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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)

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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)

@xriskology

Author, WaPo, LARB, Truthdig, Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter. Co-host of Dystopia Now w/ comedian Kate Willett. Philosopher of human extinction.

Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland

realtimetechpocalypse.com

Born July 2

Joined September 2010

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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Jun 12
The culmination of three years of research since publishing my book. Read it here: realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/a-pro-human-…
Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Sep 12, 2023
Got this nice message the other day about my book from someone at the London Review of Books. Sharing it with permission! :-)
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Jan 24, 2025
From someone who also spent the day with Musk at Auschwitz:
Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
Jan 21, 2025
You stupid f***ing idiots
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Jan 7, 2025
Boy, are we fucked. Fascism, genocide, climate change, deepfakes, social media, disinformation, fake news, PFAS and other chemicals flooding our environment, the decline of reading, the profound threats to free speech, the loss of a shared reality, etc. So fucked.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Jun 16, 2025
This is such a good quote from Dr. Becker. Worth reading in full:
Rolling Stone
@RollingStone
Jun 16, 2025
One astrophysicist talks to Rolling Stone about the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs: "Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say. There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Jun 5, 2024
We are not sleepwalking into civilizational collapse. We are wide awake. I feel utterly heartbroken for everyone 20, or 40, years younger than me. I don’t think that most people have any clue how bad this is going to be. 💔
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Nov 1, 2025
Saw this and immediately deleted my account with @academia.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Oct 5, 2023
This is Sam Altman's sister. Her tweets about sexual, physical, emotional, etc. abuse are incredibly hard to read. Seems that no one in the media is that interested in covering this story because they're afraid of losing access to OpenAI if they write something critical of Sam.👇
Annie Altman
@anniealtman108
Mar 14, 2023
I’m not four years old with a 13 year old “brother” climbing into my bed non-consensually anymore. (You’re welcome for helping you figure out your sexuality.) I’ve finally accepted that you’ve always been and always will be more scared of me than I’ve been of you.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Mar 31, 2023
Holy hell, this is an absolutely incredible statement from the Lemkin Institute (@LemkinInstitute). "Lemkin" refers to "Raphael Lemkin," the individual who coined the word "genocide." (Continued below.)
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Apr 21, 2025
Four students at Case Western Reserve University -- my university -- were told that their visas had been revoked and that they will need to leave the country, while the semester is still going. Now, turns out, they don't! What a complete sh*tshow.
theintercept.com
Universities Told Students to Leave the Country. ICE Just Said They Didn’t Actually Have To.
When DHS erased students’ database records, universities said they had to leave. An ICE court filing says the students still had status.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Feb 2, 2024
I am absolutely, 100% sympathetic with this person. Working full-time, 7 days a week is NOT NORMAL. I mean, it is in our capitalist milieu, but capitalism is NOT NORMAL. What is the POINT OF LIFE if all one does is work work work work to wake up the next day and work work work??
Scottacular
@Scottcrates
Feb 1, 2024
First person to ever have to work full time makes video to document her struggles. A modern day Diary of Anne Frank.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Aug 25, 2025
No, it won't. Our planet was *literally more habitable* after a giant asteroid struck it 66 million years ago than Mars is today. The top of Mount Everest in the middle of winter is more hospitable to life than Mars is on its nicest days. This is just stupidity:
DogeDesigner
@cb_doge
Aug 25, 2025
One day, SpaceX will have a headquarters on Mars.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Dec 18, 2023
These guys are destroying democracy and are disproportionately contributing to the climate catastrophe (by a long shot). And then they turn around and build bunkers to survive the collapse of civilization that they played a crucial role in catalyzing.
Pop Crave
@PopCrave
Dec 17, 2023
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a massive $100 million compound in Hawaii with an underground bunker, escape hatch, and a “blast-resistant door.” The 5,000-square-foot underground bunker will be self-sufficient with its own energy, food, and water supply, @WIRED reports.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Oct 24, 2024
I sent a paper of mine to an Oxford philosophy prof earlier this year, and he *loved it*. Told me I should submit it without edits, and that he'd be citing it in future papers of his. So, I submitted to an ethics journal -- desk rejection. I submitted it to another journal, and
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Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them)
@xriskology
Apr 25, 2025
Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:
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