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This is why it is actually a little tricky to build a political movement based on labor chauvinism

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Don’t threaten us with a good time

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Jesus Christ, this is why you should not execute people

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It took me a minute figure out if this was referring to the guy on the left or the guy on the right

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I am. I told them how I felt, gave space, and then told them exactly what they should do if they ever receive a text or snap like that

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This is the job, and it’s the best job

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And I should also clarify, many editors simply are not opposed to referees using AI to generate their reports. (I am not one of those editors, but I am not representative of all editors.) This puts authors in an unfortunate position. Again, it is a lousy time.

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As an editor, I'll put it plainly: - it is almost certainly impossible to *prove* it was AI generated - even if the proof is ironclad, taking action against a referee is high-risk, low reward for the editor These are the structural forces that are shaping peer review right now. It is a lousy time

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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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no bro, the referees are gonna lose their mind about anticipation effects

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Cheer Captain @cheercaptain.wang · 30/09/2026

Prepare your diff-in-diffs, we got a staggered rollout design here

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Temple of the Dog - “Hunger Strike”

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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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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I am not a Bali expert (sadly), but my basic sketch is: if you have to go south, Sanur; if you can escape and can afford it, Candi Dasa; if you want to laptop people, Ubud; if you're looking for something special, Kintamani

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other good ones include ketchup (kecap), gong (gong), bamboo (bambu), compound (as in settlement, kampung), and cooties (kutu, meaning louse)

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number one memory of my first trip to Bali is a gecko crapping on my face from the ceiling (fun fact, gecko is one of handful of English words that comes from Malay [gekok, after the sound that it makes])

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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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bro can't even remember to say Super Intelligence in the third sentence of a three sentence tweet

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<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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I don't know the man, but this does read a little bit like something that an AI firm would support (currently reading Ramseyer and Rosenbluth on delegation, monitoring, the Japanese bureaucracy, and the 'developmental state', so observational equivalence is on the mind)

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amazing: a philosophy professor at a liberal arts college who doesn't know about the, uh, liberal arts

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I think this is what will happen, and that will be fine! For academic composition, there will be variation across disciplines and countries as well. My prediction is that human-generated writing will be accorded more value on net, because it is more expensive and harder to produce

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As a consequence, no one gets to say "I am allowed to use AI to write this" as a general matter. No you aren't. Your audience has a voice, and while you can try to persuade them that AI writing is fine they are under no obligation to agree with you

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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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Dartmouth Provost Is the Latest College Professor Examined for A.I. Use (Gift Article)

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 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

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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In case it's not clear, my argument here is normative rather than legal. I don't know the best way to sanction false citations, and I am not sure I can prove fraud in a court of law. Instead, I want to convince you that false citations are fraud. That is how you should feel when you encounter them.

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If an existential claim is false, then the authorial claim is irrelevant. We don't need to know if the authorial claim would be valid if applied to a true reference to determine if the false citation is fraud. That simply does not matter

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The novel argument, I believe, is that the fraud is located at the citation, not the reference, because the citation makes both an authorial claim ("source X argues that...") and an existential claim ("source X with features that are described in the references section exists")

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