Meet the Winner of Beatport’s 2021 Global Producer Challenge [beatportal]
Focusrite Clarett+ USB audio interfaces announced: is this “premium” range ageing like a fine wine? [Computer Music]
Reason Studios Reason 12 review [Future Music]
1 in 3 have experienced discrimination on the dancefloor, new report finds [DJ Mag]
What Do Your Parents Think? 4 South Asian DJs Share Their Family’s Reception to a Music Career [Mixmag]
Swedish House Mafia to make their MTV VMAs debut [Dancing Astronaut]
Steve Aoki & Armin van Buuren Rinse Out New Collab ID “Music Means Love Forever” [Your EDM]
Odesza Confirm New Music in 2022 [EDM.com]
Tungevaag x Bassjackers - “Written in The Stars” [EDM Sauce]
Modern Finance on Twitter [Modern.Finance]
Hey, HODINKEE! Winding Weirdness, Watch Wear Wisdom, And Heirloom Watches, Part Deux [HODINKEE]
Henry Shukman — Zen, Tools for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Using Wounds as the Doorway (#531) [tim.blog]
Reminder: Twelve and a Half: GaryVee’s upcoming new book [GaryVee]
Afghanistan: Medical needs grow as international organizations suspend activities [MSF]
Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalises abortion [The Economist]
Hard acts to follow, from Angela Merkel to the Queen [1843 magazine]
Rediscover Joy at Work [Harvard Business Review]
Nxivm sex cult co-founder Nancy Salzman sentenced to prison [BBC News]
Teachers Drowning in Debt [Bloomberg]
Taliban interim government agrees to let foreigners leave Afghanistan [Reuters]
Taliban must allow departures from Afghanistan, Blinken says [AL-Jazeera News]
Putin’s Crackdown on the Press [The New Yorker]
Razer’s Basilisk V3 has more LEDs and a brilliant scroll wheel [The Verge]
Democrats have a high-risk, high-reward plan to save Roe v. Wade [Vox]
‘The Matrix Resurrections’ is returning to a world the original film predicted and shaped [Mic]
This AI program will create a mashup DJ set from any songs you want [INPUT]
NBA Live Goes Free-to-Play? One Major Force is Stopping EA [INVERSE]
Sony Brought Its PlayStation A-Game Today [Kotaku]
7 Clever Ways You Can Use Your French Press (Other Than Making Coffee) [LifeHacker]
Twitter wants you to tweet to interest-based communities, not just followers [TechCrunch]
NASA’s Perseverance rover finally scooped up a piece of Mars [MIT Technology Review]
Senate Democrats weigh extending Biden's monthly $300 checks to families to 2024 in $3.5 trillion social spending plan [Insider]
Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11 [The Guardian]
Trump Wants Your Money. Again. [The New York Times]
Obama Enters CA Fray: No on Recall [Huffington Post]
After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong [The Atlantic]
2021 NFL Predictions [FiveThirtyEight]
After Ida, New Orleans residents find a source of hope: The ‘hurricane station’ — At the radio station that also remained on air through Katrina, hosts are sleeping in the office to broadcast round-the-clock. For many people in this powerless city, it’s a lifeline. [The Washington Post]
« Les attentats du 13-Novembre sont le point d’orgue du djihadisme européen, qui s’est structuré à partir du 11-Septembre » [Le Monde]
'Steve from 'Blue's Clues' returned and fans are coming to terms with growing up [Mashable]
Something Unexplained Is Sending Radio Signals From Our Galaxy's Center [VICE News]
General Failure: How the U.S. Military Lied About the 9/11 Wars [The Intercept_]
How harnessing the powers of venom could lead to new medicines [Nat Geo]
Biden Lays Out Plan To Mandate Vaccines Or Testing For Millions Of Workers [NPR]
Kamala Harris Headlines California Rally As Democrats Link Recall To National Battles [CapRadioNews]
Tout était pourtant écrit [Le Monde diplomatique]
How the U.S. Got 9/11 Wrong — The lone superpower inadvertently taught the rest of the world how to fight it—and win. [Foreign Policy]
Sound and Fury in the Post-9/11 Middle East [Foreign Affairs]
Don’t Underestimate Tajikistan in the Afghanistan Crisis [The Diplomat]
What the CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism Looks Like Now [The Cipher Brief]
How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron? [Quanta magazine]
Elémentaire mon cher Sheldon Right-pointing 🔎 #ThrowbackThursday avec une conférence de Sheldon Glashow en 1979. — Sheldon Glashow a reçu le @NobelPrize de Physique avec Abdus Salam et Steven Weinberg pour leur travail sur les particules élémentaires. [CERN_FR]
NASA Innovations Will Help U.S. Meet Sustainable Aviation Goals [NASA]
Good to meet with @DHSgov Deputy John Tien during the #G7 Ministerial. The US is one of INTERPOL’s strongest partners in our united action to combat all forms of transnational crime and terrorism. [INTERPOL]
Austin Warns Al-Qaida May Reemerge in a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan [Air Force Magazine]
Focused on strategic competition, Air Force Secretary Kendall confident “One Team, One Fight” will lead to success [Airman Magazine]
Tesla Model S Plaid Finally Set The Nurburgring Record For Production EVs [JALOPNIK]
What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 354 & BENKYO RADIO 354.
Please submit your ballot in the mail! Vote NO on the Recall on Gavin Newsom! We cannot afford another Trump-like figure to be in charge of California! They would destroy any progress we’ve made to defeat the COVID-19 virus and its mutations.
The new Matrix trailer is out! Remember, it’s just a movie. “Zion” is not suffering, but the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are. Israel has plenty access to COVID-19 vaccines. Palestinians do not. THAT is what’s REAL.