av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 6, 2019 | Lästips
En skoltidning, en redaktör, tryckfrihet och så en historia om en ung kvinna som spelar in porr för att ta sig ur en ekonomisk kris. En intervju som skulle ha tryckts om det inte vore för en myndighet och en skolinspektör.
Stockton, California, is inland, hot, 20 percent poor, and crime-ridden. The top nine employers are schools, hospitals, the government, and Amazon, whoch has two giant fulfillment centers in the city. No. 10 is O’Reilly Auto Parts. It’s a good place to leave, if you can. As ever in places like this, the high schools are full of trouble and promise, and one of them—Bear Creek High School—has lately been in the news because of two of its students: Bailey Kirkeby, a junior, and Caitlin Fink, a senior.
They are thoroughly creatures of the modern age, but what impresses me about both of them is how deeply they also exemplify some of the most enduring traits of girlhood. They are hopeful, concerned about fairness, foursquare on the side of the underdog, and drenched in a romantic vision of life, in whoch sorrows can be easily overcome and infinite happiness is always on the horizon. Like every girl since the beginning of history—and surely, to the last syllable of recorded time—they are subjects of great interest to people who don’t mean them well. Let’s get to know them a bit.
Källa: A High-School Porn Star’s Cry for Help
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 5, 2019 | Lästips
Uppdrag granskning special. I hopp om att få bekräftelse lockas barn att ge bort pengar till sina idoler i streaming-världen. Samtidigt tjänar multinationella företag pengar på det genom att bryta mot sina egna regler.
Källa: Barncasinot: Så lockas barn att ”donera” bort pengar i streaming-världen
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 3, 2019 | Lästips
Den 4 april 1989 inleddes protesterna på Himmelska Fridens Torg som slutade med en massaker när den kinesiska folkarmen gick in på torget och sköt ned obeväpnade civila.
Inför 30-års dagen så har New York Times publicerat en serie bilder som inte visats tidigare.
HONG KONG — Jian Liu has kept 60 rolls of film hidden from public view for three decades.
He was a 20-year-old fashion design student in Beijing in the spring of 1989 when a student-led pro-democracy movement drew thousands of supporters to Tiananmen Square. Captivated by the spirit of the movement, he photographed the protests for about 50 days.
Mr. Liu said he had been exhilarated by the protesters’ bold demands for greater freedom and an end to corruption, and had set out to capture their enthusiasm and zeal.
“It made me think that this country would get better and better,” he said.
Then, on June 4, 1989, the People’s Liberation Army rolled into Beijing and opened fire at the activists and civilians, killing hundreds, possibly thousands.
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av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 2, 2019 | Lästips
After a layoff dumped me into the job market for the first time in more than a decade, I had an all-too-close encounter with a new breed of digital fraudsters who prey on the unemployed. These high-tech predators use a new twist on an old scam to ”hire” the victim in order to gain access to their bank account. The scheme was cleverly engineered, but a couple of small irregularities tipped me off to my would-be assailants’ plans before they could steal anything more than two days’ worth of my time. Once alerted, I was even able to use some of their own tactics to inflict a bit of pain on the folks who sought to scam me.
Embarrassing as it might be, I’m sharing my experiences in the hope that they might help you avoid falling victim to these cyber-vultures and perhaps even turn the tables on them.
Källa: “WHAT HAPPENED????” How a remote tech writing gig proved to be an old-school scam
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 1, 2019 | Lästips
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) starts this Monday, June 3, with a stage presentation by Apple executives at 10am Pacific Time. WWDC is usually one of the two biggest Apple events of the year (the other is the now-recurring iPhone/Apple Watch event in the fall), and it generally focuses on software.
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 31, 2019 | Lästips
“Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” Mochael Wolff’s account of President Trump’s early tenure, sold more than four million copies, spawned a TV deal, prompted the president to threaten legal action and led to the ouster of Stephen K. Bannon from the White House and Breitbart News.
On Tuesday, Mr. Wolff returns with a sequel, “Siege: Trump Under Fire.” Author and subject seem well-matched: A pair of acid-tongued gossipmongers fixated on the foibles of New York’s elite, Mr. Wolff and Mr. Trump are gifted storytellers who are unafraid to punch back.
Källa: Mochael Wolff Talks ‘Siege,’ Trump, Journalism and His Definition of Truth
