Cinthie: “Just Because We Can’t Dance, it Doesn’t Mean the Music is Canceled” [beatportal]
The best VST EQ plugins 2020: the finest equalizers for your DAW [Computer Music]
Native Instruments releases free charity artist sound pack featuring content for Maschine, Logic, Ableton Live, Massive and more [Future Music]
TOP 100 DJS 2020 - Voting is Now Open [DJ Mag]
Statement by Secretary Michael R. Pompeo - New Humanitarian and Health Assistance Bolsters U.S. Leadership in Response to COVID-19 [USAID]
Displaced people are extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 in Iraq [MSF]
Comet NEOWISE lights up northern skies [The Economist]
The man behind Jack Reacher looks forward to a retirement of smoking and solitude [1843 magazine]
How to Call Out Racial Injustice at Work - Speaking truth to power takes courage — especially for Black (and Brown) employees [Harvard Business Review]
Ellie Goulding: “I’d just become a robot’ [BBC News]
Inequality Was Bad. The Pandemic Is Making It Worse [Bloomberg]
U.S. divided over masks, schools as coronavirus cases rise by over 70,000 again [Reuters]
The weight and pressure of American racism - For Black and Indigenous people and other persons of colour, the backbreaking weight of American racism is inescapable. [AL-Jazeera News]
John Lewis’s Legacy and America’s Redemption [The New Yorker]
Because you definitely want to watch Henry Cavill build a gaming PC [The Verge]
How a vaccine gets made, explained (to kids) [Vox]
Assessing the potential for a gig economy in education [TechCrunch]
The online battle for the mental health of service workers [MIT Technology Review]
Op-ed: Trump has stopped doing his job. No one seems to care [Business Insider]
‘The virus doesn’t care about excuses’ : US faces terrifying autumn as Covid-19 surge [The Guardian]
Christopher Nolan Says ‘Tenet’ Will Come Out This Summer. Should It? [The New York Times]
John Lewis Went Against Donald Trump When Few Democrats Would [Huffington Post]
The Song of the Summer Is in Chaos [The Atlantic]
Roberts Is The New Swing Justice. That Doesn’t Mean He’s Becoming More Liberal [FiveThirtyEight]
Listen to one of civil rights icon John Lewis’ last interviews [The Washington Post]
Pour les nouveaux bacheliers, “il y a trop d’incertitudes qui pesent sur cette rentree” [Le Monde]
How to set up parental controls on your favorite streaming sites [Mashable]
21 Terabytes of Open Source Code Is Now Stored in an Arctic Vault [Motherboard]
How Nelson Mandela fought apartheid—and why his work is not complete [Nat Geo] #TwoStateSolution in Palestine, for example
Mars Is a Second-Rate Backup Plan [Nautilus]
‘Sleepy Joe’? Trump’s Insult May Reveal Biden’s Advantage [NPR]
How a Marsh Restoration Could Help Preserve Lake Tahoe’s Famed Blue Hue [CapRadioNews]
Episode 5. Le bon plan [Le Monde diplomatique]
To Pay for the Pandemic, Dry Out the Tax Havens - Corporations and the wealthy have stashed as much as $36 trillion in untaxed money. It’s time to bring the hammer down. [Foreign Policy] #PanamaPapers
Congress Must Protect America’s Treaties - It Is Not Too Late to Stop Trump From Abandoning Vital International Agreements [Foreign Affairs]
Remembering President Daoud’s Coup: Lessons for Afghanistan’s Future [The Diplomat]
Richard Haass- President of the Council on Foreign Relations [The Cipher Brief]
How Godel’s Proof Works - His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we’re still coming to grips with the consequences. [Quanta magazine]
De premières études ont été réalisées pour identifier des particules élémentaires ayant des charges électriques inférieures a un dixième de la charge de l’électron. Ces particules théoriques pourraient-elles résoudre le mystère de la matière noire? [CERN_FR]
How to See Comet NEOWISE [NASA]
Our colour-coded Notices enable countries to share alerts and requests for information worldwide [INTERPOL]
Air Force Cyber Weapons Factory Moves Ahead with Blockchain Project [Air Force Magazine]
Introducing the 777X - [BOEING]
Developing neural interfaces is an interdisciplinary challenge. We’re looking for people with a wide variety of expertise to join us. [NEURALINK]
Jukebox [OpenAI]
One month to go until Spa and the WEC returns to racing! [FIAWEC]
Kevin Love earns the Arthur Ashe Courage Award for his efforts to promote mental health | 2020 [ESPN YouTube]

Hello there! Here’s another report/update. Less than 1 1/2 weeks until the new TRANSFORMERS series on Netflix! I am so excited. We all work very hard, and at the end of a long week, we just want to have a nice cold beer or cocktail, and enjoy a favorite movie or TV show, in my case, I love TRANSFORMERS and I have been eagerly waiting for this series.

Coding can be fun, and you can learn a lot. Sometimes we go on sites like Codecademy, Treehouse, etc, but like everything, when you stop practicing, you forget a lot. That’s why I encourage you who are interested to get back on it. Lately I’m on Datacamp for learning Data Science. I’m also doing PM classes. Stay busy, you guys have a huge opportunity here. You’re isolated, living at home. Work on these skills. I am very happy that on top of the latest certificate I’m working on, there will be more career certificates offered by Google soon. I know many of you dread this, but remember, when everything re-opens, it’s not going to be 50-100 applicants per job postings, it’s going to be 1,000, if not more. You gotta set yourself apart from the rest of the crowd. I love all my YouTube heroes and what not, but there are very few at the top, and many are left unknown. You always need to have a backup plan. No matter what I work on, I know that my college degree, various certificates, and analytical expertise will continue to open doors. I just want to speak out to you. You who is growing up. Still young, whether still in High School, or of College age. I remember being there, all sad and depressed. Use that energy. If you spent that much energy being upset on working on yourself, sky is not the limit, you will be limitless. All it takes, is working a little bit every day. Remember what Gary Vee said (even though we disagree on many topics), he said, the magic happens not from 9-5. It’s what you do from 5pm-midnight. I’m not asking you to build a time machine, I’m just saying, if every day, you spent 1-2 hrs on whatever the hell interests you, after a year, after two year, after many years, you will look back, and be completely mesmerized by what you have accomplished. Get that routine going.

A big reminder for my readers who also deal with Mental Health, always take your medication on time if they are prescribed to you, and have therapy sessions with your psychologist regularly. I think it’s time that websites like TalkSpace offers huge discounts because many of us Americans really need a service like that. I’ve been dealing with Mental Health for a decade. I can’t even imagine what a new person must be dealing with. It must be tough and scary. There is help, therapy helps. But you must seek it.

I have a lot on my shoulders. But, remember the expression. If I have a lot on my shoulders, what about the next guy or gal who has himself or herself even more on his shoulders? And the next guy? And the next gal? Imaging leading a team of 5, 25, 50, 100, 1000? If the Captain is stressed out, how stressed out is the General? So pretty please, the next time you find that assignment or homework or project overwhelming, think about those guys/gals. You can do it, put your mind to it. Have fun with it. Have a study group. Build a community. Remember, no matter how stressed we are, imagine every doctor, nurse, and various staff in the hospital. It’s no coincidence that the show E.R. is on the top of Apple TV shows.

I hope Senator Sanders, AOC, Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Warren, and Joe Biden press for a 2nd round of Stimulus Checks, because we all need it. Also, Medicare For All must pass in Congress. There’s a damn pandemic. Stop thinking about about profiteering off sick people, millions need Healthcare. Obama, you have been put in an uncomfortable position, but you must understand that millions of us Americans are in an uncomfortable position. We go to the doctor, and it says they don’t take our health insurance. Or we have to do to a specific location. This is madness. We should be able to walk into any doctor’s office and see the doctor. The fuck is the point of having a Stealth Aircraft that can go around the globe in less than 1 hour if I can’t go get my yearly health checkup? C’mon, man.

It’s almost August. Only 4 more months until the Elections 2020. Stay strong. We need Biden to rectify all the wrongdoings of 4 years of Trump.

The Psych 2 movie was pretty good! Here’s to hoping they do a new season.

To all my favorite DJs, thank you for staying strong and still putting out music. We love you. But, those of you who keep giving the finger to the camera on your Streams, stop doing that. There’s a young generation of fans who are watching you, and they may not understand why you’re doing that, but I do. It’s because at a lot of these big shows, especially Festivals, there was many folks who sold MDMA to folks, many of them under 20. Stop doing this shit. I started to watch Euphoria on HBO, and it’s sad to see all these teenagers addicted to drugs. Let me be adamantly clear, you either love Electronic Dance Music, or you don’t. If you don’t, don’t take drugs just to make it better to listen to. Switch to another genre. Maybe you like Country. You can smoke weed (if that’s what you’re into), but goddamnit, stop glorifying this shit. I was so mad at Marshmello when he released “Been Thru This Before” pumping his chest, but then he calmed down and released “Be Kind.” I am sick and tired of folks who glorify this gangsta behavior. Life is not GTA. When you lose, you don’t start back at the checkup point. You go to jail. Drake said it best, YOLO, “you only live once.” Cherish your life. Fall in love. Start a family.

Watch Sicario. This shit is no joke. Listen to Mr. T. : “Don’t be a fool, stay in school.” The new Netflix documentary series on the topic, I’m sure, is still an important thing to watch. I just don’t think all the teenagers should be hooked up to hard drugs. We’ve all seen the before and after pictures. The weed might be alright, but the rest of the stuff, you may regret it in the long run.

Just so we’re clear, Bernie Sanders, I support your 10% paycut of the Pentagon. The military is cool, but the #militaryindustrialcomplex is not.

Joe Biden, stop taking so long to pick your VP pick. We need to increase enthusiasm in the 2020 Elections. I’m sure you’ve noticed that Black people are pissed. Police brutality must ends. A black VP pick may help with the situation. Senator Kamala Harris might be a good choice.

Michelle Obama might need to join the mix.

Welcome to a cup of coffee with Zack. The journey was long, and it continues. Check out Agility Prime, some pretty cool stuff.

Yes, I did have tuna for lunch.

Until next time!