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CitizenCyborg

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Sociologist, left social democrat antifascist with technoprogressive tendencies. Exec Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.org @citizencyborg on Substack & Threads.

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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 26m
Axios did a tech worker story: "In the debate over AI safety and regulation, some researchers have become nearly as influential in setting the terms as OpenAI's Sam Altman or Anthropic's Dario Amodei." www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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😠 AI's rebellion phase
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 18h
One month left: IEET’s $1000 technoprogressivism dissertation award deadline is Nov 1, 2026. Requirements + submission details: ieet.org/doctoral-dis...
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DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Xmas gift for your cyborg
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
David Shapiro explains post-labor economics 10 minutes. How money and power will work in the age of full automation. daveshap.substack.com/p/post-labor...
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Post-labor Economics explained in 10 minutes
How money and power will work in the age of full automation
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Matt McManus discusses his essay in Jabobin magazine entitled "Utopia Is a Promise Worth Fighting For." This was a review of the short book "Utopia for Our Century: A Manifesto of Hope" by David Albertson and Jason Blakely. youtu.be/rOCTquOEjz8?...
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Matt McManus on the Need for Utopia
YouTube video by Sublation Media with Douglas Lain
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Innovation Council Action, run by a former White House deputy chief of staff, plans to spend at least $100 million to tell Americans that warnings about AI are merely a well-funded, coordinated campaign. modelrepublic.substack.com/p/who-is-beh...
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Who is behind the AI safety backlash?
Following a viral resignation, the backlash against AI safety was sudden and swift. Various signs suggest an industry push is supporting it.
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Finally! Calls for a nationwide DSA AI Program Working Group to push for a UBI, socialized AI, and fully automated luxury socialism. cosmopolity.substack.com/p/ai-sociali...
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AI Socialism: Who Will Own the Automated Future?
Zhao Levi’s journey from an “Anti-AI Manifesto” to a proposed DSA working group opens a larger question: Can workers govern the machines that may one day make wage labor optional?
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Socialism" and "free enterprise" equally popular - 65% - among Democrats. "Capitalism" and "Big Business" unpopular and trending down. news.gallup.com/poll/714653/...
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My 2000 interview with Istvan Csicsery-Ronay discussing the journal he helped edit, Science-Fiction Studies, and the ways that SF reflects and shapes the political zeitgeist. citizencyborg.substack.com/p/the-politi...
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The Politics of Science Fiction (2000-02-12)
From the Changesurfer Radio Archives
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Bi Visibility Day
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 25/03/2026
We should have started a universal basic income back in 1975, and it should have grown this entire time in line with national productivity growth. My latest:
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Universal Basic Income: The Dividend We Should Have Started in 1975
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Aubrey de Grey is our final speaker, on longevity therapies, at The Technoprogressive Opportunity meeting in London.
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Indra Adnan and Pat Kane propose the anarcho-communalist Alternative at The Technoprogressive Opportunity
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Automate everything
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Paul Mason discusses postcapitalist opportunities at the Technoprogressive Opportunity
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Slido has been an excellent addition to our Technoprogressive Opportunity meeting. People propose and vote on questions from the audience. We see them all, and it speeds the response.
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Carissa Véliz, Professor in Philosophy, University of Oxford, author of Prophecy, on the history of prediction, speaking at The Technoprogressive Opportunity conference.
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Steve Keen deconstructs classical economics, and connects capitalist productivity to the climate crisis. Money is a relationship not a thing.
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Its been a wonderful meeting here in London this weekend, the first of many.
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
War at Machine Speed - This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J speak with Major Michael Brodka, a U.S. Army military intelligence officer and author of the July 2026 Military Review article “By Algorithm or Order.” prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/war-at-mac...
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War at Machine-Speed | Prosthetic Gods
Episode 49 - Targeting at Machine Speed This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J speak with Major Michael Brodka, a U.S. Army military intelligence officer and author of the July 2026 Military Review a...
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An interview I did with SF writer Nicola Griffth in 1999. Fortunately queer characters in SF are much more common now, but she was one of the pioneers. citizencyborg.substack.com/p/future-sis...
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Future Sisters of Sappho (1999-12-25)
From the Changesurfer Radio Archives
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ai still doesn't decide - the programmer does www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a62184
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Interview with ethicist Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation, Should the Baby Live?, and A Darwinian Left, among many other works. Singer's nonanthropocentric personhood ethics was key to formulating technoprogressive theory. citizencyborg.substack.com/p/babies-ani...
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Babies, Animals and the Greatest Good for All Sentient Beings (1999-12-11)
From the Changesurfer Radio Archives
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The GLP-1 drug semaglutide extended lifespan in older, healthy mice, comparable to the effects of calorie restriction. www.nih.gov/news-events/...
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GLP-1 treatment late in life extends lifespan in animal model
Medication produced benefits beyond what was achieved by calorie restriction alone.
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In this week's Prosthetic Gods Nir and J discuss the show Black Mirror, the now archetypal tech dystopian cultural phenomenon. In almost every episode, technology is the villain. Dystopian narratives are popular, but what work do they do? prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/black-mirr...
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Black Mirror | Prosthetic Gods
Episode 48 - Black Mirror Nir and J discuss the show Black Mirror, the now archetypal tech dystopian cultural phenomenon. In almost every episode, technology is the villain. What rarely appears is a l...
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
AI models are now less likely to explicitly encourage suicide or reinforce delusions. But: The study also found most models too willing to assist with suicide-related creative writing, farewell notes and other task requests even when a user's distress was apparent. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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💬 AI safety gaps
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I had a great conversation with podcaster Suma Gowda. We discussed: - Can a machine suffer? - The AI model of you that keeps learning after you die - Machine rights - Centaur sentience - What democracy survives the intelligence explosion? www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEDn...
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Why This Former Monk Wants to PAUSE AI (And Give It Rights) | Dr. James Hughes
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Most Americans identify as "middle class," and only 1-in-6 identify as "working class." The self-identified "working", "lower-middle" and "poor" were much more likely to vote for Harris than for Trump. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Can we ban golf courses while we're at it? But keep nuts.
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
1999 interview with Bruce Sterling, the chief ideologist and central figure in the cyberpunk science fiction subgenre. His novels included Schismatrix (1985), Islands In The Net (1988), Heavy Weather (1994), Holy Fire (1996), and Distraction (1999). citizencyborg.substack.com/p/viridian-m...
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Viridian Manifesto: Sexy, High-Tech Green Politics (1999-02-06)
From the Changesurfer Radio Archives
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Henry Shevlin, DeepMind's first in-house philosopher and associate director of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, joins the show to sort through the hardest question in AI: are these systems conscious, and would we even know? prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/are-chatbo...
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Are Chatbots Conscious? A Conversation with Henry Shevlin | Prosthetic Gods
Episode 47 - Are Chatbots Conscious? A Conversation with Henry Shevlin Henry Shevlin, DeepMind's first in-house philosopher and associate director of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of In...
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Working-class respondents favored securing the border by 28%, lowering the crime rate by 22%, and adding more police by 19%. The college set prefers: LGBTQ+ rights by 32%, immigration by 32%, climate by 29%, and abortion rights by 26%. jacobin.com/2026/08/work...
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Working-Class Voters Are Winnable for the Left. Here’s How.
There’s a big gap between how progressive messaging is received by liberal, college-educated voters and working-class voters with no college degree. But there doesn’t have to be, if the Left appeals t...
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
James and Matteo discuss deathism — the idea that death is good, inevitable, and something we should embrace. We make the technoprogressive case for treating aging as a solvable, technoscientific problem rather than a metaphysical inevitability. breadandrobots.substack.com/p/against-de...
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Against Deathism
A Conversation with James Hughes
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Changesurfer Radio Redux: Interview with Greg Stock who examined humanity's tech progress in his 1993 book, Metaman: Merging Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism, and Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future. citizencyborg.substack.com/p/post-human...
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Post-Humanism and the Meta-Man (1999-04-03)
From the Changesurfer Radio Archives
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This doesn't look like Left dominance of higher education, more like center-right dominance of more than half of disciplines
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Cold War science fiction was consumed with the idea of robots pretending to be humans, the way Communists pretended to be Americans, everyone a suspected subversive. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Are You a Human?
Are you a human? From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative.
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
According to a CNN poll, 34% of Democrats say they’re democratic socialists. At that level, however, DSA’s total membership of roughly 120,000 constitutes less than 1% of the Americans who’ve chosen to call themselves democratic socialists. prospect.org/2026/08/10/w...
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Why Have Less Than One Percent of American Socialists Joined DSA? - The American Prospect
Socialism has not been this popular in America in at least a century, but how it’s defined, and who defines it, matters.
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Interview in 1999 with Jodi Dean, author of Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace. Prof Dean (Hobart & William Smith Colleges in New York) is author, most recently, of Capital’s Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle. citizencyborg.substack.com/p/alien-abdu...
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Alien Abduction in America (1998-12-19)
From the Changesurfer Radio Archives
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A think tank in Beijing recently published an assessment titled “Thank Trump,” which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the “twilight of an empire,” by undermining America’s alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Future, Made in China
Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The AMA’s new policy, “Gender Affirming Healthcare and Research,” reaffirms commitment to pediatric medical transition, calls for restoring research funding, and states that surgical interventions fall under the “affirming care” protocol. www.city-journal.org/article/amer...
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The American Medical Association Digs in Its Heels on Pediatric Gender Transition
A new policy on gender medicine disregards mounting evidence against the practice.
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Frankly, I'd rather they use bribery than censorship to curry fascist favor www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A health system approach to maximizing healthspan for populations longevity.technology/news/italy-m...
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Italy moves towards integrating longevity into its Health Service
Nicola Marino looks at a new paper proposing an evidence-based roadmap to make healthy longevity a measurable objective of public healthcare.
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Increasing taxes on high earners, free public childcare, and Medicare for all are favored by majorities of Americans. echeloninsights.substack.com/p/friday-fin...
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Friday Findings: How Popular is Socialism in America?
And how do voters think Medicare for All would be funded?
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Mindplex @mindplex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
What if AI could think more like the human brain—using a fraction of the energy? 🧠⚡ A brain-inspired AI model can plan and solve complex problems while consuming far less power, pointing toward a smarter and more sustainable future for AI. #AI #NeuromorphicAI #Innovation #FutureTech#mindplex.ai
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
72% of Americans said that there should be limits on how much money individuals and organizations can spend on political campaigns. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Most Americans favor big changes to the political system that likely would require amending the Constitution
Most Americans support term limits, campaign spending caps, and Electoral College reform, but achieving these changes likely would require amending one of the world's hardest constitutions to change.
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The strong alliance between Trump and Christianity has had a negative impact on churchgoing for many. religionnews.com/2026/07/20/h...
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Half of Gen Z says Trump support keeps them out of church
(RNS) — A new study found that, even among Gen Z Christians, the strong alliance between Trump and Christianity has had a negative impact on churchgoing for many.
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tempting www.cortivision.com/spectrum-23/
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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"No politician will ever promise to fight for the “bottom six deciles in combined SES score, nor will any labor activists ever chant, “The 30th to 60th percentiles in household income, united, will never be defeated.”" www.vox.com/politics/495...
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Who counts as “working class”?
The left’s answer is badly out of date.
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
People are using AI to “talk” with digital ghosts of deceased loved ones, echoing a famous "Black Mirror" episode in which a woman grows obsessed with — then angry at — an imperfect replica of her dead boyfriend. www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-ghos…
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AI ‘ghosts’ can comfort mourners — even when the bots get the facts wrong
A small study suggests emotional fit, not perfect accuracy, may make chatbot versions of dead loved ones feel real.
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