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The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (@ieet.org) is an international nonprofit technoprogressive think tank. Also on Substack, Facebook, Bsky and we podcast. #futureofwork #AIethics #humanenhancement
J and Nir will speak with Avi Loeb on Friday about 3I/Atlas for the Prosthetic Gods podcast. What should they ask him?
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What to know about the 3I/ATLAS comet and why people keep talking about aliens : Short Wave
The comet 3I/ATLAS is taking a long holiday journey this year. It’s visiting from another solar system altogether. Those interstellar origins have the Internet rumor mill questioning whether 3I/ATLAS ...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
J and Nir will speak with Avi Loeb on Friday about 3I/Atlas for the Prosthetic Gods podcast. What should they ask him?
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If "Design Justice Unionism" becomes mainstream, we could see tech innovations prioritizing workers' rights, fostering equitable digital spaces. A future where tech and democracy unite! #futurism
Matteo Rossi MacDermant Wins the 2025 IEET Dissertation Award for “Design Justice Unionism: The Tech Workers Movement and the Future of Technoprogressivism” - the politics of technology centering labor, design justice, and democratic innovation.
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Reclaiming the Future Tense
Matteo Rossi MacDermant Wins the 2025 IEET Dissertation Award
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December 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
If "Design Justice Unionism" becomes mainstream, we could see tech innovations prioritizing workers' rights, fostering equitable digital spaces. A future where tech and democracy unite! #futurism
Kids who owned a smartphone at age 12 were found to have about 31% higher odds of depression, 40% higher odds of obesity and 62% higher odds of insufficient sleep than their peers who didn't have one. www.axios.com/2025/12/01/s...
Smartphones at age 12 linked to worse health
Preteens who own smartphones are likelier to have depression, obesity and insufficient sleep than their peers.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Kids who owned a smartphone at age 12 were found to have about 31% higher odds of depression, 40% higher odds of obesity and 62% higher odds of insufficient sleep than their peers who didn't have one. www.axios.com/2025/12/01/s...
Matteo Rossi MacDermant Wins the 2025 IEET Dissertation Award for “Design Justice Unionism: The Tech Workers Movement and the Future of Technoprogressivism” - the politics of technology centering labor, design justice, and democratic innovation.
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Reclaiming the Future Tense
Matteo Rossi MacDermant Wins the 2025 IEET Dissertation Award
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December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Matteo Rossi MacDermant Wins the 2025 IEET Dissertation Award for “Design Justice Unionism: The Tech Workers Movement and the Future of Technoprogressivism” - the politics of technology centering labor, design justice, and democratic innovation.
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WHO calls for efforts to increase availability of GLP1 drugs. In the next few years some 100 million people are expected to have access to the drugs—less than 10 percent of people with obesity.
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WHO Sets GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drug Guidelines
New WHO guidance calls for a worldwide obesity treatment “ecosystem” to ensure that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are used fairly
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December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
WHO calls for efforts to increase availability of GLP1 drugs. In the next few years some 100 million people are expected to have access to the drugs—less than 10 percent of people with obesity.
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Game console ownership, along with increased game play, improved mental well-being. Console ownership reduced psychological distress and improved life satisfaction.
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Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020–2022 - Nature Human Behaviour
This study uses a natural experiment with game console lotteries to identify the causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan (2020–2022). Results show that video gaming reduced psychol...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Game console ownership, along with increased game play, improved mental well-being. Console ownership reduced psychological distress and improved life satisfaction.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"Why does the 'screen time is bad' story persist? In part, because it is simple. It gives anxious parents and policymakers something to hold onto."
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Opinion | Is All Screen Time Harmful?
It's not about how much time people spend on devices -- but what they do while they're there
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November 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Why does the 'screen time is bad' story persist? In part, because it is simple. It gives anxious parents and policymakers something to hold onto."
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“He isn’t worried about Trump’s political wrath; he doesn’t plan to run for reelection.
His fear of speaking out is much more personal: ‘I’d rather my house not get firebombed’”
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His fear of speaking out is much more personal: ‘I’d rather my house not get firebombed’”
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The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
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November 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“He isn’t worried about Trump’s political wrath; he doesn’t plan to run for reelection.
His fear of speaking out is much more personal: ‘I’d rather my house not get firebombed’”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
His fear of speaking out is much more personal: ‘I’d rather my house not get firebombed’”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
White House hits pause on EO that sought to preempt state AI laws, while turning its focus to The Genesis Mission, a new federal AI effort that it says is "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project."
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White House hits pause on EO that sought to preempt state AI laws
For now, the Trump Administration is turning its focus to The Genesis Mission, a new federal artificial intelligence effort that it says is "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
White House hits pause on EO that sought to preempt state AI laws, while turning its focus to The Genesis Mission, a new federal AI effort that it says is "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project."
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Ep30 - Nuclear Nightmares
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the Netflix movie House of Dynamite, a nuclear war drama by Kathryn Bigelow. Can there be an ethics of nuclear war?
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This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the Netflix movie House of Dynamite, a nuclear war drama by Kathryn Bigelow. Can there be an ethics of nuclear war?
Contact: [email protected]
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Nuclear Nightmares | Prosthetic Gods
Episode 30 - Nuclear Nightmares
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the Netflix movie House of Dynamite, a nuclear war drama by Kathryn Bigelow.
Show Notes:
“The age of AI-powered cybera...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Ep30 - Nuclear Nightmares
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the Netflix movie House of Dynamite, a nuclear war drama by Kathryn Bigelow. Can there be an ethics of nuclear war?
Contact: [email protected]
prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/nuclear-ni...
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the Netflix movie House of Dynamite, a nuclear war drama by Kathryn Bigelow. Can there be an ethics of nuclear war?
Contact: [email protected]
prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/nuclear-ni...
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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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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
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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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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
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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.
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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...
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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...