Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
What’s truly enraging about Silicon Valley whining that nobody is excited about their digital warlordism is that there are truly astonishing breakthroughs happening rn in renewables and vaccines/treatments but they are being actively marginalized bc they actually point to a post-profit motive future
There’s this idea that “friction” is inherently bad and needs to be eliminated, instead of it being something that usefully forces you to consider the merits of what you’re doing, and I think we really need to interrogate that assumption
imagine doing this with your precious hours on earth
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thou shalt not suffer a pimp to live
there really needs to be a "don't fucking show me this shit" button on YouTube
