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April 18, 2021

Striking Charter workers build ISP where “profits are returned to users” | Ars Technica
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They built the Spectrum cable network—now they're building a wireless ISP in NYC.

Canadians could pay a steep price for wooing Sanofi vaccine plant - iPolitics
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'Sanofi and the other giant multinational drug companies--Big Pharma--have a long history of using their clout to win the freedom to charge exorbitant prices.'

Could Open Source Licensing Stop Big Pharma Profiteering On Taxpayer-Funded Covid-19 Vaccines? - Slashdot

Two professors at the University of Massachusetts have co-authored a new essay explaining how open source licensing "could keep Big Pharma from making huge profits off taxpayer-funded research" in the international, multi-billion-dollar race for a Covid-19 vaccine:

The roaring twenties repeated? – Michael Roberts Blog
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The latest data on economic recovery in China and the US suggest that both economies should be back to or above the pre-pandemic levels of national output by the end of this year (in the case of China probably some 10% above). This has renewed optimism that the pandemic slump may quickly be reversed.