"The expensive, bureaucratic apparatus of monitoring and punishing people was effectively useless at getting them into work, but very effective at making them miserable." Work requirements don't work, and means-testing discourages employment. UBI is the way to go.

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643k

Bernie Sanders is way better on the Abundance debate than his fans on here. Look at this first paragraph, I’m practically standing on my chair applauding.

A story in three acts.

But what about the cell phones?: Cognitive struggles are climbing among young, non-affluent adults. Cognitive disability nearly doubled among under 40s from 2013 to 2023. Researchers suspect social and economic inequality plays a major role... sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/…

AI and robotics will transform our world. Will these revolutionary technologies make life better for working people, or will they simply make the richest people on Earth even richer and more powerful? That is the great question of our time.

Americans spend a lot more for the same drugs because we don't have universal healthcare and pharma formularies. For GLP1s most of the world gets them for 5-35% of what Americans pay. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/hea…

A gel that repairs tooth enamel nature.com/articles/s4146…

"So many people think neuralink is some evil megacorp." trib.al/sVBuzGk

🚨 BREAKING: The Getty Images vs. Stability AI decision is out, and it largely sides with Stability AI, saying that its AI model DOES NOT infringe on copyright. Is the battle over for creators? My thoughts: If you are going to read one excerpt from the 205-page AI copyright

Thanks to all who submitted to the IEET Dissertation Award! 🧠 We’re reviewing your bold, thoughtful visions for an ethical technological future. Honorees will be announced by Dec 1 Stay tuned 🚀 #IEET #Futurism #PhDlife

We’re proud to see Lenore Blum, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at our Center, discussing the prospect of #AI #consciousness on a recent PRISM podcast. 💡It's a fascinating conversation on #theory, #ethics & the evolving boundaries of #mind. 🎧: prism-global.com/podcast/lenore…

Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, will detail a new approach to gene editing therapies. “Regulation has to evolve as fast as science...The moment we publish our paper, the investment in this space will flow” biospace.com/fda/fda-eyes-a…

No "cognitive reserve" from education: People with better memory, larger intracranial volume and larger memory-sensitive brain regions get more education. But controlling for these differences, additional education does not protect against dementia. nature.com/articles/s4159…

In the news: Dr Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh wrote an article for Internationale Politik, in which he calls for: more of a global conversation around AGI and superintelligence; and 'middle powers' to start exerting themselves in the global conversation. shorturl.at/7IWi8

FMRI & AI turns brain scans into full sentences. Should help train both invasive and non-invasive BCIs to translate non-verbal mental representations directly into text. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Is obesity a disease or a consequence of lifestyle choices? “Our genes are the same as ever; what changed is all around us,” wrote Dr. David L. Katz in Nature. Discover why the distinction is important in the latest podcast with @camjenglish. #Obesity #Ozempic geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/11/06/glp…

🤖 What does it mean for a machine to claim it’s conscious? Our Director, Susan Schneider, posed this question in her keynote at Google AI’s Consciousness Conference. Grateful to Google for the opportunity to share our mission and advance this vital conversation on #AIethics.

Memory loss in aging may be reversible. Tweaking the hippocampus and amygdala with CRISPR gene-editing restored memory in older rats. Another experiment revived a silenced memory gene, IGF2. sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/…