av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 9, 2019 | Lästips
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Konstantin Ernst är chef för Channel One, en rysk, statlig tv-kanal. Det är den tv-kanal som når längst och som ses av flest ryssar. Amerikanska The New Yorker har tecknat ett porträtt av Putins inofficiella propaganda-chef.
In the final days of 1999, Konstantin Ernst prepared to film the Russian President’s annual New Year’s address, just as he had every December for several years. Ernst, who was thirty-eight, with floppy brown hair and a look of perpetual bemusement, had recently become the head of Channel One, the state television network with the largest reach, a post he retains today. The position makes him one of the most powerful men in Russia, with the ability to set the visual style for the country’s political life—at least the part its rulers wish to transmit to the public.
The ritual of the New Year’s address began in the seventies, under Leonid Brezhnev, who sat stolidly atop the Soviet hierarchy for two decades, and continued in the eighties under Mikhail Gorbachev, the architect of perestroika. After the Soviet collapse, Boris Yeltsin, the first President of independent Russia, kept the tradition alive. Yeltsin began his term as a charismatic advocate of democratic reform, but, by the late nineties, he seemed aged and defeated. Russia was only a year removed from a devastating financial crash that led the government to default on its debt, and its troops were fighting their second costly war in a decade in Chechnya, a would-be breakaway republic in the Caucasus. Yeltsin seemed primarily concerned with leaving office in a way that would keep him and his family immune from prosecution. On December 29th, Ernst and a crew from Channel One made their way to the Kremlin to film his address.
The New Yorker
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 6, 2019 | Lästips
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Du har kunnat prata arbete med din gode vän i fler år. Ni har pratat arbete, vad ni gör, bygger och utvecklar. Sedan börjar din goda vän att jobba på Apple och gardinen går ned.
Nu blir det tyst, om jobbet. Din goda vän delar inte med sig, berättar inte – inte ens om du frågar mer direkt. Gardinen har gått ned.
Another friend of mine at Apple, who worked in an area relevant to some trouble we were having with NetNewsWire, wanted to look at the source code – and they had to go ask permission before they could even look.
I understand! I understand why Apple PR and legal departments are the way they are. But I still feel a loss to the community every time somebody I know goes to work at Apple.
There’s a curtain between us and them. Colorful, well-designed, made by lasers — but still a curtain.
Brent Simmons
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 2, 2019 | Lästips
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Hon heter Lisa Page är före detta advokat inom FBI. Hon är den Lisa Page som skickade meddelanden till FBI-agenten Peter Strzok som ibland citeras av Donald och som tas som att det existerar en konspiration mot honom och hans administration. Peter Strzok, Lisa Page och deras meddelanden har blivit politiska slagträn.
Lisa Page har inte givit några intervjuer, inte kommenterat alla Trumps uttalanden och påhopp – i två år – men när presidenten spelade ut en orgasm inför sina anhängare i oktober i år så fick Lisa Page nog. Det var hennes orgasm som landets president spelade upp.
“I had stayed quiet for years hoping it would fade away, but instead it got worse,” she says. “It had been so hard not to defend myself, to let people who hate me control the narrative. I decided to take my power back.”
The Daily Beast
Donald Trump har upprepade gånger hävdat att han avlyssnats, att FBI konspirerat mot honom – utan att kunna prestera att enda bevis. Donald Trump har öppet anklagat Barack Obama för att ha beordrat övervakningen som han påstår ska ha pågått under hela presidentvalskampanjen 2016. FBI har också utrett anklagelserna utan att kunna hitta bevis vare sig för att en konspiration eller att Trump övervakats. FBIs utredning har avfärdats av Trump som en partsinlaga och han har upprepade gånger anklagat Lisa Page och Peter Strzok för att ha haft ett förhållande, vilket är korrekt, och för att ha konspirerat mot honom, vilket det alltså inte finns några bevis för.
The Daily Best har intervjuat Lisa Page och om en situation där hon anklagas, förolämpas och påstås ha begått brott under sin tid på FBI.
The Daily Beast
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 2, 2019 | Lästips
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For the first two decades of the commercial Internet, we celebrated the Internet as one of society’s greatest inventions. After all, the Internet has led to truly remarkable outcomes: it has helped overthrow repressive political regimes, made economic markets more efficient, created safe spaces for otherwise marginalized communities to find their voices, and led to the most exquisite cat videos ever seen.
But in the last few years, public perceptions of the Internet have plummeted. We’ve lost trust in the Internet giants, who seem to have too much power and make missteps daily. We also are constantly reminded of all of the awful and antisocial ways that people interact with each other over the Internet. We are addicted to the Internet—but we don’t really love it any more.
Källa: Why can’t Internet companies stop awful content?
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 1, 2019 | Lästips
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De höga priserna för bostäder i södra Kalifornien har lett till att inte ens familjer med två löner hittar någonstans att bo. Barnfamiljer tvingas att bo i sina bilar.
En helt ny typ av hemlöshet sprider sig – familje med inkomster som borde räcka till men som inte gör det.
3 kids. 2 paychecks. No home.
”It seemed like we’d failed.”
Frankie’s morning started before the sun came up, as the steadily increasing volume of his parents’ phone alarm, coming from somewhere near the dashboard, jolted the 8-year-old awake. His dad, Candido, and 6-year-old brother, Josephat, had begun to stir in the cramped rear of the minivan, emerging from a tangle of blankets, towels, pillows, and stuffed animals. His mom, Brenda, was in the driver’s seat, whoch was reclined as far back as it could go; his baby sister, Adelene, who was 3, was splayed out awkwardly on the seat beside her. As for Frankie, he was in his usual spot: nestled on the floorboard between the front seats and middle row, his skinny 4-foot frame hidden in a furry green-and-brown sleeping bag meant to look like a grizzly bear.
Källa: 3 kids. 2 paychecks. No home.
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 24, 2019 | Lästips
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How does a once progressive young person go down the rabbit hole of the alt-right to embrace an ideology of hate? Samantha said that she wasn’t a racist—she had once canvassed for Barack Obama—but soon after joining Identity Evropa she found herself rubbing shoulders with the neo-Nazi organizer Rochard Spencer and chanting “seig heil.” When she left the group, she contacted the reporter Andrew Marantz to tell her story. Plus, the actress, comedian, and writer Jenny Slate talks about clothing, and the tension between being a feminist and looking feminine.
How did one woman go from canvassing for Obama to carrying a tiki torch in Charlottesville? A former white nationalist explains how she got in, and out, of the movement.
Källa: Samantha’s Journey Into the Alt-Right, and Back
