CitizenCyborg
@citizencyborg.bsky.social
Sociologist, left social democrat antifascist with technoprogressive tendencies. Exec Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.org @citizencyborg on Substack & Threads.
I'm watching Pluribus as a meditation on moral enhancement and the Virtues. The Hive is compassionate, flourishing (?) and may have a grand plan. But they demonstrate no practical wisdom, and their paternalism trumps respect for individualism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opdn...
PLURIBUS: The Virus Explained
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November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm watching Pluribus as a meditation on moral enhancement and the Virtues. The Hive is compassionate, flourishing (?) and may have a grand plan. But they demonstrate no practical wisdom, and their paternalism trumps respect for individualism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opdn...
Another reason to get rid of billionaires - they screw up measures of central tendency
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Another reason to get rid of billionaires - they screw up measures of central tendency
"I predict that with the rise of democratic socialism in the US and western Europe, there will be an increase in ... democratic socialist ideology... previous followers of the Communist ideology (in the Philippines) will convert to democratic socialism."
www.philstar.com/opinion/2025...
www.philstar.com/opinion/2025...
Corruption leads to poverty and income inequality
In my last column, I wrote about Oxfam and the concept of income inequality as the major economic problem in the world today.
www.philstar.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"I predict that with the rise of democratic socialism in the US and western Europe, there will be an increase in ... democratic socialist ideology... previous followers of the Communist ideology (in the Philippines) will convert to democratic socialism."
www.philstar.com/opinion/2025...
www.philstar.com/opinion/2025...
Modi as a successful populist: "By building a robust welfare architecture — delivering pensions, housing, health and income support — the BJP has occupied the social-justice terrain that was once the exclusive preserve of left-wing parties." www.businessworld.in/article/righ...
Right Wing That Turned Left: BJP’s Quiet Socialist Revolution - BW Businessworld
Long cast as a right-wing, Hindu-majoritarian force, the BJP has reinvented itself as India’s most expansive welfare state builder
www.businessworld.in
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Modi as a successful populist: "By building a robust welfare architecture — delivering pensions, housing, health and income support — the BJP has occupied the social-justice terrain that was once the exclusive preserve of left-wing parties." www.businessworld.in/article/righ...
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TODAY: Nov 22, 2025 📷 9am PST/Noon EST/6pm CET
How Can Cities Support Healthy Longevity?
Join us for a live online discussion with Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Link: us06web.zoom.us/j/83141006956
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How Can Cities Support Healthy Longevity?
Join us for a live online discussion with Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Link: us06web.zoom.us/j/83141006956
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November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
TODAY: Nov 22, 2025 📷 9am PST/Noon EST/6pm CET
How Can Cities Support Healthy Longevity?
Join us for a live online discussion with Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Link: us06web.zoom.us/j/83141006956
ieet.org/event/how-ca...
How Can Cities Support Healthy Longevity?
Join us for a live online discussion with Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Link: us06web.zoom.us/j/83141006956
ieet.org/event/how-ca...
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Elise Stefanik went from being Trump’s main ally to getting passed over for UN ambassador, defending racist Republicans and now discarded in favor of a “communist”
And Stephen Miller’s attacks on NYC were completely undercut by Trump
Maybe Zohran Mamdani should visit the White House every day
And Stephen Miller’s attacks on NYC were completely undercut by Trump
Maybe Zohran Mamdani should visit the White House every day
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Elise Stefanik went from being Trump’s main ally to getting passed over for UN ambassador, defending racist Republicans and now discarded in favor of a “communist”
And Stephen Miller’s attacks on NYC were completely undercut by Trump
Maybe Zohran Mamdani should visit the White House every day
And Stephen Miller’s attacks on NYC were completely undercut by Trump
Maybe Zohran Mamdani should visit the White House every day
Stokes connected income inequality with democratic backsliding through increased partisan polarization: Inequality encourages polarization, and a polarized public is more tolerant when their leaders attack the press, the courts and other institutions. news.uchicago.edu/story/new-bo...
New book highlights economic inequality at the heart of democratic backsliding
UChicago political scientist Susan C. Stokes analyzes the current moment while offering solutions to a polarized public
news.uchicago.edu
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Stokes connected income inequality with democratic backsliding through increased partisan polarization: Inequality encourages polarization, and a polarized public is more tolerant when their leaders attack the press, the courts and other institutions. news.uchicago.edu/story/new-bo...
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TOMORROW: How Can Cities Support Healthy Longevity?
Join us for a live online discussion with Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award.
📷 Nov 22, 2025 📷 9am PST/Noon EST/6pm CET
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Join us for a live online discussion with Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award.
📷 Nov 22, 2025 📷 9am PST/Noon EST/6pm CET
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How Can Cities Support Healthy Longevity? - IEET
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November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
TOMORROW: How Can Cities Support Healthy Longevity?
Join us for a live online discussion with Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award.
📷 Nov 22, 2025 📷 9am PST/Noon EST/6pm CET
ieet.org/event/how-ca...
Join us for a live online discussion with Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award.
📷 Nov 22, 2025 📷 9am PST/Noon EST/6pm CET
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Having pride in national culture isn't inherently reactionary. But we have needed new internationalist identities to transcend nationalist ones for a long time. The first step is recognizing that you can learn from other people.
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Having pride in national culture isn't inherently reactionary. But we have needed new internationalist identities to transcend nationalist ones for a long time. The first step is recognizing that you can learn from other people.
Danish SocDems lose Copenhagen to Red-Green Alliance due to "voter fatigue over the prime minister’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration, which have partly inspired a newly unveiled asylum and migration policy in Britain." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses
PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Danish SocDems lose Copenhagen to Red-Green Alliance due to "voter fatigue over the prime minister’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration, which have partly inspired a newly unveiled asylum and migration policy in Britain." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Sylvan Esso - Keep On (Official Video) youtu.be/45F_OjNLgjc
Sylvan Esso - Keep On (Official Video)
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November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Sylvan Esso - Keep On (Official Video) youtu.be/45F_OjNLgjc
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We are committed to simplifying laws to make the lives of citizens and businesses easier, but we will not support a deregulation agenda that would recklessly undermine the EU’s digital legal framework.
www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/newsroom/sds...
www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/newsroom/sds...
S&Ds: Don’t deregulate and weaken the EU’s digital legal framework that protects people | Socialists and Democrats
Today, the European Commission published the Digital Omnibus which aims to change the EU’s digital legal framework including the General Data Protection Regulatio
www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We are committed to simplifying laws to make the lives of citizens and businesses easier, but we will not support a deregulation agenda that would recklessly undermine the EU’s digital legal framework.
www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/newsroom/sds...
www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/newsroom/sds...
Epstein release vote passes with no Nays. What are abstentions trying to say here?
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Epstein release vote passes with no Nays. What are abstentions trying to say here?
"Although liberals and centrists remain a powerful force within the Democratic Party, especially among its leadership, they have for years now been engaged in dialogue with social democrats (who) broadened the party’s agenda and sparked serious discussions..." foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/m...
How Mamdani Taps Into an American Socialist Tradition
The movement’s founders echoed the words of Thomas Paine and Abraham Lincoln much more than Karl Marx.
foreignpolicy.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"Although liberals and centrists remain a powerful force within the Democratic Party, especially among its leadership, they have for years now been engaged in dialogue with social democrats (who) broadened the party’s agenda and sparked serious discussions..." foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/m...
I argue that we need to design the next wave of wearables for equity, agency, and the public interest - not just self-improvement, for-profit efficiency, and social control. ieet.substack.com/p/wired-for-...
Wired for Wellness: The Ethics and Futures of Wearable Self-Surveillance
Keynote delivered at the 15th Annual Ethics Conference Research Ethics & Novel Biotechnologies: When Tech is On You, In You, Over You, and More, November 13, 2025. Thank you again to the organizers.
ieet.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I argue that we need to design the next wave of wearables for equity, agency, and the public interest - not just self-improvement, for-profit efficiency, and social control. ieet.substack.com/p/wired-for-...
Preventive is just one of a “growing number of startups” in the area of germline gene editing funded by wealthy tech billionaires, WSJ reports. Herasight claims it can predict an embryo’s IQ, and Nucleus offers polygenic screening at the price of just $10K. futurism.com/health-medic...
Startup Secretly Working to Gene-Hack Human Baby
A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.
futurism.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Preventive is just one of a “growing number of startups” in the area of germline gene editing funded by wealthy tech billionaires, WSJ reports. Herasight claims it can predict an embryo’s IQ, and Nucleus offers polygenic screening at the price of just $10K. futurism.com/health-medic...
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This is could well be a historic midterm for Democrats.
Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives.
You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.
Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives.
You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
This is could well be a historic midterm for Democrats.
Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives.
You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.
Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives.
You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.
From the Wall Street Journal
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
From the Wall Street Journal
Turns Christian nationalism is bad for Christianity
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
The 17-percentage-point drop in U.S. religiosity over the past decade is among the largest declines measured in the Gallup World Poll.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Turns Christian nationalism is bad for Christianity
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J chat with @josemarichal.bsky.social (California Lutheran, PoliSci) author of You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem. We discuss algorithmic power and citizen agency. prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/algorithms...
Algorithms and Democracy with Jose Marichal | Prosthetic Gods
Episode 29 - Algorithms and Democracy with Jose Marichal
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J chat with Jose Marichal, professor of political science at California Lutheran University, and author o...
prostheticgods.podbean.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J chat with @josemarichal.bsky.social (California Lutheran, PoliSci) author of You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem. We discuss algorithmic power and citizen agency. prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/algorithms...
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The Mob Boss threatens Republicans who may want to vote to release the Epstein files.
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Mob Boss threatens Republicans who may want to vote to release the Epstein files.
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Nationally, every single one of Zohran Mamdani's policies has higher "strong support" than "strong opposition." But tell me again how pro-worker policies only work in NYC.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Nationally, every single one of Zohran Mamdani's policies has higher "strong support" than "strong opposition." But tell me again how pro-worker policies only work in NYC.
Wisdom of an architect of our kleptocratic oligarchy: unfettered capitalism drives people to the Left
www.thefp.com/p/peter-thie...
www.thefp.com/p/peter-thie...
Peter Thiel: Capitalism Isn’t Working for Young People
In a now-viral 2020 email, the Silicon Valley billionaire predicted the rise of socialism. Today he tells The Free Press how he knew.
www.thefp.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Wisdom of an architect of our kleptocratic oligarchy: unfettered capitalism drives people to the Left
www.thefp.com/p/peter-thie...
www.thefp.com/p/peter-thie...
"The history of globalisation over the past four centuries suggests that the presence of a global superpower – for all its negative sides – has brought a degree of economic stability in an uncertain world... mercantilism is a recipe for perpetual conflict." www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?art...
www.europe-solidaire.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"The history of globalisation over the past four centuries suggests that the presence of a global superpower – for all its negative sides – has brought a degree of economic stability in an uncertain world... mercantilism is a recipe for perpetual conflict." www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?art...