Josh Universe

On Sunday, August 24, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Josh Universe to discuss the privacy and security considerations of technological enhancement. His presentation and subsequent conversation will address the following areas:

1. Real-World Breaches
2. Defining Privacy and Security in Context
3. What is Technological Enhancement?
4. Privacy and Security Risks of Enhancement
5. Approaching Enhancement with a Privacy and Security Mindset
6. Actionable Privacy and Security Steps
7. Questions and Answers

Watch this Virtual Enlightenment Salon on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq_PrI7GlLw

Members of the public will be able to post questions and comments in the live YouTube chat.

Josh Universe is an American analog astronaut, science communicator, and biohacker. He is the Founder of the International Biohacking Community. He is also the Founder of the Transhumanist Council.

Watch the previous U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Josh Universe of March 30, 2025, where he discussed Applications of Human Biostasis in Crewed Space Exploration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf40zZyNqkc

Visit the website of Josh Universe at https://joshuniverse.com/.

Read the THPedia entry about Josh Universe at https://th-pedia.org//wiki/Josh_Universe.

Visit the website of the Transhumanist Council at https://transhumanism.app/

Join Josh Universe’s social network, Science.Social: https://science.social/

Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside: https://transhumanist-party.org/membership/

On Sunday, April 20, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, join U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II and Josh Universe of the Transhumanist Council as they present the vision for and recent improvements to THPedia, the Transhumanist Encyclopedia that is open to all constructive contributions and whose entries are available pursuant to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

THPedia is structured with two sites – a site focused on stability (https://th-pedia.org) and a site that encourages experimentation (https://thpedia.org). Users are able to set up accounts on either site and make contributions of new articles and enhancements to existing articles. (Accounts established in 2024 and earlier would work on either site with current credentials.) A coordination process between the two sites operates to preserve the constructive changes that are understood to enhance the content.

THPedia is a project that grew out of the original H+Pedia (2015-2024), which was principally maintained by David Wood and Chris Monteiro, with contributions from various other editors in the transhumanist community. Gennady Stolyarov II was the administrator of H+Pedia between January and November 2024 – a time during which continuity was maintained and H+Pedia and THPedia were operated jointly as the same site. Meanwhile, Josh Universe created an experimental site at https://thpedia.org to coordinate with THPedia.

On December 9, 2024, the H+Pedia domain was transferred to the Humanity+ organization to be run as a separate encyclopedia by Humanity+, while the THPedia project continues to develop into an open-source encyclopedia for the transhumanist community.

This Virtual Enlightenment Salon will include a demonstration of the capabilities of THPedia on both the stable and experimental sites and the opportunity for viewers to ask questions and make suggestions.

Visit the website of the Transhumanist Council: https://transhumanism.app/

On Sunday, March 30, 2025, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Josh Universe to present and answer questions on the subject of “Applications of Human Biostasis in Crewed Space Exploration”. This Salon will explore the synergies between two fields that are of considerable interest to many transhumanists and will consider how advances in biostasis can aid humans in achieving ambitious goals of space travel and interplanetary settlement.

Josh Universe is an American analog astronaut, science communicator, and biohacker. He is the Founder of the International Biohacking Community. He is also the Founder of the Transhumanist Council.

Visit the website of Josh Universe at https://joshuniverse.com/.

Read the THPedia entry about Josh Universe at https://th-pedia.org//wiki/Josh_Universe.

Listen to Josh Universe’s Star.FM Astronomy and Space podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…

Visit the website of the Transhumanist Council at https://transhumanism.app/

Join Josh Universe’s social network, Science.Social: https://science.social/

The Tracks to Space course is an intensive and interdisciplinary learning path in all space subjects.

AST 101 includes a fully immersive program that provides the skills required to effectively conduct research on the next generation of commercial space vehicles as part of Project PoSSUM. Designed and instructed by former NASA astronaut instructors and PoSSUM team scientists, AST 101 also serves as a prerequisite to many other courses offered through the IIAS by introducing key training elements. AST 101 is a pre-requisite for enrollment into all citizen-science courses administered by the IIAS including AER 103, BIO 103, BIO 104, EVA 104, and OPS 104. IIAS Credit will be granted for AST 101 for either of the two programs administered in partnership with Project PoSSUM which may be used towards the Applied Astronautics Credential.