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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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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 53m

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 · 1h

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

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

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

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

Me put chip in brain and let AI do work.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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 · 3h

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

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 · 3h

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

“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 · 5h

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 · 3h

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 · 4h

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

ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

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...

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 5h

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

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

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She has supported an American military intervention to oust the Maduro government.? In 2025, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."[81 She was also

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 7h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 13h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 15h

LaTeX

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

www.propublica.org

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 17h

“Bro, let’s just let some AI agents run ATC.”

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20h

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned on Thursday that the government could dismiss air traffic controllers who repeatedly fail to show up for work during the government shutdown, saying a spike in absences is causing significant air disruptions.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20h

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

CHOTINER: You said before police seized fentanyl-laced marijuana targeting kids.

STEPHEN MILLER: Hamas is forcing the cartels to put fentanyl marijuana inside the teddy bears that the children bring to parties in order to target the president and his allies.

CHOTINER: …

MILLER: …

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell it’s October when ppl start spreading drug sadism myths about expensive drugs given for free to school-age children, since children usually have the means to purchase more drugs…

Anyways, we actually know pretty definitively that “fentanyl-laced marijuana” isn’t a thing & never will be

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Franklin County deputies seized 8 lbs of fentanyl-laced marijuana targeting kids

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

My confederate neighbor told me the submarine keeps drowning his sailors so I asked how many sailors he has and he said he just goes to the navy and gets new sailors afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding sailors to the ocean and then his commanding officer started crying

“The confederacy sent into action the world’s first combat submarine, the CSS Huntley, which sank three times in trials, drowning the crew each time (including its inventor Horace Huntley) before sink a blockade ship near Charleston in 1864 while going down itself for the fourth and last time”

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James G @orth.ca · 1d

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

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

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations, you played yourself

Charlie Kirk memorial at the Yankees jumbotron

Trump shaking hands with the Yankee players in their locker room

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations, you played yourself

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

FUCK THE YANKEES

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

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

“What is this farm going to be replaced with?”

“A data center willed with machines to do so much linear algebra they can keep the dementia patient in the Oval Office calm and complaint.”