Watch The Feeling of Being Close to You: How to Forgive Your Mother | The New Yorker Documentary

Watch The Feeling of Being Close to You: How to Forgive Your Mother | The New Yorker Documentary |Pacific Updates

[ad_1] [speaking in Chinese] [Mother] Okay. [speaking in Chinese] [Mother] Okay. [speaking in Chinese] [child giggling] [static crackling] [child screaming indistinctly] [speaking in Chinese] [Father] You are the VIP. [speaking in Chinese] [Father] Okay, ready? 1. 2. 3. ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to Goh…

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Israel’s Transformative Protest Movement | The New Yorker

Israel’s Transformative Protest Movement | The New Yorker |Pacific Updates

[ad_1] Moments after Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, on Sunday night, a message circulated on Israeli WhatsApp. “The dictatorship is here. We must not remain apathetic.” Each week for the past twelve weeks, Israelis of different backgrounds and persuasions had taken to the streets to protest against the government’s…

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The Data Delusion | The New Yorker

The Data Delusion | The New Yorker |Pacific Updates

[ad_1] And why bother? By the nineteen-thirties, the fantasy of technological supremacy had found its fullest expression in the Technocracy movement, which, during the Depression, vied with socialism and fascism as an alternative to capitalism and liberal democracy. “Technocracy, briefly stated, is the application of science to the social order,” a pamphlet called “Technocracy in…

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