John Green, of authorship, films and #vlogbrothers fame, is doing an amazing job saving lives and saving poor people in poor countries millions of dollars with his campaign to make #Danaher lower their prices for disease testing tools — together with tons of great activists in the #nerdfighter community and beyond!
The latest #vlogbrothers video could've so easily been about them helping all nerdfighters at least to some degree escape the algorithms, by launching their own #fediverse server or supporting dftba.club ( @nomadgeek ) or "we're gonna be more active in the fediverse" or something like that
Instead it's about yet another newsletter. That is, yet another one way communication channel, instead of "let's talk more without the algorithms, together"
Johnson and Johnson is trying to extend their patent on life saving tuberculosis medication. This will result in 6 million unnecessary deaths. Call them out. Spread the word.
Today John Green, author and one of the #vlogbrothers, posted a heartbreaking video about Johnson & Johnson’s unfortunate decision to patent a component of a #tuberculosis drug. Preventing the rollout of generic #bedaquiline will result in millions of TB deaths over the next four years.