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A new post, on Robots, Ethics and Safety…. and the nature of human beings to self-engineer. The latter is being interfered with by AI technology.
A new post, on Robots, Ethics and Safety…. and the nature of human beings to self-engineer. The latter is being interfered with by AI technology.
On Robots, Ethics, Safety and (Again) Prometheus
"...to remain free, the future must be open."
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November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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A new post, on Robots, Ethics and Safety…. and the nature of human beings to self-engineer. The latter is being interfered with by AI technology.
A new post, on Robots, Ethics and Safety…. and the nature of human beings to self-engineer. The latter is being interfered with by AI technology.
The ability of these devices to access aspects of a person’s innermost life, including preconscious thought, raises the stakes on concerns about how to keep neural data private. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry?
Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The ability of these devices to access aspects of a person’s innermost life, including preconscious thought, raises the stakes on concerns about how to keep neural data private. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
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One of the reasons we need universal basic income plus higher taxes on the rich is to boost the spending power of the bottom 60% and in doing so, reorient our economy around the needs of the majority of people who comprise it. As inequality has increased, our economy has adjusted to meet rich wants.
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
One of the reasons we need universal basic income plus higher taxes on the rich is to boost the spending power of the bottom 60% and in doing so, reorient our economy around the needs of the majority of people who comprise it. As inequality has increased, our economy has adjusted to meet rich wants.
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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Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
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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
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The absurdity of human-in-the-loop accountability
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The absurdity of human-in-the-loop accountability
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
Please join the winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation [...]
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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
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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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(Today's fascists) secure hegemony through historical revisionism, anti-intellectualism, disinformation, censorship...leaning on a network — websites, social media, podcasts, television channels, newspapers, and think tanks ... a “permanent algorithmic campaign” jacobin.com/2025/11/fasc...
The Trouble With Fascism Analogies
In the interwar decades, many observers of rising fascism failed to understand what was new about this threat. Clinging to the word fascism to define today’s growing reactionary forces risks falling i...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
(Today's fascists) secure hegemony through historical revisionism, anti-intellectualism, disinformation, censorship...leaning on a network — websites, social media, podcasts, television channels, newspapers, and think tanks ... a “permanent algorithmic campaign” jacobin.com/2025/11/fasc...
GLP-1 pill form of the drug orforglipron (10% body weight loss) works about as well as injectable semaglutide (10-15% body weight loss) for people with type 2 diabetes. www.sciencealert.com/new-diabetes...
New Diabetes Pill Works as Well as Ozempic For Weight Loss, Trial Finds
A major new clinical trial involving more than 1,600 people has found that a GLP-1 pill form of the drug orforglipron works about as well as injectable semaglutide for people with type 2 diabetes.
www.sciencealert.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
GLP-1 pill form of the drug orforglipron (10% body weight loss) works about as well as injectable semaglutide (10-15% body weight loss) for people with type 2 diabetes. www.sciencealert.com/new-diabetes...
How Can Cities Support Healthy Longevity?
📅 Saturday, November 22, 2025
🕘 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6pm CET
Join Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award, to discuss healthy longevity in cities.
🖥️ Open to the public → us06web.zoom.us/j/83141006956
📅 Saturday, November 22, 2025
🕘 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6pm CET
Join Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award, to discuss healthy longevity in cities.
🖥️ Open to the public → us06web.zoom.us/j/83141006956
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
How Can Cities Support Healthy Longevity?
📅 Saturday, November 22, 2025
🕘 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6pm CET
Join Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award, to discuss healthy longevity in cities.
🖥️ Open to the public → us06web.zoom.us/j/83141006956
📅 Saturday, November 22, 2025
🕘 9am PST / 12pm EST / 6pm CET
Join Matteo MacDermant, winner of the IEET Technoprogressive Doctoral Dissertation Award, to discuss healthy longevity in cities.
🖥️ Open to the public → us06web.zoom.us/j/83141006956
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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.
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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
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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...
AI Surveillance in Shanghai www.instagram.com/reel/DRKw1CU...
AI Innovations Hub on Instagram: "😳 Shanghai’s “Urban Brain” offers a look at China’s real-time surveillance infrastructure.
In Pudong, a centralized control room can monitor residents across the dis...
China's 'Urban Brain' is a real-time surveillance system that tracks residents in Shanghai's Pudong district, using data from cameras, mobile apps, and artificial intelligence. The system maps buildin...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
AI Surveillance in Shanghai www.instagram.com/reel/DRKw1CU...
One in five Americans have taken GLP-1s, and one in eight are on them now. Half of GLP-1 users, and half of all Americans with insurance, say that it is difficult to afford these drugs. www.kff.org/public-opini...
Poll: 1 in 8 Adults Say They Are Currently Taking a GLP-1 Drug for Weight Loss, Diabetes or Another Condition, Even as Half Say the Drugs Are Difficult to Afford | KFF
About one in eight adults (12%) say that they are currently taking a GLP-1 drug such as Ozempic or Wegovy either to lose weight or treat a chronic condition, an increase from 18 months ago, though the...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
One in five Americans have taken GLP-1s, and one in eight are on them now. Half of GLP-1 users, and half of all Americans with insurance, say that it is difficult to afford these drugs. www.kff.org/public-opini...
One in five Americans have taken GLP-1s, and one in eight are on them now. Half of GLP-1 users, and half of all Americans with insurance, say that it is difficult to afford these drugs. www.kff.org/public-opini...
Poll: 1 in 8 Adults Say They Are Currently Taking a GLP-1 Drug for Weight Loss, Diabetes or Another Condition, Even as Half Say the Drugs Are Difficult to Afford | KFF
About one in eight adults (12%) say that they are currently taking a GLP-1 drug such as Ozempic or Wegovy either to lose weight or treat a chronic condition, an increase from 18 months ago, though the...
www.kff.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
One in five Americans have taken GLP-1s, and one in eight are on them now. Half of GLP-1 users, and half of all Americans with insurance, say that it is difficult to afford these drugs. www.kff.org/public-opini...
Losses today
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Losses today
Mice receiving Chinese Lonvi Biosciences' procyanidin C1 (PCC1), a grape seed-derived molecule, saw a 9% increase in overall lifespan, while remaining life expectancy from the first day of treatment rose by more than 64%.
www.nad.com/news/the-ris...
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The Rise of China’s Longevity Movement: A Quest to Defy Aging
A surge in the Chinese public’s interest in longevity science has led to substantial investments from the state and private companies in aging research.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Mice receiving Chinese Lonvi Biosciences' procyanidin C1 (PCC1), a grape seed-derived molecule, saw a 9% increase in overall lifespan, while remaining life expectancy from the first day of treatment rose by more than 64%.
www.nad.com/news/the-ris...
www.nad.com/news/the-ris...
IEET Exec Director J. Hughes argues 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.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
IEET Exec Director J. Hughes argues 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.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:26 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...
Anthropic said its coding tool, Claude Code, was “manipulated” by a Chinese state-sponsored group to attack 30 different entities around the world in September, achieving a “handful of successful intrusions”. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI firm claims it stopped Chinese state-sponsored cyber-attack campaign
Anthropic says hackers used its software to attack financial firms and government agencies around world
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Anthropic said its coding tool, Claude Code, was “manipulated” by a Chinese state-sponsored group to attack 30 different entities around the world in September, achieving a “handful of successful intrusions”. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Wireless devices one billionth the size of a grain of rice delivered to your brain via a jab in the arm. They autonomously implant themselves on target regions in the brain, and deliver electrical stimulation to the affected areas.
newatlas.com/brain/mit-in...
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MIT's injectable brain chips could treat disease without surgery
A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been refining and combining several advanced technologies over the past six years to create a revolutionary platform to treat a...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Wireless devices one billionth the size of a grain of rice delivered to your brain via a jab in the arm. They autonomously implant themselves on target regions in the brain, and deliver electrical stimulation to the affected areas.
newatlas.com/brain/mit-in...
newatlas.com/brain/mit-in...
The brains of tango dancers, musicians, visual artists, and gamers were 5-7 years younger than their chronological age. The more years of experience or training—the larger the delay in brain age. www.psypost.org/from-tango-t...
From tango to StarCraft: Creative activities linked to slower brain aging, according to new neuroscience research
Engaging in creative activities like music, drawing, dance, or strategy video games may help keep the brain younger, according to a new study in Nature Communications. The research suggests creativity...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The brains of tango dancers, musicians, visual artists, and gamers were 5-7 years younger than their chronological age. The more years of experience or training—the larger the delay in brain age. www.psypost.org/from-tango-t...
No gerotherapeutic has been approved, although some approved drugs might qualify as such if appropriately tested. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not recognize aging as a disease indication and has no regulatory pathway for anti-aging interventions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Are GLP-1s the first longevity drugs? - Nature Biotechnology
As pharma ramps up efforts on disorders of aging, a new era of disease prevention comes into focus.
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
No gerotherapeutic has been approved, although some approved drugs might qualify as such if appropriately tested. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not recognize aging as a disease indication and has no regulatory pathway for anti-aging interventions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated false claims this week that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election, posting election conspiracy theories and misleading information on X to justify its answer.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI briefly says Trump won 2020 presidential election
Chatbot in the past made claims of a ‘white genocide’, pushed antisemitism and referred to itself as ‘MechaHitler’
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated false claims this week that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election, posting election conspiracy theories and misleading information on X to justify its answer.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...