masks alarming failures [The Guardian]

  • The 2020 High School Yearbook of Donald J. Trump [The New York Times]

  • Biden’s Team Tells Senate Democrats To Send Him Judicial Nominees ASAP [Huffington Post]

  • The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable [The Atlantic]

  • Even After Getting Vaccinated, You Could Still Infect Others [FiveThirtyEight]

  • The Washington Post membership costs over $100 per year. Something people cannot afford during a pandemic. [The Washington Post]

  • Covid-19 dans le monde : les contaminations à Wuhan dix fois supérieures au bilan officiel [Le Monde]

  • Drive-in everything: How COVID made car culture cool again [Mashable]

  • Mike Pence Can't Steal the Election for Trump on January 6. Here's Why. [VICE]

  • Reality Winner Endures Holiday Hardships as Advocates Turn to Biden for Reprieve [The Intercept_]

  • Year in Pictures [National Geographic]

  • As Statues Of America's Racist Past Were Removed This Year, So Were Tattoos [NPR]

  • How To Recycle Your Christmas Tree In Sacramento And Yolo Counties [CapRadioNews]

  • « Il faut disposer les élèves en îlots » [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • The Great Game With China Is 3D Chess [Foreign Policy]

  • Vaccine Nationalism Will Prolong the Pandemic - A Global Problem Calls for Collective Action [Foreign Affairs]

  • January 2021 - Issue 74 [The Diplomat]

  • Subscription expired. $120/year during a pandemic is too much [The Cipher Brief]

  • The Year in Math and Computer Science [Quanta magazine]

  • Notre sixième épisode de la série Dix ans de physique au LHC #10yearsofLHCphysics se penche sur les mesures de précision du Modèle standard. #Retro2020 [CERN_FR]

  • Retrofuturistic NASA Space Art [NASA]

  • Financial crime - soon after 9/11/2001, the data from the dreadful day was used to build the “Mafia-Operating-Super-System AD-vertising” (MOSSAD) computer which was implemented and made billions/trillions of dollars. No entity has been strong enough to face them. A near-two-decade long investigation has shed light into this morbid subject. [INTERPOL]

  • US Space Command Comes Into Focus in Year 2 [Air Force Magazine]

  • MotorTrend Best Driver’s Car 2020: The Contenders! [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 236 & BENKYO RADIO 236.

Happy New Year! Enjoy your glass of champagne responsibly. When doing fireworks, please be respectful of various neighbors’ poor dogs, who will be petrified for hours because of loud noises. Thank you in advance.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 235 | BENKYO RADIO 235

  • From working remotely to benefiting from the new normal, tech companies led the way in pandemic response, but fell behind in stopping COVID-19 misinformation [TechMeme]

  • Vaccines need your cold-storage system. [Quartz]

  • California will have its first Latino senator [Recode]

  • This $249 power bank with ‘Tesla designed’ batteries is just bonkers [TheNextWeb]

  • This New Regulation Will Take Money Out of Servers’ Pockets [Eater]

  • How to Encourage Employees to Get the Covid-19 Vaccine. Some people are hesitant about the Covid-19 vaccine, which is reasonable. Here's the best way to talk to employees about it. [Inc.]

  • How data designers helped us make sense of 2020’s chaos [Fast Company]

  • How to build an MP3 Music Player with Python [Medium]

  • What's Your Headline for 2021? [Entrepreneur]

  • The PS5 and Xbox Series X Are Closing the PC-Console Gap [WIRED]

  • This Week In Tech 803 - Best of 2020 [TWIT]

  • Dear Electric Cars! {MKBHD]

  • The Invisible Phone Camera [Dave Lee]

  • What’s coming for the consumer internet in 2021 [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • My favorite piece of tech in 2020! 😂 AeroGarden! [iJustine]

  • A Record 39 Holiday Songs Decorate This Week's Hot 100 [Billboard]

  • The Pitchfork Staff on Their Unique, Solitary Year in Listening [Pitchfork]

  • Charlamagne Says Drake Era Over [XXL magazine] he’s wrong, I can’t wait for his new album

  • Meek Mill Addresses Reaction Over Viral Video of Him Giving Kids $20 Selling Water [COMPLEX] “I know what's going on," Meek said near the conversation's 8:45 minute mark. "I ain't giving no young bouls no money to buy no weed."

  • Sony Pictures CEO Reveals 10 PlayStation Game Film and TV Adaptations in the Works [HypeBeast]

  • The LEGO NES Nintendo Entertainment System Set is Back in Stock With a Free Bonus [Comicbook]

  • The Beginner’s Guide to Full Metal Panic! [AnimeNewsNetwork]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 235 & BENKYO RADIO 235.

Hope everybody had a nice Christmas! Don’t forget to enjoy your New Year’s Eve responsibly.

Mitch McConnell is an asshole. How can one man from Kentucky hold the entire country hostage? Americans want their $2000 stimulus checks. Americans want Unemployment Benefits to continue since the quarantine/lockdown continues. It’s imperative. I suggest you keep the pressure on your Senator, so that they push Mitch to hold a vote. VP Mike Pence said something really stupid: “they want to make rich people poor, and poor people comfortable.” Like, WTF? These Republicans ARE NOT REAL CHRISTIANS. They praise about the Lord Jesus Christ, but what they mean is “only for rich white people.” It’s time to expose them for what they are. The disrespect they give to women when they say they are pro-life when they won’t let them have their women’s rights, and meanwhile 300,000 Americans have died and nobody gives a shit. Michael Moore said something very important. He said “S.O.S. almost 40 small plane crashes in one day, thousands are dead” no wait no, it’s thousands of COVID-19 deaths.

Have you ever heard of the Global Underground? I used to listen to their compilations a long time ago. Their latest one is by Joris Voorn, GU43 Rotterdam. Be sure to check it out!

In 20 days, Joe Biden will be the 46th President of these United States!

I have received new intel from the Intelligence Community that I must share with you. If we vaccinate on the current low-rate that are we doing, it will take us until 2025 to vaccinate the majority of America. That is too fucking long. It is imperative for the Pentagon to work together with the new Biden-Transition team. Get these fucking Trump loyalists out of there. Everybody got deadlines. Everybody got reports to write. And everybody at the D.O.D. / Air Force, and rest of the military want to kick the Operation Warp Speed into high gear, but if our hands are tied because of Trump bureaucracy, that is not good.

Also, we hate Amazon because Jeff Bezos is a trillionaire soon, but Amazon is super efficient. Let’s have Amazon work with nurses to administer COVID-19 vaccine to the population. Maybe it will go a lot faster.

For NYE, I will be watching the Jean Michel Jarre NOTRE-DAME Virtual Concert. Tune in! There are a few more concerts to watch out for, which I will mention in my next blogpost.

Please drive safely. It is not worth getting a DUI. Please drink a 0.0% alcohol beer if you’re driving. Can you imagine not having a driver license for months / a whole year? During a pandemic? Please be conscientious.

Now, I am as peaceful as a Buddhist Monk, and my weapon of choice is a simple bamboo stick, but I swear to God, if Mitch McConnell does not pass the Stimulus, there will be hell to pay. Senator Sanders will filibuster the military budget bill. Stop holding Americans hostage. Big Tech made billions during the Pandemic while there are 2-4hrs line at the food banks throughout the country. Fuck this shit. If this is Capitalism, fuck this, this is the Dark Side of the Force. Is America the country for Darth Vader? The Rebel Alliance must rise up. Mitch McConnell is about to yell: “I AM THE SENATE” and pull out his light saber. It’s time to fight him off. Time for a large petition and ask help from a Jedi, and Grogu.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 234 | BENKYO RADIO 234

  • It’s Time to #DanceAway2020 [beatportal]

  • 15 'groundbreaking' music technology products that could have been classics but weren’t [Computer Music]

  • The 9 best new drum machines and samplers of 2020 [Future Music]

  • 2020: a year in dance music [DJ Mag]

  • The Best DJ Mixes of the Year 2020 [Mixmag]

  • Dancing Astronaut’s Artists to Watch in 2021: Lastlings [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Flume Shares Delectable New ID On Instagram Stories & We Need It Now [Your EDM]

  • A year in pictures 2020 [MSF]

  • The Top 3 Wines for the Holiday Season [Gary Vee]

  • Christmas newsletters are a form of slow social media [The Economist]

  • How Businesses Can Find “Hidden Workers” - Even before the pandemic, these low- and middle-skills workers were cut out of the economy. It’s time to bring them back. [Harvard Business Review]

  • Covid: Millions of Americans face unemployment benefits lapse [BBC News]

  • Bitcoin Crushes Doubters as 224% Rally Proves It’s Here to Stay [Bloomberg]

  • In Christmas message curbed by COVID, pope calls on nations to share vaccines [Reuters]

  • Turkish president wants to bring ties to a ‘better point’ but says Israeli policy towards Palestinians is unacceptable. [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Kim Kardashian and the Year of Unchecked Privilege-Checking [The New Yorker]

  • Verge readers can get two years of PlayStation Plus for only $58 [The Verge]

  • How we can encourage people to wear masks — for others’ sake [Vox]

  • Music made 2020 better, but we failed to make 2020 better for musicians [TechCrunch]

  • Cyberpunk 2077 Wiki Guide - Beginner’s Guide - Tips for Getting Started [IGN]

  • Mass Effect 4: Everything We Know [GameSpot]

  • What did 2020 mean for the games industry? [Polygon]

  • GPD’s new handheld console revives Sony’s most daring design [INPUT]

  • To End the Pandemic, the COVID-19 Vaccine Must Clear One Final Obstacle [INVERSE]

  • The climate revolution will be intergenerational [Mic]

  • Kids are sick of Zoom too—so their teachers are getting creative [MIT Technology Review]

  • 'For God's sakes, get out of the way': Trump's former national security advisor urges him to fund the US military [Business Insider]

  • Christmas travel rush ignores Covid warnings as California hits 2m cases [The Guardian]

  • One Vaccine Side Effect: Global Economic Inequality [The New York Times]

  • House Republicans Block $2,000 Coronavirus Stimulus Checks, Defying Trump [Huffington Post]

  • What Happened to American Childhood? - Too many kids show worrying signs of fragility from a very young age. Here’s what we can do about it. [The Atlantic]

  • Latest Polls Of The Georgia Senate Runoffs [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Covid-19 : 25 millions de cas en Europe, renforcement des restrictions partout dans le monde [Le Monde]

  • The absolute best longreads of 2020 [Mashable]

  • An Incomplete Timeline of the Moments I Remember From 2020 [Motherboard by VICE]

  • Trump Just Handed Democrats a Chance to Cut You a $2K Stimulus Check [VICE News]

  • Snowden and Assange Deserve Pardons. So Do the Whistleblowers Trump Imprisoned. [The Intercept_]

  • Why do we have Christmas trees? The surprising history behind this holiday tradition. [Nat Geo]

  • Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing [Nautilus]

  • Hank Adams, The 'Most Important Indian,' Dies At 77 [NPR]

  • California Coronavirus Updates: California Hits 0% ICU Capacity Statewide [CapRadioNews]

  • Les Livres du Mois [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • The Biggest National Security Stories of the Year [Foreign Policy]

  • The Best of 2020 [Foreign Affairs]

  • South Korea Prepares for Its Worst COVID-19 Scenario Yet [The Diplomat]

  • In a Future Military, You Must Spend to Deter [The Cipher Brief]

  • Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse [Quanta magazine]

  • Cybercrime - Israeli’s NSO Group Spyware [INTERPOL]

  • Operation Christmas Drop Continues for 69th Year Despite COVID-19 [Air Force Magazine]

  • Give the Gift of the Ultimate Japanese Project Car: A Barn-Find 1973 Nissan Skyline GT-R [MOTORTREND]

  • « Salam, Shalom, Salut » – SOS Racisme lance son nouveau projet ! [SOS Racisme]

  • A notre tour - Documentaire [Harissa]

  • Vivre ensemble - Les Guignols - CANAL+ [Les Guignols]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 234 & BENKYO RADIO 234.

I’m making a few reports in a row, back to back to back to back, just like The Ohio State University Football Team who won the Big Ten 4 times in a row.

Don’t forget to wear a mask, social-distance, and do NOT have large gatherings. If we did not get sick for the majority of 2020, it’s not worth ending the year by getting sick on Christmas or New Year’s Eve. We are in the final stretch! Do the right thing! Only a few more months until the vaccine is available to more Americans. I cannot wait. I miss my family and friends. But, to avoid the spread of COVID-19, we cannot risk having large gatherings for a few more months. This disease is not a joke. Please don’t act like your IQ is under 70 like many Republicans. They had all large gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and they all got sick. Did you read the articles that I have content curated? There’s one about 0% ICU beds left in California. I have neighbors who are firefighters/EMTs. They are distraught. Please make their lives easier. Stop having large gatherings. COVID-19 is a deadly disease, and in some places around the world, the virus has mutated. Please, be safe. Listen to CDC warnings.

Stay home. Go play some videogames. Watch a movie. Read a book. Play some board games.

Let us pray for Peace on Earth and a Happy Birthday to Holy baby Armin van Buuren. 🙏

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 233 | BENKYO RADIO 233

  • Square Has Discussed Acquiring Jay-Z’s Tidal Service [TechMeme]

  • The 12 Days of Christmas [Quartz]

  • A requiem for the Twitter presidency - How Trump blurred the lines between politics and persona in ways that will reverberate for years. [Recode]

  • There’s a bunch of undiscovered exoplanets left – math can help us find them [TheNextWeb]

  • 20 Days of Turkey [Eater]

  • How Covid-19 Is Transforming the Business World, According to Scott Galloway: The entrepreneur, professor, and author reveals the best parts of his latest book. [Inc.]

  • Essential workers are risking their lives for us. What do we owe them? [Fast Company]

  • Apple’s New M1 Chip is a Machine Learning Beast [Medium]

  • 12 Gift Ideas (Plus More) for Your Work-at-Home Team [Entrepreneur]

  • The Year of Driving Less—but More Dangerously - Total traffic deaths fell during pandemic lockdowns. But fatalities per mile traveled rose, due to faster driving, fewer cops, and more drug use. [WIRED]

  • This Week In Tech - Episode 802 [TWIT]

  • Giving Away 24 PS5s and XBox Series X! [MKBHD]

  • My video submission to join the tom sachs mars yard 2.5 weartest program [Sam Sheffer]

  • AirPods Max Review - Perfectly Apple [Dave Lee]

  • Facebook escalates its fight with Apple [Platformer by Casey Newton]

  • Mustang MachE and Apple ProRAW Review! [iJustine]

  • The Top 5 Albums of 2020: Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny, The Weeknd & More [Billboard]

  • Paul McCartney - McCartney III [Pitchfork]

  • 21 Savage Gives Christmas Gifts to over 30 Kids in Georgia: Report [XXL Magazine]

  • The Best-Dressed Teams in the NBA Right Now [COMPLEX]

  • New 'Evangelion: 3.0+1.0' Teaser Previews Utada Hikaru Theme Song [HypeBeast]

  • Dragon Ball Heroes - Super Saiyan 4 Broly [Comicbook]

  • Netflix's Aggretsuko Anime Gets 4th Season [AnimeNewsNetwork]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 233 & BENKYO RADIO 233.

It’s Christmas Day! Be merry, be safe. I received a subscription to Astronomy magazine! So excited.

Until next time!


JETLAG RADIO 232 | BENKYO RADIO 232 | LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 052

  • Dance Like Nobody’s Watching: Why GTA’s Virtual Clubs Have Saved Dance Fans [beatportal] #welovedancemusic

  • The best free VST synth plugins 2020: wavetable, FM, virtual analogue and more [Computer Music]

  • 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" [Future Music]

  • Watch Festival Sets from Faithless, The Prodigy, David Guetta, More For Free on New Year’s Eve [DJ Mag]

  • Chemical Brothers share New Mix to Celebrate the Festive Season [Mixmag]

  • A comprehensive version of Daft Punk’s ‘TRON: Legacy’ soundtrack just hit streaming platforms, bonus tracks and all [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Madeon Uploads Emotional Live Acoustic Set for the Holidays [Your EDM]

  • A new coronavirus variant may derail pandemic-control efforts [The Economist]

  • Oysters in France, KFC in Japan... do they know it’s Christmas? [1843 magazine]

  • HBR Readers Reflect on 2020 [Harvard Business Review]

  • Christmas celebrations to go ahead in Bethlehem, Palestine [BBC World]

  • America Isn’t Finished Paying for Trump’s Incompetence [Bloomberg Opinion]

  • Exclusive: For years, the Pentagon sits on racial discrimination survey data [Reuters]

  • Japan sets record military budget with stealth fighters, missiles [AL-Jazeera News]

  • The Veterans Organizing to Stop Trumpism [The New Yorker] #veterans

  • Twitter is publicly declaring Joe Biden the winner of the US election — on Trump’s own tweets [The Verge]

  • Congress has finally reached a deal on coronavirus stimulus [Vox]

  • This game is the closest you’ll come to a club all year and it’s $20 off today [INPUT]

  • 20 Stunning Space Images of 2020 [INVERSE]

  • This app shows how little of your Spotify subscription costs actually went to artists [Mic] Note: I’ve been curating for years and I have received $0.

  • Dozens of journalists’ iPhones hacked with Israeli’s NSO ‘zero-click’ spyware, says Citizen Lab [TechCrunch]

  • Technology can help us feed the world, if we look beyond profit [MIT Technology Review]

  • A growing number of countries are banning flights from the UK to protect their citizens from the new variant of fast-spreading coronavirus [Business Insider]

  • Trickle-down economics doesn't work but build-up does – is Biden listening? [The Guardian] #republicans have been lying to us all along

  • How We Survive Winter [The New York Times]

  • 19 French Holiday Recipes You'll Actually Want To Try This Christmas [BuzzFeed] #French

  • What It’s Like Teaching On Zoom To Students I’ve Never Met, And Often Not Seen Or Heard [Huffington Post]

  • The Virus Is Showing Black People What They Knew All Along - COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate by race, yet it has still laid bare the brutality of racism in the United States. [The Atlantic]

  • Dr. Fauci On When Life Will Return To ‘Normal’ [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Trump calls on Congress to approve $2,000 stimulus checks, hinting he might not sign relief bill without changes [The Washington Post]

  • Quel est le calendrier de la vaccination contre le Covid-19 en France ? Après le feu vert donné mardi par la Commission européenne, la campagne vaccinale devrait débuter dimanche. Elle se fera en trois étapes principales. [Le Monde]

  • Researchers found a superhighway that could speed up Solar System travel [Mashable]

  • Why We Need Quantum Tech In Space to Fight Climate Change - Classical Earth observations are reaching their limit, so scientists are probing fundamental physics in space to understand our planet's complexity. [Motherboard by VICE] #ClimateChange

  • Trump Is Finally Realizing that the GOP Is Abandoning Him [VICE News]

  • Exposing Boy Scouts Sex Abuse Turned Into Battle of Press Freedom against Powerful Interests [The Intercept]

  • Is joy the same in every language? [Nat Geo]

  • The Sight of Jupiter and Saturn Together Is a Beautiful Thing [Nautilus] #Astronomy

  • 'My Bank Account Has $4': Pandemic Has Left Millions Of Livelihoods In Limbo [NPR] #IncomeInequality

  • Sacramento Holiday Charity Guide 2020: How COVID-19 Has Changed Needs This Year [CapRadioNews]

  • Le couscous fait l’union [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • The End of the Road for Bibidi Netanyahu? [Foreign Policy] #corruption

  • Democratic Values Are a Competitive Advantage - The Contest With Authoritarianism Requires the United States to Understand Its Strengths [Foreign Affairs]

  • Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Coming Biden Presidency [The Diplomat]

  • A New US Approach to the Muslim World [The Cipher Brief]

  • The New History of the Milky Way [Quanta magazine]

  • Jack Steinberger, un géant de la discipline, est décédé le 12 décembre 2020 à l'âge de 99 ans. Co-lauréat du Prix Nobel de physique en 1988, il a énormément contribué au développement expérimental du modèle standard de la physique. [CERN_FR]

  • The ‘Great’ Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn [NASA]

  • INTERPOL – Terrorist groups using COVID-19 to reinforce power and influence [INTERPOL]

  • Brown: ‘Shame on Us’ if Military Diversity Efforts Falter [Air Force Magazine]

  • Is This 1974 BMW 3.5 CSL IMSA "Batmobile" the Ultimate BMW for the Ultimate BMW Fan? [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 232 & BENKYO RADIO 232. I’ve also included LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 052.

THERE IS ONLY LESS THAN ONE MONTH LEFT UNTIL BIDEN TAKES OVER. I can’t believe it. It’s been so long! Alright, so right now, everybody in Congress is fighting Senator Mitch McConnell, who unlike many Americans who sworn their oath to the U.S. Constitution, he has does so for the Dark Side. He is a Sith Lord. He is keeping Stimulus Checks away from millions of Americans. It’s almost as if everybody in Congress is waiting for something. What the fuck are they waiting for? Who the hell didn’t turn in their report on time? Everybody is like WHEN IN THE FUCK are we going to get our Stimulus Checks, and extended unemployment! Every other western nations is laughing at the United States. We are supposed to be the Greatest Nation on Earth. Well, we don’t act like it. It appears that everybody is still too scared to touch the taboo topic of the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex / #WarEconomy. America needs to deal with the risks from Russia and China. Stop trying to call Iran a threat. You need to help its population provide leadership that has moderate Islam, like in Qatar/UAE. Iran needed to be respected by agreeing to the 2015 Nuclear Deal. By fucking that up, the Trump Administration ruined relationships. That is why we need to restore relations with the Biden Administration. Let diplomats do their work. Diplomats read a lot. Diplomats write a lot. So whenever Trump starts tweeting, it really fucks a lot of things up.

I want to thank Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. for his words on #BLM. Growing up, I was the only brown kid in many of my classrooms. I always had to deal with the expression “stop acting so white” and I hated it. Here I was, working hard, doing everything in my power to better the lives of many. To get people to understand the importance of getting an education. Kids need to stop thinking Meek Mill is the answer to your problems. He makes millions of dollars. If you do a motorcross in the hood, then you go back home. Do you make millions of dollars? No. So what are you going to do? Dealing out there on the streets? During a pandemic? Y’all need to get an education. Remember LeBron James “I PROMISE” philosophy. You need to promise yourself to finish school. Whatever the fuck you want to do, is up to you, but you need an education. Don’t think that the Hollywood industry is always there for you. Did you see how they build up Britney Spears only to destroy her? Do you think the Music industry will be kind to Lady Gaga before her Amy Winehouse phase in 5 years? The reason why I live by the Dave Chappelle motto is because he was fucking sick and tired, and wanted to be left alone. They made him work, and gave him a little bit of cash. Then they said “fuck you” and just put all of his content on a loop. That’s right.

Alright, on a little happier note, it’s Christmas, so hopefully you were good, so that Santa Claus brings you some presents. Remember, kids. Don’t be sad if you don’t get a PS5. Hell, I don’t have a PS5. And I have intense important work to do. You need to reflect on the year 2020. What did you want for Christmas? I wanted a family. I got that now. I am very happy. As far as the demeanor of depression from the COVID-19 pandemic, I will stay strong for another couple of months, until the third-round of vaccination goes through (people with pre-existing conditions).

I’m gonna read Matthew McConaughey’s new book, but it’s pretty sad he doesn’t understand Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution movement. Remember kids, the stars of our favorite movies are great, but the real people who do those things, they’re greater. I like Interstellar, and watching the stars at night, but my podcast, JETLAG RADIO, including a song about Saturn, and broadcasting my radio signal in outer space, years before NASA realized there were 2 dozen more moons, for a total of 82. That’s a whole lot fucking more amazing.

TENET came out on Bluray! It’s great to watch multiple times and find all the easter eggs. I wonder how Christopher Nolan got the inspiration to write the driving scenes. If he got his inspiration from someone and didn’t pay him. I’m sure it will backfire. He’s a great director, so I’m sure he will do the right thing.

I hope everybody in Cincinnati enjoyed their early Christmas present. The Bengals won a game in prime time against the Steelers. WoW.

This holiday season I will be thinking hard about the Palestinians people who have been ignored by the world, simply because they are not White. It’s very sad.

I look forward to hearing from many leaders, who are looking towards a Peace Plan in Afghanistan. There are a few more months until the month of May. It must take place. Without forgetting the women and children of that country, of course.

Happy Birthday to the Space Force which is one year old just the other day!

Oh yeah, and fuck Harley Quinn. New Batman movie out next year.

Also, you may love or hate your bestfriend, but he’s still your bestfriend. Same goes for your teammates. There may be frictions, but at the end of the day, the job needs to get done. Think Naruto and Sasuke.

I wonder why all these startups are fleeing to Texas and Florida. I mean are they that really greedy that they don’t want to pay their taxes? They make billions of dollars so they can’t pay a few dollars in taxes? As for Florida, it’s going to be underwater in a few years due to Climate Change.

The Mandalorian Season 2 was amazing! Looking forward to Season 3 next year!

Happy 23rd year anniversary to Gran Turismo!

Time to drink some coffee and eat some chocolate!

The new NBA season started! Let’s go, Cavs!

Don’t forget my usual PSA: It’s the holidays, so drive safe. Drink a 0.0% alcoholic beer, ALWAYS wear a seatbelt, the holidays are great, but only if we come home in one piece. Don’t do it just for yourself, think of your loved ones.

Until next time!