Dance Like Nobody’s Watching: Why GTA’s Virtual Clubs Have Saved Dance Fans [beatportal] #welovedancemusic
The best free VST synth plugins 2020: wavetable, FM, virtual analogue and more [Computer Music]
Ólafur Arnalds: "This might sound like new age mumbo jumbo, but there’s a layer to music that we don’t hear, we just feel" [Future Music]
Watch Festival Sets from Faithless, The Prodigy, David Guetta, More For Free on New Year’s Eve [DJ Mag]
Chemical Brothers share New Mix to Celebrate the Festive Season [Mixmag]
A comprehensive version of Daft Punk’s ‘TRON: Legacy’ soundtrack just hit streaming platforms, bonus tracks and all [Dancing Astronaut]
Madeon Uploads Emotional Live Acoustic Set for the Holidays [Your EDM]
A new coronavirus variant may derail pandemic-control efforts [The Economist]
Oysters in France, KFC in Japan... do they know it’s Christmas? [1843 magazine]
HBR Readers Reflect on 2020 [Harvard Business Review]
Christmas celebrations to go ahead in Bethlehem, Palestine [BBC World]
America Isn’t Finished Paying for Trump’s Incompetence [Bloomberg Opinion]
Exclusive: For years, the Pentagon sits on racial discrimination survey data [Reuters]
Japan sets record military budget with stealth fighters, missiles [AL-Jazeera News]
The Veterans Organizing to Stop Trumpism [The New Yorker] #veterans
Twitter is publicly declaring Joe Biden the winner of the US election — on Trump’s own tweets [The Verge]
Congress has finally reached a deal on coronavirus stimulus [Vox]
This game is the closest you’ll come to a club all year and it’s $20 off today [INPUT]
20 Stunning Space Images of 2020 [INVERSE]
This app shows how little of your Spotify subscription costs actually went to artists [Mic] Note: I’ve been curating for years and I have received $0.
Dozens of journalists’ iPhones hacked with Israeli’s NSO ‘zero-click’ spyware, says Citizen Lab [TechCrunch]
Technology can help us feed the world, if we look beyond profit [MIT Technology Review]
A growing number of countries are banning flights from the UK to protect their citizens from the new variant of fast-spreading coronavirus [Business Insider]
Trickle-down economics doesn't work but build-up does – is Biden listening? [The Guardian] #republicans have been lying to us all along
How We Survive Winter [The New York Times]
19 French Holiday Recipes You'll Actually Want To Try This Christmas [BuzzFeed] #French
What It’s Like Teaching On Zoom To Students I’ve Never Met, And Often Not Seen Or Heard [Huffington Post]
The Virus Is Showing Black People What They Knew All Along - COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate by race, yet it has still laid bare the brutality of racism in the United States. [The Atlantic]
Dr. Fauci On When Life Will Return To ‘Normal’ [FiveThirtyEight]
Trump calls on Congress to approve $2,000 stimulus checks, hinting he might not sign relief bill without changes [The Washington Post]
Quel est le calendrier de la vaccination contre le Covid-19 en France ? Après le feu vert donné mardi par la Commission européenne, la campagne vaccinale devrait débuter dimanche. Elle se fera en trois étapes principales. [Le Monde]
Researchers found a superhighway that could speed up Solar System travel [Mashable]
Why We Need Quantum Tech In Space to Fight Climate Change - Classical Earth observations are reaching their limit, so scientists are probing fundamental physics in space to understand our planet's complexity. [Motherboard by VICE] #ClimateChange
Trump Is Finally Realizing that the GOP Is Abandoning Him [VICE News]
Exposing Boy Scouts Sex Abuse Turned Into Battle of Press Freedom against Powerful Interests [The Intercept]
Is joy the same in every language? [Nat Geo]
The Sight of Jupiter and Saturn Together Is a Beautiful Thing [Nautilus] #Astronomy
'My Bank Account Has $4': Pandemic Has Left Millions Of Livelihoods In Limbo [NPR] #IncomeInequality
Sacramento Holiday Charity Guide 2020: How COVID-19 Has Changed Needs This Year [CapRadioNews]
Le couscous fait l’union [Le Monde diplomatique]
The End of the Road for Bibidi Netanyahu? [Foreign Policy] #corruption
Democratic Values Are a Competitive Advantage - The Contest With Authoritarianism Requires the United States to Understand Its Strengths [Foreign Affairs]
Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Coming Biden Presidency [The Diplomat]
A New US Approach to the Muslim World [The Cipher Brief]
The New History of the Milky Way [Quanta magazine]
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The ‘Great’ Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn [NASA]
INTERPOL – Terrorist groups using COVID-19 to reinforce power and influence [INTERPOL]
Brown: ‘Shame on Us’ if Military Diversity Efforts Falter [Air Force Magazine]
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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 232 & BENKYO RADIO 232. I’ve also included LAMBDA/QUANTUM/GT/TECHNO RADIO 052.
THERE IS ONLY LESS THAN ONE MONTH LEFT UNTIL BIDEN TAKES OVER. I can’t believe it. It’s been so long! Alright, so right now, everybody in Congress is fighting Senator Mitch McConnell, who unlike many Americans who sworn their oath to the U.S. Constitution, he has does so for the Dark Side. He is a Sith Lord. He is keeping Stimulus Checks away from millions of Americans. It’s almost as if everybody in Congress is waiting for something. What the fuck are they waiting for? Who the hell didn’t turn in their report on time? Everybody is like WHEN IN THE FUCK are we going to get our Stimulus Checks, and extended unemployment! Every other western nations is laughing at the United States. We are supposed to be the Greatest Nation on Earth. Well, we don’t act like it. It appears that everybody is still too scared to touch the taboo topic of the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex / #WarEconomy. America needs to deal with the risks from Russia and China. Stop trying to call Iran a threat. You need to help its population provide leadership that has moderate Islam, like in Qatar/UAE. Iran needed to be respected by agreeing to the 2015 Nuclear Deal. By fucking that up, the Trump Administration ruined relationships. That is why we need to restore relations with the Biden Administration. Let diplomats do their work. Diplomats read a lot. Diplomats write a lot. So whenever Trump starts tweeting, it really fucks a lot of things up.
I want to thank Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. for his words on #BLM. Growing up, I was the only brown kid in many of my classrooms. I always had to deal with the expression “stop acting so white” and I hated it. Here I was, working hard, doing everything in my power to better the lives of many. To get people to understand the importance of getting an education. Kids need to stop thinking Meek Mill is the answer to your problems. He makes millions of dollars. If you do a motorcross in the hood, then you go back home. Do you make millions of dollars? No. So what are you going to do? Dealing out there on the streets? During a pandemic? Y’all need to get an education. Remember LeBron James “I PROMISE” philosophy. You need to promise yourself to finish school. Whatever the fuck you want to do, is up to you, but you need an education. Don’t think that the Hollywood industry is always there for you. Did you see how they build up Britney Spears only to destroy her? Do you think the Music industry will be kind to Lady Gaga before her Amy Winehouse phase in 5 years? The reason why I live by the Dave Chappelle motto is because he was fucking sick and tired, and wanted to be left alone. They made him work, and gave him a little bit of cash. Then they said “fuck you” and just put all of his content on a loop. That’s right.
Alright, on a little happier note, it’s Christmas, so hopefully you were good, so that Santa Claus brings you some presents. Remember, kids. Don’t be sad if you don’t get a PS5. Hell, I don’t have a PS5. And I have intense important work to do. You need to reflect on the year 2020. What did you want for Christmas? I wanted a family. I got that now. I am very happy. As far as the demeanor of depression from the COVID-19 pandemic, I will stay strong for another couple of months, until the third-round of vaccination goes through (people with pre-existing conditions).
I’m gonna read Matthew McConaughey’s new book, but it’s pretty sad he doesn’t understand Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution movement. Remember kids, the stars of our favorite movies are great, but the real people who do those things, they’re greater. I like Interstellar, and watching the stars at night, but my podcast, JETLAG RADIO, including a song about Saturn, and broadcasting my radio signal in outer space, years before NASA realized there were 2 dozen more moons, for a total of 82. That’s a whole lot fucking more amazing.
TENET came out on Bluray! It’s great to watch multiple times and find all the easter eggs. I wonder how Christopher Nolan got the inspiration to write the driving scenes. If he got his inspiration from someone and didn’t pay him. I’m sure it will backfire. He’s a great director, so I’m sure he will do the right thing.
I hope everybody in Cincinnati enjoyed their early Christmas present. The Bengals won a game in prime time against the Steelers. WoW.
This holiday season I will be thinking hard about the Palestinians people who have been ignored by the world, simply because they are not White. It’s very sad.
I look forward to hearing from many leaders, who are looking towards a Peace Plan in Afghanistan. There are a few more months until the month of May. It must take place. Without forgetting the women and children of that country, of course.
Happy Birthday to the Space Force which is one year old just the other day!
Oh yeah, and fuck Harley Quinn. New Batman movie out next year.
Also, you may love or hate your bestfriend, but he’s still your bestfriend. Same goes for your teammates. There may be frictions, but at the end of the day, the job needs to get done. Think Naruto and Sasuke.
I wonder why all these startups are fleeing to Texas and Florida. I mean are they that really greedy that they don’t want to pay their taxes? They make billions of dollars so they can’t pay a few dollars in taxes? As for Florida, it’s going to be underwater in a few years due to Climate Change.
The Mandalorian Season 2 was amazing! Looking forward to Season 3 next year!
Happy 23rd year anniversary to Gran Turismo!
Time to drink some coffee and eat some chocolate!
The new NBA season started! Let’s go, Cavs!
Don’t forget my usual PSA: It’s the holidays, so drive safe. Drink a 0.0% alcoholic beer, ALWAYS wear a seatbelt, the holidays are great, but only if we come home in one piece. Don’t do it just for yourself, think of your loved ones.