This week on Technoprogressive Hub we spoke with David Wood, chair of the London Futurists. We discuss transhumanism, longevity, politics and oligarchs. technoprogressives.substack.com/p/toward-a-t...
Voting advice applications (using a series of questions to recommend a party or candidate) increase ideological knowledge, helping participants more accurately classify a fictional party as left- or right-wing. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Anders Sandberg: We survive by building institutions that help us solve tough coordination problems. These institutions often act as extended cognition, allowing us to go far beyond individual power. We are to some extent living inside artificial intelligence system www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN2M...
Patriarchal restoration will fail. But it will do a lot of damage in its extinction burst.
"...American techno-oligarchy and the EU, with the former engaging the European far right to weaken a united Europe, fragment it, and render individual European nations more susceptible to foreign state capture."
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A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
Addictions to alcohol, cocaine, and other drugs share a common biological driver, and GLP1 drugs turn down the hunger noise www.statnews.com/2026/03/04/g...
‘Musclezempic’: pairing GLP-1 therapy with muscle-boosting drugs gizmodo.com/musclezempic...
When the choice was between bourgeois democracy or a fascist dictatorship, Dimitrov argued that communists should “defend every inch of bourgeois-democratic liberty.” jacobin.com/2026/02/inte...
HEET 2026 focuses on three urgent areas:
• Human enhancement
• Trustworthy AI
• Quantum ethics
A full-day, in-person conference aimed at responsible and constructive engagement with emerging technologies.
📅 April 16
🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/biglietti-...
#HEET2026
Rare Earths, War Crimes, and the Urgent Need for Increased Sanctions Weekly Highlights 16th - 22nd Feb
Then @pvamplify.bsky.social weekly update calls on Governments to impose expanded & enforced targeted sanctions on the military junta in Myanmar, its revenue streams & the linked crony corporations that sustain its machinery of repression
progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2026/02/28/r...
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On Bread and Robots, Matteo talks to Patrick Brock about Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, a technoprogressive vision in the form of a science fiction novel 140 years old. breadandrobots.substack.com/p/science-fi...
RJ Eskow on Reclaiming Technology for the People www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGRT...
James Hughes "How Billionaires Ruined Futurism"
We were promised a Star Trek future – a world of abundance, universal health, and the collective exploration of the stars. Instead, we got a subscription-model dystopia. www.scifuture.org/james-hughes...
Post-Labor Economics begins with the premise that human labor will largely disappear rather than merely shift between sectors. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Trump claims he’ll make data centers pay for their own power supply
The Peace Corps is recruiting volunteers to sell AI to developing nations
Our political beliefs may derive from a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical revulsion. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
today's liberal internationalist take is that you can't be an american liberal internationalist if you don't have a real plan to stop this fuckery from happening again
i'm willing to believe median leftist can't hate elon musk nearly as much as median principled technoprogressive
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
Prosthetic Gods: Nir is interrogates an essay by J. on Buddhism, enhancement, and the self. They discuss the appeal of Buddhism for teenage Hughes, and how Buddhism reconciles a radical deconstruction of the self with moral commitment and principles.
prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/buddhism-a...
AI billionaires are spending $125M to try to buy the midterms — while WE pay higher electric bills to power their servers.
AI isn’t just a tool. It’s becoming a power.
And right now? The people in charge of it aren’t voters, they’re venture capitalists.
Ossoff: "If you live in a major democracy, and the nation's spy chief is showing up at raids on sensitive election sites, something has gone wrong."
Unitarians made church into university www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
The Epstein class controls our politics
Gen Z is 10x queerer than Boomers. Women are twice as queer as men, and Dems 7x as queer as Republicans. Black and Hispanic Americans are queerer than white Americans. Six in ten LGBTQ are bisexuals. news.gallup.com/poll/702206/...
