Emanuelle Burton
@emanuelleburton.bsky.social
I’m a religion scholar who teaches ethics to computer science majors, talks about the books I have read, and ignores the books I want to read and watches tv instead
Computing & Technology Ethics: Engaging through Science Fiction now out from MIT Press
Computing & Technology Ethics: Engaging through Science Fiction now out from MIT Press
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I was very happy to join the AI Ethics conference ACM AIES 2025 in my hometown, Madrid, at @ieuniversity.bsky.social
The program was amazing, I encourage to check out the lineup and proceedings:
www.aies-conference.com/2025/
I'll share some highlights in this thread🧵
#AIES #AIethics #AI
The program was amazing, I encourage to check out the lineup and proceedings:
www.aies-conference.com/2025/
I'll share some highlights in this thread🧵
#AIES #AIethics #AI
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I was very happy to join the AI Ethics conference ACM AIES 2025 in my hometown, Madrid, at @ieuniversity.bsky.social
The program was amazing, I encourage to check out the lineup and proceedings:
www.aies-conference.com/2025/
I'll share some highlights in this thread🧵
#AIES #AIethics #AI
The program was amazing, I encourage to check out the lineup and proceedings:
www.aies-conference.com/2025/
I'll share some highlights in this thread🧵
#AIES #AIethics #AI
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This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
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I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
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Low-intensity warfare is uncanny. We continue to go to work, bring kids to school, shop for groceries, etc. But our everyday routines are punctuated by random episodes of spectacular violence; war as a way of life.
Scenes From the Occupation
As the feds cracked down on immigration in Chicago this fall, filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz’s camera was rolling. These stills and footage show a city in crisis — and a city defiant.
www.chicagomag.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Low-intensity warfare is uncanny. We continue to go to work, bring kids to school, shop for groceries, etc. But our everyday routines are punctuated by random episodes of spectacular violence; war as a way of life.
No I do NOT want a free sample, I know how this works
October 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
No I do NOT want a free sample, I know how this works
We’re maybe two hours into AIES 2025 and there have already been some terrific papers. This is shaping up to be an amazing three days. Please enjoy my garbage photograph of the conference stage #aies
October 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We’re maybe two hours into AIES 2025 and there have already been some terrific papers. This is shaping up to be an amazing three days. Please enjoy my garbage photograph of the conference stage #aies
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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I remember Joshua Meyrowitz saying that TV, as a medium, supplies you with an interpretation of the events you're seeing, as you're seeing them; TikTok seems like TV on steroids, in that respect. You can't learn to chew if mama bird chews your food for you!
September 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I remember Joshua Meyrowitz saying that TV, as a medium, supplies you with an interpretation of the events you're seeing, as you're seeing them; TikTok seems like TV on steroids, in that respect. You can't learn to chew if mama bird chews your food for you!
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VIRTUE ETHICS WINS AGAIN
At the point my whole predictive mechanism for who will resist fascism and who will capitulate to or support fascism is "have they demonstrated integrity in their life and public presence".
I don't know how I'll be shaped by the MAGA era in American history but I can tell you this:
For the last 15 years WAY too many of us were sleeping on the Integrity/Opportunist divide.
We assumed those who shared our politics had integrity and didn't look for it enough among those we disagreed with.
For the last 15 years WAY too many of us were sleeping on the Integrity/Opportunist divide.
We assumed those who shared our politics had integrity and didn't look for it enough among those we disagreed with.
September 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
VIRTUE ETHICS WINS AGAIN
I feel like we have really lost the thread on the difference between “you and I share the same basic moral/civic commitments and disagree about the best way to realize them” and “you think I should be murdered and work actively to shift the Overton window in that direction.”
September 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I feel like we have really lost the thread on the difference between “you and I share the same basic moral/civic commitments and disagree about the best way to realize them” and “you think I should be murdered and work actively to shift the Overton window in that direction.”
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In 1973 Thailand entered a phase of political violence that, though the timeline is complex, lasted about three years.
This phase began with a student-led leftist uprising that toppled a right-wing dictator and essentially made the country a democracy. It was a jubilant and optimistic moment.
This phase began with a student-led leftist uprising that toppled a right-wing dictator and essentially made the country a democracy. It was a jubilant and optimistic moment.
September 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
In 1973 Thailand entered a phase of political violence that, though the timeline is complex, lasted about three years.
This phase began with a student-led leftist uprising that toppled a right-wing dictator and essentially made the country a democracy. It was a jubilant and optimistic moment.
This phase began with a student-led leftist uprising that toppled a right-wing dictator and essentially made the country a democracy. It was a jubilant and optimistic moment.
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I can’t believe it’s even necessary to say that NO city in ANY country deserves or should be INVADED by its federal government.
I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.
I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.
September 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I can’t believe it’s even necessary to say that NO city in ANY country deserves or should be INVADED by its federal government.
I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.
I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.
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Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
August 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
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I wonder how much of this is a symptom of the fact 50+% of all scripted prime-time dramas are cop shows.
We see police action as entertainment. We've turned it into something fun.
I know causation is hard (does TV shape or just reflect attitudes?), but I think there's a real TV-to-attitudes arrow.
We see police action as entertainment. We've turned it into something fun.
I know causation is hard (does TV shape or just reflect attitudes?), but I think there's a real TV-to-attitudes arrow.
The social media accounts for federal law enforcement agencies keep posting the exact kinds of things you'd report to federal law enforcement agencies if a normal citizen posted them.
Man what the hell is this
August 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I wonder how much of this is a symptom of the fact 50+% of all scripted prime-time dramas are cop shows.
We see police action as entertainment. We've turned it into something fun.
I know causation is hard (does TV shape or just reflect attitudes?), but I think there's a real TV-to-attitudes arrow.
We see police action as entertainment. We've turned it into something fun.
I know causation is hard (does TV shape or just reflect attitudes?), but I think there's a real TV-to-attitudes arrow.
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Much of the analysis of crime data is directed to opponents of abolition.
Having done a lot of work around crime data, I wanted to write to abolitionists about some tendencies in the critiques of the data and the implication for discourse and organizing.
abolitionjournal.com/crime-data-t...
Having done a lot of work around crime data, I wanted to write to abolitionists about some tendencies in the critiques of the data and the implication for discourse and organizing.
abolitionjournal.com/crime-data-t...
Crime Data: Three Things for Abolitionists to Consider — Abolition Journal | A Project of the W.E.B. Du Bois School for Abolition & Reconstruction
Abolition Journal is the publication platform of the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction. We study the world to change it.
abolitionjournal.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Much of the analysis of crime data is directed to opponents of abolition.
Having done a lot of work around crime data, I wanted to write to abolitionists about some tendencies in the critiques of the data and the implication for discourse and organizing.
abolitionjournal.com/crime-data-t...
Having done a lot of work around crime data, I wanted to write to abolitionists about some tendencies in the critiques of the data and the implication for discourse and organizing.
abolitionjournal.com/crime-data-t...
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BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds.
While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
June 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds.
While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
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"Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."
Stay safe today, my friends 💜
Stay safe today, my friends 💜
June 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."
Stay safe today, my friends 💜
Stay safe today, my friends 💜
Deadloch a capella choir album when
November 17, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Deadloch a capella choir album when
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this reminds me of those 12 people who were responsible for thousands of book ban requests and it's a good reminder there aren't actually that many malicious actors in the world, just lots of systems unprepared for exploitation
November 14, 2024 at 5:46 PM
this reminds me of those 12 people who were responsible for thousands of book ban requests and it's a good reminder there aren't actually that many malicious actors in the world, just lots of systems unprepared for exploitation
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But I’m a story guy at heart; I know that I, at least, will need some fiction and memoir that can do similar work, lifting me out of panicked immediacy and nourishing the capacity for confronting struggle in generative, constructive ways.
I haven't seen such a rec list, so I'd like to build one.
I haven't seen such a rec list, so I'd like to build one.
November 12, 2024 at 8:38 PM
But I’m a story guy at heart; I know that I, at least, will need some fiction and memoir that can do similar work, lifting me out of panicked immediacy and nourishing the capacity for confronting struggle in generative, constructive ways.
I haven't seen such a rec list, so I'd like to build one.
I haven't seen such a rec list, so I'd like to build one.
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So far, my coping strategy has been reading; systemic analysis (like Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Reconsidering Reparations) or organizing books (like Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You.) Bluesky has helped me build out my future list; it's helped me appreciate what this platform can do.
November 12, 2024 at 8:36 PM
So far, my coping strategy has been reading; systemic analysis (like Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Reconsidering Reparations) or organizing books (like Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You.) Bluesky has helped me build out my future list; it's helped me appreciate what this platform can do.
So far, my coping strategy has been reading; systemic analysis (like Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Reconsidering Reparations) or organizing books (like Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You.) Bluesky has helped me build out my future list; it's helped me appreciate what this platform can do.
November 12, 2024 at 8:36 PM
So far, my coping strategy has been reading; systemic analysis (like Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Reconsidering Reparations) or organizing books (like Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You.) Bluesky has helped me build out my future list; it's helped me appreciate what this platform can do.