Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Keep the fire burning.

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#BigPharma #Patents #IP: "Rather than prioritizing long-term investment in research and development, they focused on protecting their intellectual property. The pharmaceutical industry gutted research and development of new drugs. They got rid of all of many parts of that process that they could contract out or buy from others. What they were left with were drug monopolies and that really changed how they behaved.

Today, by and large, the pharmaceutical industry does little to research and develop drugs. They buy up other companies that have done that research, often with huge amounts of taxpayer funding. As a consequence, if you are a company that profits primarily from intellectual property, what’s important to you is not doctors and medical researchers but lobbyists and lawyers, because they are the people who are going to extend and deepen your patents.

You have no interest in medicines that would treat diseases primarily suffered by poor people in poor countries; you have no interest in dealing with pathogens that could cause the next pandemic, because in all likelihood, a pandemic won’t be caused by that specific pathogen. They have very little interest in curing disease, because their ultimate blockbuster is lifelong treatment for chronic disease — that’s where enormous amounts of their time and energy are spent."

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/big-pharma-profit-public-research-patents-intellectual-property

Oh good. Score one for the Native Americans.

[Peregrine moon lander carrying human remains doomed after 'critical loss' of propellant]
https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/peregrine-moon-lander-may-be-doomed-after-critical-loss-of-propellant?

SEC Twitter account compromised, used to falsely announce approval of bitcoin spot ETFs

January 9, 2024
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=sec-twitter-account-compromised

@fleeky Literally we can't settle space - as a technical matter - until we develop technology that is substantially more advanced than what would be needed to permanently and definitively resolve the climate emergency.

We are *so far* from being able to settle space. It's possible that we could send a few people to Mars or establish a small Moon base, both scientifically useless and horribly dangerous, at a cost that would exceed the cost of resolving the climate emergency.

Lula vows to win ‘war’ against illegal miners invading Indigenous lands - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/lula-brazil-indigenous-illegal-miners-yanomami "#Brazil president hosts summit amid criticism that easing of crackdown had allowed outsiders to return to forest areas"

Regulators aren’t convinced that Microsoft and OpenAI operate independently

EU is fielding comments on potential market harms of Microsoft's investments.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/regulators-arent-convinced-that-microsoft-and-openai-operate-independently/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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Riding More with Less by seasoned wrench and rider Sam Tracy is the bike repair manual for everyone else.

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Our next interview is with the co-editor of this new anthology of writings by sex workers (out from
@pmpress We talk about sex work, the labor movement, and what solidarity means. Check in later this week.

Emissions from #Israel’s war in #Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change "First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows"

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

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The Workers’ Way to Freedom and Other Council Communist Writings by Anton Pannekoek & edited by Robyn K. Winters.

“The most brilliant theoretician of libertarian communism.” —Mike Davis

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For those of us who live in safety, it's easy to focus on the negative aspects of the internet and social media, and easy to forget the positive. Think of the most positive experience you've had on or as a result of digital communications.

Maybe it's a late night text exchange when you're feeling down. Or exchanging emails to coordinate lunch plans.

Then think about what it would mean for you if your access to that technology was controlled by someone who wanted to control or hurt you.

To everyone who thinks it's important to regulate young people's access to the internet:

Whatever policy or technological fix you imagine is the right solution, please---I am begging you---*please* carefully think through what the implications will be for a teenager experiencing active physical abuse at home.

My million dollar idea I want someone to steal and do, so I can be a customer.

"Dumb Stuff" we sell electronic appliances that aren't Internet connected. That's all.

That's it. That's the pitch. I would buy the <bleep> out of this company if their electronic gadgets were even half way decent, and repairable.

Electronic, no wifi, regular screws to open it up. That's it. Do those three things, and you can be sold by this store.

I will pay this business to curate and find these devices for me.

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

Health insurers lie with impunity about who's in their provider networks. From Lever News: https://www.levernews.com/the-case-of-the-missing-health-care-providers/

The college rankings nonsense is getting worse: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/us/college-rankings-us-news.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L00.aBT_.3aBf3pGj7NuU&smid=url-share

Al Jazeera accuses #Israel of ‘targeted strike’ as two of its journalists killed in #Gaza - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/08/al-jazeera-accuses-israel-of-targeted-strike-as-two-of-its-journalists-killed-in-gaza "Hamza Wael Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuria died after two rockets were fired at car they were travelling in, witnesses say"