
Sociologist, left social dem antifascist w/ technoprogressive tendencies, postgenderist, @ieet.org, @citizencyborg on Substack, Bsky & Threads.
Boston, MA
Joined June 2009
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James Hughes retweeted
A big night for MUSK. 🏆✨ Elon not so much. 🤭 Congratulations to director Alex Gibney on the @CriticsChoice Documentary Awards win for Best Biographical Documentary! MUSK is now available to rent or own on demand wherever you watch movies. #MuskMovie
bit.ly/4ArO3ZA
James Hughes retweeted
U.S. teens saw notable declines in self-reported sadness and suicidal ideation from 2021 to 2025.
Relative to 2021, they were also more likely in 2025 to:
1) play sports (49% to 58%)
2) do strength training (45% to 51%)
2) eat fruit >=twice/day (19% to 28%)
3) eat at least one vegetable/day (55% to 63%)
James Hughes retweeted
NEW: Today is the public launch of @Ready4AOC, a movement of hundreds of organizers around the country working to get 1,000,000 people to pledge to vote for AOC for President.
The pledge (SIGN IT!): readyforaoc.org/
The article: nytimes.com/2026/11/09/us/po…
James Hughes retweeted
63% of Americans support Medicare-for-all, even after hearing that it would eliminate most private insurance plans.
“The majority of Democrats did not run on Medicare for All. You think Adam Hamilton got elected in KS by saying he wants to kick everyone off their private insurance?”
We should fight for universal healthcare. Not force a vote on a bill voters don't want.
More from @Lis_Smith:
"In the twenty-first century, the belief that socialism is destiny has begun to converge with the belief that AI is destiny. (A planned economy is far likelier, after all, in an economy run by AI than in any future imagined in Das Kapital..."
newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
In Free Robot Labour: Marx, Automation, and the Future of AI (available for free), Jamie Terence Kelly mounts a Marxist critique of the widespread dogma that machines can’t create real value or be “workers.” technoprogressives.substack.…
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James Hughes retweeted
On this episode I speak with @dw2 about #aisafety, safely navigating frontier #AI, and alternative modes of development that deliver many of the benefits promised by the frontier labs without the exceptional risks we’ve been forced to bear.
breadandrobots.substack.com/…
James Hughes retweeted
Chuck Schumer is uniting America...against him. Call the switch board at the Senate and let them know what you think. (202) 224-3121
This had everything to do with the clear failure of fascism, and the promise of a new crop of progressive resistance politicians. Nothing to do with Schumer, who should not lead the Senate majority.
Chuck Schumer has gone from a punching bag for Democrats to the architect of their historic landslide, @FranklinFoer writes. He spoke with the senator: theatln.tc/8GgiSxtj
📸: Tom Brenner / Getty
I don't like Melenchon on the EU, NATO and nuclear power. But this domestic agenda is pretty cool.
🇫🇷 FLASH - LFI a dévoilé le programme de Jean-Luc Mélenchon pour la présidentielle de 2027. Parmi les propositions :
- Autoriser jusqu’à 3 jours d’arrêt maladie autodéclaré, sans consulter de médecin.
- Accorder 7 jours de congé après le décès d’un ami.
- Porter le SMIC à 1.700€ net par mois, soit une hausse de 220€.
- Ramener l’âge de départ à la retraite de 64 à 60 ans, avec une retraite à taux plein après 40 années de cotisation.
- Réduire progressivement la durée du travail à 32 heures par semaine.
- Instaurer un service écologique obligatoire de 9 mois pour les moins de 25 ans, rémunéré au SMIC.
- Faire rembourser les soins à 100% par la Sécurité sociale.
- Prendre en charge les séances de psychothérapie des moins de 26 ans.
- Fixer un plafond de 12 millions d’euros pour les héritages.
- Augmenter les APL de 10% pour aider à payer les loyers.
- Bloquer les prix de certains produits essentiels afin de limiter les hausses excessives.
- Revaloriser les salaires des fonctionnaires.
- Garantir un revenu minimum aux jeunes grâce à une allocation.
- Proposer aux étudiants des repas à 1€.
- Limiter à 1 pour 20 l’écart entre les rémunérations au sein d’une même entreprise.
- Soumettre les aides publiques aux entreprises à des engagements sociaux et écologiques.
- Rétablir l’ISF afin d’accroître l’imposition des grandes fortunes.
- Mettre en place la taxe Zucman pour taxer davantage les milliardaires.
- Répartir l’impôt sur le revenu en 14 tranches pour augmenter la contribution des plus riches.
- Engager une sortie progressive du nucléaire.
- Atteindre une production d’électricité issue à 100% des énergies renouvelables d’ici 2060.
- Interdire les vols entre 23h et 6h.
- Suspendre les zones à faibles émissions (ZFE), qui restreignent la circulation des véhicules les plus polluants dans certaines villes.
- Passer de la Ve à la VIe République en donnant davantage de pouvoir aux citoyens.
- Supprimer le 49.3, qui permet au gouvernement de faire adopter un texte sans vote.
- Intensifier la lutte contre les discriminations, notamment au sein de la police.
- Reconnaître comme crime d’État le massacre des Algériens du 17 octobre 1961.
- Renégocier les traités européens et refuser l’application de certaines règles européennes jugées incompatibles avec le programme.
- Quitter progressivement le commandement militaire intégré de l’OTAN.
- Soutenir la création d’un État palestinien aux côtés d’Israël.
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James Hughes retweeted
66% want Medicare for All
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
57% want a $20/hour minimum wage
63% want a data center moratorium
58% want to end military aid to Israel
73% want to ban super PACs
79% want a 10% credit card interest rate cap
No more excuses. Democrats must deliver.
James Hughes retweeted
Just released: A recording of "Can Technology Make Democracy More Democratic?" - the presentation on Day One of "The Technoprogressive Opportunity" by @PravarPetkar of the Strengthening Democracy Desk at the International Centre for Sustainability youtube.com/watch?v=vu0MQmBI…
James Hughes retweeted
The idea of a “permanent underclass” started as a meme. It’s tapping real anxieties in Silicon Valley. gerd.fm/4eRyAbP
Technoprog AI Safety
David Wood of London Futurists speaks with Matteo about AI safety and the AI/tech industry, and alternative models that deliver the benefits promised by the frontier labs without the exceptional risks we’ve been forced to bear. breadandrobots.substack.com/…
FREE BOOK. We still have to defeat The International Network of the Radical Right. Ending Orban, Trump and Bolsonaro were harbingers of our defeat of the AFD, le Pen, Putin, Modi, etc feps-europe.eu/publication/t…
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Giulio Prisco reflects here on technoprogressivism, while promoting a Left-Right "accelerationist" alliance. My response to the pitch was that
a) realizing that you agree with the Left's agenda, but then siding with the far right...
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and slow down dangerous and undemocratic tech; c) that acknowledging the fascist thread on the Right is a precondition of reconciliation with apostates returning the fold;
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d) that the real fights aren't about speed, which should slow down for some things, but about who benefits and how quickly we can establish public utility-style regulation and UBI. magazine.mindplex.ai/post/bi…
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