av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 29, 2018 | Lästips

DONALD TRUMP HAS been in office 16 months. And the majority of media hours and column inches spent on his administration deal primarily with the Russia investigation, Stormy Daniels, and Trump’s personnel intrigue. It’s not that there isn’t great journalism being done on other issues. It’s that this narrow set of stories consume much of the energy and are on constant repeat pretty much everywhere in corporate media, except for FOX, whoch generally broadcasts from an alternate reality.
Källa: Allan Nairn on How Trump Dragged a Rightist Revolution to Power
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 27, 2018 | Lästips
A few years ago, Timothy Bickmore, a computer scientist at Northeastern University, developed an artificial-intelligence program to help low-income patients at Boston Medical Center prepare for their return home from the hospital. The virtual nurse, alternately called Louise or Elizabeth, was embodied as an animated figure on a screen. It began by asking patients whether they were Red Sox fans, then walked them through what they should do after they were discharged. (“Your doctor has prescribed Pantoprazole. This medication is for your stomach.
Källa: Automated Health Care Offers Freedom from Shame, But Is It What Patients Need?
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 26, 2018 | Lästips
För en del som lider av social fobi kan livet bli ensamt och isolerat. Therese Green, som fick diagnosen som 17-åring, känner ingen som lider av social fobi i ”verkliga livet”. Men på sociala medier är det annorlunda.
Källa: Therese lider av social fobi: Nätet blev en räddning
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 25, 2018 | Lästips
Tusentals svenskar krävs på pengar av upphovsrättsägare för att ha laddat ner film olagligt. Även om man själv inte fildelat eller har en aning om vem som gjort det kan man uppmanas att betala flera tusen kronor. Uppdrag granskning har pratat med flera experter som kritiserar kravbreven.
Källa: Expertens kritik: Risk för ”legal blackmailing”
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 25, 2018 | Lästips

Tiotusentals svenskar kan krävas på pengar för att ha laddat ner film. Även du som själv aldrig fildelat.
Källa: Kravbreven: Advokatbyråernas massutskick kräver svenskar på tusentals kronor
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 24, 2018 | Lästips
It was once an empire. Now it is being sold for parts.
Time Inc. began, in 1922, with a simple but revolutionary idea hatched by Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden. The two men, graduates of Yale University, were rookie reporters at The Baltimore News when they drew up a prospectus for something called a “news magazine.” After raising $86,000, Mr. Hadden and Mr. Luce quit their jobs. On March 3, 1923, they published the first issue of Time: The Weekly News-Magazine.
Källa: The Last Days of Time Inc.