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Technoprog Transhumanism A Conversation with Marc Roux

In the episode of Bread and Robots, "Technoprog Transhumanism," Matteo and Marc Roux dismantle the cliché that transhumanism is merely a playground for Silicon Valley billionaires seeking digital immortality.
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‘The machine did it coldly’

Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...

How Do Technoprogressives Understand Social Change? Reflecting on the rise of fascism and the Epstein class through the lens of post-Marxist and technoprogressive social theory

What can technoprogressives learn from debates about the nature of power in society? Does money make the world go around, or money and sex and other stuff? What role does technology play in social change? ieet.substack.com/p/how-do-tec...

Great to sit down with Henry Rosoff at Pix 11 to talk about our campaign, democratic socialism, and how the path to a dignified life for working people depends on changing Congress.

Here's part of our conversation.

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Disaster capitalism.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”

The AI boom belongs to capital, not workers Job openings have become scarce and workers' wages are no longer rising that rapidly.

Axios bringing the class consciousness www.axios.com/2026/02/11/a...

Selling AI to the left Britain’s government makes the union-friendly case for artificial intelligence. Progressives take note

Britain’s government makes the union-friendly case for artificial intelligence. Progressives take note. www.economist.com/britain/2026...

(PDF) Human nature from the perspective of science: a transhumanist response to Elena Postigo PDF | In the article «Bioethics and transhumanism from the perspective of human nature», bioethicist Elena Postigo Solana presented an objection to the... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

"Curiosamente, James Hughes (2007) también denuncia que, en vista de que el concepto de naturaleza humana apela a la pureza de la humanidad como especie...racismo-humano, como lo denomina Hughes." www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Way to go MAGAts

Artificial Intelligence and Human Values: A Public Conversation

Nir Eisikovitz and I will be co-hosting a live episode of Prosthetic Gods April 2 at the University of New Hampshire, as part of their Sidore Memorial AI Ethics conference. The discussion is free and open to the public, and will appear as a podcast episode.

www.themusichall.org/events/sipso...

How MAGA-Inspired Politics Are Reshaping Japan and South Korea A culture war playbook honed by American conservatives is finding new life in East Asia

The rise of Sanseito, alongside the MAGA-inspired movements in South Korea, suggests that a new, U.S.-influenced political model is firmly taking root among Washington’s key allies in the Asia-Pacific region.
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It's the Billionaires, Stupid The faultline for Dems in the run to 2028 will be attitudes toward elites

It's the Billionaires, Stupid
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By David Rothkopf - former editor of Foreign Policy
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Imagine seeing photos and videos of ugly old men raping underage girls and thinking, "I need to protect those horrible men at all costs."?

Pam Bondi is a soulless villain.

Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein The crypto community is reeling from the discovery that Epstein was a huge backer of early Bitcoin efforts.

"We've basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick."

Michael Burry Warns of Cascading Effects From Bitcoin Plunge Michael Burry, who rose to prominence for his wager against the US housing market ahead of the 2008 financial crisis, warned that Bitcoin’s plunge could deepen into a self-reinforcing “death spiral,” ...

Looks like Bitcoin is moving rapidly towards its fundamental value (zero) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chatbots as social companions: How people perceive consciousness, human likeness, and social health benefits in machines As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more widespread, one question that arises is how human-AI interaction might impact human-human interaction. Chatbots, for example, are increasingly used as soci...

"Companion chatbot users indicated that these relationships were beneficial to their social health... perceiving companion chatbots as more conscious and humanlike correlated with more positive opinions and more pronounced social health benefits."
arxiv.org/abs/2311.10599

YouTube video by Resistance Revival Chorus Resistance Revival Chorus with Rhiannon Giddens "All You Fascists Bound To Lose"

Mood - I've been continuously depressed about how resilient the fascist rise has been. But the blood of our martyrs has renewed the tree of liberty. Plus the monstrous unhideable crimes of the craven elites.
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

FDA Targets Gender-Affirming Garments, Warning Companies that Serve Trans Customers At least 12 companies received letters from the agency stating that the gender-affirming compression garments are medical devices and require compliance with strict federal regulations.

At least 12 companies received letters from the FDA stating that chest binders, a compression garment, are medical devices and require compliance with strict federal regulations.
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Also clear that these criminal elites promote nationalism and racism but have no country. We need transnational organizing and institutions to hold them accountable. Thats why they try to destroy the EU and UN.

Narodnism and socialist reform meet when capital concentration allows a significant part of the ruling class to meet in one ballroom or country club. We need to at least march them to jail and nationalize their wealth.

The Power Elite - Wikipedia

Mill did not recognize the shared patriarchy of elites. But this Epstein network, and this regime, make the socialist-feminist case. Freedom from sex/gender bonds is equally powerful as freedom from want and toil, fused in the abuses of male billionaires. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pow...

The Epstein files are The Power Elite casebook for the 21st century. They reveal the role of capital and patriarchy in building the geopolitical alliances of this portion of the global ruling class. Epstein's Island is the depraved country club of the .001%.

Pretty much

The entire world needs to be building decentralized, resilient power, water and food systems, to prepare for natural, climate and man-made disasters.

Thai BL & GL actors perform queerness with their partners in social media, despite not be involved with each other or even being queer. Instead of critiquing this as "queerbaiting" it can be seen as a "queer fantasy economy" that has an emancipatory role. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

YouTube video by typeoneplanet Anti aging Therapies Should Be A Governmental Initiative

Technoprogressives distinguish themselves from libertarians by demanding universal access to technology, and from the Luddite Left by defending the emancipatory potential of technology. www.youtube.com/shorts/t1bQX...

Do You Feel the AGI Yet? According to some predictions, 2026 is the year that an all-powerful AI will arrive.

Artificial general intelligence was supposed to have been imminent—but “the broad agreement on what AGI even is and the immediate value it could provide humanity have been scrubbed away,” @matteowong.bsky.social reports: