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"If our leaders fail to prepare, the silence that once followed the closing of factory doors will spread through office parks and home offices — and the grief long borne by the working class may soon be borne by us all." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...

"Our concepts of personhood and identity were forged by a particular evolutionary, social and developmental history in which body, memory, values, personality & social relationships typically aligned and exceptions mostly fell into predictable patterns." schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/12/seve...

Morals, ethics, and values need to be culturally learned, nurtured, and sustained. By humans and machines alike. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204976...

(Chatbots used for mental health) "are prone to inappropriately navigating crisis situations, providing misleading responses that reinforce users’ negative beliefs about themselves and others, and creating a false sense of empathy with users." www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

"Billionaire “flight” is rare, exaggerated, and often confused with tax avoidance through accounting rather than physical relocation. Policymakers who mistake tax avoidance for exit risk misdesign taxes. (CA's) proposed one-time wealth tax is well - designed." www.forbes.com/sites/teresa...

Why tech oligarchs support fascism. "Freed from potential regulation and aided by industry-friendly policies, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla have seen their shares soar. Bitcoin hit record highs. And tech companies can continue developing A.I. largely unfettered."

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

In this episode of Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the proposed law in Ohio to ban recognition of AI personhood, from forbidding AI from holding patents or property, to banning human-robot marriage. What would a robot that could be married have to be? prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/shoulda-pu...

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

X has spent years fighting scrutiny and suing researchers, writes CCDH's Imran Ahmed, arguing the EU’s fine isn’t censorship but enforcement of the public’s right to understand how platforms shape the online world.

"Men face harsher social penalties for using devices like sex toys, chatbots, and robots, particularly as the technology becomes more humanlike. Gender norms influence how society perceives sexual expression and the integration of tech in intimate lives." www.psypost.org/researchers-...

If you want longevity you want social democracy. The prevailing narrative is that capitalism was a progressive force that put an end to serfdom and set off a dramatic rise in living standards. But this fairytale doesn’t hold up against the evidence. www.filmsforaction.org/articles/its...

Thursday, April 9, 2026 - Harvard Countway Library of Medicine for a discussion with Jonathan D. Moreno about his new book, "Absolutely Essential: Bioethics and the Rules-based International Order." 🔗 Register here: libcal.countway.harvard.edu/event/15208652

The technoprogressive Democrats emerge. Pro-AI, pro-UBI, but targeted by industry lobbies for supporting AI safety. We have a winner. qz.com/alex-bores-n...

The role Christian nationalism in the emerging alliance of tech fascists and TheoBros. youtu.be/DnawnozGePg?...

"So if they are producing truly untold riches, I think we need to find a way to provide some stability to the American worker, to American families, and UBI is going to be part of that solution.” — @alexbores.nyc Meet the Democrat running for Congress in NY-12 on a regulate AI and do UBI platform.

The role Christian nationalism in the emerging alliance of tech fascists and TheoBros. youtu.be/DnawnozGePg?...

Schwartz argues that space science itself is not merely useful or beneficial, but a moral obligation. Beyond economic returns, tech spinoffs, or national prestige, knowledge has intrinsic value, and public space agencies represent that shared human interest. www.planetary.org/planetary-ra...

We need a thrid axis of "Billionaire controlled to democratized"

We need to revisit criteria for who is dead. Death = brain death. Whether your heart beats is irrelevant. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This Week at the IEET: Aliens and TechnoFascism - Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Ciao, Ciao! ieet.substack.com/p/this-week-...

This is an excellent think piece on the threat of AI-enabled techno-authoritarianism. 80000hours.org/problem-prof...

Psychedelics help with OCD, but cannabis doesn't. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Last week Dr. J. spoke to the Center for Ethical Issues in the 21st Century about "Conspiracy Theories, TechnoFascism, and the Prospects for a Left Futurism." Billionaires are the problem, not "TESCREALISM." Technoprogressive politics is the solution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbxq...

This week on Prosthetic Gods we chat with astronomer Avi Loeb about the boundaries of open-mindedness in science, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy, in our solar system, and in our skies. prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/boundaries...

"By aligning with capital and reactionary political forces...the futurist class ensured that the left would completely abandon techno-optimism." shalashashka.substack.com/p/the-futuri...

Uh, ground control... www.iflscience.com/fresh-from-c...

Get with the damn program. www.them.us/story/pornhu...

Japanese 40-74 are required to have an annual waist measurement. Overweight folks are marked for further health guidance including dietary advice, exercise counseling, and necessary lifestyle changes. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/h...

Psychedelics are post-gender; they promote explorations of sexual orientation and gender identity. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The political polarization of trust in science, driven by far right rejection of the Enlightenment, points to the emergence of a technoprogressive Left. Progressives are critical of capitalism, authoritarianism and hierarchy, not scitech.

"The picture of AI offered by the AI ethics community is one-sided and negatively biased. We should be skeptical about the negative narrative promoted by AI ethics and explore ways of reforming the system." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you can join us in Paris next June, I'll be speaking at this. Don't forget to register before midnight: www.csb.eu.com/conference/r...

6/7 We delve into the motivations of the leaders of Big AI. Are they evil? If not, why are they participating in a race towards an outcome which carries a 10-30% risk of human extinction? calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

This is from a satirical magazine written by Anthony Kenny and Julius Kovesi in Oxford, 1958-59. I have reviewed so many papers in the last 5 years that are basically just this.

“Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential.”

Karl Widerquist is presenting "Falling Cost of Basic Income" Wed Dec 10, 2025, 2:30pm EST. Poverty-line UBI now costs only 2.7% of GDP, down from 3.4% in 2015 and 9% in 1967. Register for the Zoom at this link: nyu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

House Democrats set up AI and Innovation working group with industry members and other artificial intelligence stakeholders. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/a...

Why so negative? "AI is renewing creativity and imagination for academics burdened by empiricism."

Nice write up of my talk for the U of Colorado's Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute on the ethics of wearable health devices. "The potential harm from these devices remains minimal compared to their benefits." news.cuanschutz.edu/cctsi/when-t...

Moral enhancement control panel: "I like to think about the big five as an audio switchboard with all the little dials that you can push up and down." www.vox.com/explain-it-t...

Longevity Escape Velocity is a nice idea. But we're farther away than ever. Even GLP-1s, which can claw back the losses to rising obesity, will not counteract the lost life expectancy due to "deaths of despair" in the high income countries.

Noah Smith and Jon Favreau on technological futurism youtu.be/gaQakKf7qoE?...

UBI is 10X better idea: "The program benefits will flow overwhelmingly to families with the means to contribute thousands of dollars a year. What could have been a leveling tool instead risks becoming a widening wedge between the haves and the have-nots." time.com/7338829/prob...

"Without AI, what we're trying to do would be impossible."

How do we build a Longevity City? breadandrobots.substack.com/p/the-longev...

Just did this interview a couple weeks ago to discuss universal basic income (UBI) in an introductory way. If you watch it, I hope you enjoy it and share it with others.

This week on Bread and Robots, Matteo sits down with NYC-DSA Tech Action's Julie Swoope to explore what a technoprogressive city could look like in practice. The conversation centers on the opening created by Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City. breadandrobots.substack.com/p/actualizin...

Some people believe that so long as people displaced by technology can find another job, we don't need universal basic income, but the thing is, a few people get very rich via technology and that should be shared UNIVERSALLY. 4-day weeks are great, and so is healthcare, but we ALL deserve our share.