Reposted by Scott BurnettCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843181182
Reposted by Scott BurnettTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Every half-ass plan for our extinction that they provide just turns me on. No internet, you say? No online banking?? No 2FA to use the bathroom at my job??? Baby I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s. You’re describing my platonic ideal. Extinct me. 171398233
Reposted by Scott BurnettKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/09/2026"Gibney’s basic take on Musk is that he’s a confidence man whose power comes only from the stock market and disappears the minute we see through the facade of sales pitches"hollywoodreporter.comElon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he may also be the most dangerous. 561389441
Reposted by Scott BurnettMJF @pi3832.bsky.social · 20/08/2026TBH, trans-rights are currently a great litmus test. Anyone who sells out trans-people cannot be trusted to properly punish the fascist. They're just collaborators waiting to happen. 126658
Reposted by Scott BurnettKevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Even as far back as The Blank Slate, Pinker's sloppy pop sci books had to get major corrections by experts www.nybooks.com/articles/200...nybooks.comDarwinian Storytelling | H. Allen Orr1. What do Stalin, modern architecture, radical feminism, and most parenting experts have in common? They are all products of the false belief that we are 27222
Reposted by Scott BurnettNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Journalists might sleep on anti-migrant stuff from a fascist bookshop, but how about Claire Fox (and Academy of Ideas), Paul Embery, Tory councillor David Moore, David Starkey, and senior policy fellow Harrison Pitt at Restore Britain, connected to a fascist bookshop selling Hitler speeches? 35228
Reposted by Scott BurnettDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Haley has support from a lot of respected Dems in Michigan. And she has raised doubts about El-Sayed's electability in the general election. But the outside money is not so much for her as against El-Sayed. It will disappear if she wins, and switch to the Republican side if she loses the primary. 423330
Reposted by Scott BurnettChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Two additional points. One: This was at AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference, in Rio de Janeiro. And: "A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools." 1423095
Reposted by Scott BurnettDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...davekarpf.beehiiv.comThe data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.I have a 221035371
Reposted by Scott BurnettKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/05/2026Yet another example of a polling agency actively participating in spreading an actual, serious and consequential lie to the public. Fossil fuels are more expensive. Clean energy is cheaper. @yougov.co.uk is very literally lying in this poll, and there should be actual consequences for this 9477191
Reposted by Scott BurnettKevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 28/05/2026Argentina, you say? Interesting choice. Has anybody done that before? 1111235
Reposted by Scott BurnettAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company 661549756
Reposted by Scott BurnettMichael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The response to this from every educator must be "No. Fuck you. Kill me." There is no compromise less than that. The safety of the students is non-negotiable. 294
Reposted by Scott BurnettMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/05/2026DHS posts a new propaganda video that uses the White Stripes song "Icky Thump." DHS didn't include a line from the song, "why don't you kick yourself out, you're an immigrant too?" Jack White is famously anti-Trump so it'll be interesting to see what he says about this one. 812827
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I thought the last word in this tweet was gonna be “rescued” but boy did I laugh when it was not 000
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Why we need the humanities more than ever, exhibit 3756. 020
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I'm looking forward to this conference! Not looking forward to the Kafkaesque nightmare of getting a visa for travel to the UK, but it'll be worth it to hang out with my gender & language folx, some of the most interesting and welcoming scholars you'll find – so join @igala.bsky.social! 071
Reposted by Scott BurnettIGALA 14 @igala14.bsky.social · 11/05/2026We are delighted to announce the first Call for Proposals for the 14th conference of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), to be held at York St John Univeristy (York, United Kingdom) between Wednesday 21st and Friday 23rd July 2027. @igala.bsky.social @lsjysj.bsky.social 11112
Reposted by Scott BurnettNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Will 100s of UK profs that signed statements supporting Stock due to the falsely claimed suppression of her speech by Sussex express outrage over being lied to in order to (1) further the career of Stock and (2) force unis to remove statements protecting trans faculty/students from harassment? 10389120
Reposted by Scott BurnettJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism 8253961305
Reposted by Scott BurnettKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/04/2026They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along 5640971270
Reposted by Scott BurnettEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Usually, when I get interviewed for a piece on something like "AI consciousness" I am relegated to the skeptics box --- some short paragraph near the end. So it is a nice change to see this piece by @hollybaxter.bsky.social Short 🧵>> www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-news...the-independent.comThe people building AI think it might be conscious. That’s not the most alarming partAnthropic’s CEO Dario Amadei says he can’t rule out that its chatbot, Claude, is conscious. A Google engineer is sure he once built a sentient being. Holly Baxter speaks to the experts about whether o... 620569
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Ja fine except the number of South Africans who have to explain that they don’t mean Brooklyn, Pretoria is not negligible 🤔 000
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Anybody who still wants a Cybertruck after watching this review… really deserves to own a Cybertruck 020
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Sheesh this is absolutely terrible: deepening dystopia, Target edition 010
Reposted by Scott BurnettCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 12/04/2026I hope this is good news for queer Hungarians but from an outsider it feels like, at best, a "we won't actively persecute you" type of politics. further right than Joe Biden. 2513
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Not to be a killjoy but is nobody concerned that Magyar only left Fidesz two years ago? 030
Reposted by Scott BurnettEuthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Reading this you might think post doctoral men never have children but of course that’s not true. We simply don’t demand men juggle these things. It’s 2026 and we still treat women— with whole ass PhDs— like that’s what they’re for. 2418
Reposted by Scott Burnettderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/04/2026first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note 668391276980
Reposted by Scott BurnettPhīlomorph @philomorph.bsky.social · 10/04/2026An interesting and insightful piece on Ai in journalism and in general from @marisakabas.bsky.social "If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled—AI is already here, the end is already here—then we will create that for them." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.socialthehandbasket.coRefusing to accept an AI-poisoned future of journalismHumans, however flawed, are 03817
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 01/04/2026A professor friend of mine taught in Missouri earlier on in her career; when she referred in passing to the US having lost the Vietnam war, her students challenged her and then refused to believe her when she explained it to them real slow 040
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Just Zohran making basic infrastructure cool and sexy, that’s all 020
Reposted by Scott BurnettKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/03/2026It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after. 43359534307
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I greatly enjoyed speaking to The Cairo Review about masculinist self-help and the neoliberal grind cultures at the heart of the manosphere: www.thecairoreview.com/podcasts/int...thecairoreview.comInternet Influencers and the Far-Right—with Dr. Scott Burnett: CR Amplified ep. 8How did internet self-help culture and the online manosphere evolve into a pipeline for modern fascism? Dr. Scott Burnett joins CR Amplified to revisit the historical roots, neoliberal anxieties, and ... 000
Reposted by Scott BurnettSeth Trueger @mdaware.org · 04/12/2025"USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025." did the US Navy post a profit last year? 362221517
Reposted by Scott BurnettMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.” Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.theguardian.comIsraeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West BankMother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in their car as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip 5727391305
Reposted by Scott BurnettAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/03/202641 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump. 2220861046
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Just refollowed this clown because this is too good 010
Reposted by Scott BurnettMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/03/2026this made me cackle all the way through 532909608
Reposted by Scott BurnettTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes. 764251248005
Reposted by Scott BurnettAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/03/2026In the last decade, the Atlantic has not platformed a single trans person to speak about issues affecting them or the broader trans community. Not a single one. Yet, they have monthly screeds by Helen Lewis and endless money to pay random transphobic grifters to pump stuff like this out. 192125480
Reposted by Scott BurnettGabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 28/02/2026“The war continues working, day and night. It inspires tyrants to deliver long speeches awards medals to generals and themes to poets it contributes to the industry of artificial limbs provides food for flies adds pages to the history books achieves equality between killer and killed” Read it all: 043
Reposted by Scott BurnettNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 28/02/2026If we’re ever going to get out of this, the British media class must be destroyed 38533110
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 26/02/2026UPDATE: it's legit! TIME Magazine did a kind of retrospective "Women of the Year" in 2020, and this is in fact an official image from the magazine, though Makeba did not appear on the cover. It seems to have been a strategy to make up for their historical failures? time.com/5793625/zenz...time.comZenzile Miriam Makeba: 100 Women of the YearFind out why TIME chose Zenzile Miriam Makeba as one of the 100 women who defined the last century 100