Why French women no longer wear high heels [The Economist]

Cornel West’s quixotic presidential bid holds dangers for Joe Biden [1843 magazine]

How might the Colorado verdict affect Donald Trump’s presidential campaign? [The Economist Podcasts]

Increased support for third parties in South Korea sheds light on its political scene. Understand the current polarisation with EIU's analysis: http://econgrp.co/da [The EIU]

US says 'serious negotiations' taking place on new Gaza truce [BBC News]

Don’t Give In to Gloom About Ukraine [Bloomberg]

Social media platform X back up after global outage [Reuters]

Why the war on Gaza is not making Israel safer [AL-Jazeera News]

Columbia Suspended Pro-Palestine Student Groups. The Faculty Revolted [New Yorker]

The Verge’s 2023 in review [The Verge]

How mindfulness went mainstream [Vox]

Consumer Reports says Tesla’s Autopilot recall fix is ‘insufficient’ [TechCrunch]

Four trends that changed AI in 2023 [MIT Technology Review]

Business Insider banned from this blog due to the $1 trillion demand puff piece on Ukraine the other week (#MilitaryIndustrialComplex)

From “summarize this email” to “write this in Japanese,” 11 Microsoft executives share how they use AI prompts to save time and boost creativity: https://msft.it/6049iuniD [LinkedIn]

Fighting terrorism did not mean Israel had to ‘flatten Gaza’, says Emmanuel Macron [The Guardian] you see that? that’s a guy who knows how to use the right words

Is It Bad to Eat Late at Night? [New York Times]

The Most Common COVID Symptoms Doctors Are Seeing This Holiday Season [Huffington Post]

Winter Illness This Year Is a Different Kind of Ugly

Facing down simultaneous surges of flu, COVID, and RSV, most Americans still aren’t getting the vaccines that could temper the worst effects. [The Atlantic]

A white couple who burned a cross in their yard facing Black neighbors' home are investigated by FBI [FiveThirtyEight]

U.N. gridlock on Gaza continues amid U.S. objections [The Washington Post]

Yotam Ottolenghi : « Une cuisine n’est jamais figée »

Le chef anglo-israélien, à la tête de sept établissements à Londres, envisage d’ouvrir un restaurant traiteur à Paris. Et réédite son best-seller « Jérusalem », coécrit avec le Palestinien Sami Tamimi. Une ode à une cuisine de métissage. [Le Monde] #TwoStateSolution

Spacecraft sends back unusual view of Earth and the moon [Mashable]

Amazon Is Trying to Stop a Lawsuit From Drivers Who Peed In Bottles From Going to Court [VICE News]

WATCH: A CONVERSATION ON THE HORRORS IN GAZA WITH JEREMY SCAHILL AND SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS

Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill and journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous discuss the U.S. role in Israel’s scorched-earth campaign to annihilate Gaza. [The Intercept_]

What is the winter solstice? Here’s what you need to know. [National Geographic]

After 38 years on the job, Santa Luke still has time for everyone. Yes, you too [NPR]

Music is medicine at some Sacramento County hospitals [CapRadioNews]

Préférence nationale, un remède de charlatan [Le Monde diplomatique] #NonAuFN

The Self-Doubting Superpower: America Shouldn’t Give Up on the World It Made [Foreign Affairs]

Academic review serves as cover for CCP investment in Afghanistan [Intelligence Online]

Is the US Military Learning the Wrong Lessons About Drones? [The Diplomat]

The Year in Computer Science [Quanta Magazine]

BLOGPOST UPDATE IN PROGRESS

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1046 & BENKYO RADIO 1046. President Biden had made a huge gaffe by agreeing with Netanyahu. This was early December. Unfortunately, it will take until late December to realize that was a grave mistake. The entire planet is against Netanyahu, and demand that he is placed in prison by the ICC for war crimes in the Palestine Territories.

Until Next Time!