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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 4h
Editors behave differently and journal policies do too. I don't think there is any harm in alerting an editor to a suspected AI-generated report, but you should not expect that the editor will consider this to be actionable evidence of anything (to my great dismay, but one must be realistic)
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 5h
Prepare your diff-in-diffs, we got a staggered rollout design here
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Cheer Captain @cheercaptain.wang · 18h
Temple of the Dog - “Hunger Strike”
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 18h
This is a truly funny day in politics - Eric Schmitt confused NBA Hawks with NCAA Hawkeyes - In a politically consequential way! - And Amy Klobuchar is ball-knower, just roasting him - And we get to watch Katie Britt make this face Season 6 is the craziest Trump season yet
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 20h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 19h
I have never identified more with a politician than I do with the sheer joy on this face, joy that can only come from calmly destroying the argument of stupid rival who walked right into it
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 29/09/2026
bro can't even remember to say Super Intelligence in the third sentence of a three sentence tweet
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 29/09/2026
<Tommy Tuberville barging through the door> Stay in your lane, Schmitt! There can be only one dumbest Senator, and as they say in my great home state of Florida, whoooo!
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 29/09/2026
A good liberal position on using AI for composing text is that individual use for individual purposes is nobody's business. Do what you like. But if you are generating text for an audience, you must anticipate the reactions of others. And writing is normally for other people, so norms will matter.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 29/09/2026
We simply have not yet figured out the social norms of AI use for writing and composition. But they are emerging, and one clear signal is "you better not use AI yourself for academic purposes if you are also telling me I can't use it for my own academic purposes" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Dartmouth Provost Is the Latest College Professor Examined for A.I. Use (Gift Article)
Dartmouth said it would investigate its provost over A.I. accusations. Similar controversies on other campuses have prompted frustration among students.
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m sorry. Is the message “invest in us OR we’ll destroy humanity” or “invest in us AND we’ll destroy humanity“?
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 28/09/2026
“I thoughtlessly engaged in Snapchat” This was a Snapchat that said, “come gang rape this woman” abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 28/09/2026
Now that we know a bit more about the Cornell story, I can say with great confidence: something is very wrong here. There must be justice.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 28/09/2026
Now that we know a bit more about the Cornell story, I can say with great confidence: something is very wrong here. There must be justice.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 27/09/2026
Take a time out and go change these uniforms, good gravy
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 27/09/2026
The Bills are going to keep turning the ball over until they get rid of those ridiculous gray uniforms and absurd helmets
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 27/09/2026
In my house, we call this “Ender’s Syndrome”
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 26/09/2026
In this post, I argue that all false citations are fraud, regardless of how they are generated. tompepinsky.com/2026/09/26/f...
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False Citations Are Fraud
I want to establish the normative position that false citations are fraud. In other words, I want you to think that when someone shares research with you that contains false citations, they are com…
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👇👇👇
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 25/09/2026
It might be useful, in the context of false citations, to consider legal definitions of fraud explicitly (at least, Anglo-American ones). If we define fraud as "negligent misrepresentation," then false citations to things that do not exist clearly are fraud www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fraud
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 25/09/2026
I still don’t understand your position that submitting a reference that doesn’t exist could be done with “lack of intent.” The reference does not exist: it is in the submission exclusively because an author directed a computer to add it, and it was added to support an argument the author was making
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 24/09/2026
If you encounter a manuscript that includes references to articles that do not exist, is that evidence of fraud? Or could it indicate something else---an accident, an oversight, something innocent, not worthy of the term "fraud"? My position is that it is fraud. Here is why.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 24/09/2026
If you encounter a manuscript that includes references to articles that do not exist, is that evidence of fraud? Or could it indicate something else---an accident, an oversight, something innocent, not worthy of the term "fraud"? My position is that it is fraud. Here is why.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 24/09/2026
Just refereed a manuscript for a major disciplinary journal that was plagued by fraudulent citations. Fraud is fraud. It is no different from fabricating data, and the professional consequences should be the same.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 24/09/2026
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 24/09/2026
I think a lot about how politicians make these open statements on X, and how utterly meaningless and inconsequential they are. They don’t reach the correct audience; no one considers them to be binding; they are just statements into the ether. Their significance is only what they signal.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 23/09/2026
I will not be accepting feedback, corrections, or caveats. This is literally descriptively true of what the category "English" refers to---etymologically, historically, and sociologically. The radical, historically false position is that "English" is a fixed category of humans.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 23/09/2026
Englishness is an ethnicity whose literal essence, whose very fundamental constitutive feature, is being the ethnicity comprised of people from all over the mainland of Eurasia coming to live there and intermarrying and exchanging cultures. There is nothing else, literally nothing else to it.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 22/09/2026
Cornell has released a major statement on higher education entitled "The Future of the American University" I am proud of this report. I had nothing to do with its drafting, and don't agree with every recommendation, but it is thoughtful, thorough, and wise provost.cornell.edu/_files/initi...
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 22/09/2026
🎵 Belarus does not have / Sufficient potash / But the northern ally / Has much greater potash 🎵
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 22/09/2026
The Moral Economy of the Death Star: On the Institutional Foundations of Imperial Decay
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 21/09/2026
lol they larded this document with references to "viewpoint discrimination" and you love to see it
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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/3 How can Europe thrive in a fragmenting world and reform despite political divisions between and within countries? In our @cepr.org Europe 2050 contribution, @jafrieden.bsky.social & I argue that political feasibility must be a central consideration in any reform design. cepr.org/publications...
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 21/09/2026
Russia goes with Iran. Iran and Saudi are enemies. So who is supporting Saudi? You see my point here?
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 21/09/2026
The Middle East is a complex web of alliances and interests that defies simple analyses of us-vs.-them and good-vs.-evil. Amidst all that noise, you can still count on DJT to screw over anyone he can, just because that is his one true and enduring personal trait. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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Trump Gets Caught in a Dilemma Over a Saudi Plea for Military Help
The president vacillated but decided on Sunday not to join Saudi Arabia, for now, in joint strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. But he also needs the kingdom’s cooperation in his war against Iran.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 20/09/2026
A Prussian province out there still mattering for things
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 20/09/2026
"59 top cities and capitals"
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20/09/2026
This thing I made two years ago continues to hold up pretty well
AI and consciousness political 2D grid.

Authoritarian
Al is not conscious and neither am I
Authoritarian
Left
Al is conscious but l am not
Authoritarian
Right
Economic-
Left
Economic-Right
Libertarian
Left
I am conscious but Al is not
Libertarian
Right
I am conscious and so is Al
Libertarian
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 20/09/2026
I hate the University of Mississippi (I won’t call it that name) with the grim focus of an Auburn/Mississippi State family. But I hate Lane Kiffin more
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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thanks @tompepinsky.com. I think the finding about potential offline social isolation combined with online friends is particularly important. lnkd.in/p/gUJAxsP9
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White Nationalism Support Found in 5% of US Adults, Higher Among Young White Men | Joshua Tucker posted on the topic | LinkedIn
White nationalism has become more visible in American life, especially in online spaces where young white men spend their time. In a new publication at Nature with Patrick Egan & Jim Bisbee, we examin...
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 19/09/2026
Read this and understand the longtermist position on Dyson spheres, the light cone, and why you don’t actually have to help any actually existing human right now
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 18/09/2026
time for my all-time favorite gif
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Laughs In Anglican
ALT: Laughs In Anglican
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 18/09/2026
As an American watching the UK Labour Party squander its historic parliamentary majority through aimless, rudderless, poll-driven governance, I hope the U.S. Democratic Party takes note that U.S. voters in 2026 do not want a Democrat-controlled Congress because they want tepid Republican governance
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 17/09/2026
real "here, YOU throw this away" energy
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 17/09/2026
👇 Democrat strategists/pundits who sided with the admin on immigration should wear a T on their shirt for the rest of their lives. It is the rarest of issues, a trifecta: opposing violent and illegal detention and deportation is morally correct, constitutionally valid, and an electoral winner
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 17/09/2026
Great paper. And very interesting to reflect on the value of a "correlates of Y" paper that makes no causal claim but establishes patterns that are informative on some theories anyway.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 17/09/2026
- Just give it away. And then you watch. And you watch and you see who comes back for more. - And then I start charging.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 17/09/2026
Read this thread
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 17/09/2026
Great paper. And very interesting to reflect on the value of a "correlates of Y" paper that makes no causal claim but establishes patterns that are informative on some theories anyway.
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