Air Force chief makes Time’s 100 most influential people list [AirForceTimes]
Pope: Market capitalism has failed in pandemic, needs reform [PBS News Hour Weekend]
Occupying Palestine is rotting Israel from inside. No Gulf peace deal can hide that [The Guardian]
Twitter announces changes to clamp down on US election misinfo, like blocking retweets of misleading content from candidates and accounts with 100K+ followers [TechMeme]
The Logistics of Reparations - In addition to sparking protests across the globe, the killing of George Floyd revived the national conversation about how to repay Black people for centuries of state-sanctioned racism. Political will for reparations, long too weak to ignite any substantive change, shows signs of shifting: While a 2019 survey found that 15% of white Americans supported reparations, a July 2020 poll put that number at 39%. [Quartz]
Twitter’s answer to election misinformation: Make it harder to retweet - It’s a way to slow down the spread of false information and buy fact-checkers time, experts say. [Recode]
It’s never too early to teach your kids about cybersecurity [TheNextWeb]
The Meaning of Chuseok During a Pandemic Year [Eater]
How to Keep Your Employees Healthy While They’re Working From Home - Poor home-office ergonomics and pandemic-related stress can cause health problems. Here’s how to manage those issues in your (remote) workplace. [Inc.]
Slack’s CEO on why tech companies have to make peace with permanent remote work [Fast Company]
6 Habits of Insanely Productive People [Medium]
Microsoft Tells Employees That They Can Work From Home Permanently [Entrepreneur]
Put Trump’s Tweets on a Time Delay - Twitter has announced new changes to combat misinformation. It should go further by checking and flagging the president’s tweets—before they wreak havoc. [WIRED]
Hands-On Wellness 27 - Tech for Sinus Pain [TWIT]
Can You Actually Game in 8K (RTX 3090 Gameplay!) [MKBHD]
Instagram Reels Got Updated, TikTok Still Better [Sam Sheffer]
The House makes its move - The good, the bad, and the gridlock in Congress’ big antitrust report [Platformer by Casey Newton]
The New Google Pixel 5! [Dave Lee]
My favorite noise canceling headphones! Sony WH-1000XM4 [iJustine]
Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model [Microsoft]
Toshiba joins Azure Quantum, providing Ising machine to solve large combinatorial optimization problems [Microsoft Quantum]
Signs and Wonders - Reading the literature of past plagues and suddenly seeing our present reflected in a mirror. [Lapham’s Quarterly]
Why astronomy is considered the oldest science [Astronomy magazine]
Betting on a Vaccine Soon? Consider These 3 Potential Outcomes [Salesforce]
Sony Confirms PS4 to PS5 Save Transfers, Reveals Incompatible PS4 Games [IGN]
Best Buy Black Friday Sale Will Compete With Amazon Prime Day [GameSpot]
Cyberpunk Red, tabletop RPG and prequel to Cyberpunk 2077, out in November [Polygon]
Why the MLS playoffs need to be in a bubble [SB Nation]
Formula 1: Fog prevents Eifel Grand Prix practice [BBC Sport]
Manchester United Tactical Analysis: What the hell is going on? [The Busby Babe]
Talking about race is not optional [Ohio State Alumni Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 211 & BENKYO RADIO 211. There’s also LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 043. I can’t believe that we only have 24 more days until the Election. I want to remind you that we need to be patient, since they will have to count all the mailing ballots, which may take weeks. In any case, we must go away from the Trump nightmare. He is not fit to be President. People knew this for a long time, they were unwilling to speak out. I am very glad that Keith Olbermann is sounding the alarm and resumed his YouTube series. Every time that I get upset about working for free, I get reminded that I am not the only one. There are many people working, desperately working for their next paycheck or stimulus check. I can’t wait to read John O. Brennan’s book which essentially says that the Intelligence Community is working extremely hard to avoid a 2016-style Russian hack of the 2020 Presidential Election, and since today is World Mental Health Day, I am going to read a Zen book that Kevin Rose mentioned on his podcast.

Stay safe, boys & girls, we can do this. Only just a little longer to go. Don’t forget to watch the 43 episodes of GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka. A story about a Substitute Teacher with a dark past whom students can’t wait to get him fired but then beg him to get them out of trouble. He takes care of the bullies, whether there are boy or girl. The students forget that teachers are human beings too. He explains to them that they can’t say teachers are losers and then call them Teacher when they need help. The story talks about nerdy boys whom mean girls make his life miserable in Middle School, so much that he wanted to kill himself. Onizuka saves his life and tells him not to worry, he will make school learning fun. Later in the show, the mean girls who hate Onizuka gets kidnapped by dirty old men who want to videotape them and he comes to their rescue, even though they treated Onizuka like shit. Onizuka not only gets fired, but saves the day. The expression: “don’t judge a book by its cover” is very important when it comes to Onizuka.

Don’t forget to watch the South Park Pandemic Special!

I saw a picture about a kids classroom. In Yemen. There was no classroom. They were sitting in the dirt, in a building which was destroyed by rockets. I want you to picture that setting, and please stop complaining about online classes from now on.

Welp, I’m gonna make more coffee, and eat some sunflower seeds, because I have more writing to do.

Wear a mask! Use social-distancing! Use hand-sanitizer!

Until next time!