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Cory Doctorow

24 May, 7 tweets, 4 min read

You have created a monster, and it will destroy you!

Frankenstein (1931) dir. James Whale
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26 May

Jesus fucking christ, I'm STILL hearing from people who think viruses "adapt" by becoming less virulent over time, and that our immune systems "adapt" to viruses, meeting them halfway.

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For fuck's fucking sake.

Mutations produce both more dangerous and less dangerous strains (as well as strains that are indistinguishable from their parent strain).

Over the long run, a strain that kills its host can die off - because it kills all of its hosts.

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Likewise: over time, we can become more resistant to a virus as a species...after it kills off everyone whose immune system can't fight it off.

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25 May

Disneyland Goes to the World’s Fair (1964) adventurelandia.tumblr.com/post/652193392…

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25 May

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: We promised this vaccine waiver 20 years ago; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/25/the…

#Pluralistic

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1397233627994509313

We promised this vaccine waiver 20 years ago: The WTO was always a scam.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1397233627994509313

#15yrsago Can. Heritage ministry suppressed report damning DMCA michaelgeist.ca/2006/05/sound-…

#10yrsago What Will Come After: the sweet melancholy of the zombie apocalypse memex.craphound.com/2011/05/25/wha…

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25 May

The world's 125 poorest countries (2.5b people) have received zero covid vaccine doses to date. The 85 poorest countries project vaccination in 2023/24. This is #VaccineApartheid.

pluralistic.net/2021/05/21/wai…

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(If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:)

pluralistic.net/2021/05/25/the…

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It's not that poor countries can't make their own vaccines. The Global South has a LOT of vaccine production capacity. The problem is Big Pharma, which refuses to transfer the patents and know-how to repurpose those facilities for mRNA production.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

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25 May

For Your Eyes Only (1981) gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/652114439…

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@doctorow

24 May

Attention foreigners! Allow me to describe the efficient market process of American private health care!

My daughter got her teeth cleaned.

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Four weeks later, our dental insurer sent us a note saying that they were paying for $235 out of the $236 bill (as our economist friends like to remind us, a co-pay gives the patient "skin in the game" and prevents frivolous teeth cleaning).

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A week after that, they mailed us a check, like, a piece of paper. I paid that check into our checking account and waited.

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