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Nice, Dad

Splice Today 

Last week I saw the trailer for India Donaldson’s Good One for the first time. Running before Blink Twice, at first it looked like a cookie-cutter dad/daughter quiet crisis movie, but halfway through some boys are introduced, and it becomes really ambiguous, never quite tipping over into the absurd lurches of other trailers that first suggest a comedy and then a horror movie—it’s all in intonation and gesture, the way James Le Gros asks of his daughter Lily Collias, “Can’t we just have a good day?” That line is what Good One is about... Читать дальше...

AI not a job killer, would make workers more efficient, says experts

Business Standard 

Imagine a customer-service center that speaks your language, no matter what it is. Alorica, a company in Irvine, California, that runs customer-service centres around the world, has introduced an artificial intelligence translation tool that lets its representatives talk with customers who speak 200 different languages and 75 dialects. So an Alorica representative who speaks, say, only Spanish can field a complaint about a balky printer or an incorrect bank statement from a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. Читать дальше...

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli protesters block roads while hospitals and banks hit by walkouts - The Telegraph

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  1. Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli protesters block roads while hospitals and banks hit by walkouts  The Telegraph
  2. Rachel Goldberg-Polin at funeral of murdered hostage son Hersh: 'My sweet boy, finally you're free'  The Times of Israel
  3. Israel’s first nationwide strike starts amid anger over handling of hostage talks  The Guardian
  4. General strike paralyses much of Israel after hostage deaths trigger protests  Financial Times
  5. Will Israel’s protests shake Netanyahu’s hold on power? Читать дальше...

The Lies of Anti-Zionism

Splice Today 

The imprecision of a certain kind of phrasemaker is like the work of a veteran watchmaker: evidence of design. The apparent fastidiousness of one, of the watchmaker who builds and tests and finishes each part, doesn’t negate the maliciousness of the other. On the contrary, because the phrasemaker uses words the way the watchmaker uses parts, because each word has a specific place and a specific purpose, the resultant movement is no accident. Because the movement is cheap and inaccurate, because... Читать дальше...

News24 | Sibanye slumps after warning of R7.5bn in US writedowns

News24.com 

Shares of diversified mining giant Sibanye Stillwater slumped more than 5% on Monday morning after it warned it crashed into a basic loss in its six months to end June, hit by R7.5 billion in write downs to its US platinum group metals (PGM) business.

Euro zone factories stuck in a rut as Asia shows tentative signs of recovery - Reuters

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  1. Euro zone factories stuck in a rut as Asia shows tentative signs of recovery  Reuters
  2. French and German factories ‘going downhill fast’, economists warn  The Telegraph
  3. Downturn in German manufacturing accelerates, PMI shows  Yahoo Finance
  4. Germany August final manufacturing PMI 42.4 vs 42.1 prelim  ForexLive
  5. Why is European manufacturing still in such a critical state?  Euronews

How the far right mobilised the new Germany - The New Statesman

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  1. How the far right mobilised the new Germany  The New Statesman
  2. Subscribe to read  Financial Times
  3. German Extremist Gains Are a Gift for Vladimir Putin  Bloomberg
  4. Scholz urges German parties to exclude far right as AfD poised for state election victory  The Guardian

Ramaphosa recommits to political, economic ties with Jinping ahead of China-Africa Summit

Engineeringnews.co.za 

Ahead of the ninth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (Focac) Summit, on Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Beijing, on Monday, where Ramaphosa reaffirmed South Africa and China’s “mutually beneficial political and economic ties”. Speaking at a welcome ceremony held for him, Ramaphosa expressed delight in Jinping’s proposal to upgrade China’s Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to an All-Round Strategic Cooperative Partnership with South Africa.