By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026That's when things get dangerous: when aristocrats grow bored with leisure and mobilize their inherited capital to change the way we all live. Billionaire dilettantes are weapons of mass destruction, and their special projects have a wide blast radius and inflict a *lot* of collateral damage. 33/ 1426147
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026Take Bill Gates: his ideological projects have been a catastrophe. 34/ 218323
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026A patent maximalist, he funded the lobbyists who successfully blocked South Africa from producing its own AIDS drugs under an IP waiver program, and then deployed them again to stop the Global South from making their own covid vaccines: pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/p... 35/pluralistic.netPluralistic: 13 Apr 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 124243
JT Inda Haus @jtindahaus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026How’s the Gates Foundation Toilet project going Bill? Bill? U there Bill? 000