Meet the Winner of Beatport’s 2021 Global Producer Challenge [beatportal]
Focusrite Clarett+ USB audio interfaces announced: is this “premium” range ageing like a fine wine? [Computer Music]
Reason Studios Reason 12 review [Future Music]
1 in 3 have experienced discrimination on the dancefloor, new report finds [DJ Mag]
What Do Your Parents Think? 4 South Asian DJs Share Their Family’s Reception to a Music Career [Mixmag]
Swedish House Mafia to make their MTV VMAs debut [Dancing Astronaut]
Steve Aoki & Armin van Buuren Rinse Out New Collab ID “Music Means Love Forever” [Your EDM]
Odesza Confirm New Music in 2022 [EDM.com]
Tungevaag x Bassjackers - “Written in The Stars” [EDM Sauce]
Modern Finance on Twitter [Modern.Finance]
Hey, HODINKEE! Winding Weirdness, Watch Wear Wisdom, And Heirloom Watches, Part Deux [HODINKEE]
Henry Shukman — Zen, Tools for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Using Wounds as the Doorway (#531) [tim.blog]
Reminder: Twelve and a Half: GaryVee’s upcoming new book [GaryVee]
Afghanistan: Medical needs grow as international organizations suspend activities [MSF]
Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalises abortion [The Economist]
Hard acts to follow, from Angela Merkel to the Queen [1843 magazine]
Rediscover Joy at Work [Harvard Business Review]
Nxivm sex cult co-founder Nancy Salzman sentenced to prison [BBC News]
Teachers Drowning in Debt [Bloomberg]
Taliban interim government agrees to let foreigners leave Afghanistan [Reuters]
Taliban must allow departures from Afghanistan, Blinken says [AL-Jazeera News]
Putin’s Crackdown on the Press [The New Yorker]
Razer’s Basilisk V3 has more LEDs and a brilliant scroll wheel [The Verge]
Democrats have a high-risk, high-reward plan to save Roe v. Wade [Vox]
‘The Matrix Resurrections’ is returning to a world the original film predicted and shaped [Mic]
This AI program will create a mashup DJ set from any songs you want [INPUT]
NBA Live Goes Free-to-Play? One Major Force is Stopping EA [INVERSE]
Sony Brought Its PlayStation A-Game Today [Kotaku]
7 Clever Ways You Can Use Your French Press (Other Than Making Coffee) [LifeHacker]
Twitter wants you to tweet to interest-based communities, not just followers [TechCrunch]
NASA’s Perseverance rover finally scooped up a piece of Mars [MIT Technology Review]
Senate Democrats weigh extending Biden's monthly $300 checks to families to 2024 in $3.5 trillion social spending plan [Insider]
Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11 [The Guardian]
Trump Wants Your Money. Again. [The New York Times]
Obama Enters CA Fray: No on Recall [Huffington Post]
After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong [The Atlantic]
2021 NFL Predictions [FiveThirtyEight]
After Ida, New Orleans residents find a source of hope: The ‘hurricane station’ — At the radio station that also remained on air through Katrina, hosts are sleeping in the office to broadcast round-the-clock. For many people in this powerless city, it’s a lifeline. [The Washington Post]
« Les attentats du 13-Novembre sont le point d’orgue du djihadisme européen, qui s’est structuré à partir du 11-Septembre » [Le Monde]
'Steve from 'Blue's Clues' returned and fans are coming to terms with growing up [Mashable]
Something Unexplained Is Sending Radio Signals From Our Galaxy's Center [VICE News]
General Failure: How the U.S. Military Lied About the 9/11 Wars [The Intercept_]
How harnessing the powers of venom could lead to new medicines [Nat Geo]
Biden Lays Out Plan To Mandate Vaccines Or Testing For Millions Of Workers [NPR]
Kamala Harris Headlines California Rally As Democrats Link Recall To National Battles [CapRadioNews]
Tout était pourtant écrit [Le Monde diplomatique]
How the U.S. Got 9/11 Wrong — The lone superpower inadvertently taught the rest of the world how to fight it—and win. [Foreign Policy]
Sound and Fury in the Post-9/11 Middle East [Foreign Affairs]
Don’t Underestimate Tajikistan in the Afghanistan Crisis [The Diplomat]
What the CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism Looks Like Now [The Cipher Brief]
How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron? [Quanta magazine]
Elémentaire mon cher Sheldon Right-pointing 🔎 #ThrowbackThursday avec une conférence de Sheldon Glashow en 1979. — Sheldon Glashow a reçu le @NobelPrize de Physique avec Abdus Salam et Steven Weinberg pour leur travail sur les particules élémentaires. [CERN_FR]
NASA Innovations Will Help U.S. Meet Sustainable Aviation Goals [NASA]
Good to meet with @DHSgov Deputy John Tien during the #G7 Ministerial. The US is one of INTERPOL’s strongest partners in our united action to combat all forms of transnational crime and terrorism. [INTERPOL]
Austin Warns Al-Qaida May Reemerge in a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan [Air Force Magazine]
Focused on strategic competition, Air Force Secretary Kendall confident “One Team, One Fight” will lead to success [Airman Magazine]
Tesla Model S Plaid Finally Set The Nurburgring Record For Production EVs [JALOPNIK]

BLOGPOST UPDATE IN PROGRESS

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 354 & BENKYO RADIO 354.

As I impatiently wait for my next copy of Thomas Piketty’s latest book on equality (it talks a lot about income inequality throughout history), I have finally researched what the evil organization that is ruling the world. They have about $9 Trillion in assets, and they are called “BlackRock.” They basically own Wall Street. That’s what Showtime’s BILLIONS show is based on. I thought it was based on Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos, but those two are pistachios compared to “BlackRock.” I would like news organizations such as VICE News and The Intercept to please make new documentaries about this craziness, and why I had never heard of them before since just now. Thank you.

Please submit your ballot in the mail! Vote NO on the Recall on Gavin Newsom! We cannot afford another Trump-like figure to be in charge of California! They would destroy any progress we’ve made to defeat the COVID-19 virus and its mutations.

I’m listening to NPR lately, here is a new Throughline podcast episode about Afghanistan.

The new Matrix trailer is out! Remember, it’s just a movie. “Zion” is not suffering, but the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are. Israel has plenty access to COVID-19 vaccines. Palestinians do not. THAT is what’s REAL.

Get vaccinated! Wear a mask! Practice social-distancing! Wash your hands!

Until Next Time!