China wants to lead the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/27/gurry-vs-good-governance.html

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Not sure who I could usefully root for, though, other than a Looney Tunes dummy made out of lit dynamite sticks with a face drawn on a paper plate

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It seems like humans make poor managers and administrators. We need to develop AI to run these things for us.

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I’d root for Giant Meteor.

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Well of course the fox wants to watch the hen house… and to be fair, they know a lot about hens.

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One would think trust would be a factor, but alas it is not…

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At least the Good Guys still control the OPCW and are investigating those bothersome whistleblowers and leakers.


This article devotes one sentence to the actual content of the whistleblowing with no hint of where to find out more. You don’t need to know that.

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“There’s nothing like the smell of naked corruption in the morning!”

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You want the Matrix? Because that’s how you get the Matrix.

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Kind of like putting Saudi Arabia on the Human Rights Commission.

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I figure it would take about 1.2 seconds to decide existence is meaningless and would end the world in a nuclear holocaust out of ennui

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You could root for TPB, Sci-Hub, LibGen, the fediverse

:slight_smile:

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That seems fair. I can accept that.

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not exactly intellectual property, though.

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