The president appoints modern France’s youngest prime minister [The Economist]

AI is quickly becoming a matter of national technological sovereignty [The Economist Podcasts]

More than 100 reported killed in Gaza as Blinken urges protection for civilians [BBC News]

You Don’t Need More Resilience. You Need Friends. And Money. [Bloomberg]

Blinken brings Arab message to Israel: keep hope of Palestinian state alive [Reuters]

Ukraine defence ministry audit uncovers more than $200m in corruption [AL-Jazeera News] ah, interesting, you have time to siphon $200 million dollars, but you do not have $80K-$120K to give me a new vehicle to help me write more reports to help strategizing #NATO winning this war. Okay. Let’s wait for the #Ukraine President (Comedian)’s next speech. Let’s also focus on Israel/Palestine, and the Afghanistan Winter.

Has School Become Optional? [New Yorker]

CES 2024: all the TVs, laptops, smart home gear, and more from the show floor [The Verge]

Why so many kids are still missing school [Vox]

Strictly VC [TechCrunch]

The hidden climate cost of everything around us [MIT Technology Review]

Why kombucha makers spend millions to make the drink less boozy [Business Insider]

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. [LinkedIn] #ThriveGlobal #MondayMotivation

Nasa Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon’s surface due to fuel leak [The Guardian]

How Remote Jobs, Technology and New Attitudes Are Redefining the “Office” [The New York Times]

Where To Travel In Japan Besides Tokyo [Huffington Post]

How Ukraine Must Change If It Wants to Win [The Atlantic]

No sleep till Iowa | FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast [FiveThirtyEight]

How many books did you read in 2023? See how you stack up! [The Washington Post]

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal: The spectacular rise of a Macron stalwart [Le Monde]

CES 2024: Gamers, get ready for the rise of the AI NPCs [Mashable]

GOP Lawmakers Reveal They Don’t Know How Launching Nukes Works Amid Defense Secretary Health Crisis [VICE News] neither sides want to launch Nuclear Weapons, that’s why it’s called M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction). Anytime someone is dumb enough try to launch a nuke, Batman magically shows up out of nowhere and magically prevents someone from turning on the key while fighting down a dozen armed personnel. Just like the WATCHMEN sequel DOOMSCLOCK comic book.

Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows [The Intercept_] #Gaza #PalestineGenocide

How to visit Japan's shrines and temples—with respect [National Geographic]

Will the feds block a grocery megamerger? Kroger and Albertsons will soon find out [NPR]

Sacramento State president preparing for faculty strike, continued CapRadio audits as 2024 starts [CapRadioNews]

Vers un droit international de la grève ? [Le Monde diplomatique]

5 Reasons the Israel-Palestine Conflict Won’t End Any Time Soon [Foreign Policy]

Why Gaza Matters. Since Antiquity, the Territory Has Shaped the Quest for Power in the Middle East [Foreign Affairs]

Many Questions Remain About the Afghan Fund, and Its Frozen $3.5 Billion [The Diplomat] well isn’t that just great, over $3.5 Billion sent to Israel every year, what do they do? They perform a genocide towards Palestine. Over 30,000 dead in less than 2 months. Meanwhile there’s a very dangerous Winter in Afghanistan which can result in the Great Depression similar to what happened in the United States. If I’m at the State Department, after I take a shit, and I return to my desk, I tell Secretary Blinken, I think Zack/Zaki knows what the fuck he’s talking about, maybe we should listen to him while millions of Afghan women don’t have money and wake up in the morning to beg for bread for their families.

Mathematicians Identify the Best Versions of Iconic Shapes [Quanta Magazine]

Voici FLOTUS, l’expérience qui étudie les interactions entre les rayons cosmiques et les particules d’aérosols afin de mieux comprendre les mécanismes en jeu dans la formation des aérosols et des nuages, et leur effet sur le climat. [CERN_FR]

January’s Night Sky Notes: Connecting the ‘Dots’ with Asterisms [NASA]

BLOGPOST UPDATE IN PROGRESS

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1074 & BENKYO RADIO 1074. Now, if you haven’t seen the movie “The Breadwinner” from Netflix, watch it on streaming. For some reason, there haven’t been many other movies about Afghanistan in animated form. Let’s hope they make more of those movies soon.

Until Next Time!