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  • Adobe Dreamweaver [Adobe]

  • The Pill Club, an online birth control prescription and delivery service, raises $41.9M as an extension to its $51M Series B from Jan. 2019, led by Base 10 [TechMeme]

  • Christiane Amanpour has ovarian cancer. CNN’s chief international anchor, who’s 65, revealed her diagnosis after four weeks off air for surgery. [Quartz]

  • Elon Musk says Tesla will once again accept bitcoin [Recode]

  • Is ‘brain drift’ the key to machine consciousness? [TheNextWeb]

  • Welcome to Coffee Country - Redefining Coffee in the Pacific Northwest [Eater]

  • Congress readies an assault on the platforms [Platformer]

  • Companies Are Offering Incentives to Vaccinated Consumers, but More Important: Why? - The business case for offering free doughnuts, beer, and burgers to Americans who are vaccinated. [Inc.]

  • ‘The Oregon Trail’ is back—and a little less racist [Fast Company]

  • One man found 62 resumes in the trash, fixed them, and hired 14 people [Entrepreneur]

  • All the New Privacy and Security Features Coming to iOS and macOS [WIRED]

  • This Week in Tech 827 [TWIT]

  • Why iPhone’s Features are Always “Late” [MKBHD]

  • Unagi Model One Electric Scooter Review! [Sam Sheffer]

  • The Next MacBook [Dave2D]

  • iOS 15 and more at WWDC 2021! [iJustine]

  • Decades Ball [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • The Sky This Week: Enter the Summer Triangle [Astronomy magazine]

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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 301 & BENKYO RADIO 301.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 300 | BENKYO RADIO 300

  • Beatport Unveils Powerful New Mobile App for DJs and Refreshed Brand Design [beatportal]

  • Apple confirms Logic Pro update with Spatial Audio authoring tools [Computer Music]

  • Review: Behringer TD-3 Analog Bass Line Synthesizer [Future Music]

  • Sama’ Abdulhadi: Palestine’s techno champion [DJ Mag]

  • “A Tool for Protest”: DJs from the Global South are Fighting Oppression with Music [Mixmag]

  • Vicetone craft dance-centric conversion of The Weeknd’s ‘Save Your Tears’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Eric Prydz is Finishing Up Another Fan Favorite, “All Night” ID [YourEDM]

  • "Since announcing a tour my inbox has been full of requests for free tickets," Emery wrote. "And in normal times I'm usually the first to help someone out, and often throw random people on the list for a good reason." — "But not now," he continued. "Clubs have been closed over a year. Many went bust. Others barely survived. So whether it's my show or not: Support live music. Support these venues. Buy the fucking tickets." -Gareth Emery [EDM.com]

  • EDX & Jess Ball Reconnect for Huge Second Collaboration ‘Take Me Home’ [EDM Sauce]

  • Greece and EU must change approach to migration as scale of people’s suffering revealed [MSF]

  • Instagram DM: Direct Messaging to Network [GaryVee]

  • America’s wary approval of an Alzheimer’s drug offers hope to millions [The Economist]

  • In praise of pastrami, the world’s sexiest sandwich [1843 magazine]

  • You Can’t Cure Your Employee’s Existential Crisis. But You Can Help. [Harvard Business Review]

  • 'My foggy glasses solution helped me through Covid' [BBC World]

  • U.S. Latinos finally get their turn with Lin-Manuel Miranda movie 'In the Heights' [Reuters]

  • What’s behind Ireland’s support for Palestine? [AL-Jazeera News]

  • How a City Comes Back to Life [The New Yorker]

  • Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements [The Verge]

  • The lab leak hypothesis, explained [Vox]

  • macOS 12 Monterey upgrades Continuity with Universal Control [TechCrunch]

  • Which US vaccine plans actually helped hard-hit communities? [MIT Technology Review]

  • Workers are 'rage quitting' their jobs as a tightening labor market forces employers to take note of unfavorable conditions and low pay [Insider]

  • ‘Truly an emergency’: how drought returned to California – and what lies ahead [The Guardian]

  • How the ‘Alpha’ Coronavirus Variant Became So Powerful [The New York Times]

  • ‘A Lot Of Anxiety’ For Democrats As Biden Agenda Stalls [Huffington Post]

  • Pete Buttigieg, Infrastructure Salesman [The Atlantic]

  • Politics Podcast: One Special Election Can’t Forecast The Midterms [FiveThirtyEight]

  • G-7 leaders face pressure to aid poor countries grappling with climate change [The Washington Post]

  • Léna Lazare, 23 ans, nouveau visage de l’écologie radical [Le Monde]

  • Ford’s hybrid Maverick truck is a cheaper alternative to the F-150 Lightning [Mashable]

  • New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation [Motherboard, Tech by VICE]

  • Greentea Peng is Healing, Using Shrooms and Music's Miracle Tone [Noisey, Music by VICE]

  • Ex-Canadian Soldier Linked to Neo-Nazi Terror Plot Pleads Guilty in US [VICE News]

  • Expanding Research Complex in Berkely Highlights Dangers of U.S. Biolabs [The Intercept_]

  • Thousands of fake online pharmacies shut down in INTERPOL operation [INTERPOL]

  • The New York Times reported that the Defense Department is considering authorization to provide air support for Afghan forces if the Taliban threatens to take Kabul or other major cities after U.S. forces leave. This would be a change from the current publicly disclosed plan to conduct “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism operations to deter attacks that would target the U.S. [Air Force Magazine]

  • HKS’ Boosted Toyota GR 86 [SuperStreet]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 300 & BENKYO RADIO 300. Whoa! What a milestone! I am so excited to have made it this far. My blog has now 1,000 monthly unique visitors. As you know, I have 1,500 Twitter followers, so it’s nice to see some traction. I have had this blog for a couple of years, which helped me with my Mental Health, especially after facing discrimination in the workplace. Many false promises were made, and I had to turn myself from “underqualified” to “overqualified.” I work nights, as I still impatiently await a day-job, but so far, the DIA keeps kidnapping my Tech-Industry (Intel Corporation, AMD, Apple, Google, etc) recruiters. Therefore, if they make my life complicated, I will make their lives complicated. As a result, tens of thousands of people at NATO have heard about my story. This makes the DIA embarrassed. They still haven’t released their 2021 Bookclub list, which I am forcing them to include a book on Palestine. I might be an Intelligence Officer by night (pro-bono) but by day, I’m still a Project Manager, and I need a paycheck. So don’t push my buttons, or else, I’m gonna push some buttons, if you know what I mean.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 299 | BENKYO RADIO 299

  • Microsoft says Teams will support end-to-end encryption for one-to-one voice calls on desktop and mobile apps starting in early July [TechMeme]

  • For decades, Hong Kongers held a solemn candlelight vigil every June 4 to commemorate the victims of Beijing’s brutal crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square student democracy protests. It was the lone place in China where mourners could come together publicly to honor the painful moment in the country’s history. [Quartz]

  • Billionaires are racing to sidestep President Biden’s plan to raise their taxes [Recode]

  • Microsoft’s new version of Windows will launch on June 24 [TheNextWeb]

  • Trump deplatforms himself [Platformer]

  • The 16 Best and Worst Jerky Brands for Your Next Road Trip [Eater]

  • These Startups Are Remodeling the Doctor's Office [Inc.]

  • Dogecoin is joining Coinbase Pro and fans want to finally boost its price to $1 [Fast Company] THIS IS HUGE NEWS

  • It’s time to tell Mitch McConnell to get the fuck out [Medium]

  • 5 Ways Mental Fitness Apps Can Improve Your Quality of Life [Entrepreneur]

  • 45 Father’s Day Gifts for the Dependable Dad in Your Life [WIRED]

  • This Week in Tech 826 [TWIT]

  • When Smartphones Copy Each Other! [MKBHD]

  • Nvidia Gaming Laptops Just Got Beat. [Dave2D]

  • Recipe for Me - Original Song [Thomas Sanders]

  • WWDC 2021! What to expect? [iJustine]

  • Masthead [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • The Sky This Week: A ring of fire eclipse [Astronomy magazine]

What’s up, everybody, here are JETLAG RADIO 299 & BENKYO RADIO 299.

I was extremely disappointed by Manchester United’s loss in the Europa Final. This prevented us from receiving silverware this year. Just remember that we still finished 2nd in the EPL Premier League table. That still calls for celebration, a Pint of Guinness, and the fact that we return to the Champions League next year. This Summer Transfer season is vital. I will scrutinize our coach, just like the rest of the MUFC supporters around the world. In 2022, we must win silverware. Let’s all watch the new Eric Cantona and the new Alex Ferguson documentaries, and hype ourselves. We are the best damn Football Club in the world, by golly. Remember, we are fans whether we win or lose. Always be proud of wearing your MANUTD jersey.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 298 | BENKYO RADIO 298

  • Watch Amazon Music’s New Documentary, ‘Better Days: The Story of UK Rave’ [beatportal]

  • Novation Circuit Tracks' synth engines explained [Computer Music]

  • The beginner's guide to: chillwave [Future Music]

  • DJ MAG SAMA’ ABDULHADI COVER - JUNE 2021 (UK) - PRINTED - SOLD OUT [DJ Mag]

  • Public Service Broadcasting look for ‘Bright Magic’ with News of Their Forthcoming New Album [Mixmag]

  • David Guetta, MORTEN, and John Martin defy the ‘Impossible’ on all-time future rave meeting [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Tiësto Takes Coldplay’s “Higher Power” Even Higher with New Remix [Your EDM]

  • World’s Longest-Working DJ Retires after Record-Breaking Career of 70 Years [EDM.com]

  • Monticolombi - Praise [EDM Sauce]

  • Zamfara state gripped by humanitarian crisis as violence escalates [MSF]

  • 15 Tips on How to Brand Yourself Online [GaryVee]

  • The Israel-Palestine conflict has claimed 14,000 lives since 1987 [The Economist]

  • Covid has exposed the great fiction of middle-class life in India [1843 magazine]

  • Social Anxiety and Work [Harvard Business Review]

  • Tulsa Race Massacre: President Biden commemorates 100-year anniversary [BBC News]

  • Vaccine Shortages in Poor Nations Are the Biggest Threat to Rich Ones - No one is safe until everyone is safe. Rich countries may finally be getting the message that poorer nations need help. [Bloomberg]

  • From free beer to free childcare, Biden touted new efforts to get U.S. adults vaccinated by July [Reuters]

  • Will Israel be held accountable for war crimes? UN says 15 healthcare centres and a water desalination plant were targeted during the Israeli onslaught on Gaza [AL-Jazeera News]

  • The Age of Reopening Anxiety [The New Yorker]

  • Microsoft looks ready to launch Windows 11 [The Verge]

  • Is United’s green supersonic jet too good to be true? [Vox]

  • Waymo’s driverless taxi service can now be accessed on Google Maps [TechCrunch]

  • NASA is ending its 30-year Venus drought with two new missions [MIT Technology Review]

  • 50 founders and VCs dish on what it's like to work with (secret White Nationalist) Jason Calacanis, Silicon Valley's most polarizing, Howard Stern-inspired investor [Business Insider]

  • Biden announces ‘month of action’ to get 70% of Americans vaccinated [The Guardian]

  • Bibi Is Trump and the Israeli Change Coalition Is Biden [The New York Times]

  • FBI Investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Over Political Fundraising: Report [Huffington Post] Is this the motherfucker who threw away mailboxes preventing people from voting absentee ballots for Biden, meaning we may have had another 4 years of Trump nightmare? If this is the guy, he needs to go to jail

  • The Cowardice of Cruella [The Atlantic]

  • Was Chelsea’s Champions League Win A Fluke? [FiveThirtyEight]

  • D.C. police recruits, mostly from elsewhere, learn about Black history and the city’s culture. Leaders think it will make them better officers. [The Washington Post]

  • Du FN de 2007 au RN de 2022, ce qui perdure et ce qui a changé dans le programme de l’extrême droite (Nazi) [Le Monde] #NonAuFN #SOSRacisme

  • Looking for a Father's Day gift he'll actually use? Get a robot vacuum. [Mashable]

  • Darth Vader and Stormtroopers Attend U.S. Military Ceremony [Motherboard, Tech by VICE]

  • Travis Barker Is Everywhere [Noisey, Music by VICE]

  • Why We’re Seeing More UFOs [VICE News]

  • Congress Sought Details About Biden’s Pledge to End U.S. Support for Yemen War. They Got a “Non-Answer.” [The Intercept_]

  • How virus variants get their confusing names—and why that’s changing [National Geographic]

  • Human Trafficking Allegations Thrust Caste Into Spotlight For American Hindus [NPR]

  • Gov. Newsom Wants Transitional Kindergarten For All 4-Year-Olds. What Does That Mean? [CapRadioNews]

  • Origine sociale des étudiants par cursus [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Here are all the new features to expect in iOS 15 [Mashable]

  • The 'Mystery Illness' Taking the U.S. By Storm Is the Common Cold [Motherboard, Tech by VICE]

  • Biden to Tap Career Diplomat as Top Official on Refugee Policy [Foreign Policy]

  • COVID’s Haves and Have-Nots - To End the Pandemic, Rich Countries Must Pay to Vaccinate Poor Ones [Foreign Affairs]

  • Will Afghanistan Collapse When the US Withdraws? [The Diplomat]

  • The Cost of Inaction in Myanmar [The Cipher Brief]

  • Mathematicians Identify Threshold at Which Shapes Give Way [Quanta magazine]

  • #ThrowbackThursday: une soirée disco au CERN ? Man dancing - En réalité, cette photo qui date de juillet 2000 montre des chercheurs en train de préparer des faisceaux de lasers pour tirer sur des atomes d’hélium antiprotonique Firework sparkler [CERN_FR]

  • NASA’s Juno to Get a Close Look at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede [NASA]

  • INTERPOL unveils new global database to identify missing persons through family DNA [INTERPOL]

  • Space Force Looks to Operationalize New Structure, Build Culture in 2022 [Air Force Magazine]

  • 2022 Toyota GR 86 Power Figures [SuperStreet]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 298 & BENKYO RADIO 298.

I’m really loving the “Car Thing” from Spotify. It’s such a wonderful device, and I highly recommend it. It’s the best piece of Technology that’s affordable for a used-car vehicle. Be sure to check it out!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 297 | BENKYO RADIO 297

  • You can join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces rooms from a browser starting Wednesday [TechMeme]

  • Big Oil faced a day of defeats. Exxon Mobil shareholders elected two new board members who want to move the company away from fossil fuels. In the Netherlands, a court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to shrink its carbon dioxide emissions by 45%. [Quartz]

  • 2020 was the summer of road trips. 2021 is the summer of resorts. [Recode]

  • Germany says ‘JA!’ to fully autonomous vehicles hitting public roads in 2022 [TheNextWeb]

  • America Loves Gas Station Snacks. Here Are Some of the Finest by Region [Eater]

  • As Blavity's Traffic Soared, Advertising Plummeted. Here's How This 31-Year-Old Black Woman CEO Pulled Through 2020 [Inc.]

  • “For those in the Black community who may be apathetic to the plights of Palestinian people, Hill urged them to consider that the issues they face at home are being enacted upon many other people around the world.” [Blavity]

  • What Instagram really learned from hiding like counts [Platformer]

  • The secret to happy, healthy homes? Universal childcare [Fast Company]

  • The Spotify Car Thing [Medium]

  • 10 Side Hustle Skills You Can Master This Summer on a Budget [Entrepreneur]

  • Sega's beloved speedster arrived on the scene 30 years ago. Since then, he's gone through numerous transformations—not all for the better. [WIRED]

  • Car Photography with Larry Chen [TWIT]

  • Ford F150 Lightning Impressions: Better Than I Thought! [MKBHD}

  • Tesla Cybertruck in NYC! #shorts [Sam Sheffer]

  • M1 iMac Review - Better and Worse [Dave2D]

  • Why Do We Get Out of Bed in the Morning? [Thomas Sanders]

  • Unboxing ALL 7 M1 iMac Colors! [iJustine]

  • The World in Time - Sonia Shah [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • The Sky This Week: Super Moon, Flower Moon, Blood Moon [Astronomy magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 297 & BENKYO RADIO 297.

There are various COVID-19 vaccine lotteries including one in California. Make sure you get vaccinated and you may have a chance to win some money!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 296 | BENKYO RADIO 296

  • Adam Beyer and DJ Rush Join Forces on ‘Restore My Soul’ EP [beatportal]

  • Waves Vocal Bender review [Computer Music]

  • Nonlinear Labs C15 synth gets an internal audio recorder [Future Music]

  • De La Soul’s Back Catalogue could be Available Digitally Soon [DJ Mag]

  • Trial date set for Men who Allegedly sold Mac Miller Drugs Laced with Fentanyl [Mixmag]

  • Alesso cashes in two Ultra Taiwan IDs on long-awaited ‘PROGRESSO VOL. 2’ mixtape [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Kaskade Introduces New Wave of ‘REDUX’ Originals with “Where Did You Go” [Your EDM]

  • Situation in Peru remains critical as world’s worst-hit COVID-19 country [MSF]

  • Instragram DM: Direct Messaging to Network [GaryVee]

  • Joe Biden wants to Europeanise the American welfare state - His plans are ambitious, thoughtful and risky [The Economist]

  • For Americans, black Britain is the last word in cool [1843 magazine]

  • “The conventional 9-to-5 model is growing obsolete” [Harvard Business Review]

  • Israel-Palestinian conflict: Eyes on peace options as Gaza truce holds [BBC News]

  • The How-to Issue: 50+ Lessons from Really Smart People [Bloomberg Businessweek]

  • In climate push, G7 agrees to stop international funding for coal [Reuters]

  • In Pictures: Palestinian solidarity rallies around the world [AL-Jazeera News]

  • A Liberal Zionist’s Move to the Left on the Israel-Palestinian Conflict - Peter Beinart, once a staunch defender of Israel, is arguing for the Palestinians’ right to return [The New Yorker]

  • Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing [The Verge]

  • A million Muslims detained - China’s Uyghur minority has been subjected to torture, forced labor, religious restrictions, and even forced sterilization, NPR’s Throughline explains how they became the target of what many are calling a genocide [Vox]

  • White House teams up with dating apps to give vaccinated users free perks [TechCrunch]

  • How space weather could wreck NASA’s return to the moon [MIT Technology Review]

  • Biden to host family of George Floyd at White House on the first anniversary of his death [Insider]

  • Blinken pledges US will deal with ‘grave humanitarian situation in Gaza’ [The Guardian]

  • The coronavirus is spreading faster in Manitoba than anywhere else in Canada, the United States or Mexico, with Indigenous people and people of color hit disproportionately hard. [The New York Times]

  • Can America Close The COVID Vaccine Race Gap? [Huffington Post]

  • Mitch McConnell’s Gift to Progressives - For Democrats who want to scrap the Senate filibuster, the GOP’s move to block a January 6 commission is the perfect fight. [The Atlantic]

  • How Racial Justice Protests Have Become The Contemporary Culture War [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Yes, we’ll probably need coronavirus booster shots. But which one? [The Washington Post]

  • Les juges antiterroristes ordonnent un procès contre neuf membres du groupuscule d’ultradroite OAS - Les neuf hommes sont accusés d’avoir envisagé des attaques, potentiellement contre des personnes musulmanes ou contre Christophe Castaner. Ils vont être jugés en correctionnelle pour « association de malfaiteurs terroriste ». [Le Monde] Ceci est la raison pourquoi le Front National est tellement dangereux en France. La raison pour laquelle Marine LePen est dangereuse. Elle fait peur aux Blancs, et continue la chasse a l’immigré. La Gauche doit répondre.

  • AOC speaks out on mental health and Latinx trauma post-Trump [Mashable]

  • Why Corporations Won’t Hire Remote Workers in Colorado [Motherboard, Tech by VICE]

  • A Year Ago, the ‘Big Three’ Record Companies Pledged $225 Million to Racial Justice. Where Did It Go? [Noisey, Music by VICE]

  • Cleaners Say Bosses Treated Them So Badly It May Have Helped Spread COVID - One hospital cleaner told VICE World News of an incident where a supervisor forced open a toilet door because they thought she was slacking. [VICE World News]

  • With Thousands Left Homeless, Gaza Reconstruction Faces Familiar Obstacle: Israeli Siege - In the shadow of the Israel-Hamas cease-fire, thousands of Gazan residents face homelessness, grief, and trauma — amid a continuing Israeli blockade. [The Intercept_]

  • In California, extreme heat and ozone pollution hit poor communities hardest [National Geographic]

  • You Can Still Count The Number Of Black CEOs On One Hand [NPR]

  • California Will Give Away More Than $116 Million In Cash, Gift Cards To Get More People Vaccinated [CapRadioNews]

  • Un peuple debout [Le Monde diplomatique] #Palestine

  • Big Oil’s Tobacco Moment - Shell is responsible for more emissions than most countries. A new court ruling holds it accountable. [Foreign Policy]

  • Iran Needs the Nuclear Deal to Keep Russia and China at Bay [Foreign Affairs] imperative to return to the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal

  • School Bombing Latest Tragedy for Afghanistan’s Hazaras - Afghanistan’s Hazaras have long been persecuted and over the last 20 years targeted in attacks of increasingly cruelty. [The Diplomat]

  • How the Middle East Conflict Leads Back to US National Security [The Cipher Brief]

  • Mathematicians Find Long-Sought Building Blocks for Special Polynomials [Quanta magazine]

  • Des protons à @ISOLDEatCERN pour la première fois après la mise à niveau du LHC ! - Préparatifs en cours pour produire les premiers isotopes radioactifs pour plus d'une douzaine de stations expérimentales, à partir du 21 juin Smiling face with sunglasses [CERN_FR]

  • Magnetized Threads Weave Spectacular Galactic Tapestry [NASA]

  • Fugitive Italian mafia boss arrested in Brazil [INTERPOL]

  • Budget to Include ‘Largest Ever’ Research and Development Request, Aims to Deter China [Air Force Magazine]

  • E3 2021 Racing Game & Gear Preview [SuperStreet]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 296 & BENKYO RADIO 296.

I’m really going bonkers that Fast 9 is the number one movie around the world and it’s still not released in America. There are spoilers everywhere and it’s very hard to stay away from them. I just want to enjoy this movie that I have been waiting for years to watch. There are still two more Fast & Furious movies after this one, meaning that the Fast Family will have to fight that dirty-blonde-hair woman terrorist for a few more movies. Anyway, the movie looks amazing!

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 295 | BENKYO RADIO 295

  • Twitter is rolling out its new verification program, with revamped categories that include activists and journalists, and previews upcoming changes to profiles [TechMeme]

  • What’s (still) going on. Marvin Gaye’s 50-year-old masterpiece What’s Going On is filled with rage against the injustices faced by Black Americans that sadly have not changed much in the last five decades. But as Vanderbilt professor Emily Lordi writes in the Guardian, the album was also “for his own people in his own time.” Songs like “What’s Happening Brother?” checked “the claims of those in power against the authority of everyday Black people” by drawing from Gaye’s personal experiences and those of the people close to him. —Hasit Shah, news editor [Quartz]

  • Tracking the world’s largest iceberg [Recode]

  • What happens when computers can literally do everything? [TheNextWeb]

  • 5 Recipes That Got Us Through Another Week - Gooey croque madames, tahina-spiked shakes, and a rhubarb upside-down cake because, well, spring [Eater]

  • A Sudden Surge of Vaccinated Patrons Is Forcing Businesses to Get Creative [Inc.]

  • How to advocate for a flexible work arrangement [Fast Company]

  • Get vaccinated from COVID-19 so you can move forward [Medium]

  • Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein Applied the Concept of 'No Time' to Boost Their Creativity. What Does It Entail? [Entrepreneur]

  • Does Apple Put Greed Before Gamers? Tim Cook Takes the Stand [WIRED]

  • TWiT+ 52 [TWIT]

  • The Memes That Made Us - The origin story of “one nation, indivisible.” [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • Inside star cities [Astronomy magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 295 & BENKYO RADIO 295.

I just read an article about how the lack of paid leave could be preventing people from getting COVID-19 vaccines. It is imperative that companies let people get their vaccination shots.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 294 | BENKYO RADIO 294

  • Beatport LINK is Now Available on TRACKTOR PRO 3 [beatportal]

  • The great outdoors: how to start making field recordings to use in your music [Computer Music]

  • Is it still worth buying a hardware drum machine in 2021 (and, if so, why)? [Future Music]

  • Over 500 Million Records have Been Catalogued on Discogs [DJ Mag]

  • A Documentary Exploring 90s Free Parties is Coming Out [Mixmag]

  • Martin Garrix, Maejor uphold AREA21’s lack of predictability on alias’ second album piece, ‘Pogo’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • SiriusXM Announces First-Ever Dance Again Festival Over Memorial Day Weekend [Your EDM]

  • Spotify Launches “Track IDs” Playlists for Electronic Dance Music Discovery [EDM]

  • Parx - Oh My [EDM Sauce]

  • MSF returns to saving lives at sea in central Mediterranean [MSF]

  • Meet the 268 VeeFriends Characters [GaryVee]

  • America’s Democrats are increasingly divided over Israel - As the fighting in Gaza worsens, so does the split between President Joe Biden and the left of his party [The Economist] #PalestiniansUnderAttack

  • “The illusion of citizenship has gone”: Israel’s Arabs look to the future [1843 magazine]

  • Thriving in the Future of Work Means Focusing on Your People [Harvard Business Review]

  • Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire comes into effect [BBC News]

  • Israel-Hamas truce takes hold after 11 days of fighting [Reuters]

  • Celebrations in Gaza as ceasefire takes hold [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Is Burnout a Modern Affliction? [The New Yorker]

  • Ford F-150 Lighting Revealed: An Electric Truck for the Masses [The Verge]

  • The “TikTok intifada” - Usually Palestinians and their allies struggle to have their narrative break through online. Not anymore. [Vox]

  • In the race for tech talent, the US should look to Mexico [TechCrunch]

  • The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI - Hundreds of scientists around the world are working together to understand one of the most powerful emerging technologies before it’s too late. [MIT Technology Review]

  • Biden lauds ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and calls for full cooperation [Insider]

  • Biden staffers urge president to ‘hold Israel accountable’ and protect Palestinians [The Guardian]

  • Ask Yourself Which Books You Truly Love [The New York Times]

  • Wuhan Researchers Were Hospitalized With COVID-19 Symptoms Pre-Pandemic: Reports [Huffington Post] #UmbrellaCorporation!?!

  • How 24 Hours of Racist Violence Caused Decades of Harm [The Atlantic]

  • Epic kicks off its annual Mega Sale with a free copy of NBA 2K21 for everyone [PC Gamer]

  • How Pharma’s Lucrative Patent System Is Complicating The Pandemic [FiveThirtyEight]

  • As hurricane season looms, Biden doubles funds to prep for extreme weather [The Washington Post]

  • Ligue 1: Lille, un champion de France sans public mais pas sans mérite ni passion [Le Monde]

  • How to watch the 2021 NBA playoffs if you don't have cable [Mashable]

  • Scientists Want to Smell Ocean Radiation to Predict Tsunamis [Motherboard, Tech by VICE]

  • COVID Isn’t the Only Reason Live Music Workers Won’t Return to Their Jobs [Noisey, Music by VICE]

  • Small Businesses Are Being Censored for Posting About Palestinian Solidarity [VICE News]

  • Israel Attacks on Gaza left Strained Health Care System in Tatters [The Intercept_]

  • Why ‘getting back to normal’ may actually feel terrifying [Nat Geo]

  • In 25 States, More Than Half Of Adults Are Fully Vaccinated [NPR]

  • More Black Millennials Are Turning To Investing And Cryptocurrency To Build Back Wealth [CapRadioNews]

  • Faut-il avoir peur des neurosciences ? [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Belarus Is Becoming Europe’s North Korea [Foreign Policy]

  • The current articles on Foreign Affairs magazine are pathetic and are fluff pieces for Israel. As a result I will not share a FA article for this blogpost. For real coverage on Palestinian territories, check out VICE News, The Intercept, and AL-Jazeera News. [Foreign Affairs]

  • Kashmiris Are Being Arrested for Pro-Palestine Protests [The Diplomat]

  • A Duty to Inform the Public on Cyber [The Cipher Brief]

  • Mathematicians Answer Old Question About Odd Graphs [Quanta magazine]

  • Pourquoi les aimants du LHC sont-ils bleus ? [CERN_FR]

  • New NASA Earth System Observatory to Help Address, Mitigate Climate Change [NASA]

  • INTERPOL-United Nations Security Council Special Notices - Israel (if they don’t stop murdering Palestinian children) [INTERPOL]

  • 2 Key Defense Studies Focus on Science, Tech, and Diversity [Air Force Magazine]

  • RWD-Converted 2012 Nissan GT-R [SuperStreet]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 294 & BENKYO RADIO 294.

Children were murdered in Palestinian territories. No matter what way you look at it, Bibidi Netanyahu is a murderer. He makes Jews look bad, which is no wonder why millions of Jews around the world want new leadership in Israel. He’s terrible. I mean he makes Satan looks like a saint compared to him. Biden wields so much power, and he could easily help resolve this conflict. There are HUNDREDS of countries around the world who want to see Peace in the Palestinian territories. It must take place.

If you live in America and you haven’t been vaccinated, C’MON, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, get yourself vaccinated so you don’t end up a statistic.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 293 | BENKYO RADIO 293

  • Google announces LaMDA, a language model for dialogue applications that it says represents a “breakthrough” for having natural conversations with AI [Techmeme]

  • The Trump Organizaiton faces a criminal probe. New York state has joined the Manhattan district attorney in investigating a range of allegations, including tax and insurance fraud. [Quartz]

  • The FCC’s big bet on Elon Musk - The billionaire’s space internet project could connect millions of remote American homes. If it actually works.[Recode]

  • What we’re expecting from Google I/O 2021 [TheNextWeb]

  • Americans Love Free Stuff, But Will They Get Vaccinated for It? [Eater]

  • Fully Vaccinated People Can Go Mask Free in Most Cases [Inc.]

  • This map of the U.S heating up is horrifying. Show it to every climate denier you know [Fast Company]

  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Lab-Leak Theory* [Medium]

  • Jaden Smith Opening a Restaurant Where Homeless People Can Eat for Free [Entrepreneur]

  • Why Humans Are So Bad at Seeing the Future [WIRED]

  • This Week in Tech 823 [TWIT]

  • Talking Tech with AI with Google CEO Sundar Pichai [MKBHD]

  • “No Keening Carried On Nowadays” [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • The Sky This Week: See Mercury at its best [Astronomy magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 293 & BENKYO RADIO 293.

so, there were some cool announcements at Google I/0 2021. Especially when it comes to the super futuristic stuff, with AI and Quantum and all that. Alas, there was no new Chromebook announcement, which is weird. We have a little while longer until Apple’s WWDC conference. It appears Microsoft Build is very soon, and I think there’s an Amazon AWS conference coming up.

Until next time!

JETLAG RADIO 292 | BENKYO RADIO 292

  • Lenzman: “The Magic is in The Blue Notes” [beatportal]

  • A redesigned Apple silicon MacBook Pro is rumored to be coming this summer, with new iMac, Mac mini, MacBook Air, and Mac Pro models set to follow [Computer Music]

  • Reason 12 is coming, with hi-res graphics, a new creative sampler and more sound design options than ever [Future Music]

  • How North American clubs and festivals are approaching their return to the dancefloor [DJ Mag]

  • “This Isn’t about Sides”: Palestinian Artists Call for Music World to Support ‘Basic Human Rights’ [Mixmag]

  • Armin van Buuren, Nicky Romero, Charlotte de Witte, and more top Tomorrowland Around the World 2 poster [Dancing Astronaut]

  • The Prodigy Share First Teaser Of New Music Since Keith Flint’s Death [YourEDM]

  • Eric Prydz announces Four Brooklyn Warehouse Shows with “Brand New Production” [EDM.com]

  • Teddy Beats And Jacob Browne Spread The Good Vibes In “Everybody Needs Love” [EDM Sauce]

  • MSF urges Israel to stop attacks on Gaza as trauma clinic is damaged in shelling [MSF]

  • How to Buy Your First VeeFriends [GaryVee]

  • Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of covid-19 [The Economist]

  • Ten million reasons to vaccinate the world [The Economist]

  • Does Going Back Into the Office Freak You Out? [Harvard Business Review]

  • Israel-Gaza violence: Joe Biden calls for ceasefire [BBC News]

  • Teenagers Are Winning Climate Fights One Court Case at a Time - After leading mass demonstrations, young people everywhere are suing countries and companies over their failure to address global warming [Bloomberg]

  • Hamas-Israel fighting abates as truce calls mount [Reuters]

  • ‘We need food’: Palestinians displaced in Gaza call for supplies [AL-Jazeera News]

  • No Safe Place in Gaza [The New Yorker]

  • Lamborghini will debut its first all-electric supercar after 2025 [The Verge]

  • Israel’s political system already suffers from a profound contradiction: It is a democracy for Israeli citizens and a military dictatorship for Palestinians. [Vox]

  • Google’s ‘DVD Screensaver’ Easter egg makes the logo bounce around your screen accordingly [TechCrunch]

  • These drone photos show urban inequality around the world [MIT Technology Review]

  • After a week of fighting, photos show destruction in Gaza, the world's largest 'open air prison' where Israeli airstrikes killed hundreds [Insider]

  • Joe Biden’s silence in the face of Israeli violence is a disgrade [The Guardian]

  • Humanitarian Catastrophe Deepens in Gaza [The New York Times]

  • White House Throws Subtlest Of Shade At Donald Trump In Biden Tax Returns Statement [Huffington Post]

  • Don’t Take the Narrow View of What’s Happening in Gaza [The Atlantic]

  • How The Republican Push to Restrict Voting Could Affect Our Elections [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Power Up: Biden administration approves $735 million weapons sale to Israel, raising red flags for some House Democrats [The Washington Post] U.S. Tax Dollars are being used to kill Palestinian children. This is atrocious.

  • Israël-Palestine : l’ONU salue l’ouverture d’un passage vers Gaza pour l’aide humanitaire [Le Monde]

  • Where to pre-order the new black and red DualSense controllers for PS5 [Mashable]

  • Bitcoiners Are So, So Mad at Elon Musk [Motherboard, Tech by VICE]

  • Travis Scott Is Sick of Brands and So Are We [NOISEY, Music by VICE]

  • Israel and Hamas Just Agreed to a Cease-Fire [VICE News]

  • Canadian Journalists fear Retaliation for Criticizing Coverage of Israeli Attacks on Gaza [The Intercept_]

  • Angelina Jolie embraces bees—and female beekeepers as environmental guardians [National Geographic]

  • Israel And Hamas Agree To A Cease-Fire In The Gaza Conflict [NPR]

  • As Counties Expand Vaccine Access, Student-Run Clinic Steps In With Culturally Competent Care For Underserved Communities [CapRadioNews]

  • Mai 2021 en perspective [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Inside Washington’s Fight to Save Afghans Who Saved Americans [Foreign Policy]

  • Is Paranoia the Key to Pandemic Preparedness? - Hypervigilance Beats Preparation for Unpredictable Crises [Foreign Affairs]

  • Sri Lanka Teaches the World How Not to Respond to COVID-19 [The Diplomat]

  • Intelligence Sharing in a Complicated World: The Future of Five Eyes [The Cipher Brief]

  • New Black Hole Math Closes Cosmic Blind Spot [Quanta magazine]

  • Voici ERASME, un système de mesure de film de chambre à bulles utilisé en 1974 pour analyser les photographies de la grande chambre à bulles européenne du CERN. #TBT Découvrez l'évolution de l'observation d'événements en physique des particles : [CERN_FR]

  • NASA Rover to Search for Water, Other Resources on Moon [NASA]

  • Peru: Parents arrested for sexually abusing baby, selling images [INTERPOL]

  • DOD: As Covid-19 Threat Persists, Vaccines Grow More Crucial [Air Force Magazine]

  • This Twin Turbo Lamborghini Huracan Evo is Pure Insanity [SuperStreet]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 292 & BENKYO RADIO 292.

It is imperative that the situation in Israel/Palestine calms down. As you have seen, there are protests AROUND THE WORLD demanding peace in the Palestinian territories. Everybody knows it, but felt powerless to Bibidi Netanyahu, the bully. Every world leader and religious leader wants this situation to calm down. It is imperative that the cease-fire remains in place for a long time. Remember what I have said previously, angering the Muslim world, a population of 1 BILLION people, is not smart. People cannot go to Churches, Mosques, and Synagogues and talk about the goodness of Jesus, or the Prophet (as a sign of respect, Muslims say “Peace be Upon Him”) if innocent civilians are being murdered, especially children. The U.N. Security Council had ALL ITS MEMBERS SAY PERFORM A CEASE-FIRE, except the United States who said no three times. If Biden was a grunt on a team, the Team Leader would have slapped him. That’s because he is jeopardizing one of the many issues that the Intelligence Community, Military, and Diplomats work on, which is “Peace and Stability of the World” (yes, that used to be on my dating profile when I used to be single). Look, I’m not trying to make a joke, I’m just saying, goddamnit, we have a lot of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan. Some are my friends, some my bestfriends, even though they’re batshit Republicans, and I’m batshit Liberal. I just want a peaceful withdrawal in Afghanistan just like the President wants, but we have 4 months remaining. That’s a long fucking time. We want them to come home. So, pretty please with a cherry on top, don’t aggravate the situation.

Check out the new TV Shows “United States of AL” & “Chad”, they’re not perfect, but I like that they bridge the divide between the different cultures. I mean it’s nice to watch a TV show where the brown people are not evil. It fights stereotypes, something that is very important.

Until next time!