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.
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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
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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...
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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...
"Those who sincerely love their countries, and yet who are inclined to abandon their country because they judge it to have betrayed its ideals...critical patriotism, a commitment to a nation’s ideals w/o the need to love one’s country unconditionally." philpapers.org/archive/MERW...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"Those who sincerely love their countries, and yet who are inclined to abandon their country because they judge it to have betrayed its ideals...critical patriotism, a commitment to a nation’s ideals w/o the need to love one’s country unconditionally." philpapers.org/archive/MERW...
Even for a Kardassian
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Even for a Kardassian
People with higher reasoning are better at mental mapping, integrating separate pieces of information into a structured whole. Mental maps of the world help guide flexible thinking and decision making. @arenamontanus.bsky.social
www.psypost.org/higher-fluid...
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Higher fluid intelligence is associated with more structured cognitive maps
A new brain imaging study suggests that people with higher reasoning ability tend to build stronger mental maps when learning how things relate in space.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
People with higher reasoning are better at mental mapping, integrating separate pieces of information into a structured whole. Mental maps of the world help guide flexible thinking and decision making. @arenamontanus.bsky.social
www.psypost.org/higher-fluid...
www.psypost.org/higher-fluid...
Now that the fascists are throttling FEMA, and socialists are taking over cities, I wanna re-up my Covid-era essay on a socialist strategy for focusing on disaster preparedness, FEMA and preppers. More disasters are coming, and socialists can explain why and what to do. medium.com/after-the-st...
A Socialist Approach to Disaster Preparedness
A Leftist guide for the coming catastrophes.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Now that the fascists are throttling FEMA, and socialists are taking over cities, I wanna re-up my Covid-era essay on a socialist strategy for focusing on disaster preparedness, FEMA and preppers. More disasters are coming, and socialists can explain why and what to do. medium.com/after-the-st...
Genes tilt us towards choosing specific occupations by making us better at, or more interested in, two key dimensions: technical versus social jobs, and practical versus abstract jobs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genetic associations with educational fields - Nature Genetics
Genome-wide analyses of 10 educational fields identify 17 associated loci. Analysis of genetic clustering across specializations identifies two key dimensions that show genetic overlap with personalit...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Genes tilt us towards choosing specific occupations by making us better at, or more interested in, two key dimensions: technical versus social jobs, and practical versus abstract jobs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Biotechnologies that we wear, ingest, or allow to watch over us can improve health. But what ethical questions do they raise? 🧠 Join the @cobioethics.bsky.social Research Ethics Conference Nov. 13 to explore these issues. Featuring a keynote by @citizencyborg.bsky.social!
#Bioethics
#Bioethics
15th Annual Ethics Conference Research Ethics & Novel Biotechnologies: When Tech is On You, In You, Over You, and More
15th Annual Ethics Conference: Research Ethics & Novel Biotechnologies: When Tech is On You, In You, Over You, and More Thursday, November 13, 2025 | 12 - 4pm MST Fulginiti Pavilion OR Zoom (Hybrid)…
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November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Biotechnologies that we wear, ingest, or allow to watch over us can improve health. But what ethical questions do they raise? 🧠 Join the @cobioethics.bsky.social Research Ethics Conference Nov. 13 to explore these issues. Featuring a keynote by @citizencyborg.bsky.social!
#Bioethics
#Bioethics
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Criminals posing as ICE have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns the FBI. The FBI urges ICE to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity.
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Criminals posing as ICE have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns the FBI. The FBI urges ICE to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity.
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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This book looks ahead to a progressive algorithmic future and to alternatives that resist surrendering sovereignty to consultants and Big Tech. Taking back control means reclaiming not just oversight, but also the real promise of technology.
feps-europe.eu/publication/...
feps-europe.eu/publication/...
Algorithmic rule - Foundation for European Progressive Studies
AI and the future of democracy in Sweden and beyond
feps-europe.eu
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This book looks ahead to a progressive algorithmic future and to alternatives that resist surrendering sovereignty to consultants and Big Tech. Taking back control means reclaiming not just oversight, but also the real promise of technology.
feps-europe.eu/publication/...
feps-europe.eu/publication/...
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🔴🤖Join LIVE! "Understanding the power of AI over decisions" at the @eesc.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @workers-eesc.bsky.social. #AIatWork
🔗 link.europa.eu/GGQC4q
Amid discussions around the need for horizontal legislation on AI in the workplace, this event launches the 🆕book “Algorithmic rule"🇸🇪
🔗 link.europa.eu/GGQC4q
Amid discussions around the need for horizontal legislation on AI in the workplace, this event launches the 🆕book “Algorithmic rule"🇸🇪
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🔴🤖Join LIVE! "Understanding the power of AI over decisions" at the @eesc.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @workers-eesc.bsky.social. #AIatWork
🔗 link.europa.eu/GGQC4q
Amid discussions around the need for horizontal legislation on AI in the workplace, this event launches the 🆕book “Algorithmic rule"🇸🇪
🔗 link.europa.eu/GGQC4q
Amid discussions around the need for horizontal legislation on AI in the workplace, this event launches the 🆕book “Algorithmic rule"🇸🇪
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Mamdani wins: How a democratic socialist toppled the Empire State machine
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Mamdani wins: How a democratic socialist toppled the Empire State machine - Salon.com
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November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Mamdani wins: How a democratic socialist toppled the Empire State machine
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Someone who had been threatening to kill Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) was arrested today after trying to enter the Capitol complex after telling Garcia's office he was coming to kill him.
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Someone who had been threatening to kill Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) was arrested today after trying to enter the Capitol complex after telling Garcia's office he was coming to kill him.
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If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
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Congratulations to Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani!!!
Great job New York!!!
Great job New York!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Congratulations to Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani!!!
Great job New York!!!
Great job New York!!!
Outside the US union membership reduces appeal of right-wing populist parties. But not in the US. Here better-educated union members adopt positions of class solidarity, while less-educated union members have become increasingly isolated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Outside the US union membership reduces appeal of right-wing populist parties. But not in the US. Here better-educated union members adopt positions of class solidarity, while less-educated union members have become increasingly isolated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Be like Ted Cruz. Choose the Democrat, in this case Zohran Mamdani. We all have to contribute according to our ability.
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Be like Ted Cruz. Choose the Democrat, in this case Zohran Mamdani. We all have to contribute according to our ability.
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Re #FutureOfWork. I totally buy the suggestion that AI is often used to cover up downsizing for other reasons. You claim you've created a new job category, so people are "made redundant" [UK; 'laid off' US], but really you are just exploiting an #AGI narrative to downsize on the cheap.
#AIEthics
#AIEthics
If they're only hiring half as many back, then you need a lot of collusion/solidarity to ensure more than half refuse to take lower pay.
Technological disruption disrupts estimates of skill value, even where not warranted, reducing labour's power, which takes time and coordination to have realised.
Technological disruption disrupts estimates of skill value, even where not warranted, reducing labour's power, which takes time and coordination to have realised.
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Re #FutureOfWork. I totally buy the suggestion that AI is often used to cover up downsizing for other reasons. You claim you've created a new job category, so people are "made redundant" [UK; 'laid off' US], but really you are just exploiting an #AGI narrative to downsize on the cheap.
#AIEthics
#AIEthics
Not to be credentialist, but CEOs are rarely conversant in the philosophy of mind.
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Not to be credentialist, but CEOs are rarely conversant in the philosophy of mind.
Bernie expertly deflating the imaginary Left vs Abundance debate. We all want the state to deliver big things. The questions are what the state should deliver, and what we do about the billionaires who get in the way.
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Bernie expertly deflating the imaginary Left vs Abundance debate. We all want the state to deliver big things. The questions are what the state should deliver, and what we do about the billionaires who get in the way.
Well, of course you can abuse public funds if its to support a conservative. Patel: ‘She is a rock-solid conservative’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Kash Patel lashes out at reports he used government jet to watch his girlfriend sing
Patel has reportedly become so incensed by media stories about the incident that he has ousted a senior FBI official
www.independent.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Well, of course you can abuse public funds if its to support a conservative. Patel: ‘She is a rock-solid conservative’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...