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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 22h

Fresh from the Technoprogressive Opportunity conference in London, J. Hughes and Matteo McDermant ask what a summer of rogue AI should do to left futurism. substack.com/@citizencybo...

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Technoprogressives and Rogue AI

Plus the Technoprogressive Opportunity Conference and Policy Book Project

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

The subjugation of women is part of a neo-fascist, warrior culture going all the way back to the 1930s. It was on full display during Pete Hegseth’s military speech this week.

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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Animal Testing This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J. dissect the dismantling of the animal-testing paradigm. We explore the political shifts sweeping the EU and the US, including the surprising federal momentum under the current HHS framework. prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/animal-tes...

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Animal Testing | Prosthetic Gods

Episode 50 - Animal Testing This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J. dissect the rapid dismantling of the animal-testing paradigm. We explore the legal and political shifts sweeping the EU and the Uni...

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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 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 · 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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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

Technoprogressive Policy Project

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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

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 · 02/09/2026

OK - (a) there is no scenario in which we escape death forever, (b) giving people choice over when they die, we all will someday choose death, and (c) over time the meaning of personal persistence erodes to meaninglessness

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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

YouTube video by Suma Gowda

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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 · 30/08/2026

Or rather, we all would like to live another day, and when we don't our loved ones try to convince us we should. Longevity medicine is not a promise of immortality, merely the addition of healthy years, which is the official goal of every healthcare system.

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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

How about just taking medicine to keep enjoying life indefinitely while never denying the inevitability of impermanence? We already live twice as long as our ancestors.

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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 · 23/08/2026

How do feel about taking medicine?

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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)

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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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CitizenCyborg @citizencyborg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Socialist internationalists are not protectionists

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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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