JETLAG RADIO 1058 | BENKYO RADIO 1058

From duck stamps to doomsday: the past year in American politics [The Economist]

The Economist’s picks for your reading list [The Economist Podcasts]

Erik ten Hag: Manchester United manager confident of strong relationship with Ineos [BBC Sport]

Books We Read in 2023 to Prepare Us for the Future [Bloomberg]

Fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas rages after nearly 200 killed in Gaza [Reuters]

Israel-Hamas war live: UN aid chief decries Israeli attack on relief convoy [AL-Jazeera News]

The Top Twenty-Five New Yorker Stories of 2023 [New Yorker]

Pokemon Concierge is a beautiful reminder to take some time off [The Verge]

The 14 predictions that came true in 2023 — and the 7 that didn’t [Vox]

Best budgeting apps for individuals, startups and small businesses [TechCrunch]

We need a moonshot for computing [MIT Technology Review]

COMIC: How a brutal dictatorship rose in Chechnya, and what my family had to do to survive it [Business Insider]

Calendrier économique #TeamFranceBayArea, H1 2024! A vos agendas! Economic agenda for H1 2024, #TeamFranceBayArea! Join us! French-American Chamber of Commerce San Francisco, French Tech San Francisco, #CCFE, Business France, Consulate General of France in San Francisco. [LinkedIn]

South Africa launches case at UN court accusing Israel of genocide [The Guardian]

How the Supreme Court May Rule on Trump’s Presidential Run [New York Times]

Trump Said He Would Fight For Workers. He Fought For Business Lobbies Instead. [Huffington Post]

How to Be Happy Growing Older [The Atlantic]

The 25 coolest charts we made in 2023 [FiveThirtyEight]

Opinion Palestinian and Israeli cartoonists see the war differently (and the same) [The Washington Post]

Le Monde's favorite albums of 2023 [Le Monde]

NASA rover posts glorious GIF of a Martian day [Mashable]

You Thought Weed Was Legal in The Netherlands? It is Now [VICE News]

What We’re Reading [The Intercept_]

New Wonders to Discover [Nat Geo]

Public libraries reveal their most borrowed books of 2023 [NPR]

Yolo County recommends residents vaccinated, mask indoors as regional virus activity rises [CapRadioNews]

Les bonnes œuvres de Michel-Édouard Leclerc [Le Monde diplomatique]

Israel-Hamas War: News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. [Foreign Policy]

Don’t Give Up on a Better Russia: An Opposition Activist in Moscow on How His Country Can Change [Foreign Affairs]

The Year in Math [Quanta Magazine]

#ThrowbackThursday à une vue unique du site principal du CERN à Meyrin en 1971, recouvert de neige. Aujourd'hui il héberge des nombreuses installations de recherche, le Synchrocyclotron, le Centre de calcul, @ATLASexperiment, et #CERNScienceGateway. [CERN_FR]

http://visit.cernNASA Flies Drones Autonomously for Air Taxi Research [NASA]

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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1058 & BENKYO RADIO 1058. Have you played MLB The Show on Playstation? Great game. Even better is to toss around the baseball in the park, or attend a ballgame. I couldn’t afford to watch the Cincinnati REDS against SF GIANTS this past year, but I hope that next time around when they come to SF, we can afford to go.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 1057 | BENKYO RADIO 1057

40% of US Electricity Is Now Emissions-Free [Slashdot.org]

Read: Why Maine removed Trump from 2024 ballot [AXIOS]

Microsoft's AI Image Creator, part of Bing and Paint, can generate realistic, violent images; Microsoft says some use the tech “in ways that were not intended” [TechMeme]

Meet the technologist printing a cure to diabetes [Quartz]

Meredith Whittaker wants to keep your digital conversations private [Vox]

After a year of breathless hype, AI will face reality in 2024 [TheNextWeb]

The Best Restaurant Meals of the Year, According to Eater Editors [Eater]

5 Crazy Weird Products From 2023 [Inc.]

A widely used asthma inhaler is about to disappear from pharmacies [Fast Company]

You’ll Destroy Your Writing If You Can’t Be Vulnerable [Medium]

Video Game Adaptations Could Keep Beating Marvel at the Box Office in 2024 [Entrepreneur]

This Week in Google 748 [TWIT]

Bard gets its biggest upgrade yet with Gemini [Google Blog]

2023: A year of groundbreaking advances in AI and computing [Google Research]

Touch Gallery: Joan of Arc [Poetry Foundation]

Bandai Namco Wants to Make Gundams Real With New Initiative [HypeBeast]

Looking Back At The Top Hip-Hop Song Of 2021 On Genius [Genius]

Lil Wayne Recalls Staggering Amount Of Fan Letters He Received In Jail [ALLHipHop]

B.G. Reponds to Snitching Allegation From Wack 100 [XXL Magazine] B.G. is one of my favorite rapper, from the Cash Money Millionaires era, from the Hot Boyz hip-hop group, imagine how wealthy he would be right now if it was not for all this nonsense, the next person who calls B.G. a snitch, tell him to go spend 11 years in jail, and then ask him what he’d like to do. Get the fuck out my face with all y’all bullshit. The greatest kid in the rap game in the 90s is finally back among us after 11 fucking years behind bars, and this is the type of shit you write about? Shut the fuck up. Remember that little helicopter in that Lil Wayne Rap video? You were impressed by that? The next time you piss off B.G., I will send a fucking F-35 flyover over you. Conversation is over.

50 Cent's Son Wants Him To Make New Music "Like Travis Scott" [HotNewHipHop]

Fabolous “Tuluminati,” Lil Uzi Vert “Red Moon” & More | Daily Visuals 12.26.23 [Hip Hop WIRED]

Here Are The 50 Best Selling Albums of 2023 [Hip Hop N More]

Ariana Grande Teases New Music in 2024: ‘See You Next Year’ [The Source]

Stephen A. Smith Goes Off Script... Destroys Texas Governor On Live TV For New Immigration Bill! [World Star Hip Hop]

Eminem Reportedly Seeks Protective Order Against Gizelle Bryant And Robyn Dixon [VICE]

Mysterious stars detected in nearby galaxies [Astronomy Magazine]

ERP とは [SAPJapan] #SAP

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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1057 & BENKYO RADIO 1057. I’ve included a chill mix by Anjunabeats, the label by Above & Beyond. All three of them are talented DJs, and that’s not mentioning every other DJ on their record label. I remember seeing Above & Beyond perform when I went to University, these guys are amazing. Their podcast is called “Group Therapy.” Did you know one of them is called Toby McGuinness? Almost makes you want to drink a Guinness at the Irish Pub to watch some English Premier League Football (Soccer), especially the highlights of Manchester United, whom won their match on Boxing Day. Now obviously, if you’re a designated driver, you need to drink Guinness 0.0% instead, so you do not get a DUI.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 1056 | BENKYO RADIO 1056

The five biggest market surprises of 2023 [The Economist]

Update on “The Cage”—part one. Our weekly podcast on China. This week we look back at part one of our investigation into Uyghur repression in China and abroad [The Economist Podcasts]

Man Utd 3-2 Aston Villa: Rasmus Hojlund's first Red Devils goal marks start of new era [BBC Sport]

AI, Metaverse, Chatbots: Workplace Trends to Watch for in 2024 [Bloomberg]

Israel pounds central Gaza, thousands of Palestinians try to escape [Reuters]

As death toll in Gaza mounts, Turkey’s Er­do­gan com­pares Ne­tanyahu to Hitler [AL-Jazeera News]

UNESCO Reports Journalists' Deaths in Afghanistan [TOLO News]

The Great Exhaustion - After successive waves of post-pandemic change, worn-out knowledge workers need a fresh start. [The New Yorker]

What If…? season 2 doesn’t get good until it really lets loose [The Verge]

The urgent to-do list awaiting Congress in January [Vox]

Love ’em or hate ’em, NFTs can survive thanks to the communities that drive them [TechCrunch]

Six takeaways from a climate-tech boom [MIT Technology Review]

What loneliness does to your body and brain [Business Insider]

It's here! Microsoft Copilot Wrapped!

8 months ago, we released Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help reduce digital debt and increase productivity so we can focus our time and energy on more creative work.

🥁 Here are the results from Copilot users:

⏰ 70% more productive

📧 64% spent less time processing email

⭐ 68% improvement in the quality of work

✍️ 87% easier to get started on a first draft

💡 68% said it helped jumpstart their creative process

🏃 29% faster at specific tasks (searching, writing, and summarizing)

It's been exciting to work at a company at the forefront of the AI revolution. ✨ #MicrosoftLife [LinkedIn] #Microsoft

What has happened to US soccer’s golden generation? [The Guardian]

California Pushes Electric Trucks as the Future of Freight [New York Times]

Woman Who Set Fire To Wyoming Abortion Clinic Ordered To Pay Nearly $300,000 Fine [Huffington Post]

America Should Be More Like Operation Warp Speed [The Atlantic]

The 25 coolest charts we made in 2023 [FiveThirtyEight]

Donald Trump removed from Maine primary ballot by secretary of state [The Washington Post]

Macron asks Netanyahu for 'lasting ceasefire' in Gaza [Le Monde] #Gaza #GazaUnderAttack #PalestineGenocide #CeaseFire

The Apple Watch ban has been lifted — for now [Mashable]

Ancient Inscribed Bricks Contain Evidence of Mysterious Magnetic 'Anomaly,' Scientists Find [VICE News]

I Calculated How Much of My Money the U.S. Sent to Kill Palestinians. You Can Too. [The Intercept_]

Your body needs whole grains. Here’s how to find the most effective ones. [National Geographic]

Nikki Haley didn't say slavery caused the Civil War. Now she's facing major backlash [NPR] Nikki Haley will never become President due to those comments. She cannot go back in time, she made a drastic mistake, her campaign is over

California is pressing universities to repatriate thousands of Native American remains and artifacts. How two campuses are succeeding. [CapRadioNews]

L’élection américaine de tous les dangers [Le Monde diplomatique]

The Promise and Peril of Geopolitics [Foreign Policy]

The Rebirth of Russian Spycraft: How the Ukraine War Has Changed the Game for the Kremlin’s Operatives—and Their Western Rivals [Foreign Affairs]

US Coast Guard’s Role in the Blue Pacific on the Rise [The Diplomat]

A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph [Quanta Magazine]

Voici @ALICEexperiment, entouré d'un paysage enneigé. Son détéecteur a pour objectif d'étudier le plasma quark-gluon lors de son expansion et de son refroidissement, en observant comment cela donne naissance aux particules qui constituent aujourd'hui la matière de notre Univers. [CERN_FR]

NASA 2024: Onward and Upward [NASA]

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What’s up, everybody! Did you know that the next iteration of Harold & Kumar has been announced? Anyway, here’s an interview with John Cho.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 1055 | BENKYO RADIO 1055

Top Scientists on the One Mystery on Earth They'd Like To Solve [Slashdot.org]

Thousands — and some city officials — want Trump's Hollywood star removed [AXIOS]

This Clever New Idea Could Fix AirTag Stalking While Maximizing Privacy [TechMeme]

GPTs: AI for you and me [Quartz]

Silicon Valley’s very masculine year [Vox]

SaxaVord spaceport secures licence, eyes 2024 launch [TheNextWeb]

Just Stay Home on New Year’s Eve [Eater]

How Grammarly's A.I.-Powered Tool Scaled to 30 Million Daily Users [Inc.]

As it tackles AI, Atlassian is asking big questions—and sharing them [Fast Company]

What Happened When I Wrote an Article Every Day for 300 Days Straight [Medium]

Your Brand Will Flop If It Doesn't Stand Out. Try the Contrarian Design Strategy That Worked for These 6 Founders. [Entrepreneur]

11 Noteworthy WIRED Long-form Stories of 2023 [WIRED]

Tech News Weekly 317 [TWIT]

Quiz: How well do you know the most-searched trends? [Google Blog]

VideoPoet: A large language model for zero-shot video generation [Google Research]

2023: Poetry's Year in Prose [Poetry Foundation]

What are neutron stars? The cosmic gold mines, explained [Astronomy Magazine]

SAP TechEd Japan（2023/12/06 開催）：SAP の最新テクノロジー総まとめ！ ～インテリジェント サステナブル エンタープライズを支えるテクノロジーの深化から生成 AI まで～ [SAPJapan] #SAP

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1055 & BENKYO RADIO 1055. Now unfortunately, we won’t foresee a new season nor a new movie by the Psych team by this Christmas, but let’s hope we watch something new for 2024! It’s time for Season 9 and a movie. Everybody loves the show and misses it. It’s time for a reunion.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 1054 | BENKYO RADIO 1054

Metrics to keep an eye on in 2024, from solar cells to superhero movies [The Economist]

Is Ukraine shifting down America’s list of priorities? [The Economist Podcasts] there is a fucking idiot who is years-late in providing a brand-new equipment (vehicle) to someone very important in the war to help Ukraine. Unfortunately, this fucking idiot is slowing down missions, and event-creations for further funds in the war against Russian oppression. Until this fucking idiot admits he made a mistake and provide this vehicle IMMEDIATELY to this specific person, Zelenskyy will continue to look like a moron and not a leader, because after all, he does not have the wisdom to be a commander, he is without question, a former comedian.

Israel Gaza war: UN says no let-up in Israeli air strikes in Gaza [BBC News]

Manchester United Saga Ends With $1.3 Billion Ratcliffe Deal [Bloomberg]

Russia's Navalny tracked down to 'Polar Wolf' prison in the Arctic [Reuters]

Israel-Hamas war: List of key events, day 80 [AL-Jazeera News]

On World Television Day, Watchdog Groups Say Afghan Media Has Diminished [TOLOnews]

The Year in Moviegoing [The New Yorker]

10 great Game Pass games for your Xbox [The Verge]

The lasting impact of The Color Purple [Vox]

Amazon’s new Echo Frames can’t touch the Ray-Ban Meta [TechCrunch]

How 2023 marked the death of anonymity online in China [MIT Technology Review]

Us vs UK vs Japan Food Wars: Fast Food Chains Christmas Special [Business Insider]

Learn the fundamentals of working with large language models and build a data-analyzing bot! 🤖

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Explore all free sessions on Hugging Face, LangChain, and Pinecone in our AI Developer Series.

Dive in 👉 https://ow.ly/u9Y750QgupV [LinkedIn] #DataCamp

Lack of home schooling oversight ‘obvious danger’ to children, experts say [The Guardian]

The 2023 Good Tech Awards [New York Times]

Flown Alone: Unaccompanied 6-Year-Old Put On Wrong Spirit Airlines Flight [Huffington Post]

Why So Many People Hate Winter [The Atlantic]

Why voter turnout will probably be high in 2024 [FiveThirtyEight]

Americans tell us why they’re feeling better — or worse — about the economy [Washington Post]

How young people are reclaiming rail travel [Le Monde]

NASA's car-sized rover spots strong evidence of gushing water on Mars [Mashable]

From Candid To Corny: The Future Of Hip-Hop, According To Paris Texas [VICE News]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Questions Meta Over Palestinian Censorship [The Intercept_]

From fish pie to beef tartare, 5 things to do with oysters [National Geographic]

Breaking with tradition, Ukrainians celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 this year [NPR]

Tired of the waiting lists for California’s public universities, nursing students increasingly turn to expensive private programs [CapRadioNews]

Un lieu qui pleure [Le Monde diplomatique]

World War I’s ‘Silent Night’ - The mythical appeal of the Christmas truce evokes the idea that ordinary people would get along if not for their governments. [Foreign Policy]

What War Games Really Reveal: Outcomes Matter Less Than Who Pays and Who Plays [Foreign Affairs]

Japan Approves 16.5% Increase in Defense Spending for FY2024 [The Diplomat]

The Year in Computer Science [Quanta Magazine]

#ThrowbackThursday à une vue unique du site principal du CERN à Meyrin en 1971, recouvert de neige. Aujourd'hui il héberge des nombreuses installations de recherche, le Synchrocyclotron, le Centre de calcul, @ATLASexperiment, et #CERNScienceGateway. http://visit.cern [CERN_FR]

Apollo 8: Christmas at the Moon [NASA]

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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1054 & BENKYO RADIO 1054. It’s terrifying what’s happening in Gaza & the West Bank. I’ve included a video that is age-restricted just so that you can watch how sad things are in the region. Netanyahu is a butcher, a barbaric bastard, and needs to go to jail for life by the ICC for crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 1053 | BENKYO RADIO 1053

EFF Warns: 'Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays' [Slashdot.org]

Plains blizzard hits travel, but most of U.S. faces snowless Christmas [AXIOS]

A look at Sam Altman's history at Loopt and Y Combinator, where his side activities and personal projects riled colleagues and forced his departure from YC [TechMeme]

This founder is betting breast milk's benefits can be grown in a lab [Quartz]

Starbucks has lost $11 billion market value, and not because of boycotts [Vox]

AI’s meteoric rise: boundless opportunities ahead, but implementation is key [TheNextWeb]

How NASA Gets a Turkey to Space for Holiday Meals [Eater]

After Learning Tennis Great Venus Williams Was Her Company's No. 1 Fan, Stephanie Morimoto Put Her Branding Dreams Into Hyperdrive. The entrepreneurs behind Asutra explain how their ultimate doubles match works. [Inc.]

5 steps that will get you promoted in 2024 [Fast Company]

Finding Your Good Luck Days in Japan [Medium]

The Santa Claus Approach: Unwrapping Marketing Lessons from the Man in Red [Entrepreneur]

The Hollywood Strikes Stopped AI From Taking Your Job. But For How Long? [WIRED]

This Week in Tech 959 [TWIT]

23 of our most helpful tips from 2023 [Google Blog]

Unsupervised speech-to-speech translation from monolingual data [Google Research]

November 2023 [Poetry Foundation]

The 10 greatest JWST discoveries, so far [Astronomy Magazine]

【CFO の変革体験共有】SAP のデータドリブン経営 / FP&A 機能高度化の軌跡 [SAPJapan] #SAP

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1053 & BENKYO RADIO 1053. As you know, I try not to embarrass Americans on Cable News, but the way you guys talk on there, those Pundits, well, I don’t how how else to tell you this, but, we don’t have Pundits in France, we have actual news reporters. And our politicians, when they talk, their vocabulary is so much light-years in front of Americans, I don’t know how else to tell you but when they talk, it’s the Jetsons, when the GOP talks, it’s the Flintstones. Right now, the State Department is losing all their hair, everybody is going bald including myself, and Secretary Blinken is so fucking mad, while he’s talking, he is dying to grab his guitar and go into a heavy metal rock concert rampage and scream at everybody. Anyway, there are hostages in the Israel/Palestinian conflict that need to be saved. The reason why our French diplomatic spokesperson do not look like supermodels like in USA (Heather and Morgan) is because we actually pay attention to what the fuck they’re saying, they’re not distracting us, they’re getting shit done, I suggest you listen to them. Yes, one of those women will slap me in January based on what I say. Do not forget that the only resolution out of this conflict is a Two State Solution, and the implication that Netanyahu performed genocide, and he will be charged by the ICC and placed in prison for the rest of his life.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 1052 | BENKYO RADIO 1052

Technology is helping Santa Claus come to town more efficiently [The Economist]

Penguins and Prejudice [The Economist Podcasts]

Gaza facing famine if fighting continues, UN says [BBC News]

Manchester United Saga Ends With $1.3 Billion Ratcliffe Deal [Bloomberg]

India boosts AI in weather forecasts as floods, droughts increase [Reuters]

Israel-Hamas war live: 166 Palestinians killed in last 24 hours [AL-Jazeera News]

When Philosophers Become Therapists [The New Yorker]

The PlayStation Portal is flawed but fun [The Verge]

Missing the feeling of a white Christmas? That might be solastalgia. [Vox]

Top robotics names discuss humanoids, generative AI and more [TechCrunch]

These six questions will dictate the future of generative AI [MIT Technology Review]

PS5 digital vs. disc edition: Which PlayStation 5 is best for you? [Business Insider]

'Local boy' Ratcliffe takes stake in Manchester United [Reuters]

Bonnes fêtes à tous et joyeux Noël à nos compatriotes qui s’apprêtent à le célébrer. [LinkedIn] #EmmanuelMacron

Deadly 24 hours of fighting across Gaza Strip kills scores of Palestinians [The Guardian]

Manchester United Sells 25 Percent Ownership Stake to Jim Ratcliffe [The New York Times]

5 Signs The Stress You're Dealing With Isn't 'Normal' Stress [Huffington Post]

Why Black Jesus Made My Grandmother Uncomfortable [The Atlantic]

High suburban turnout may be the new norm [FiveThirtyEight]

Fentanyl super labs in Canada pose new threat for U.S. opioid epidemic [The Washington Post]

The Rambouillet château, the secretive retreat of French leaders [Le Monde]

Playing Santa on a budget? Here are 13 toys you can snag for under $20 [Mashable]

Amazon Is Trying to Stop a Lawsuit From Drivers Who Peed In Bottles From Going to Court [VICE News]

“THE SQUAD,” PART 1: THE RISE AND (FIRST) FALL OF BERNIE [Deconstructed Podcast at The Intercept_]

How the nation chooses its best and brightest Christmas trees [National Geographic]

It's weird to be a grown-up orphan. It forced my siblings and me to reckon with faith [NPR]

Sacramento City Council plans to redo vote on pay raise for Howard Chan [CapRadioNews]

Où va le vin va le monde [Le Monde diplomatique]

Does Santa Own the North Pole and Other Holiday Questions [Foreign Policy] (No Subscription)

The Best of 2023 [Foreign Affairs]

In Coal’s Shadow, Bangladeshi Women Forge a New Life Through Art [The Diplomat]

The Year in Math [Quanta Magazine]

Restez à l’écoute pendant que nous expliquons chacune de ces technologies de pointe dans les semaines à venir.

En savoir plus sur le #HiLumiLHC : [CERN_FR]

NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman Cygnus Departure from Space Station [NASA]

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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1052 & BENKYO RADIO 1052. Have you ever heard TIESTO’s DRIVE album? It’s very good. Listen to it on this YouTube, speaking of which, I’d love to do VISUALs while I do one of my JETLAG RADIO DJ podcast mixes. I think that’d be awesome. Think of the possibilities.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 1051 | BENKYO RADIO 1051

Microsoft Ending Support For Windows 10 Could Send 240 Million PCs To Landfills, Study Finds [Slashdot.org]

West Wing insiders pile on former staffer for breaking Biden code [AXIOS]

Bluesky releases a public web view, allowing users to view posts on the platform without being logged in, and unveils a new logo with a butterfly [TechMeme]

Can a deepfake company be ethical? [Quartz] I hate DeepFake videos. I actually like Tom Cruise movies, and I’m tired of DeepFake videos. There are instances of women being placed in DeepFake pornographic videos, and even worst, I’m starting to think Trump has been dead for years, and they just play him on a feedback loop in a Deep Fake video.

Azeem Azhar is drawing a road map to a better future [Vox]

2024’s most important travel tech trends [TheNextWeb]

The Year Everyone Put a Bow on It [Eater]

Don't Mistake Your Knowledge for WisdomThe difference between them can be fuzzy, but understanding that is critical to both your growth and your company's. [Inc.]

Spectacle architecture is back [Fast Company]

Building Blocks of Nonfiction Writing [Medium]

A Microsoft Office Pro 2019 and Windows 11 Pro Bundle Is Only $50 Through January 1 [Entrepreneur]

Rebel Moon Director Zack Snyder on Violence, Loss, and Extreme Fandom [WIRED]

This Week in Google #747 [TWIT]

How to find holiday shopping deals on Google [Google Blog]

VALID: A perceptually validated virtual avatar library for inclusion and diversity [Google Research]

Audio Poems [Poetry Foundation]

Scientists search for the soundtrack of the universe [Astronomy Magazine]

Thomas Saueressig: Generative AI is Driving the Evolution of Enterprise Software | My Takes on AI [SAP] #SAP

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1051 & BENKYO RADIO 1051. Now, Spotify Wrapped is amazing, and I was thankful for the selection I have. They also did something amazing, where there’s Spotify Wrapped for various countries, etc.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 1050 | BENKYO RADIO 1050

How five Ukrainian cities are coping, despite Putin’s war [The Economist] #Ukraine

Gaza facing famine if fighting continues, UN says [BBC News]

How the Elf on the Shelf Took Over Christmas [Bloomberg]

Here comes Santa Claus [Reuters]

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is the quintessential DCEU movie

New COVID strain JN.1 is spreading fast. How worried should we be? [AL-Jazeera News] important to note that Netanyahu quickly vaccinated all Israelis from the original COVID-19 variant but not Palestinians, it’s now confirmed, he is guilty of ethnic cleansing.

The Top Twenty-Five New Yorker Stories of 2023 [The New Yorker]

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is the quintessential DCEU movie [The Verge]

In a big victory for Trump, the Supreme Court tells Jack Smith to go away [Vox]

Bluesky finally lets users look at posts without logging in [TechCrunch]

Think that your plastic is being recycled? Think again. [MIT Technology Review]

The world's top military powers each have fifth-gen jets, but Russia, China, and the US are all facing problems with their fighters [Business Insider]

Happy #FirstDayOfWinter! ❄️ [LinkedIn] #NationalGeospatialIntelligenceAgency

The faith leaders fighting for the climate: ‘we have a moral obligation’ [The Guardian]

‘God Is Under the Rubble in Gaza’: Bethlehem’s Subdued Christmas [New York Times]

Pete Davidson Suddenly Cancels Several Shows Due To 'Unforeseen Circumstances' [Huffington Post] #MentalHealth

Six Books to Read During a Stressful Family Holiday [The Atlantic]

What issues will matter most to Hispanic voters in 2024? [FiveThirtyEight]

I was eating at a diner when a man handed me my schoolwork from 40 years ago [The Washington Post]

What's for Christmas dinner? The budget option [Le Monde]

NASA's car-sized rover spots strong evidence of gushing water on Mars [Mashable]

Man In Charge of Inflicting Pain on U.S. Economy Indicates He Might Finally Be Satisfied [VICE News]

State Department Stuns Congress, Saying Biden is Not Even Reviewing Trump’s Terror Designation of Cuba [The Intercept_]

Life Below Zero: First Alaskans [National Geographic]

The war in Gaza is a big story on campus. These student reporters aren't shying away [NPR]

Local organizers push for permanent cease-fire in Gaza amid rising death toll [CapRadioNews]

Énergie, changer de perspective [Le Monde diplomatique]

Our Podcasts, Ourselves [Foreign Policy]

What Palestinians Really Think of Hamas. Before the War, Gaza’s Leaders Were Deeply Unpopular—but an Israeli Crackdown Could Change That [Foreign Affairs]

Japan-South Korea Cooperation: Strength in Unity, Danger in Division [The Diplomat]

The Year in Physics [Quanta Magazine]

La #PhotoDeLaSemaine présente la salle de contrôle chez @ATLASexperiment, quand le Père Noël lui a rendu visite il y a quelques années. ATLAS est l'un des deux détecteurs à usage général du Grand collisionneur de hadrons (#LHC). [CERN_FR]

Meet the Infrared Telescopes That Paved the Way for NASA’s Webb [NASA]

INTERPOL considering issuing a RED NOTICE on Netanyahu [INTERPOL]

Airpower’s Ground Truth [Air & Space Forces]

R's Day at Willow Springs: The Ultimate Nissan Skyline Track Day Retreat [MOTORTREND]

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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1050 & BENKYO RADIO 1050. Listen, Goddamnit, I am started to get upset about the number of Police Officers in France who are registered for Front National (RN), this is an embarrassment to our great nation. That’s not a reflection of the entire police force, as completely bewildering as it may sounds, some officers even vote for the left. There is a rise of the Ultra-Right in France, there could be a coup d’état if we are not careful. I am tired of Marine LePen laughing, she is from a family of Nazis. This shit is terrible. Watch this documentary (in French).

Also, #TheTrumpShow has been a terrible creation by evil forces in our government, forces more powerful than the FBI. These individuals are known to work in the Intelligence Agencies, including Trump supporters within the DIA who were heard on audio tape. It has become incredibly almost impossible to get this done, Mueller couldn’t do it, Jack Smith must gets this done, Trump is off the ballot in Colorado, #MAGAcult is fascism, black people have gone missing, I am tired of everybody playing with their thumbs, all this fucking waiting almost brought the Fourth Reich upon America. Wake the fuck up, arrest everybody in this #MAGAcult aka KKK-wannabes, I should be in France watching Stade Rennais or in England watching Manchester United. I’m exhausted.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 1049 | BENKYO RADIO 1049

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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1049 & BENKYO RADIO 1049. Here’s status update YouTube video I made prior to a Europa League match by Stade Rennais. Thank God we won, and let’s hope we continue our journey towards winning the competition. I even bought a #SRFC ugly christmas sweater.

Until Next Time!