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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

21 May

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Debunking the arguments for vaccine apartheid; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/21/wai…

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Debunking the arguments for vaccine apartheid: "Wait your turn" is not epidemiologically sound.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1395779611330420736

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#15yrsago Fantazyland: Egypt’s run-down theme-park themeparkreview.com/forum/topic/85…

#10yrsago RIAA boss takes home $3 mil+ lefsetz.com/wordpress/2011…

#10yrsago Raising a kid without disclosing their sex thestar.com/life/parent/20…

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

21 May

The Biden administration's (carefully worded) support for a WTO IP waiver on vaccines may not be the full-throated support the issue warrants, but it was still a complete reversal of decades of subservience to Big Pharma, and the industry is waging all-out war.

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The arguments against allowing poor countries to make their own vaccines are a mix of racist condescension ("poor brown people are too primitive to make high-tech vaccines"), misdirection ("patents aren't the problem") and bad faith ("we don't have enough materials").

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

21 May

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

19 May

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Dead, broke; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/19/zom…

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@RyersonCFE

Today (5/19), I'm doing a talk called "Seize the Means of Computation," at the @RyersonCFE:

cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…

And tomorrow (5/20), I'm doing a keynote called "Privacy Without Monopoly," for the @NorthSec_io conference:

nsec.io/speaker/cory-d…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1395050567198642180

Dead, broke: What it's like to inherit nothing but debt.

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

19 May

@mollymcghee

Of all the moving, wrenching accounts of death during the pandemic, @mollymcghee's "America's Dead Souls," for the @parisreview stands out: haunting, furious and sad, an rude awakening of the status quo that denies any possibility of inaction.

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@mcsweeneys

I've known McGhee a long time, since she worked on my book INFORMATION DOESN'T WANT TO BE FREE from @mcsweeneys, a professional association we renewed when she landed at @torbooks.

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