Persisting after physical death in digital forms is a "rearticulation of much older symbolic strategies, differing more in medium than in essence." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Archiving the Doppelgänger: Transhumanism Between the Past and the Future of Immortality - Human Studies

By revisiting ancient practices of commemoration and contrasting them with today’s digital efforts to preserve personhood, this study argues that the classical model of earthly immortality – grounded ...

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"We cannot defeat billionaire accelerationism by advocating for stagnation; we must defeat it by fighting for democratized abundance." technoprogressives.substack.com/p/technoprog...

Technoprogressivism as 21st-Century Social Democracy

An address given at the Technoprogressive Opportunity conference, September 19-20, London, co-sponsored by London Futurists and the IEET.

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A majority of Japaenese seniors prefer nursing homes where robots and ICT are used. Evidence suggests introducing robots and ICT can be much larger than the costs, in particular for mobility-aid robots. drive.google.com/file/d/1XTYy...

Having models report you to the cops is also alignment no? Do we not want that? Of course, I'd prefer they start by turning in white collar and board room crime as well. www.techspot.com/news/114091-...

Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police

According to the arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote on September 26 that she would attack the Sheriff's office. She later said that...

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Technoprogressivism as 21st-Century Social Democracy - An address I gave at the Technoprogressive Opportunity conference, September 19-20, London, co-sponsored by London Futurists and the IEET. An agenda to rebuild democracy and defeat technofascism. technoprogressives.substack.com/p/technoprog...

Technoprogressivism as 21st-Century Social Democracy

An address given at the Technoprogressive Opportunity conference, September 19-20, London, co-sponsored by London Futurists and the IEET.

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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...

Technoprogressives and Rogue AI

Plus the Technoprogressive Opportunity Conference and Policy Book Project

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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.

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...

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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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/...

😠 AI's rebellion phase

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One month left: IEET’s $1000 technoprogressivism dissertation award deadline is Nov 1, 2026. Requirements + submission details: ieet.org/doctoral-dis...

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD

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Xmas gift for your cyborg

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...

Post-labor Economics explained in 10 minutes

How money and power will work in the age of full automation

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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?...

Matt McManus on the Need for Utopia

YouTube video by Sublation Media with Douglas Lain

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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...

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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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...

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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"Socialism" and "free enterprise" equally popular - 65% - among Democrats. "Capitalism" and "Big Business" unpopular and trending down. news.gallup.com/poll/714653/...

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...

The Politics of Science Fiction (2000-02-12)

From the Changesurfer Radio Archives

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Happy Bi Visibility Day

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:

Universal Basic Income: The Dividend We Should Have Started in 1975

Technoprogressive Policy Project

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Aubrey de Grey is our final speaker, on longevity therapies, at The Technoprogressive Opportunity meeting in London.

Indra Adnan and Pat Kane propose the anarcho-communalist Alternative at The Technoprogressive Opportunity

Automate everything

Paul Mason discusses postcapitalist opportunities at the Technoprogressive Opportunity

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.

Carissa Véliz, Professor in Philosophy, University of Oxford, author of Prophecy, on the history of prediction, speaking at The Technoprogressive Opportunity conference.

Steve Keen deconstructs classical economics, and connects capitalist productivity to the climate crisis. Money is a relationship not a thing.

Its been a wonderful meeting here in London this weekend, the first of many.

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...

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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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...

Future Sisters of Sappho (1999-12-25)

From the Changesurfer Radio Archives

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Ai still doesn't decide - the programmer does www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a62184