Allan Nairn on How Trump Dragged a Rightist Revolution to Power

Allan Nairn on How Trump Dragged a Rightist Revolution to Power

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.

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Automated Health Care Offers Freedom from Shame, But Is It What Patients Need?

Automated Health Care Offers Freedom from Shame, But Is It What Patients Need?

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?

Automated Health Care Offers Freedom from Shame, But Is It What Patients Need?

The Last Days of Time Inc.

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.

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