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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 · 34m

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 3h

uh oh, pope is antifa now

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 4h

“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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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

Human centered artificial intelligence

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h

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 · 11h

"The chancellor approved it"

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 5h

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

IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 1d

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 · 5h

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

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h

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 · 11h

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 11h

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

“a supply chain attack”

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 1d

I enjoyed A House of Dynamite. It’s stressful as hell! I’d be interested in reading reactions from national security experts, but it absolutely captures how an enormous apocalypse machine exists on a hair trigger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw...

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

www.youtube.com

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 1d

Let me guess: Trump opened his mouth at 11am?

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 1d

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 1d

As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.

Justice for All - Truthdig

To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

www.truthdig.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 2d

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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

Correction: they did have an October commentary about this: mitfreespeech.org/news_manager...

Take a wild guess at what side they landed on:

"Wayne Stargardt, MFSA President [said], 'The government Compact requires many of the same free speech reforms we have long called for'"

MIT Free Speech Alliance Conference Anticipates Government “Compact” with Universities - MIT Free Speech Alliance

mitfreespeech.org

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

Sorry, they did have an October commentary about this: mitfreespeech.org/news_manager...

"Wayne Stargardt, MFSA President [said], “The government Compact requires many of the same free speech reforms we have long called for"

MIT Free Speech Alliance Conference Anticipates Government “Compact” with Universities - MIT Free Speech Alliance

mitfreespeech.org

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

Me put chip in brain and let AI do work.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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

Anyone heard from the MIT Free Speech Alliance this year, or are they too preoccupied with hanging out with Bari Weiss and her ilk at Heterodox conferences?
bsky.app/profile/bria...

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

Meanwhile the MIT “Free Speech Alliance” hasn’t issued a single press release about the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education.

They’re still too busy clutching their pearls that a talk three years ago about race science was rescheduled.

www.mitfreespeech.org/press_releas...

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

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Troubled by how many imagine Machado is a great hero because she's not Trump. She's a hard right former coup sympathizer who calls for military intervention & destruction of socialism. Her opponent, Maduro, is an awful dictator. That doesn't make her a dream, anymore than not being named "Trump."

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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

“her newsletter/reactionary rag/website for every man who declares they aren’t political but quotes Andrew Tate a lot, The Free Press.”

Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the “Venezuelan Democracy Fighter” in question on Fox and Friends explaining her support for Trump bombing the fishing boats just last month

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

Seems like a bigger deal than prosecuting your enemies over a checkbox on a mortgage application.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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