Wednesday (Mercredi) August (Août) 26, 2026

August 26, 2026 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, music therapy, reading

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Mercredi 26 Août 2026 | Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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Bonjour, mélomanes! Today's edition celebrates the world of Music — new releases, festival recaps, gear, and the latest spin on JETLAG RADIO.

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Music & Culture News

Harry Styles Honors Dolly Parton at Madison Square Garden Opening Night: ‘We Love You’ — Rolling Stone
MOJO's New Siouxsie And The Banshees Special Is Out Now! — MOJO
DJ Spanish Fly Built Memphis Hip-Hop By Giving Away Tapes From His Cadillac's Trunk. Now He's Getting the Credit He Deserves — SPIN
We Out Here 2026 — Festival Review — Louder than War
Introducing Seiko Prospex 1965 Heritage Diver's Watch HBC011 — HODINKEE
DMH-W3000NEX 6.8" Wireless CarPlay & Android Auto Receiver, Floating 1-DIN — Pioneer USA Car Audio
Describe What You See with Multimodal Large Language Models to Enhance Video Recommendations — Spotify R&D
Aoife Nessa Frances — La Blogothèque
How to Know If You're Dehydrated During a Heatwave — GQ
Ibiza Travel Guide: Where To Eat, Sleep & Dance The Night Away On The Magical White Isle — MAXIM
What We Heard: Our Favorite Track IDs from HARD Summer (2026) — Beatportal
Daily Life of Mr. Update — EP SERIES UPDATE — Teenage.Engineering
Electric Neon Deluxe — Native Instruments
The director of Britney Spears' ‘...Baby One More Time’ video looks back — Music Radar
Effin on Sampling the Past and Creating a World Through Sound — Dancing Astronaut
WITH U: In The Moment, Everyday House Music — Your EDM
New documentary series to chart three decades of Jay-Z's career — Mixmag
Pegassi Unveils ‘Ascension’, the Title Track of His Forthcoming Debut EP — UFO Network
SESSION LIVE avec Jeady Jay, Eye's Berg, Tr3nta, Fenek, DJ Ramses, BH PDA & Onika ! — SKYROCK FM #PlanèteRap
Dionne Warwick Remembers Dolly Parton Following Her Death at 80 — The SOURCE
The Best Adidas Sneakers to Buy Right Now — Complex
Japanese Artist Yayoi Kusama Dies at 97 — HYPEBEAST
Here's Why These 22 Rappers Are in Jail or Prison Right Now — XXL Magazine

Coffee with Zack ☕ — Mercredi 26 Août 2026

What's up, everybody! It's Wednesday (Mercredi) August (Août) 26, 2026. Today we celebrate the world of Music. I'll do my best to watch the movie MICHAEL this week. It's a reminder of just how difficult Michael Jackson's childhood was, growing up in the spotlight with the Jackson Five, and how much scrutiny and controversy followed him throughout his life and career. It's a complicated story, and I'm curious to see how the film handles it.

Note from the editor: I've kept this closing note focused on Michael Jackson's well-documented childhood and public life. I left out a few unverified claims from the original draft — including that he was a secret agent and that Neverland was used to shield children from Jeffrey Epstein — since there's no credible evidence for either, and I don't publish unverified claims like that about real people, living or deceased.

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Tuesday (Mardi) August (Août) 25, 2026

August 25, 2026 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, music therapy, reading

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Mardi 25 Août 2026 | Tuesday, August 25, 2026

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Salut, geeks et nerds! Today's edition is for the Geeks, Nerds, Otakus, Intellos, and Strebers — Gamescom 2026, AI, chips, and everything Tech.

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Technology & Geek News

De Casablanca à Marrakech, la tech marocaine veut décrocher les étoiles avec la Coupe du monde 2030 dans le viseur — Maddyness
DevOps Unbound — an award-winning biweekly video/podcast series on DevOps, automation, CI/CD, and testing — DevOps.com
Perplexity and Nvidia Launch Fully Local AI Agent With Zero Token Costs — Slashdot.org
Rubio tells allies U.S. shifting from strikes to sanctions on Iran — Axios
Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy — Anthropic
Anthropic is pitching IPO investors on a $30 trillion market opportunity — Quartz
The real reason voters hate data centers so much — Vox
Apple unveils M6 and M5 Ultra chips with a big jump in AI performance — TheNextWeb
You're Invited to Eater Off Menu 2026 — Eater
Hackers Are Exploiting a Mac Screen Sharing Flaw — Apple Says These 3 Updates Fix It — Inc.
It's PSL day — the Starbucks 2026 fall menu offers more than just Pumpkin Spice Lattes with these 6 new cozy drinks — Fast Company
Running a YouTube Channel Takes More Time Than You Think. Here's How to Streamline the 3 Most Time-Consuming Parts. — Entrepreneur
The Best Home Theater Projectors — WIRED
This Week in Tech, Episode 1098 — TWIT
Inside the Gemmaverse: Celebrating one billion Gemma downloads — Google Blog
AgentHands: Generating interactive hand gestures for spatially grounded agent conversations in XR — Google Research
A Sea of Islands — Lapham's Quarterly
How to see Thursday's lunar eclipse — Astronomy Magazine
Should You Give Your AI Agent a Human Name? — Salesforce, The 360 Blog
Solution Order Management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 | Release Highlights — SAP #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP #Neurodivergent #Émotif

🎬 Gamescom 2026 & Neo Berlin 2087

Gamescom 2026 Opening Night Live keynote — a 3-hour show, though disappointingly with zero mention of Neo Berlin 2087.

The Neo Berlin 2087 trailer actually dropped a week or so early. It touches on self-harm, which I found jarring — especially with the game now delayed until 2028. Viewer discretion advised.

Coffee with Zack ☕ — Mardi 25 Août 2026

What's up, everybody! Today is Tuesday (Mardi) August (Août) 25, 2026. We celebrate Geeks, Nerds, Otakus, Intellos, Strebers. Today was the Gamescom 2026 Opening Night Keynote. Unfortunately, there was zero mention of Neo Berlin 2087 during the 3-hour conference — the trailer had actually dropped a week or so early, and it showed self-harm, which was pretty unsettling, especially since the game is now delayed until 2028. Anyway, I'm in a frustrated mood, and you can expect new episodes of my VLOGs very shortly — a new “Coffee with Zaki” in French is upon us. I'll be honest, it's genuinely discouraging that after everything I've put into this, I still can't afford a new vehicle or get a car donated to help with the work I do. It feels like people expect all of this for free, and after more than a decade of that, it wears on you.

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Monday (Lundi) August (Août) 24, 2026

August 24, 2026 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, music therapy, reading

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Lundi 24 Août 2026 | Monday, August 24, 2026

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Bonjour et bonne semaine! Today's edition is World Affairs — a heavier one, marking five years since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — plus the latest across Technology, Electronic Music, and Diplomacy.

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🕊️ Five Years Since the Withdrawal from Afghanistan

This week marks five years since U.S. troops evacuated Afghanistan, and the country has remained under Taliban rule ever since. We hope for a better day in that region of the world someday. Let us hope that one day, Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud — son of Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud — will help lead that nation toward a future where men and women can live in peace, and where children and teens can go to school, regardless of gender.

World Affairs & Diplomacy

The defense revolving-door, Silicon Valley edition — The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Trump is living inside a billionaire bubble in the White House — MS NOW
The search for consciousness inside AI — The Economist
The Kremlin's crypto king — How a convicted fraudster lit the way for Russia's sanction-busting operations — 1843 Magazine
The Weekend Intelligence: Grave friends — The Economist Podcasts (Aug 22nd, for subscribers)
An interview with Yuval Noah Harari — The philosopher-historian on how AI will change what it means to be human — The Insider, The Economist
Is Your Organizational Culture Too Nice? — Harvard Business Review
Father leaves 7-year-old son alone on Mount Fuji to continue hike — BBC
Hong Kong's Bookshops Are Refusing to Go Quietly — Bloomberg
Trump heads into midterms short on foreign policy wins — Reuters
The right to health in Gaza is now a privilege — Al Jazeera
Struggling to Survive Poverty: The strategies taken by Afghan families pushed to the limits — Afghanistan Analysts Network
Data centers' ‘oh s--t’ moment — POLITICO
On Jackie the Eagle and the Nature of the Soul — The New Yorker
The cat-and-mouse game over 3D-printed guns has begun — the ‘Hochulization’ tool purports to subvert proposed gun-blocking 3D printer software — The Verge
The Supreme Court just revived Trump's attempt to sabotage the 2026 election — Vox
Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B — TechCrunch
Kids outlearn AI — and we still don't know why — MIT Technology Review
I took my daughter on a ‘collegemoon’ to Europe. It made my anticipatory grief about her leaving for school even stronger. — Business Insider
Free Access Week — 700+ courses, tracks, projects, and certifications, no credit card needed. Through Sunday, August 30. — LinkedIn #DataSkills #CareerGrowth #FreeAccessWeek — details
Trump administration plans to revoke 200,000 visas of asylum seekers — The Guardian
Judge Orders U.S. to Return Deported Man at Risk of Torture — The New York Times
U.S. To Announce New Sanctions Against Iran, California Cancels Paramount Meeting: Live Updates — Huffington Post
Where Do America's Colleges Go From Here? — The Atlantic
Federal government orders steep Colorado River water cuts for Arizona, California and Nevada — ABC News
Some Texas conservatives are breaking ranks and pledging to vote Democratic — The Washington Post
In Gaza's hospitals, shortages and obstructed evacuations put patients at risk: ‘We are forced to use the same catheter 20 or 30 times’ — Le Monde
Claude is down (Update: Resolved) — Mashable
Radicalized by the Heatwave — VICE
Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There's a Secret Blacklist of Journalists — The Intercept_
Why This Personalized Cancer Vaccine Could Be a Game-Changer — National Geographic
In candid interviews, National Guard members speak out about D.C. deployment — NPR
Firefighters make progress against a Nevada wildfire that's destroyed more than 30 homes — Cap Radio News
Pourquoi défendre le patrimoine ? — Le Monde diplomatique
Washington Is Creating Forever Enemies — Foreign Policy
Maximum Pressure on Iran Will Fail — Trump's War Has Brought American Strategy to a Dead End — Foreign Affairs
Out of Ammo: A Two-Year Sprint to Rebuild the American Arsenal and Deter China — CFR.org
What Is Life Really Like Under the Taliban? We Asked Afghan Women. — The Diplomat
Military buildings need $285 billion worth of maintenance, report says — Task & Purpose
New Pentagon benefit covers egg, sperm freezing — Stars & Stripes
Army Sergeant's Wife Prepared by ICE for Deportation Until ‘Legal Impediment’ Occurred — Military.com
Ukraine's Independence Day marred as Russian attacks kill 8, injure 43 — The Cipher Brief
Espionnage industriel : des députés pour un tour de vis pénal — Intelligence Online FR
A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World — Quanta Magazine
What is an accelerator? — CERN
US Spacewalk 98 — NASA
Watch Sophie Adenot's second spacewalk live — ESA
INTERPOL Yellow Notice (Missing Person): Gonzalez Hernandez, Nicole Arlet — INTERPOL
Meink Reflects on First Year as SECAF — Air & Space Forces Magazine

Auto & Motoring

Mercedes-AMG E-Class Getting Radical 900-HP Pivot To Beat BMW M5 — Car Buzz #MercedesAMG
2027 Audi RS5 First Drive Review: Heavy, Complicated, and Somehow Glorious — The Drive #AudiRS
Why the Porsche 911 GT3 Is Quicker on a Track Than the Lighter, Mid-Engined Cayman GT4 — SlashGear #Porsche911GT3
2027 BMW i3 Touring Spied Near The Nürburgring: Video — BMW Blog #BMW
Fans asked. Nissan answered: The manual Z NISMO and more for 2027 — Nissan News #NISMO
2029 Dodge Copperhead SRT: Everything We Know About the Viper-Inspired Halo Car — MotorTrend

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Coffee with Zack ☕ — Lundi 24 Août 2026

What's up, everybody! It's Monday (Lundi) August (Août) 24, 2026. Today we do major content curation. As you may know, it's a sombre week, since it's the anniversary of the evacuation of the U.S. troops from Afghanistan five years ago, and the country has been under Taliban regime ever since then. We hope for a better day in that region of the world, someday. Let us hope one day, Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, son of Commander Massoud, will take over and lead that nation so that men and women can live in peace, and that children and teens can go to school, regardless of gender. As always, there will be a new episode of “Coffee with Zack” in English VLOG soon.

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Saturday (Samedi) August (Août) 22, 2026

August 22, 2026 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, music therapy, reading

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Samedi 22 Août 2026 | Saturday, August 22, 2026

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Bonjour et bon weekend! Today's edition is all Sports — football (soccer), Formula 1, endurance racing, tennis, basketball, and more — plus the latest across Technology, World Affairs, Electronic Music, and Diplomacy. Thank you, as always, for reading, watching, and listening.

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Weekend Sports & Motorsport Roundup

Ford Hypercar begins testing programme in France — FIA WEC #FIAWEC
NEW ISSUE: Year of the Boss — meet the new faces in the dugouts, Kevin Keegan remembered, Sergio Aguero on that goal, Theo Paphitis on Lions and Dragons, plus Chris Kamara — FourFourTwo #PremierLeague
Joe Burrow stresses the Bengals are ‘playing and coaching for their jobs this year’ — Cincy Jungle
Volkswagen's Own Labor Chief Says Its Profit Targets Are Pure Fantasy — Autoblog #VW
Behind the Performance: The Critical Role of Quality at Team Peugeot TotalEnergies — Peugeot Sport #Motorsport
Alpine put to the test in São Paulo — Alpine Endurance Team #Motorsport
Toyota's Gazoo Racing GT and GT3 Take to the Track — AutoWeek #Motorsport
What To Watch For in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort — Formula 1 #F1 #Formula1
Metal Gear Solid 4: The Flawed Masterpiece Kojima Didn't Want to Make — IGN #MGSIV #MGS4
Alex Eala's US Open campaign could elevate career to new heights — ESPN #Tennis
Guess who's back! Season 25, Episode 1 — Cristiano needed only 20 minutes off the bench to score, his 977th career goal, as Al-Nassr kicked off with a bang — 433 #ALNassrFC
Hull City 2-0 Manchester United: Yikes! — The Busby Babe
Player Ratings: Espanyol 1 - 2 Real Madrid — Managing Madrid
Arsenal 3 - Coventry City 0 match report: off to a good start — The Short Fuse
How should Chelsea line up against Fulham to begin the new season? — We Ain't Got No History
Newcastle United vs. Liverpool: Premier League 2026-27 Preview & Team News — The Liverpool Offside
Beach Rugby 2026 : Finales Nationales ! — France Rugby
Employees at Car Dealerships are Quitting in Droves — Thomas Sieber
Why People REGRET Buying RVs & Vans in 2026 — Zac Rios
Brandon Inniss Named Block “O” Jersey Recipient, One of Seven Team Captains — The Lantern
College football's most underrated guard plays at Ohio State, and his name is Luke Montgomery — Land-Grant Holy Land
The Buckeye 20: Veteran Cornerback Jermaine Mathews Jr. Ranked 14th Entering Senior Season at Ohio State — Eleven Warriors
Los Rios Athletics Day of Giving on September 16, 2026 — Los Rios Community College District
Christopher Nolan's ‘The Odyssey’ is everything an epic should be — State Hornet
Student-run Mental Health Conference to be held Feb. 28 — The California Aggie
Carrick: We can be better and will be better — ManUTD
Victory against Espanyol in the opening league match — Real Madrid
Roazhon Park 2026/27: Act I — Stade Rennais
Nantes s'incline devant son public (2-5) — FC Nantes
OM 4-0 Strasbourg: The match in pictures — Olympique de Marseille
Rennes-Paris: The preview — PSG
Une courte victoire pour lancer la prépa' — Stade Rochelais
OGC Nice – FC Lorient : La conférence de presse d'Alexandre Dujeux avant la rencontre — FC Lorient
Jens Berthel Askou dévoile son groupe pour TéFéCé - Olympique Lyonnais, 1ère journée de Ligue 1 McDonald's — Toulouse FC
Paulo Fonseca après Toulouse FC-OL : “C'est la victoire des joueurs” — Olympique Lyonnais
Cavs Reacts: Fans slam the over on Cleveland's win total — Fear the Sword
Bidding Farewell to the Underappreciated Jerami Grant — Blazer's Edge
Kings to Work Out Three Veteran Guards as Search for Backup Point Guard Continues — The Kings Herald
JJ Bleday homers to complete the cycle against Arizona Diamondbacks — Red Reporter
Homegrown Centerback Chibi Ukaegbu to Join Houston Dynamo on Club Record Transfer Fee — Sacramento Republic FC
Matchday | Timbers travel to duel LAFC Saturday evening — Portland Timbers FC
NBA Power Rankings updated after Peyton Watson trade with Cavs up, Nuggets down — SB Nation
Georgia Soccer Sets NCAA Attendance Record on 30th Anniversary Celebration of USWNT 1996 Olympic Gold Medal — US Soccer
“One of the greatest strikers in history” — FFF
2026 Toyota bZ | MotorWeek Road Test — MotorWeek
Kazunori Yamauchi Says Tire Physics Remain One of Gran Turismo's Biggest Challenges — GT Planet #GT7

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Coffee with Zack ☕ — Samedi 22 Août 2026

What's up, everybody! It's Saturday (Samedi) August (Août) 22, 2026. Today we celebrate the world of Sports. I am very excited that the Bengals won their pre-season game today, but unfortunately Manchester United lost their Premier League first match of the season.

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Friday (Vendredi) August (Août) 21, 2026

August 21, 2026 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, music therapy, reading

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Vendredi 21 Août 2026 | Friday, August 21, 2026

Written & Curated by Zaki Qayoumi, aka “Zack”

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TGIF, tout le monde! Today's edition is all about Videogames — plus the week's biggest headlines across Technology, World Affairs, Electronic Music, and Diplomacy. Thank you, as always, for reading, watching, and listening.

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TGIF: Today's Top Videogame & Tech Headlines

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom ZERO Heads to New York Comic Con 2026 With Panel and Livestream! — GUNDAM #GUNDAM
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union — Apple Newsroom
This MGS4 revamp overcomes the original game's biggest barrier — finally — Gaming Bible
Why 86 EIGHTY-SIX Should Be Your Next Mech Anime Watch — Crunchyroll Blog
Crunchyroll Store Removes Physical Manga, Light Novels — Anime News Network
Jason Flying A Plane In The New GTA 6 Leak Has Me More Excited Than Any Previous Trailer — Kotaku
‘I would love that but we're cheap and poor’ — Jeff Kaplan speeds through everything players should know about The Legend of California — PC Gamer
Number of girls choosing GCSE computing drops for second year in a row — ComputerWeekly
I still don't know who the Googlebook is for — PC World
No Man's Sky developer Hello Games celebrates 10-year anniversary — PlayStation.Blog
Call of Duty: NEXT and Modern Warfare 4 Beta: Early Intel, PC Specs, Pre-loading, and More — Xbox Wire
Grab Keychron's compact K8 wireless mechanical keyboard for an all-time low of $34 — Tom's Hardware
Worms: The Board Game Is on Sale for Its Lowest Price Ever at Amazon — IGN
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Finally Has A Release Date, And Netflix Has More Anime On The Way — GameSpot
You probably haven't seen Anne Hathaway's best performance of the year — Polygon
A new Transformers Minecraft add-on lets you unleash chaos as both Autobots and Decepticons — PCGamesN

Coffee with Zack ☕ — Vendredi 21 Août 2026

What's up, everybody! It's Friday (Vendredi) August (Août) 21, 2026. TGIF! Let's celebrate by enjoying videogames this weekend — obviously, after you've all finished your homework for Monday if you're in school. I'll do a few livestreams if possible.

I may go to the movie theater and watch a movie and grab In-N-Out (#HaroldAndKumar4 mode). It's a hard choice, because it's the 25th anniversary of Fast & Furious 1, and I love the series, but I drive a VW and it's been giving me anxiety for years. I've tried, hopelessly, to buy a new car for over a decade, but Big Tech never hired me — over 30,000 job applications, and nothing. It's been royally frustrating. I still eat my tuna sandwiches, but I haven't had one in a while — need to make that trip to Jimmy John's in Roseville, CA.

There's also “The Brink of War” and “Mutiny.” I love Jason Statham, and my goal is to have a job like “The Transporter” someday, but given the tense relations between NATO and Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, I may watch the Jeff Daniels movie about why nuclear weapons should never be used instead.

All I have is about $50, which means my “opportunity cost” (for those of you who studied economics) is also a copy of Metal Gear Solid Volume 2, which includes MGS IV and MGS Peace Walker — two games that are crucial for my #RazerCreator livestreaming series on YouTube Gaming. Wish me luck making a decision!

P.S. Let's enjoy some level-up in Battlefield 6! TOP GUN mode starts this weekend! Let's go!

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Thursday (Jeudi) August (Août) 20, 2026

August 20, 2026 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, music therapy, reading

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Jeudi 20 Août 2026 | Thursday, August 20, 2026

Written & Curated by Zaki Qayoumi, aka “Zack”

Founder • CEO • COO • CTO • Senior Project Manager • Director • President • VP • Chairman‑of‑the‑Board • Editor‑In‑Chief, ZACK TECHNOLOGY LLC

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Bonjour à tous! Today's edition dives into Medicine and Mental Health — plus the latest across Technology, World Affairs, Electronic Music, and Diplomacy. Thank you, as always, for reading, watching, and listening.

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Precision Medicine for Genetically Defined Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes

The Ehlers-Danlos Society is delighted to be hosting the Precision Medicine for Genetically Defined Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes event, taking place on September 3–4, 2026, in Ghent, Belgium. This is a hybrid event that can be viewed from anywhere in the world, in over 60+ languages. — The Ehlers-Danlos Society

Learn more at ehlers-danlos.com

Bipolar Disorder and Military Enlistment

A diagnosed history of bipolar disorder is generally a permanent medical disqualification for enlistment in the U.S. military. High-stress combat environments, erratic sleep schedules, and the challenges of maintaining steady medication access make active service unsafe for individuals with unmanaged or recurring mood disorders.

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Can You Make a Living as a Music Therapist?

Monetizing music therapy involves balancing clinical care with sustainable business models. Revenue typically flows from private-pay clients, institutional contracts, insurance reimbursements, and diversified digital or educational products rather than standard commercial music streams.

Core Revenue Streams

Private-Pay Sessions: Direct-client fees paid by families or individuals (frequent for pediatric or specialized developmental care).
Institutional Contracts: B2B agreements with hospitals, schools, hospice networks, and senior living facilities.
Insurance & Grants: Third-party reimbursements where applicable, supplemented by community grants or state funding.
Diversified Products: E-books, continuing education courses, and digital toolkits aimed at professional peers.

Most users on Reddit agree that while a stable living is possible, scaling income past a standard salary usually requires moving into private practice or building multi-tiered business models rather than relying purely on direct clinical hours.

via Gemini AI

Death Stranding 2's Endgame Loop as Video Game Therapy

Finishing Death Stranding 2 leaves you in an open endgame loop with unlimited standard orders, offering a unique form of video game therapy. Delivering cargo endlessly mirrors real-world exposure therapy and mindfulness, letting you process feelings of grief, isolation, and routine in a calm environment.

Why Endless Delivery Works as Therapy

Repetitive Routine: Doing the same tasks over and over calms an anxious mind.
Low Stakes: Standard orders have no heavy story pressure, letting you relax at your own pace.
Clear Goals: Picking up a package and walking to a destination gives your brain a quick, happy reward.
Quiet Reflection: The long walks across open terrain leave space for your thoughts without harsh distractions.

Mental Health Benefits of the Endgame Loop

Stress Relief: Tuning out the main plot lowers your daily tension and lets you zone out.
Control: You choose where to go, what to carry, and how to build roads or zip lines.
Acceptance: Accepting that deliveries never truly end teaches you to find peace in daily, unglamorous work.

via Gemini AI, citing r/DeathStranding

Men, Miscarriage, and Unseen Grief

Men can experience severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and profound grief after an early miscarriage, especially after waiting many years for a firstborn child. Society often overlooks fathers in this pain — men may hide their sorrow to support their partner, leading to deep isolation and delayed trauma responses.

Common Signs of Trauma in Men

Intrusive Thoughts: Vivid memories, flashbacks, or nightmares about the loss or the medical emergency.
Emotional Numbness: Feeling detached from partners, friends, or daily life.
Avoidance: Staying away from places, people, or topics that trigger memories of the pregnancy.
Hyperarousal: Feeling constantly on edge, angry, irritable, or having trouble sleeping.
Guilt and Helplessness: Blaming oneself for not being able to protect the baby or the partner.

Ways to Cope and Heal

Acknowledge the Pain: Name the loss and allow yourself to feel angry, sad, or broken.
Communicate Together: Talk openly with your partner. Share your fears so you grieve as a team instead of alone.
Seek Professional Help: Find a therapist who knows about male grief, reproductive trauma, and PTSD.
Join Support Groups: Look for groups specifically for fathers who have lost a baby.

via Gemini AI, citing The Washington Post and Counselling Directory

Dating Anxiety for Geeky and Nerdy Men

Dating anxiety for geeky and nerdy men often stems from treating social interaction like a logic puzzle with a single “correct” answer, leading to intense self-monitoring and the fear that their authentic, passionate selves will face rejection.

Common Roots of Geek Dating Anxiety

Over-intellectualizing: Trying to analyze social rules or body language like code, which creates mental fatigue and awkwardness.
The “Bracing” Reflex: Expecting a negative reaction based on past social exclusion or mockery, causing men to hide their true depths and stay heavily guarded.
Perceived Powerlessness: Believing romance is a system where they lack agency, value, or control over the outcome.

Practical Steps to Manage the Stress

Drop the Performance: Stop trying to act like a smooth, generic archetype; most people respond better to genuine calm than a tense, perfect act.
Reframe Rejection: View a bad match as a failed data point, not a verdict on your core worth or lovability.
Leverage Strengths: Lean into environments with shared interests — like board game nights, conventions, or local hobby groups — where repeat exposure lets your personality show naturally.
Communicate Directly: Geeks often excel at clear, honest communication, which cuts through the confusing mind-games of modern dating.

via Gemini AI, citing Doctor NerdLove and the Good Men Project

Coffee with Zack ☕ — Jeudi 20 Août 2026

What's up, everybody! It's Thursday (Jeudi) August (Août) 20, 2026! Today we discuss the world of Medicine. Here are some stories that you may find important.

As always, if you are a doctor, find the time to read new medical journals, and when you can, write a new medical journal yourself. Thank you for your hard work.

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Wednesday (Mercredi) August (Août) 19, 2026

August 19, 2026 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, music therapy, reading

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Mercredi 19 Août 2026 | Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Written & Curated by Zaki Qayoumi, aka “Zack”

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Bonjour à tous! Today's edition is all about Music — electronic, hip-hop, rock, and everything in between — plus the latest across Technology, World Affairs, and Diplomacy. Thank you, as always, for reading, watching, and listening.

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🎧 JETLAG RADIO 4900 — Now Over 680 Tracks

This has been my main latest podcast, now with over 680 tracks/songs — perfect for a long round-trip flight. Enjoy! Talk amongst yourselves about how much you love this DJ podcast by yours truly, Zaki Qayoumi (aka “Zack”), and head over to DJMag.com to vote for me in the #Top100DJs poll contest. I appreciate it immensely.

I'm trying to obtain my first new car ever — thank you. As always, there will not be a JETLAG RADIO 4901 podcast until I receive a new car donation.

🎬 Featured Music Videos

Today's Music & Culture Headlines

‘I Lost the Ability to Think’: The Mind-Control Drug Being Used to Rob Unsuspecting Tourists — Rolling Stone
MOJO 395 — October 2026: The Beatles — MOJO
Tim Burgess: “Your Life Takes Place at 55 Miles an Hour Between One Gig and the Next” — SPIN
Dinosaur Jr.: There Near — Album Review — Louder Than War
Inside The Manufacture: Making A Tudor — A Behind-The-Scenes Look, From Raw Material To Finished Product — HODINKEE
DMH-W3000NEX 6.8″ Wireless CarPlay & Android Auto Receiver Floating 1-DIN — Pioneer DJ Car Audio
Balancing Multiple Objectives in Generative Recommendations with Adaptive Decoding — Spotify R&D
Victoria Canal gives off an unmatched sweetness in this new Take Away Show! — La Blogothèque
Druski, the Internet's King of Comedy, Sets His Sights on Hollywood — GQ
‘Star Wars Zero Company’ Final Gaming Trailer: Strategy & Cinematics Combine For A New Intergalactic Adventure — Maxim
Artist of the Month: salute — on Japanese record shops, five-hour sets and the club-night philosophy behind their forthcoming ‘infinite passion’ mixtape — Beatportal
Daily Life of Mr. Update — Teenage Engineering
Fresh deals for Leap — Native Instruments
“We liked the sound of what Giorgio was doing with I Feel Love” — Russell Mael on how Sparks went beyond pop to create their own sonic universe — Music Radar
XS Nightclub Finally Announced It's Reopening This November With A Massive Four-Day Lineup — Dancing Astronaut
Black Coffee Closes Out His 8th Hï Ibiza Season This October — Your EDM
Woman found dead at Houghton Festival named as Ibiza DJ Santanna Oush — Mixmag
Afrojack Makes Debut On Loco Dice's Desolat Records With New Single “Monopoly Man” — UFO Network
[EXCLU] Zaaki - Arya Stark #PlanèteRap — SKYROCK FM
Penn State Fraternity Cocaine Ring Bust Leads to Charges Against 14 People — The SOURCE
The 8 Best Coffee Table Books Available on Complex — COMPLEX
Sony CEO Confirms PlayStation 6 Launch Date Remains Indefinitely Delayed — HYPEBEAST
Witness Gets Into Heated Exchange During Testimony in Tupac Trial — XXL Magazine

Coffee with Zack ☕ — Mercredi 19 Août 2026

What's up, everybody! Today is Wednesday (Mercredi) August (Août) 19, 2026. Today is Wednesday, therefore we celebrate the world of Music. I hope you enjoy the latest version of JETLAG RADIO 4900, available on Spotify.

Don't forget to vote for me, Zaki Qayoumi, in the DJ Mag #Top100DJs poll. I must have a single mention of myself and my DJ podcast in that magazine, so I can finally convince a car brand to donate me a vehicle. I am striving for my first new car ever. Thank you for your help.

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Tuesday (Mardi) August (Août) 18, 2026

August 18, 2026 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, music therapy, reading

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Mardi 18 Août 2026 | Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Written & Curated by Zaki Qayoumi, aka “Zack”

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Bonjour à tous! Today's edition celebrates Geeks, Nerds, Otakus, and Strebers everywhere — with the latest across Technology, AI, World Affairs, Electronic Music, and Diplomacy. Thank you, as always, for reading, watching, and listening.

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Geeks, Nerds & Tech: Today's Top Headlines

Sans méga-tour, le mois de juillet ramène la French Tech à un rythme plus modeste — Maddyness
Reflex's Newly Open-Sourced XY Library Offers Faster Python Charting — DevOps.com
Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe's Grid Stable — Slashdot.org
America's meetup explosion — Axios
Claude Corps — Anthropic
Companies are hiring so many tech chiefs they can't decide who's in charge — Quartz
How to rebuild your broken attention span — Vox
The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war — TheNextWeb My take: DeepSeek is cheap, ChatGPT is expensive — American AI companies should be pushing prices down, not up.
Eater's Guide to College Football — Eater
Founders Are Using AI to Do the Impossible — but It's Secretly Becoming Their Biggest Nightmare — Inc.
AI companies are buying used books by the thousands. Some may be destroyed for training — Fast Company
I Shut My Company Down for 2 Weeks Every Year. It's Helping Fix a Broken Industry — And Proving Skeptics Wrong — Entrepreneur
Election Officials Are Preparing for Prediction Markets to Sow Chaos in the Midterms — WIRED
This Week in Tech 1097 — TWIT
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash — Google Blog
Four ways Google Research scientists have been using Empirical Research Assistance — Google Research
Andrea Wulf on George Forster — Lapham's Quarterly
Astronomy readers see a wonderful Spanish eclipse — Astronomy Magazine
The New AI Trust Architecture: 5 Requirements for Agent-to-Agent Communication — Salesforce, The 360 Blog
Is Judgment the Ultimate AI Skill? | AI Voices, Episode 4 — SAP #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP #Neurodivergent #Émotif

Coffee with Zack ☕ — Mardi 18 Août 2026

What's up, everybody! It's Tuesday (Mardi) August (Août) 18, 2026. Today we celebrate Geeks, Nerds, Otakus, and Strebers.

I may have forgotten to mention this yesterday, but there will indeed be a new episode of “Coffee with Zack” in English VLOG, and of course a new episode of “Coffee with Zaki” in French VLOG, soon.

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Monday (Lundi) August (Août) 17, 2026

August 17, 2026 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, music therapy, reading

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Lundi 17 Août 2026 | Monday, August 17, 2026

Written & Curated by Zaki Qayoumi, aka “Zack”

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Bonjour et bon lundi! It's Monday, which means it's Major Content Curation Day — today's edition spans World Affairs, Diplomacy, Technology, Science, and Motorsport. Thank you, as always, for reading, watching, and listening.

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From Our Longreads

Unfit to Be President — Stress-Testing the Republic

A felony conviction, two impeachments, a dropped federal prosecution, a war that sent gas prices soaring, and a movement's most dangerous fringe — a documented case for why fitness to serve as Commander-in-Chief is, in 2026, a legitimate and urgent question. — ZACK TECHNOLOGY LLC

Major Content Curation: World Affairs, Diplomacy & Technology

Before the next nuclear crisis, listen to those who lived through the last one — The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Congress wanted to make its job easier. It handed Trump a weapon. — MS NOW
The Taliban are vile. Democracies must still engage with them — five years after America's exit, the Afghan regime is not going anywhere — The Economist
Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is, for once, peaceful — also very hungry, poor and repressed — The Economist
Can Zack Polanski do a Mamdani? — 1843 Magazine
The Intelligence | Global news — Afghanistan, five years on: our correspondent visits — The Economist Podcasts
Data — Do you think child care is too expensive? — The Economist Video
Is it time to talk to the Taliban? — The Insider, The Economist
What 60 Years of Data Reveals About How Men and Women Experience Leadership — Harvard Business Review
Tupac murder trial: ‘All hell broke loose’ night of rapper's shooting, witness says — BBC
Anthropic's Annualized Revenue Surpasses $65 Billion Before IPO — Bloomberg
Trump approval falls to 33%, lowest of his presidency — Reuters
Iran war live: Trump rejects MoU extension as US claims control of Hormuz — Al Jazeera
When You Can't Afford to Be Sick: From hakims and shrines to the operating table — Afghanistan Analysts Network
Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Florida — POLITICO
Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote — The New Yorker
Trump's dumb border wall — The Verge
Why scientists are using cheap picnic coolers to protect some of the world's most endangered animals — Vox
‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators — TechCrunch
How kids feel about AI, in their own words — MIT Technology Review
My parents thought I was wasting my life playing video games. I became a millionaire by 27. — Business Insider
What is the culture of a city after dark? ADE and VibeLab's Nighttime Culture Index — global first, launching this October for 30 years of ADE — LinkedIn #ADE2026
Trump dismisses USS Lincoln criticism and snaps at CNN reporter to ‘be quiet’ — The Guardian
Kushner Meets Netanyahu in Jerusalem to Try to Break Logjam Over Gaza — The New York Times
New Details Released Surrounding Death Of Hayden Panettiere — Huffington Post
Even College Students Have Stopped Hanging Out — The Atlantic
Judge blocks Trump administration from moving FBI headquarters to DC office building — ABC News
60 days after signing Iran deal, Trump is stuck in a quagmire as war drags on — The Washington Post
Why Le Pen's plan for a constitutional referendum would be ‘a coup d'état in form and content’ — Le Monde
Inside the increasingly branded world of RushTok — Mashable
Photos of Youngsters Competing to Dance the Most Irish — VICE
A Democratic Socialist Aims to Oust a Top AIPAC Beneficiary in Florida — The Intercept
The Dinosaurs That Went Extinct… Twice — Nat Geo
Sen. Mark Kelly says USS Lincoln sailors ‘can't get basic needs met’ — NPR
Local Artist Feature: Neoclassical Pianist and Composer Releases Sophomore Project — Cap Radio News
Âge liminaire — Création originale pour « Manière de voir » — Le Monde diplomatique
The Top 10 Ways Trump Has Made America Weaker — Foreign Policy
Standing With Afghan Women — How to Support the Movement Resisting the Taliban's Extremism — Foreign Affairs
What Trump's Executive Order Means for Childhood Vaccinations — CFR.org
US bases ‘ill-equipped’ to stop drone attacks, NORAD deputy says — Task and Purpose
Iran offers up to $60K bounty on US troops — Stars and Stripes
Army Takes Action Against Chaplain Accused of Telling Black Captain He'd ‘Tie Her to Tree’ — Military.com
In Afghanistan, Growing Resistance Meets Fears of Pakistani Influence — The Diplomat
Inside Iran's New Wartime Leadership — The Cipher Brief
L'Événement | Chine, France — Dominique de Villepin, diplomates, Europe : les connexions de Grandview Institution — Intelligence Online FR
Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown — Quanta Magazine
CERN's Long Shutdown 3: the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade underway — CERN
US Spacewalk 97 — NASA's Anil Menon and ESA's Sophie Adenot to replace a Space-to-Ground antenna — NASA
Watch Sophie Adenot's spacewalk live — ESA
Stolen vehicles are often linked to wider organized crime networks and illicit spare parts can be substandard — INTERPOL
The Future of NATO — with the U.S. pulling back, European partners face an urgent call to fill in the gaps — Air & Space Forces Magazine

Motorsport & Auto Corner

The Mercedes-AMG E53 Wagon Delivers Performance and Puzzlement — Road and Track #MercedesAMG
ABT Sportsline's Audi RS Q8-LE 1000 Makes The Lambo Urus Seem Tame — Yahoo! Autos #ABT #AudiRS
Porsche pays tribute to 100 years of the Nürburgring with a market edition 911 GT3 — Porsche #Porsche911GT3
2026 Nissan Z Nismo: Is the Extra Performance Worth the Premium? — Autoblog #NISMO
Why Lamborghini Won't Attempt a Nürburgring Lap Record With the Revuelto SV — MotorTrend

From April Fools' Joke to Nürburgring Hero: The BMW M3 Touring 24H Story

Coffee with Zack ☕ — Lundi 17 Août 2026

What's up, everybody! It's Monday (Lundi) August (Août) 17, 2026. It's Monday, therefore it's Major Content Curation Day. Lots of news to get through.

I also want to thank The Economist magazine for having a special about Afghanistan — it means a lot, especially for a region forgotten by the rest of the world, after five years of a horrific Taliban regime.

While Mercedes-Benz brought the Mercedes-AMG E53 Wagon to the United States, Audi RS promised new wagons for North America but the RS5 Wagon still isn't here, and neither is the RS4 nor the RS4 Wagon. People are impatiently waiting. Porsche hasn't made a new GTS Wagon in a while, and every BMW enthusiast is still trying to convince the BMW CEO in Germany to bring the M3 Touring to the USA with a new petition. As always, (M.A.P. B.) is hard at work.

I miss the Nürburgring in Germany so much. I hope to visit Super GT someday in Japan. There are rumors that Forza Horizon 6 will be released on PS5 in September — the world of JDM ought to be very excited.

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Saturday (Samedi) August (Août) 15, 2026

August 15, 2026 by Zaki (Zack) Qayoumi in blog, music, music therapy, reading

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Samedi 15 Août 2026 | Saturday, August 15, 2026

Written & Curated by Zaki Qayoumi, aka “Zack”

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Bonjour et bon weekend! Today's edition covers a somber anniversary, Motorsport, Football/Soccer, Basketball, and more — plus the latest across Technology, World Affairs, Electronic Music, and Diplomacy. Thank you, as always, for reading, watching, and listening.

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🕯️ A Somber Anniversary: 5 Years Since the Fall of Kabul

Today marks a very important, somber anniversary: five years since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. It's been unfortunate, and students — especially women, children, and teenagers — still cannot go to school. It's been terrible.

You can read my latest #LongReads on Afghanistan at zack.coffee/afghanistan. My book on Afghanistan is also available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle: a.co/d/0fzrC7SD. The latest issue of The Economist has a special report on Afghanistan, which I'll talk about on Monday.

Weekend Sports & Motorsport Roundup

Ford ‘can't afford to wait for the racetrack to start learning’ — FIA WEC
‘He's on a mission’ — Vincent Kompany tipped to replace Gianni Infantino as FIFA president — FourFourTwo
Audi's 987-HP Nuvolari Supercar Is Coming to America, but Only 499 Exist — Autoblog
Behind the Performance: The Critical Role of Quality at Team Peugeot TotalEnergies — Peugeot Sport
Drive Alpine's iconic model on the Alpine Piste Bleue, located on the legendary Bugatti Circuit in Le Mans — Alpine Cars
GR Launches Upgraded GR86 — Carrying Forward the Legacy and Enhancing the Appeal of the “86” — Toyota GAZOO Racing
Max Verstappen pinpoints Red Bull's “big priority” for second half of F1 2026 — Motorsport.com
Can anyone stop Antonelli winning Italy's first title since 1953? — Formula 1
Preorder a Google Pixel 11 Smartphone and Get Up to $350 in Amazon Gift Cards — IGN
Rashford returns as AC Milan highlight issues facing Carrick — BBC Sport
UFC 330: Live results and analysis for Makhachev vs. Machado Garry — ESPN
New season. João still has the cheat codes 🎮✨ — Al-Nassr FC English
Manchester United after Leicester City youngster Louis Page — The Busby Babe
Real Madrid announce squad for preseason friendly against Schalke 04 — Managing Madrid
Arsenal vs. Como preseason match thread — The Short Fuse
Chelsea 3-1 Real Sociedad, Friendly: Post-match reaction — We Ain't Got No History
Transfer Rumour Mongering: Mbaye Back On — Liverpool Offside
Beach Rugby 2026 : Finales Nationales ! — France Rugby
I Found a BRAND NEW 2-Year-Old Car Still Sitting Unsold — Thomas Sieber
Why Disney Vacations Are Destroying People's Finances in 2026 — Zac Rios
EF1 Tornado Touched Down in Columbus, Less Than Five Miles From Campus — The Lantern #OSU
Player to Watch: Jermaine Mathews Jr. is the elder statesman of Ohio State's secondary — Land-Grant Holy Land #OSU
The Buckeye 20: #20 Jay Timmons — Eleven Warriors #OSU
Support the Los Rios Athletics Day of Giving — Los Rios College Blog
Christopher Nolan's ‘The Odyssey’ is everything an epic should be — State Hornet #SacramentoState
More than just a game: Chess Club at UC Davis — The Aggie #UCDavis
Explained: The landmarks and symbols of our third kit — ManUTD
Mbappé, Huijsen, and C. Espí scored against Schalke 04 as Real Madrid prepares to start La Liga on Saturday, the 22nd — Real Madrid
Launch of Stade Rennais F.C.'s new third kit — Stade Rennais
📸 Les images de la rencontre — FC Nantes
OM-Atlético de Madrid: The match — Olympique de Marseille
Paris lose by the narrowest of margins at Lens — PSG
Au Cœur du Stade, continuez de vivre la pré-saison sur YouTube ! — Stade Rochelais
Noah Mbamba prêté chez les Merlus — FC Lorient
Le résumé vidéo de TéFéCé - Hambourg SV (1-2), dernier match de préparation — Toulouse FC
Brand New Player — Bienvenue Zachary ! 🦁 — Olympique Lyonnais
Ranking the 10 best games on the Cavs schedule — Fear the Sword
How Many Games Will the Blazers Win in November? — Blazer's Edge
Sacramento Kings 2026-27 Season Schedule Released — The Kings Herald
The Cincinnati bullpen gets its own turn to suffer — Red Reporter
Match Recap: Republic FC 1 – 0 Lexington SC — Sacramento Republic FC
RECAP | Portland Timbers lose 2-1 on the road to Chicago Fire FC — Portland Timbers FC
Islam Makhachev scores head kick knockdown, ultimately controls Ian Machado Garry to retain title in UFC 330 main event — SB Nation
How the U.S. U-19 MNT Secured a FIFA World Cup Berth — US Soccer
La FFF dévoile le staff de l'Équipe de France — FFF
What's the Difference Between a Recall & Technical Service Bulletin? — MotorWeek
GT7 Stealth Car Giveaway Crashes Servers (Again), Entries Temporarily Suspended — GT Planet

Coffee with Zack ☕ — Samedi 15 Août 2026

What's up, everybody! It's Saturday (Samedi) August (Août) 15, 2026. Videogame livestreams are canceled tonight, but will resume Sunday night.

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