FIA Activity Report 2019 [FIA]
Beatport celebrates the launch of its new Organic House category with a 12-hour stream from some of the genre’s most accomplished selectors. The livestream will take place on Friday, July 17, starting at 5:00 PM CEST. [beatportal]
Find out how Casio Music’ accidentally invented digital reggae’ and inspired Pulp’s Common People as it celebrates 40 years of synths and keyboards [Computer Music]
Less is more: the beginner’s guide to minimal dance music [Future Music]
Greek government must end lockdown for locked up people on Greek islands [MSF]
Education may be our best crime-prevention strategy if we cherish black lives, according to Roland Fryer, a Harvard economist [The Economist]
Will virtual-reality gyms let us work out in the pandemic? [1843 magazine]
Update Your DE&I Playbook [Harvard Business Review]
Child vaccinations fall sharply amid pandemic, UN says [BBC News]
Amid Covid-19, We Must Rebuild With a Purpose [Bloomberg]
Fauci calls White House criticism of him bizarre, says ‘let’s stop this nonsense’ and fight coronavirus [Reuters]
LA teachers demand better technology ahead of remote school year [AL-Jazeera News]
How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic [The New Yorker]
Apple is launching its own daily news podcast to compete with The Daily and others [The Verge]
Hospitals are running out of staff, supplies, and beds for Covid-19 patients — and this time could be worse [Vox]
Gmail for G Suite gets deep integrations with Chat, Meet, Rooms and more [TechCrunch]
How to talk to conspiracy theorists—and still be kind [MIT Technology Review]
Op-Ed: This is how structural racism works [Business Insider]
‘Nervously optimistic’ : Democrats eye blue wave but 2016 memories are fresh [The Guardian]
Russian Hackers Trying to Steal Coronavirus Vaccine Research, Intelligence Agencies Say [The New York Times]
Progressives Push Biden To Include New Israel-Palestine Language In Democratic Platform [Huffington Post] #TwoStateSolution
Country Music Can No Longer Hide Its Problems [The Atlantic]
Why It Took So Long For Politicians To Treat The Child Care Crisis As A Crisis [FiveThirtyEight]
If Washington picks Red Tails, Tuskegee Airmen nonprofit wants to make sure it’s done right [The Washington Post]
14-Juillet : une cérémonie militaire réduite, qui rend hommage à ceux qui ont lutté contre le coronavirus [Le Monde]
Everything you need to know about NBC’s Peacock [Mashable]
NASA: Alien Life is ‘Highest Planetary Protection Priority’ for Mars Missions [VICE]
‘Where are living in a different world’: Scenes from a drive across America [NatGeo]
The Greatest Journey of All Time [Nautilus]
Twitter Hack Under Investigation By FBI and New York State [NPR] #Elections2020
No, The Supreme Court Did Not Strike Down Voting-By-Mail [CapRadioNews]
Les forces de l’ordre social [Le Monde diplomatique]
Trump’s New Director of National Intelligence Doesn’t Understand His Job - John Ratcliffe, a Trump loyalist without intelligence experience, sees his job as helping the president and undermining the intelligence community. [Foreign Policy]
The Racist Origins of U.S. Policing - Demilitarization Will Require Decolonization [Foreign Affairs]
75 Years After Trinity: The Human Cost of Nuclear Tests [The Diplomat]
The China Problem [The Cipher Brief]
Voici un gros plan du détecteur à pixels de @ATLASexperiment, qui a été installé à ATLAS lors du premier arrêt prolongé. Rappelons que c’est grâce au LS1 entre 2013 et 2015 que le LHC s’est transformé en la bête a 13 TeV que nous connaissons et aimons: [CERN_FR]
ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter Returns First Data, Snaps Closest Pictures of the Sun [NASA]
Operation in the Middle East and North Africa targets pharmaceutical crime [INTERPOL]
Japan’s F-35 Buy Advances to Congress as Tokyo Presses Ahead with ‘F-X’ [Air Force Magazine]

Hello there! These triple-digit temperatures are tough. While many of you might complain while being indoors, I want you to think hard about a minority group that is left underappreciated during COVID-19, and that is, the Latino community. In Agriculture, many of them pick up our vegetables and fruits, yet don’t receive the same benefits as the rest of the population. They spend billions in our economy but many of them didn’t receive their stimulus checks, and that simply is not fair. I want you to write to your congressmen/congresswomen, senators, and governors, and demand that they get their stimulus checks. Can you imagine picking up fruits & vegetables in 100F weather and wearing a mask? C’mon y’all, we can’t all sing and dance about Jesus and not treat all people with some decency. Let’s get real. That’s straight up racism. If you think all Latinos are gangsters but then you don’t let their kids have the DACA Dream Act so they can go to college and get an education, then you’re a racist piece of shit. They have just as much as a right to the American Dream as the rest of the population. Can’t we all just get along?

I want everybody to take voting seriously. We are 3.5 months away from the Elections 2020. Due to the Electoral College, we might lose. Therefore, you gotta vote, your family & friends have to vote, and you have to raise awareness about voting. C’mon y’all. Organizations like SOS Vote are awesome because they encourage young voters to vote for the very first time. Don’t fall into despair. We can beat Trump. We just need the numbers. Joe Biden must win, and must implement many Bernie Sanders policies.

The Thomas Piketty documentary on Income Inequality is available in North America. I suggest you watch it asap.

I’m rewatching Little Mosque on the Prairie. It’s pretty hilarious. I really think we can figure out many global problems. All these religious leaders need to just get together in a Slack channel and figure things out. You can preach about Jesus, or the Prophet, or whoever and not take care of those in need. The coronavirus really shed a light on that. The reason we have to stop by the food bank and drop off some cans of soup is because you never know when you’re the one who may need cans of soup.

I along many others are looking forward to an end to the war in Afghanistan, but I still prefer Richard Haass’ point of view. Focus on Peace Process, don’t forget about Women of Afghanistan, and leave a small presence so that Talibans don’t rebuild a new version of ISIS. Also, I know Secretary of State makes his statements here and there, but it’s time to stop beating around the bush. Let’s state what every Spec Ops is thinking. The word ISIS sounds too much like Pakistan’s ISI. That means that there are folks in ISI who help out ISIS. So that means the Pakistani Government better deal with this shit because Specs Ops has Carte Blanche to deal with these fuckers. This war in Afghanistan has been going on for almost 20 fucking years. It needs to come to an end, but in the right way.

The Dalai Lama album on Spotify is superb. It’s very calming, and great for meditation.

I’ve read an article about a Psychologist who explains why we “rewatch” our favorite TV shows, especially during difficult times. I suggest you read this, and it will remind you that you’re not crazy for rewatching your favorite series.

There was a new Ubisoft event about some exciting new games, be sure to check it out.

Until next time!