Dr. Robin A. Bedenbaugh
@rbedenbaugh.bsky.social
Intellectual Freedom Fighter, Ivory Tower, LLC.
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genAI is morally wrong and disrespectful to the creatives in your life as long as the models are built with material stolen from unconsenting and uncompensated writers and artists
there are a bunch of other reasons why it's bad - it's a rich tapestry - but that first one should be enough on its own
there are a bunch of other reasons why it's bad - it's a rich tapestry - but that first one should be enough on its own
August 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
genAI is morally wrong and disrespectful to the creatives in your life as long as the models are built with material stolen from unconsenting and uncompensated writers and artists
there are a bunch of other reasons why it's bad - it's a rich tapestry - but that first one should be enough on its own
there are a bunch of other reasons why it's bad - it's a rich tapestry - but that first one should be enough on its own
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I will bet you all $1 that the person feeding all this stuff to journalists right now is Vance or someone Vance-adjacent.
Yiiiiiikes
July 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I will bet you all $1 that the person feeding all this stuff to journalists right now is Vance or someone Vance-adjacent.
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Sort of curious to know why EVERY Republican in the House thought it necessary to block the release of files that their Attorney General assured them do not even exist.
July 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Sort of curious to know why EVERY Republican in the House thought it necessary to block the release of files that their Attorney General assured them do not even exist.
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What the left needs now is its own version of the demented right-wing Epstein conspiracy theorist universe, with an army of unblinking YouTubers whose full-time job is shouting questions at visibly uncomfortable Republican politicians in the Harris Teeter produce section. Okay fine I’ll do it
July 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What the left needs now is its own version of the demented right-wing Epstein conspiracy theorist universe, with an army of unblinking YouTubers whose full-time job is shouting questions at visibly uncomfortable Republican politicians in the Harris Teeter produce section. Okay fine I’ll do it
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"Yup, there's your problem. You've mistaken arbitrary norms specific to your social group for sacred immutable truths and it has driven you insane."
July 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"Yup, there's your problem. You've mistaken arbitrary norms specific to your social group for sacred immutable truths and it has driven you insane."
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I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles
The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
www.wwltv.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
April 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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It’s time for Congress to reign in the Mad King. These tariffs haven’t even hit for real and the world is off the rails.
Politically, it’s helpful to Dems, but this is why I’m not a good politician b/c I care too deeply about the harm on all people, even on those that hate my very existence.
Politically, it’s helpful to Dems, but this is why I’m not a good politician b/c I care too deeply about the harm on all people, even on those that hate my very existence.
April 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It’s time for Congress to reign in the Mad King. These tariffs haven’t even hit for real and the world is off the rails.
Politically, it’s helpful to Dems, but this is why I’m not a good politician b/c I care too deeply about the harm on all people, even on those that hate my very existence.
Politically, it’s helpful to Dems, but this is why I’m not a good politician b/c I care too deeply about the harm on all people, even on those that hate my very existence.
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The caption at the bottom is what really lifts this to the next level
March 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The caption at the bottom is what really lifts this to the next level
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The Trump administration feels like it's full of people who loved Paul Verhoeven's STARSHIP TROOPERS but didn't realize he was mocking the shit out of the dumb spiteful fascist characters.
a man in a tuxedo sits next to an older woman
ALT: a man in a tuxedo sits next to an older woman
media.tenor.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The Trump administration feels like it's full of people who loved Paul Verhoeven's STARSHIP TROOPERS but didn't realize he was mocking the shit out of the dumb spiteful fascist characters.
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Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
March 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
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Hegseth: The DOD will be merit based and colorblind. You will be judged on how good you are at your job. Full stop.
March 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Hegseth: The DOD will be merit based and colorblind. You will be judged on how good you are at your job. Full stop.
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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
“Get ready for that spin, y’all”
Yawl get ready to be spun round & round cuz planning a military op via Signal group chat isn’t a thing.
March 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Get ready for that spin, y’all”
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Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
March 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
Just finished this. Among other things I take away, Sheryl Sandberg needs to Lean In to a motherfucking wood chipper.
By a former insider about how awful things are inside Meta/FB that Zuck has been working HARD to quash. Would suck if a bunch of people who could afford it bought multiple copies and donated them all over to free libraries, left them at coffee shops, or just otherwise distributed these around...
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
bookshop.org
March 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Just finished this. Among other things I take away, Sheryl Sandberg needs to Lean In to a motherfucking wood chipper.
By a former insider about how awful things are inside Meta/FB that Zuck has been working HARD to quash. Would suck if a bunch of people who could afford it bought multiple copies and donated them all over to free libraries, left them at coffee shops, or just otherwise distributed these around...
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
bookshop.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
By a former insider about how awful things are inside Meta/FB that Zuck has been working HARD to quash. Would suck if a bunch of people who could afford it bought multiple copies and donated them all over to free libraries, left them at coffee shops, or just otherwise distributed these around...
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
“Allowed to wield silence so freely, any institution will become insatiable. It’s not only that the absence of information allows those complicit in but unaffected by wrongdoing to look away. The silence itself becomes an empty canvas, onto which any fantasy can be painted.” - Omar El Akkad
March 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“Allowed to wield silence so freely, any institution will become insatiable. It’s not only that the absence of information allows those complicit in but unaffected by wrongdoing to look away. The silence itself becomes an empty canvas, onto which any fantasy can be painted.” - Omar El Akkad
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They're *already* shutting down large parts of the government and, as an added bonus, inflicting permanent damage on other parts of it.
Shutting it all down would be a *better* route, honestly.
All you've done here is give a bipartisan stamp of approval to their agenda of closures and cuts.
Shutting it all down would be a *better* route, honestly.
All you've done here is give a bipartisan stamp of approval to their agenda of closures and cuts.
There is very little about this CR that I like—but there is even less I like about a government shutdown. With Trump & Musk taking a chainsaw to the government’s workforce & illegally freezing funding, the last thing we need to do is plunge our country into further chaos by shutting down the govt.
March 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
They're *already* shutting down large parts of the government and, as an added bonus, inflicting permanent damage on other parts of it.
Shutting it all down would be a *better* route, honestly.
All you've done here is give a bipartisan stamp of approval to their agenda of closures and cuts.
Shutting it all down would be a *better* route, honestly.
All you've done here is give a bipartisan stamp of approval to their agenda of closures and cuts.
Ready for the next segment of my “Fresh Out of Fucks” tour.
March 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Ready for the next segment of my “Fresh Out of Fucks” tour.
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And I’ll forget you but I’ll never forgive
The smallest man who ever lived.
The smallest man who ever lived.
March 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
And I’ll forget you but I’ll never forgive
The smallest man who ever lived.
The smallest man who ever lived.
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I don't know what Jeff Bezos means by "personal liberties and free markets." But I do know this: The biggest threat to personal liberties and free markets in America today is Donald Trump. My @postopinions.bsky.social column on this week's trauma at the Post. wapo.st/3DaSKxX
Opinion | Here’s the real threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’
The rapidly spreading authoritarianism coming from this administration threatens all of our freedoms.
wapo.st
February 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I don't know what Jeff Bezos means by "personal liberties and free markets." But I do know this: The biggest threat to personal liberties and free markets in America today is Donald Trump. My @postopinions.bsky.social column on this week's trauma at the Post. wapo.st/3DaSKxX
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Republicans are too chickenshit to hold town halls. Shocker.
Here’s an idea: Democrats, hold town halls in Republican districts.
Here’s an idea: Democrats, hold town halls in Republican districts.
February 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Republicans are too chickenshit to hold town halls. Shocker.
Here’s an idea: Democrats, hold town halls in Republican districts.
Here’s an idea: Democrats, hold town halls in Republican districts.