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  • Beatportal is offering you the chance to win great prizes, including Beatport store credits, a Beatport LINK subscription and more. [beatportal]

  • Roland TB-303 vs. software emulations: can you tell the difference? [Computer Music]

  • Wave Alchemy’s Triaz drum machine promises “the greatest library of modern drums ever created” [Future Music]

  • RZA Says He Regrets Selling Wu-Tang Clan Album to Martin Shkreli [DJ Mag]

  • Music Consumption in the UK Has Increased For the Seventh Year in a Row [Mixmag]

  • Hearing impaired DJ workshops to launch in London in 2022 [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Porter Robinson & Rika Mikuriya Announce Their Engagement [Your EDM]

  • Jim Carrey is Featured on The Weeknd’s Upcoming Album, “Dawn FM” : Listen [EDM]

  • Apollo XO & Tanner Dixon – Metamora (Radio Edit) [EDM Sauce]

  • Particle: Fractionalizing Banksy with NFTs [Modern Finance]

  • I had no interest in tango before visiting Argentina. [Tim Ferriss]

  • Rainbow Six: Extraction [Ubisoft]

  • You’re About to Have the Best Year of Your Life! So Excited For Your 2022. [GaryVee]

  • Tens of thousands of people flee Cameroon as violence spreads [MSF]

  • Japan’s economy is stronger than many realise — Not bad, but could be better [The Economist]

  • New year’s resolutions are pointless [1843 magazine]

  • Ask These 5 Questions to Decide Your Next Career Move [Harvard Business Review]

  • Awe: The 'little earthquake' that could free your mind [BBC Worklife]

  • Biden’s Jan. 6 Speech to Lay ‘Singular Responsibility’ on Trump [Bloomberg]

  • CDC recommends Pfizer's COVID-19 booster for ages 12 to 15 [Reuters]

  • India police make arrests in online ‘auction’ of Muslim women — Woman, 19, suspected to be the main accused among three arrested by Mumbai police over app that put more than 100 women ‘on sale’. [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Afghanistan has Become the World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis — Four months after the Biden Administration withdrew U.S. troops, more than twenty million Afghans are on the brink of famine. [The New Yorker]

  • BMW debuts its new color-changing paint technology at CES: E Ink [The Verge]

  • The GOP’s masculinity panic [Vox]

  • Software stocks get punched in the face (again) [TechCrunch]

  • Have a better 2022 with these tech resolutions [MIT Technology Review]

  • Unvaccinated teen in Los Angeles tests positive for a co-infection of COVID-19 and the flu now being dubbed 'flurona' [Insider]

  • Inspirational! Congratulations Captain Preet Chandi 👏 Already creating history as the first woman of colour to complete a solo crossing across Antarctica, 🇬🇧 British Army physio #PolarPreet completed her expedition to the South Pole almost a week ahead of schedule [LinkedIn] #NATO

  • Pfizer Inc expects the latest results from a clinical trial for kids under the age of five of the Covid-19 vaccine it developed with Germany’s BioNTech SE by April, a top company scientist has said according to Reuters. [The Guardian]

  • How to Stop Trump and Prevent Another Jan. 6 [The New York Times]

  • Abigail Breslin Tells Anti-Masker To ‘F**k Off’ After They Insult Her For Wearing One [Huffington Post]

  • Stop Wasting COVID Tests, People — With the surge in cases, tests should be reserved for those who need them most. [The Atlantic]

  • The Insurrection [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Opinion: Hospitals are running low on yet another resource: Hope [The Washington Post]

  • Covid-19 : l’Assemblée nationale adopte en première lecture le projet de loi instaurant le passe vaccinal [Le Monde]

  • Hyundai envisions a future where robots whisk everyone around [Mashable]

  • Government Photos Show Sacreligious Desecration of Unique Wu-Tang Clan Album [VICE News]

  • Capitol Rioter Admits False Statements to FBI, but Prosecutors Haven’t Charged Him with a Felony — The Justice Department frequently charges Muslims with felonies for making false statements to federal agents. [The Intercept_]

  • A national 'climate corps'? California is leading the way — The California Conservation Corps shows what a national Civilian Climate Corps might achieve: a big win for the environment and meaningful work for youth—outdoors. [National Geographic]

  • 8 ways teachers are talking about Jan. 6 in their classrooms [NPR]

  • Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson wants to change how we think about Mozart [Cap Radio News]

  • Offrez lui plutôt un abonnement au “Monde diplomatique” [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Germany’s Baerbock Meets Blinken in First Washington Visit [Foreign Policy]

  • Deplatformed But Not Defanged — The U.S. Militia Movement After January 6 [Foreign Affairs]

  • Global Arms Trends: What’s New? [The Diplomat]

  • Flying Fish and Aquarium Pets Yield Secrets of Evolution — New studies reveal the ancient, shared genetic “grammar” underpinning the diverse evolution of fish fins and tetrapod limbs. [Quanta magazine]

  • Des empreintes de pas dans la neige alors que les Cernois reviennent au travail après les vacances d'hiver. Nous sommes impatient de commencer cette nouvelle année ! Flexed biceps — Vous aimeriez découvrir le CERN ? Participez à nos visites virtuelles : [CERN_FR]

  • NASA’s X-59 Kicks Off 2022 in Texas for Ground Testing [NASA]

  • For more information on Project First (Facial, Imaging, Recognition, Searching and Tracking) and how we use biometrics to help police fight terrorism 👇[INTERPOL]

  • Hacking the Supply Chain [Air Force Magazine]

  • A Spotless '80s Toyota Street Car with 1,000 HP On Tap? [Super Street on MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 432 & BENKYO RADIO 432.

I got an Apple Watch Series 7, and so far, my favorite function is the Chronograph, and the ability to switch displays. The Health functions are great, but I despise having to charge a watch every day. I looked at Apple Laptops (I need MacOS for Logic Pro, but Mac Mini 2022 is still delayed), but cannot in good conscience spend $3500 for 32GB of RAM on a MBP. That is the quintessential reason why young teenagers hate Mac People because it means that you’re “rich.” I know what it’s like to be the kid with the TOSHIBA or etc, and how the other kids make fun of the kid with a non-brand name laptop. That is why I am extremely proud of Satya Nadella for making $250 Windows Surface SE special versions, which come with the Microsoft Office Suite. These laptops have everything for Students to learn, and focus on learning, not spend all days making emojis. It is time for Tim Cook to release an MBP (not a Macbook Air) at $1000, it’s the least he can do now that Apple is worth $3 Trillion Dollars. Will he be another evil Billionaire like Elon Musk, or will he grow empathy? Time will tell. Also there’s no point delaying the 2002 Mac Mini. Release it already. Stop making Mac Products for Rich people bracket. If your products are so amazing, you need to let people from poor and middle-income brackets have access to them. I’m not spending $3500 on a laptop that can’t even run Microsoft Project.

My Razer laptop is still a Beast, and I want to enjoy FL Studio 20.9 new release. Unfortunately I have to keep writing new reports because of Trump and his mob of people who are trying to destroy our democracy. Now you know why I don’t have time to DJ, and why I make mixtapes whenever I get a chance.

I love the Initial D movies! I can’t believe the next series of TV show, MF Ghost is coming out in 2023! It’s going to be awesome!

Cavs are doing amazing this season! Fingers crossed, they’ll get far in the Playoffs! Kevin Love really pumped those guys up! It’s amazing!

Terrible performance from Manchester United recently. They really need to get to work because the new Manager is not messing around, he will remove you from the squad if you’re not performing. You are paid millions of dollars to kick the ball around. Supporters live paycheck to paycheck, and Football/Soccer is a religion. They spend their hard-earned money and cash to watch your matches on the football pitch, or on TV. Stop letting them down. This is MANCHESTER UNITED. Sir Bobby Charlton is 84 fucking years old, don’t disappoint him during his remaining glorious years on Planet Earth. Thanks in advance.

Advance Wars™ 1+2: Re-Boot Camp has been delayed to Spring 2022. I am upset but then again I do not own a Nintendo Switch as of yet.

I am making further advancements in Final Fantasy VII: Remake.

There is a harsh cold winter coming to Afghanistan. Millions of children will die. President Biden needs to send funds, and avoid a catastrophe.

Until Next Time!

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  • It’s going to be a busy year in tech policy. Here’s what to watch. [Protocol]

  • If the metaverse takes off, it could take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games [TechMeme]

  • Mike Pence’s team helping Jan. 6 committee [AXIOS]

  • GM’s 90-year reign as the best-selling car maker in the US is over. Toyota finally overtook the Detroit giant in 2021. [Quartz]

  • 3 ways remote work could remake America [Recode]

  • Scientists created a biological quantum circuit in grisly experiment with tardigrades [TheNextWeb]

  • Three Shots or Bust [Eater]

  • Biden's New Omicron Strategy Includes 500 Million Free At-Home Covid Tests [Inc.]

  • Not motivated at work? 3 strategies to get back in gear [Fast Company]

  • 10 Predictions for Web3 and the Cryptoeconomy for 2022 [Medium] #Coinbase

  • Why Every Leader Could Benefit From Adopting a Gen Z Mindset [Entrepreneur]

  • The History of Predicting the Future [WIRED]

  • This Week in Tech 856 [TWIT]

  • How a college grad kicked off his career in data analytics [Google Blog]

  • A Scalable Approach for Partially Local Federated Learning [Google AI Blog]

  • Only That I Were an Official Person! [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • Astronomer Amy Mainzer spent hours chatting with Leonardo DiCaprio for Netflix's Don't Look Up [Astronomy Magazine]

  • 13 Ways Revenue Leaders Can Deliver Growth in the New Year [Salesforce Blog]

  • Cruz Roja y SAP: apostando por la diversidad y la inclusión (español) [SAP]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 431 & BENKYO RADIO 431.

Remember when you get demoralized from studies, take it one day at a time. Study just a little bit, one day at a time, and eventually, you will earn your degree, certificate, etc.

Always think of what Malala said: One Teacher, One Book, One Pen, can Change the World.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 430 | BENKYO RADIO 430

  • On Our Radar: December 2021 [beatportal]

  • Apple MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch review [Computer Music]

  • Google launches spectacular free online electronic music exhibition, featuring playable AR vintage synths [Future Music]

  • Vinyl Sales in 2021 at Highest Level in Three Decades [DJ Mag]

  • SVEN VÄTH ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM SET FOR RELEASE IN FEBRUARY [Mixmag]

  • Dancing Astronaut’s Label of the Year: Ophelia Records [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Beloved Melodic Dubstep Artist Blackmill Announces First New Album In A Decade, Out On Christmas [Your EDM]

  • 21 Stories that Defined EDM in 2021 [EDM]

  • Jeffrey Sutorius Announces 2022 World Tour & Album Ahead Of New Single “Sink Or Swim” [EDM Sauce]

  • Be sure to visit Modern Finance’s website to know about latest episodes [Modern Finance]

  • Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans (#560) [Tim Ferriss]

  • “Every good thing that has ever happened to me, everybody told me was stupid.” [GaryVee]

  • 8 things to know about the EU/Belarus border crisis [MSF]

  • What to expect in year three of the pandemic — New antibody and antiviral treatments, and better vaccines, are on the way [The Economist]

  • New year, new you? History’s best transformations [1843 magazine]

  • Our Favorite Management Tips of 2021 [Harvard Business Review]

  • A Linguistic Look at Omicron [The New Yorker]

  • 11 Great Apps for Your New Windows 11 PC [The Verge]

  • Why we need a better flu shot — a universal flu vaccine is closer than you think. [Vox]

  • We need to pay more attention to ‘age-tech’ [TechCrunch]

  • The code must go on: An Afghan coding bootcamp becomes a lifeline under Taliban rule [MIT Technology Review]

  • United and Spirit Airlines announce temporary pay bumps for pilots and flight attendants in effort to alleviate labor shortages [Insider]

  • The VJTF is the highest-readiness element of #NATO’s 40,000-strong Response Force. The formation, formally known as NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, was created in 2014 in response to crises in the Middle East and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and is permanently available to move within days to defend any Ally [LinkedIn] #NATO

  • Teens and young adults driving record Covid cases in US, health officials say [The Guardian]

  • A Nation on Hold Wants to Speak With a Manager — In our anger-filled age, when people need to shop or travel or cope with mild disappointment they’re “devolving into children.” [The New York Times]

  • COVID, Crappy Weather Bring More Cancelled Flights Into The New Year [Huffington Post]

  • The Truth About Prohibition [The Atlantic]

  • What should I do to protect myself from omicron, the World Health Organization's newest COVID-19 variant of concern? [FiveThirtyEight]

  • First all-Black team of climbers heading to Everest [The Washington Post]

  • Le masque obligatoire dès 6 ans dans certains lieux publics à partir de lundi [Le Monde]

  • The 15 best documentaries streaming on HBO Max to learn something new [Mashable]

  • Biden’s New Fuel Economy Standards Still Allow Cars to Pollute More If They’re Not Called Cars — The “light truck” loophole for pickups and SUVs that allow them to pollute more than other cars. [VICE News]

  • She Helped Expose Secret UAE-run Prisons in Yemen — and Paid a Steep Price: Huda Al-Sarari was forced into exile after her work documenting human rights abuses by U.S.-backed Emirati forces garnered global attention. [The Intercept_]

  • The new year once started in March—here's why [National Geographic]

  • Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election [NPR]

  • At his funeral, Tutu is remembered for helping end apartheid and championing rights [CapRadioNews]

  • Au bonheur des réfractaires [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Biden’s First Year [Foreign Policy]

  • Stop Starving Afghanistan — Why the West Should Release Its Economic Chokehold [Foreign Affairs]

  • Addressing Challenges Faced by Taiwan’s Migrant Workers [The Diplomat]

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

  • Le CERN vous souhaite une #BonneAnnée 2022 — 2022 promet d'être une année pleine de progrès : restez connectés pour le redémarrage du #LHC, des prouesses de physique et d'ingénierie, et des nouvelles de la part de notre communauté variée.🌟#upgradingLHC #WhatsUpLHC #HiLumiLHC [CERN_FR]

  • Biden-Harris Administration Extends Space Station Operations Through 2030 [NASA]

  • Victims (often men) are tricked by an attractive stranger into participating in naked videos chats which are secretly recorded and subsequently used for blackmail. [INTERPOL]

  • Can a Service Contract Save the F-35? [Air Force Magazine]

  • The 2023 Honda Civic Type R Prototype Has the Sweetest Camouflage [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 430 & BENKYO RADIO 430.

Very excited about OSU’s win in the Rose Bowl. As always, when you mess with The Ohio State University Football team, you mess with the OSU Department of Statistics, which will showcase that TTUN lost their Bowl Game, while OSU won their Bowl Game. Just in case if you’re still a teenager debating between going to OSU and TTUN. Remember which team is stronger during the history of these two teams. Go Bucks! Be sure to check out the Eleven Warriors blog.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 429 | BENKYO RADIO 429

  • NFTs and blockchain gaming had a breakout — and controversial — year [Protocol]

  • How Elon Musk’s Software Focus Helped Tesla Navigate Chip Shortage [TechMeme]

  • Biden lays out "two paths" for Ukraine crisis in call with Putin [AXIOS]

  • Strange radio waves emerge from the direction of the galactic center [Quartz]

  • 22 predictions we made in January, and the 13 we got right [Recode]

  • Will we still worry about the damn chip shortage in 2022? [TheNextWeb]

  • You Should Be Drinking Grower Champagne [Eater]

  • The 5 Biggest Business Moments of 2021 [Inc.]

  • Want to be happier? Science says buying a little time leads to significantly greater life satisfaction [Fast Company]

  • How crypto enables economic freedom [Medium] #coinbase #Cryptocurrency

  • 8 Ways You Can Use Science to Make Your New Year's Resolutions Stick [Entrepreneur]

  • Boom’s Quest to Make Supersonic Flights a Reality (Again) [WIRED]

  • This Week In Tech Episode 855 [TWIT]

  • 2021 Year in Review: Google Quantum AI [Google Blog]

  • The Sky This Week: Enjoy the Quadrantids [Astronomy Magazine]

  • The new year is upon us and you know what that means...it's time to train! Start with the SAP Business Technology Platform, ABAP Environment tutorials for beginners 💡[SAP]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 429 & BENKYO RADIO 429.

I am very excited about the Year 2022. There’s a lot to look forward to, because Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson are all working hard to defeat the Omicron variant. The fact that the U.S. Army also got a vaccine in the pipeline that will defeat all future variants of COVID-19 is extremely promising. Let us remember what’s important: the best way to NOT let COVID-19 mutate into future variants is to get the entire population of the world vaccinated. Let’s get it done. I want to get back to normal, you want to get back to normal, we all want to get back to normal, get yourself vaccinated and boosted so you can lead by example, then tell your friends and family to get vaccinated. Thank you for listening.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 428 | BENKYO RADIO 428

  • Beatport Next Class of 2021: Highlights [beatportal]

  • An Ableton Live user has installed every version of the DAW from the past 20 years so you can see how it’s changed [Computer Music]

  • Claude VonStroke: “A copy of Ableton and a Mac right now is better than a $500,000 studio in 1987” [Future Music]

  • Ghostface Killah Putting Out Unreleased ‘90s Lyrics as NFTs [DJ Mag]

  • Frank Ocean Shares New Song on First Blonded Radio Show Since 2019 [Mixmag]

  • Dancing Astronaut presents the Top Electronic Albums of 2021 [Dancing Astronaut]

  • David Guetta Says “Best Years for Dance Music in History” Are Coming After the Pandemic [EDM]

  • Subduxtion Releases Two Track EP On I&W Music Titled Desire [EDM Sauce]

  • From Web2 to Web3: Alexis Ohanian and Kevin Rose [Modern Finance]

  • Forget New Year’s Resolutions and Conduct a ‘Past Year Review’ Instead (#559) [Tim Ferriss]

  • “I made thousands of pieces of content before anybody even began to give a shit.” [GaryVee]

  • MSF at 50 – half a century of medical humanitarian action [MSF]

  • How to think about the threat to American democracy — The Republican Party’s continued Trump infatuation is alarming. It should not lead to fatalism [The Economist]

  • I can’t bear to get out of bed [1843 magazine]

  • HBR’s Most-Read Research Articles of 2021 [Harvard Business Review]

  • Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? The story of her downfall [BBC News]

  • Wall Street Finally Learns It Can't Ignore Crypto and NFTs [Bloomberg]

  • Biden and Putin to speak on Thursday amid Ukraine tensions [Reuters]

  • Tensions boil as Palestinian prisoners face collective punishment — Rights groups decry information blackout over conditions of injured prisoners; relatives of hunger-striking inmate, meanwhile, demand international intervention. [AL-Jazeera News]

  • 10 Great Games for Your New Gaming PC [The Verge]

  • Despite omicron, Covid-19 will become endemic. Here’s how. [Vox]

  • The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail — This is a big moment of turbulence and change for the hacking business. But the demand is here to stay. [MIT Technology Review] this article also discuss the evil NSO Israeli Malware/Spyware Pegasus company

  • How would humans respond to the discovery of aliens? NASA enlisted dozens of religious scholars to find out. [Insider]

  • Indictment of alleged Proud Boys leaders over US Capitol attack upheld [The Guardian]

  • Everybody Into the Metaverse! Virtual Reality Beckons Big Tech. [The New York Times]

  • Up Your Salsa And Guac Game With This Traditional Latin Culinary Tool [Huffington Post]

  • Our Relationship With COVID Vaccines Is Just Getting Started — We probably will need additional shots. But just how many depends on our immune systems, the virus, and how often they collide. [The Atlantic]

  • Our Guide To The College Football Playoff Semifinals [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Opinion: Harry Reid was no Mitch McConnell. And that’s a good thing. [The Washington Post]

  • Olivier Véran met la pression sur les non-vaccinés — Lors de l’examen en commission à l’Assemblée nationale du projet de loi sur le passe vaccinal, le ministre de la santé s’est adressé aux plus réticents face à la hausse rapide des contaminations. [Le Monde]

  • Everything you need to know before watching 'Cobra Kai' season 4 [Mashable]

  • Edible Hemp-Infused Transit Tickets Are the True Face of Innovation [VICE News]

  • The Virus Hunters — How the Pursuit of Unknown Viruses Risks Triggering the Next Pandemic [The Intercept_]

  • The 21 most fascinating scientific discoveries of 2021 [National Geographic]

  • Biden again calls on Putin to de-escalate tensions along Ukraine border [NPR]

  • Sacramento to open warming centers on New Year’s Eve as rain, freezing temps continue [Cap Radio News]

  • Dans les lycées et les collèges, la vie scolaire sous Pronote [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Elections to Watch in 2022 — Next year’s contests are set to bring populist reckonings, parliamentary headaches, and a possible democratic crisis or two. [Foreign Policy]

  • The Never-Ending Brexit — The True—and Mounting—Costs of Leaving the EU [Foreign Affairs]

  • The Final Flights of the Afghan Air Force — As the Afghan government collapsed, the country’s pilots were left with an impossible choice: stay and face possible death at the hands of the Taliban, or fly away. [The Diplomat]

  • The Year in Biology [Quanta magazine]

  • Alors que la fin d'année approche, redécouvrez certaines de nos meilleures publications de #2021 grâce à une #PhotoDeLaSemaine spéciale! Merci à tous nos merveilleux photographes de nous montrer la beauté du CERN. Camera with flash — Quelle photo avez-vous préférée cette année? #BestOf2021 [CERN_FR]

  • 2021 Disasters: A Look Back [NASA]

  • People smuggling sting operation: Kenya-Netherlands cooperation lands renowned fugitive in jail [INTERPOL]

  • Revamping Homeland Defense [Air Force Magazine]

  • Here's Your Chance to Own Dom Toretto's Fast and Furious Mazda RX-7 [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 428 & BENKYO RADIO 428.

I watched the new Spider-Man: No Way Home movie in IMAX and it was amazing! I highly recommend you watch this movie if you can.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 427 | BENKYO RADIO 427

  • Crypto payments will definitely, maybe, possibly go mainstream in 2022 [Protocol]

  • The Node - CoinDesk’s flagship daily newsletter brings you the biggest crypto news and ideas of the day. [TechMeme]

  • WHO warns new Covid variants could emerge that are fully resistant to vaccines as pandemic drags on [Quartz]

  • The space station race [Recode]

  • How should NASA break the news if it discovers alien life in 2022? [TheNextWeb]

  • The Best Sparkling Wine to Sip this Holiday Season [Eater]

  • 3 Things You Can (and Should) Do Right Now to Prepare for Biden's Vaccine Mandate [Inc.]

  • There’s no mask shortage. You can buy certified N95s for $1 [Fast Company]

  • Coinbase Community Analyst Program [Medium]

  • Growth Investing: Should You Adopt This Investing Strategy in 2022? [Entrepreneur]

  • Surprise! The Pandemic Has Made People More Science Literate [WIRED]

  • This Week in Google 644 [TWIT]

  • The Googlers who help track Santa each Christmas [Google Blog]

  • Interpretable Deep Learning for Time Series Forecasting [Google AI Blog]

  • Edgar Allan Poe Needs a Friend [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • ‘It’s a haunting thing’: Space artists on the first black hole image — For the first time, humanity has glimpsed a black hole. For those who have drawn them for decades, it's a big moment. [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 427 & BENKYO RADIO 427.

I’d like to reiterate South Park COVID mythology. Please watch all 4 specials again. There’s South Park: The Pandemic Special & South ParQ Vaccination Special on HBO MAX, South Park POST COVID, and South Park POST COVID: The Return of COVID on Paramount+.

This is going to be the new normal if we are not careful. We need to keep vaccinating the entire population. Thankfully, soon we will be able to do it using COVID-19 vaccination pills.

Millions of Americans do not want 40 fucking years of COVID! I am desperately imploring you all not to let that happen. We are about to enter Year 3 of the Pandemic. Year 3. That’s bananas.

We don’t need this to become an “endemic,” a never-ending pandemic. But, in order to combat this, we need everybody to be vaccinated.

Some of you kept bitching that I don’t go out much because I don’t want to be expose to this virus, well guess why, POLITICO just announced that the U.S. recorded over 441,000 new COVID cases in a SINGLE FUCKING DAY. All of that because people weren’t vaccinated. Stop saying that “ugh what’s the point, you can be vaccinated and still catch COVID! Well, you inconsiderate fool, if people didn’t have COVID and were vaccinated, they wouldn’t infect people who are already vaccinated? Not to mention, all of you fucks who aren’t vaccinated are putting children and toddlers at risk. Right now, people in hospital are dying because they didn’t have access to a bed, because so many beds are taken by UNVACCINATED people who are dying of COVID-19. That’s terrible.

I implore you to get vaccinated. To survive Omicron, you need to be vaccinated and boosted. And to be boosted, you need to wait 6 months from original vaccination. Therefore, get to it soon, get to it fast.

Thanks for listening.

Also, the anniversary of the Jan 6th insurrection is coming. The FBI is on high alert and will continue to arrest folks who were involved in the insurrection. It’s time to stand strong. These individuals cannot keep getting a slap on the wrist while millions of Black and Brown folks are incarcerated for a little bit of weed. White Nationalists cannot have more rights than African-Americans and other minorities in our Judicial system. We must do the right thing.

Until Next Time!

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  • With Behind the Beat, we get to know Beatport’s expert curation team, who highlight their best post-lockdown memories this year and their favorite music of 2021. [beatportal]

  • Apple Logic Pro 10.7 review [Computer Music]

  • SampleRadar advent calendar: 352 free chillout samples [Future Music]

  • DJ Mag to Host Five-Hour NYE Takeover on Reprezent Radio [DJ Mag]

  • Gheist Releases Video for “We Are Not Alone” [Mixmag] #MentalHealth

  • Kaskade reconvenes with Late Night Alumni for ‘How Long v3’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Your EDM’s Top 40 Artists To Watch in 2022 [Your EDM]

  • Subtronics Reveals Debut Album, Drops First Single “Spacetime” with Nevve [EDM]

  • Galantis, Lucas & Steve, And ILIRA Welcome Their ‘Alien’ [EDM Sauce]

  • Interview Brian Shul, One Of The Fastest-Flying Pilots Ever, Brings Us Up To Speed On Watches And Spy Planes — Get to know the man behind the legendary SR-71 Speed Check story. [HODINKEE]

  • Q&A with Tim — Tools for Better Sleep, Musings on Parenting, the Different Roles of Fear, the Delight of Deepening Friendships, the Purpose of College, How to Boost Your Mood, HRV Training, and More (#557) [Tim Ferriss]

  • What is BOOK GAMES? In late August, @garyvee held a 24 hour promotion, where for every multiple of 12 copies of @12andahalfbook you purchased, you’d be gifted one NFT. BOOK GAMES is the series that the NFT falls under. [VeeFriends]

  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the best kind of troublemaker [The Economist]

  • The James Webb Space Telescope—a new look at the cosmos [The Economist Podcasts]

  • Omicron’s impact will depend on three factors: transmissibility, severity and its ability to evade immunity [The EIU]

  • The World Ahead 2022 — Tests and treatments for “long covid” are on the horizon [The Economist]

  • Engineering Your Way Out of the Global Chip Shortage [Harvard Business Review]

  • Which language has 400 words for snow? [BBC News]

  • We must thank the white-coat army for saving us and the world — If it were not for the selfless dedication of nurses, doctors and scientists, many of us would not be around. [AL-Jazeera News]

  • The Afghans America Left Behind — The U.S. promised protection to the locals it relied on during the war. When it withdrew, it abandoned thousands to the Taliban. [The New Yorker]

  • An app gave crucial seconds of warning before a major California earthquake [The Verge]

  • Omicron collides with a struggling global vaccination campaign [Vox]

  • Stop creating self-fulfilling prophecies: How to apply AI to small data problems [TechCrunch]

  • The rare spots of good news on climate change [MIT Technology Review]

  • An anti-vax podcaster has reportedly contracted COVID-19 and now is hospitalized on a ventilator [Insider]

  • 🏎️ An F1 car can complete a lap in just over 1 minute. You can simulate a new business model in less time. Test drive SAP S/4HANA Cloud with a free trial. [LinkedIn] #SAP

  • Capitol panel to investigate Trump call to Willard hotel in hours before attack [The Guardian]

  • Covid Live Updates: Fauci Says Vaccination Requirement Should ‘Seriously Be Considered’ for Air Travel [The New York Times]

  • Afghanistan Sinks Deeper Into Desperation — An already war-devastated economy once kept alive by international donations alone is now on the verge of collapse. [Huffington Post]

  • How to Live When You’re in Pain [The Atlantic]

  • How To Make Good New Year’s Resolutions [FiveThirtyEight]

  • The grueling struggle of being a California firefighter in the age of climate change [The Washington Post]

  • Télétravail obligatoire, rassemblements limités, restrictions de consommation… Ce qu’il faut retenir des annonces du gouvernement [Le Monde]

  • The best 2021 video games we wish we had more time to play [Mashable]

  • The Cybersecurity Stories We Were Jealous of in 2021 [VICE News]

  • The 10 Worst Americans of 2021 [The Intercept_]

  • 5 things to know about COVID-19 tests in the age of Omicron [National Geographic]

  • Winter weather makes travel nearly impossible in parts of California, Nevada [NPR]

  • The Tower Bridge's motor is broken, and large boats along the Sacramento River can't pass underneath [CapRadioNews]

  • Tiédir quand ça chauffe [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • 5 Reasons to Be Optimistic About 2022 [Foreign Policy]

  • How to Make COVID-19 Vaccines Available to All — Manufacture the Right Kinds in the Right Places [Foreign Affairs]

  • Can Technology Solve Hambak Village’s Littering Problem? [The Diplomat]

  • The Year in Physics [Quanta magazine]

  • #ThrowbackThursday #TBT avec un hiver neigeux et froid au CERN en 1964. En parlant de froid, #SaviezVous que le Grand Collisionneur de Hadrons, #LHC, constitue le plus imposant système cryogénique au monde et est plus froid que l'espace? En savoir plus : [CERN_FR]

  • Astronauts Discuss Christmas and New Year’s From Orbit Aboard Space Station [NASA Johnson]

  • Asia: Thousands of firearms destroyed following counter-terrorism operation [INTERPOL]

  • Space Force Launches Website Aimed at Potential Recruits, Public Education [Air Force Magazine]

  • 2022 Toyota Supra Pricing: More Standard Stuff and a Super-Limited Edition [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 426 & BENKYO RADIO 426.

I wanted to let you know that cloth masks are simply not enough to fight Omicron. It’s time to upgrade to N95 or KN95 masks. I’ve ordered some, and I plan to order more. Here is an article from NPR about this.

I understand that NYE is coming up, and many of you want to go out and celebrate, just remember that with the Omicron Variant, you are at risk of getting sick.

If you listened to my PSA for Christmas, I thank you very much. Now, here’s my PSA for NYE, please pretty please do NOT accept pills from strangers. Think of yourself and your loved ones. It’s not worth it. There is no point in doing something you might regret on New Year’s Eve, if you do not wake up on January 1st 2022. I thank you for listening. I really miss going to a Dance Music concert, so I need to snag that Razer LED mask and then I’m definitely going. But not until that. It’s just not worth getting sick. Please re-watch the new South Park COVID specials. The majority of the population is tired as hell. Don’t make us live through COVID for the next 40 fucking years. We want the pandemic to last just about 3 years, not forever. Therefore, please get vaccinated, please get boosted. Thank you.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 425 | BENKYO RADIO 425

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  • Rise of the restock account: How the PS5 shortage changed online shopping [Protocol]

  • Jack Dorsey causes controversy by criticizing Web3, tweeting: “You don't own ‘web3.’ The VCs and their LPs do. It will never escape their incentives” [TechMeme]

  • China is no longer represented in the top 10 global companies, by market cap. New data show that the departure of Alibaba and Tencent left room for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to become Asia’s most valuable company. [Quartz]

  • One Good Thing: The only Christmas music playlist you’ll ever need is (almost) 8 days long [Recode]

  • UN fails to agree on ‘killer robot’ ban — get ready for the autonomous weapons race [TheNextWeb]

  • A Creamy, Spicy Pasta Recipe Made With Shin Ramyun Seasoning [Eater]

  • Biden's New Omicron Strategy Includes 500 Million Free At-Home Covid Tests [Inc.]

  • After 35 years, NASA’s amazing new space telescope is ready to launch [Fast Company]

  • How to Launch a Lucrative NFT Marketplace like Rarible — A Beginner’s Guide 2021 [Medium]

  • 5 Things the Future Holds, According to the World's Most Elite Superforecasters [Entrepreneur]

  • 19 Gift Ideas for People Who Work From Home [WIRED]

  • This Week in Tech 854 [TWIT]

  • A new podcast season about people powering the internet [Google Blog]

  • A Scalable Approach for Partially Local Federated Learning [Google AI Blog]

  • A study of sixty-two mammalian species found that animals around the world have shifted into more nocturnal lives. “Humans are now this ubiquitous, terrifying force on the planet,” said lead author Kaitlyn Gaynor, “and we are driving all the other mammals back into the night-time.” The Southeast Asian sun bear, formerly diurnal, now spends as much as 70 percent more time awake at night to avoid humans. [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • The Sky This Week: Winter officially begins [Astronomy Magazine]

  • Facilitate Remote Collaboration Like a Pro - Free openSAP Course (Teaser Video)​ [SAP]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 425 & BENKYO RADIO 425.

Well, Christmas is upon us! Here’s my Present for all of you. As you may remember, in the video game GTA III (which has now been remastered), there was a radio station that had Drum & Bass, entitled “MSX FM.” I loved that radio station. Unfortunately, it only had about 25 minutes of Drum & Bass. Well, guess what, GT RADIO, my Drum & Bass podcast, is now at episode 267. With the super playlist, it has over 5000 songs or about 400 hours of Drum & Bass. Now you can go and enjoy some D&B wherever you go. Please remember to drive safely.

Here’s my usual PSA for Holidays, and that includes Christmas. Please drive safely. Please always wear a seatbelt. Please drink a 0.0% alcoholic beer if you’re a designated driver.

A Merry Christmas to all of you around the world that are celebrating, especially those in the Palestinian Territories, who have been victimized and oppressed for over 73 years by Israel. Will the United Nations finally sanction Israel? Well, “nearly two-thirds of The Washington Post recent survey group think the Israeli-Palestinian situation is akin to apartheid.” We can be hopeful that Netanyahu finally faces jail time for his corruption and war crimes. At the very least, he is no longer Prime Minister, even though his successor is quite worse.

Remember to leave Milk & Cookies for Santa! Follow him on NORAD tracks Santa!

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 424 | BENKYO RADIO 424

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  • Beatport Insider: Top-Selling Tracks, Artists, and Labels of 2021 [beatportal]

  • The 5 best new sequencers and controllers of 2021, as voted by you [Computer Music]

  • The 5 best new drum machines of 2021, as decided by you [Future Music]

  • Berlin Clubs and DJ Paul Van Dyk Launch Legal Action Against City’s Dancing Ban [DJ Mag]

  • NYE Ticket Sales see Dramatic Dip Amidst Skyrocketing Omicron Cases [Mixmag]

  • Above & Beyond celebrate ’10 Years of Group Therapy’ with remix album [Dancing Astronaut]

  • REPORT: Tomorrowland Granted Permission to Expand to Three Weekends in 2022 [Your EDM]

  • David Guetta’s NYE Performance at the Louvre Abu Dhabi to Feature Dazzling Projections of Historic Art [EDM]

  • NEW EDM 2021 ⚡EDM HITS 2021 [EDM Sauce]

  • Seiko’s New Collab With Rowing Blazers Is A Stroke Of Genius [HODINKEE]

  • The Incredible Kyle Maynard — Fear{less} with Tim Ferriss (#556) [Tim Ferriss]

  • Purchase my very first NFT here: Zack as V for Cyberpunk 2077 [Rarible] #NFT

  • How we chose this week’s cover image [The Economist]

  • Meet the cryptokings [The Economist Podcasts]

  • IDEO’s CEO, Sandy Speicher, Asks: What Is an Office Even For Now? [Harvard Business Review]

  • GirlsDoPorn victims win rights to their videos [BBC News]

  • U.S. to face increasing power reliability issues over next 10 years - NERC [Reuters]

  • Iran nuclear talks to resume ‘soon’ after modest gains in Vienna [AL-Jazeera News]

  • A Political Philosopher is Hopeful About the Democrats [The New Yorker]

  • Chipotle hides the assembly line, testing new online-order-only ‘Digital Kitchen’ [The Verge]

  • Caira Conner — My father, the white supremacist — I’d inherited his family’s money, his height, his arthritis. Could I inherit the very worst parts of him, too? [Vox]

  • Equity Podcast — You are the most influential person we know [TechCrunch]

  • Lewis Black asks for his comedy to be removed from Spotify as joke copyright dispute continues [Complete Music Update]

“I in no way represent all of the comedians on Spotify, but I do believe that all of them should be paid for the writing that they have done and not just for the performance of what they wrote”, the comedian said in a statement. “It has taken a long time for comedy to be recognised as an artform. Therefore, Spotify should recognise that a joke is as powerful as a lyric of a song, which they do pay for”.

“Many comics have recently been taken off Spotify for no reason at all and it truly hurts their exposure and income”, he added. “Since I haven’t been taken off, I would like to be, as it is wrong that I am on the platform and so many aren’t. I need neither the money nor the exposure, but please put all of the comedians back on your platform and let’s sit down and find a way to pay us what we are owed for the words that make you laugh. Yes, a joke is intellectual property”. -Lewis Black

  • The internet runs on free open-source software. Who pays to fix it? [MIT Technology Review]

  • AOC says it's 'actually delusional' to think Democrats can get re-elected without acting on student debt or expanding child tax credits [Insider]

  • Statement by the North Atlantic Council on the situation in and around Ukraine [LinkedIn] #NATO

  • Little did he know that come 2021, he would be involved in hundreds of legal cases, handing people to the police for trying to solicit assassin services. This week, one woman was found guilty, after trying to have her husband killed through Innes’ website. [The Guardian]

  • Man Gets 5 Years on Capitol Riot Charges, Longest Sentence So Far [The New York Times]

  • Chilling: Ex-Generals Warn to Prep for Coup Attempt [Huffington Post]

  • America Is Not Ready for Omicron [The Atlantic]

  • Who benefits from a booster shot, and when should we get one? [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Highly vaccinated countries thought they were over the worst. Denmark says the pandemic’s toughest month is just beginning. [The Washington Post]

  • Le négociateur du Brexit, David Frost, démissionne du gouvernement britannique [Le Monde]

  • A fiery Kamala Harris did NOT let Charlamagne Tha God's spicy Biden question slide [Mashable]

  • Stan Lee Is an NFT Now, And Fans Are Very Upset [VICE News]

  • Louisiana Policy Intended to Reform Solitary Confinement Still Leaves People in Indefinite Lockdown [The Intercept_]

  • 10 of the most amazing dinosaurs discovered in 2021 [National Geographic]

  • The top five video games of 2021 selected by the NPR staff [NPR]

  • California coronavirus updates: Biden’s vaccine-or-test rule for workers is back on [CapRadioNews]

  • Derrière les volets d’un pavillon de banlieue [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Why Ukraine’s Fight Against Corruption Scares Russia [Foreign Policy]

  • The Revolution Will Not Be Privatized — Corporate Responsibility and Its Limits [Foreign Affairs]

  • Japan’s MHI Launches Fourth Mogami-Class Multirole Frigate for JMSDF [The Diplomat]

  • Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem [Quanta Magazine]

  • Federal Charges Filed against Carlos following Record-breaking Seizure of Fentanyl and Meth [DOJ]

  • #ThrowbackThursday avec un ancêtre de votre écran de téléphone. #LeSaviezVous: le CERN est un des pionniers des écrans tactiles.Exploding head — Les premiers écrans tactiles capacitifs furent développés pour un système de contrôle. — En savoir plus avec @CERNCourier [CERN_FR]

  • NASA Sets Coverage, Invites Public to View Webb Telescope Launch [NASA]

  • Pleased to meet up with French Interior Minister @GDarmanin and @Gendarmerie DG Christian Rodriguez in Doha for the Qatar National Day celebrations. [INTERPOL]

  • Hack-a-Sat Organizers Pledge to Improve Scoring Transparency [Air Force Magazine]

  • First Look at GTA Online: The Contract, Which Includes Dr. Dre [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 424 & BENKYO RADIO 424.

I wanted to address Playstation Fans like myself who are sad that they won’t receive a PS5 for Christmas. It’s okay. There are plenty of good games for PS4. Let’s be honest, did you finish all your games? Probably not. So get to it, and maybe hopefully we can find a PS5 in 2022, preferably before GT7 comes out.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 423 | BENKYO RADIO 423

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  • The Log4j disaster could get worse before it gets better [Protocol]

  • Apple releases Swift Playgrounds 4 with support for app development on iPad [TechMeme]

  • China’s covid-zero lockdowns loom over the global supply chain [Quartz]

  • The case against Big Tech [Recode]

  • Neural networks can hide malware, and scientists are worried [TheNextWeb]

  • The Anatomy of a Perfect Irish Coffee at the Buena Vista [Eater]

  • Nobel Prize-Winner Daniel Kahneman Just Explained What He's Learned About A.I. Outsmarting Humans [Inc.]

  • Companies need to have climate plans—not just climate pledges [Fast Company]

  • How Coinbase thinks about the Metaverse [Medium]

  • Report: Bruce Springsteen to Sell Catalog for $500 Million in Biggest Transaction for an Artist Ever [Entrepreneur]

  • The Best Games of 2021 Were an Explosion of Color and Charisma [WIRED]

  • Windows Weekly - Episode 755 [TWIT]

  • Explore resilience in the face of the California wildfires [Google Blog]

  • A Scalable Approach for Partially Local Federated Learning [Google AI Blog]

  • The Coin Standard [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • Watch stars slingshot around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 423 & BENKYO RADIO 423.

In anticipation of playing NBA 2K22 on Christmas Day (Santa Claus’ present), I have tried out “NBA 2K Playground 2” on PS4. It’s really good, and definitely has some NBA JAM feelings to it. Be sure to check it out.

Don’t forget, the best way to enjoy the holidays safely is to be vaccinated, therefore, make sure you got your COVID-19 vaccination shot and your booster shot. You can also learn about the COVID-19 vaccines for children and teens, and the Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5-11 years on the official governmental website vaccines.gov.

Until Next Time!