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{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info Visiting Scientist, @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social AY25-26 High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science https://www.brianckeegan.com/ Signal: brianckeegan.26 .. more

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · Sep 2

ICYMI, I’m on sabbatical this AY at @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social:

popcenter.harvard.edu/blog/directo...

I’ll be working on a STS-flavored book project about ecofascist data science that combines critical demography and data studies.

Let me know if you’re in Boston this year and want to meet up!

Brian Keegan – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

A Harvard University cross-school, interfaculty initiative administered by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

popcenter.harvard.edu

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 4h

Except when grandpa tweets out his prompt for a bakadere waifu with a horse cock.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 4h

Food opinion that will get you cancelled?

Mine: the Whole Foods marinated meats have no business being this delicious.

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Silvia Secchi, Stacy D. VanDeveer , and 2 more Daniel W. Drezner, Silvia Secchi, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Brian Keegan, Nicole Guenther Discenza

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 9h

Proud to serve on the @macfound.org Board + of this initiative

“What we are seeking to do is to invest public interest dollars to ensure that the development of the technology serves humans and places humanity at the center of this development,” @palfrey.org

www.fastcompany.com/91420384/exc...

Exclusive: Big Philanthropy teams up to take on Big AI

A new coalition of 10 major givers, including the Omidyar Network and Ford Foundation, are investing $500 million in an effort to ensure Americans have a say in how artificial intelligence impacts the...

www.fastcompany.com

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 9h

Paging @ndrew.bsky.social

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 9h

"When governments can no longer provide the public with essential services without ongoing access to digital products that are the intellectual property of megacorporations, that’s a degree of leverage sufficient to turn any redline into a punchline," writes Emily Tucker.

buff.ly/AUYmFKH

To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press

Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.

www.techpolicy.press

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 23h

Trump needs his participation trophy.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Reposted by Robb Willer, Mark J. Brandt, Steven S. Smith , and 3 more Robb Willer, Mark J. Brandt, Steven S. Smith, Justin H. Kirkland, Brian Keegan, Matt Grossmann

Ben Yoel @benyoel.bsky.social · 1d

@liampert.bsky.social, @mattgrossmann.bsky.social, and I are thrilled to launch SenateData, a new repository pertaining to the US Senate. We have variables on facets like bills, and members, including original data on senator characteristics and an associated R package. github.com/IPPSR/Senate...

GitHub - IPPSR/SenateData: SenateData: A Functional Tool for the SenateData Dataset

SenateData: A Functional Tool for the SenateData Dataset - IPPSR/SenateData

github.com

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Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Anders Nilsson, Cathy N. Davidson , and 8 more Rosemary A. Joyce, Anders Nilsson, Cathy N. Davidson, David R. Miller, Rebecca M. Bratspies, Brian Keegan, Kevin Jon Heller, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Manisha Sinha, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 2d

Rats fleeing a sinking ship.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 2d

CHOTINER: Is everyone equal before the law?

BARRETT: We’re unwilling to issue timely rulings when the delay benefits our ideology.

CHOTINER: Is that different from Judge Cannon delays behalf of Trump?

BARRETT: Look, he promises he can make this Epstein stuff go away. jacobin.com/2025/07/epst...

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

Have you ever wondered What Happened To The Internet? Well, the gang from Wow If True ( @amanda.omg.lol and @isabel.kim) joined me for a collab episode to dive head first into enshittification and the history of our online world!

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 2d

Hypocritically reversing themselves when a Democrat is in the White House is a lot more conspicuous when there’s a paper trail.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 2d

uh oh, pope is antifa now

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 2d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Reposted by Steve Peers, Juan Cole, Gernot Wagner , and 4 more Steve Peers, Juan Cole, Gernot Wagner, Adrian Daub, Brian Keegan, Alfie Kohn, Manisha Sinha

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 2d

Human centered artificial intelligence

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 2d

Sounds like the kind of thing the free market will just sort out in a maximally efficient manner.

IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 4d

Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 2d

“Siri, do governments that don’t pay their soldiers last very long?”