Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The public paid for "Moderna's" vaccine, and now we're going to pay again (and again and again); How Facebook's Real Names policy helps Cambodia's thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters; and more! 1/
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The public paid for "Moderna's" vaccine, and now we're going to pay again (and again and again): Herd immunity is incompatible with shareholder capitalism.
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How Facebook's Real Names policy helps Cambodia's thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters: "Yes, our beaches are the most beautiful, but our leaders are the dirtiest in the world, aren’t they?"
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Hey look at this
* A Pitched Battle on Corporate Power prospect.org/economy/2023-0…
* Annotated: Sam Bankman-Fried's "FTX Pre-Mortem Overview" mollywhite.net/annotations/sb…
* Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0… 5/
#20yrsago #MosesZnaimer ready to quit? theglobeandmail.com/report-on-busi…
#20yrsago #Palladium changes name, but not stripes web.archive.org/web/2003021608… 6/
#10yrsago German court awards damages for loss-of-Internet, says net is “crucial part of people’s economic living standards” web.archive.org/web/2013012708…
#10yrsago @SCrawford should run the FCC! nytimes.com/2013/01/24/opi… 7/
#10yrsago German soldiers develop left breasts web.archive.org/web/2013012706…
#5yrsago Trump will not make a state visit to UK unless Theresa May bans protests bloomberg.com/news/features/… 8/
#5yrsago The world’s richest 2000 billionaires could wipe out extreme poverty with one seventh of what they gained last year oxfam.org/en/research/re… 9/
#5yrsago Police Get Out of Jail cards are just the tip of the iceberg: no perp gets a sweeter deal than a cop marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu… 10/
#5yrsago South Korean law bans mobile #crapware, network discrimination, deceptive native advertising, and anti-adblock web.archive.org/web/2018032113… 11/
#5yrsago Research report explains how adtech supercharges political deceit, allowing even bumblers to be master propagandists newamerica.org/pit/policy-pap… 12/
#5yrsago #OntarioConservative leader abruptly resigns after he is accused of sexual assault and misconduct with very young, drunk women ctvnews.ca/politics/patri… 13/
Yesterday's threads: David Graeber's "Pirate Enlightenment"; and more!
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