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/... 022
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Aubrey de Grey is our final speaker, on longevity therapies, at The Technoprogressive Opportunity meeting in London. 010
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Its been a wonderful meeting here in London this weekend, the first of many. 020
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Ai still doesn't decide - the programmer does www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a62184 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Most 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... 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Can we ban golf courses while we're at it? But keep nuts. 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This doesn't look like Left dominance of higher education, more like center-right dominance of more than half of disciplines 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026European federalism is evidence that democratic world federalism is possible. 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026There is no reason to criminalize plural marriage in a liberal society. 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026When you are winning so hard, and so smooth about it, that your opponents come after you for "arrogance." 020
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Old age dependents are a product of wealth and longevity 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Buddhist Myanmar (hostile to Muslims) right up there with Muslim Bangladesh in intolerance, while Buddhist Taiwan and secular China among most tolerant 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Even the rich suffer from living in unequal societies with broken safety nets. And the fascists the rich support to protect them from the poors eventually also screw the rich. 001
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This is puzzling. There is no basis for either divine Creationism or intelligent design in canonical Buddhism. In fact Buddhism specifically rejected Vedic claims of divine creation of the universe. (see the Aggañña Sutta) 020
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026If the trade off for teens was social media for less booze and church, maybe social media addiction looks a lot better 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026In a Dem +15 election a lot of the Repuglican gerrymanders become "dummymanders," handing more districts to the Dems not fewer. They are making the blue wave bigger. 010
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Happy Mothers Day to all the moms in my life, and a big thank you to all our foremothers. We should be making it easier to have children. 010
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the role of disgust in morality. Neuroscience suggests that feelings of disgust underlie many moral judgments, especially in the treatment of sexuality. Can we suppress disgust? Should we? prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/disgust/ 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 04/05/202656 years ago today, four dead in Ohio. Students protesting the bombing of Cambodia shot at Kent State University by the National Guard. 010
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Most political killings in the U.S. are committed by white right-wing men 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026AI or a year of historically stupid federal policy? 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Technoprogressive pols are popping up like Spring flowers poulos.house 032
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I have finally taken a position on the the Avignon papacy 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The non-English-speaking world is much more enthusiastic about AI. Your strategy might be marginally successful here. But 80% of the world will be using AI. 100
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Altman is floating technoprogressive policy as OpenAI spirals the drain. Not bad, but trying to tie the welfare state to AI progress when we should do this anyway. www.axios.com/2026/04/06/b... 001
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026At this rate, we could get the GOP to impeach him by the end of the year. If they weren't a death cult. 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Anglo Buddhists in the US are as liberal as Nones, while Asian Buddhists are more culturally conservative. 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 29/03/2026US evangelicals are largely Christian nationalists 000
CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Nice shout out to my personal identity essays. "Transhumanism and the Survival of Transcendence: How Integration Can Save the Future of Humanity" by Grzegorz Ignatik www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/17... 010