This is an amazing concept....
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This is an amazing concept....
Open Sourced "3D Printed" Pharmaceuticals
Build your own pill printing machine. Feed it an open sourced "recipe" / medical chemical compound instruction. Add some base ingredients. And make your own medicine.
This is an exceedingly solarpunk idea and could be a core aspect of a post-scarcity world as it relates to healthcare.
They have information about abortion medication (Misoprostol), ADHD medication (Vyvance), and more.
There are obvious issues - especially around quality control, safety, effectiveness, and application. And the makers address this - but wow. Just wow.
I very specifically have not verified any of this. But I'm incredibly interested in diving in and learning about it and its feasibility.
The anarchist collective behind this venture, Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, spoke at this last DefCon 32. See their talk here (via Peertube): https://kolektiva.media/w/uvD1wWTRoh7HEto8zeSswr
Here is a @404mediaco article by @jasonkoebler : https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/
Here is their main website: https://fourthievesvinegar.org
Here is are the open sourced instructions (along with parts list - both purchased and off the shelf along with 3D printed parts): https://github.com/FourThievesVinegar/solderless-microlab
Definitely something to follow and learn more about. I'm excited and hope this is effective and grows.
(HT @aeischeid for highlighting the article and HT my dear friend for telling me about it after going to their DefCon talk!)
#solarPunk #postScarcity #healthcare #abortion #abortionAccess #ADHD
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πͺππππ πΊπππππ πreplied to Tinker βοΈ last edited by
@tinker I was blown away when I read about this. Also, how has he not been sued to oblivion?
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Tinker βοΈreplied to πͺππππ πΊπππππ π last edited by
@coreysnipes - Who would sue and on what grounds? (I'm not a lawyer, but I think threat modeling that out is important - so... sincere question that should be explored more!)
Big thing is as this is open sourced, ideally, others would fork the build and tweak it and improve it, right? Even the instruction set is open sourced... so once those get out, even if the original creator no longer maintains it, the idea, concept, build, and implementation are still there.
In that way, it's resilient to attack.
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to Tinker βοΈ last edited by
@tinker @coreysnipes Depends though. Like with source code that got involuntarily open-sourced, using any of it actually gets you in trouble. And remember that people already patented fucking DNA and sued farmers who DARED trying to use the seeds of their crops to reseed their own fields, those capitalist fucks won't stop here and surely find a way to "protect intellectual rights" or whatever they'd call that bullshit and gatekeep chemistry itself.
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LisPireplied to Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈ last edited by@Natanox @coreysnipes @tinker Considering the whole copyright & patent systems, with monopolies in oligarchic regimes differs from royal monopolies in specifics more so than general model... indeed.
They've amply demonstrated it doesn't need to make sense already.
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to LisPi last edited by
@lispi314 @coreysnipes @tinker Funny sidenote: Nintendo recently patented relative physics (calculating an object relative to the player when they touch).
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/08/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-loading-sequence-patent-filed-by-nintendo
Can't find any info about it getting through or not. Wouldn't be the most absurd one though.So yeah, fuck that whole system.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Tinker βοΈ last edited by [email protected]
@tinker There's a lot of useful chemicals for which simple microfluidic reactors could be built and validated to produce the desired target at a reasonable purity level. Unfortunately, microfluidic research is currently mostly dominated with clinical dianostics interests and a wee bit microrobotics interests; tabletop small-batch medicine manufacturing is not of particular interest to any major funders. But citizen chemical engineers might have some interest in doing this work without caring about the typical profit motives.
Oh, and don't forget β the era of hobbyist genetic engineering is nearly at hand, as well. I think there's already companies offering children's kits for making yeast glow by inserting the gene for luciferin and such things. One day soon, somebody is going to come up with a Genetic Engineering Arduino, and then making all sorts of funky proteins on the kitchen tablewill be a child's play.
@404mediaco @jasonkoebler @aeischeid @4thievesvinegar @mixael