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Life and death in a banana civilization
Are abuse, corruption and violence still inherent in multinational capitalism?Eduardo Porter (The Washington Post)
Short text showing how peaceful life could be if we could just get rid of capitalism.
Un court texte qui montre comment la vie pourrait être paisible si on se débarrasse du capitalisme.
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
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." "
#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.
#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)
#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:
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 changeTess 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
(In case you were thinking of learning/using Go, I’d say skip it. There are plenty of other fish in the sea. Unless you like telemetry by default in your programming languages and tools, that is. In fact, just don’t touch anything tainted by Google if you can help it.)
https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
#google #alphabet #go #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #privacy #development #dev #software
telemetry in the Go toolchain · Discussion #58409 · golang/go
How do software developers understand which parts of their software are being used and whether they are performing as expected? The modern answer is telemetry, which means software sending data to ...GitHub
#CLASS_WAR
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy
(Where we differ with Shoshana, who coined the former term, is that she sees it as a corruption of capitalism, whereas I see it as the natural evolution of capitalism in the digital network age.)
#surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #VentureCapital #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #corporatocracy
'Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia' - BBC Ideas
Watch the "'Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia'" video at BBC Ideas. Explore other related content via our curated "Artificial intelligence: What kind of world do we want?" playlist.www.bbc.co.uk