The good news: We have a breakthrough cure for sickle-cell disease, using CRISPR and gene-editing technology.

The bad news: It’s owned by a private company that will charge $2.2M for a course of treatment.

Pharmaceutical research should be publicly-funded, and its results should go directly into public domain, where private providers can compete on price for manufacture and distribution. For a fraction of the money we spend on missiles and remote military bases, we can save so many lives instead.

“FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR”

#healthcare #medicine #capitalism

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-cure-sickle-cell-disease-first-treatment-use-gene-editing-rcna127979

FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR

The FDA approved a new treatment for sickle cell disease. The therapy is first to use the ground-editing tool CRISPR.

^{Berkeley Lovelace Jr. (NBC News)}

"In a completely unrelated note, Spotify is shutting down in Uruguay after the country passed a bill that requires fair pay to artists, as reported by MixMag. The company made threats to shut down when the bill was first suggested back in July and now it has followed through. A spokesperson for Spotify actually wrote Uruguay's Minister of Education, Pablo Da Silveira, to say that the country’s bill would force it to “pay twice” the amount of royalties to artists." "

https://www.engadget.com/spotify-confirms-it-wont-offer-payouts-for-songs-with-fewer-than-1000-plays-181501465.html

#Tech #Music #Corporations #Spotify #Capitalism

Spotify confirms it won't offer payouts for songs with fewer than 1,000 plays

Spotify has officially unveiled its new streaming payment policies for artists and labels and the details haven’t changed from previous reports. Payments...

^{Lawrence Bonk (Engadget)}

#Google is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% #proprietary, Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.

Contribute to #OpenStreetMap instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.

https://www.openstreetmap.org

#OSM #GoogleMaps #PSA #scam #capitalism #OpenData

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

^{OpenStreetMap}

“Nestle says slavery reporting requirements could cost customers.”

Not to be a joyless communist, but if we can’t have chocolate without slavery, we shouldn’t have chocolate.

(By @sistersinead@twitter.com)

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/nestle-says-slavery-reporting-requirements-could-cost-customers-20180816-p4zy5l.html

#slavery #chocoate #capitalism #communism #socialism #exonomy

Nestle says slavery reporting requirements could cost customers

Australia's government has proposed to make it mandatory for big businesses to report on how they're combating modern slavery.

^{Emily Baker (The Sydney Morning Herald)}

Whenever someone tells you that the climate crisis is a personal responsibility issue, show them this:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

The climate crisis is a billionaires crisis, a trillion-dollar corporations crisis, a capitalism crisis, a systemic inequality crisis.

#climateChange #climateCrisis #climateCatastrophe #climate #corporatocracy #capitalism

Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says

A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their investors could hold the key to tackling climate change

^{Tess Riley (The Guardian)}

For Pride Month this year, the corporate PR offices are getting their banners ready!

#pride #csd #pridemonth #lgbtq #lgbt #queer #capitalism #pinkwashing