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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan

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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

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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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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social · 9h

There is very definitely a dot com style bust in our future. The larger tech of AI probably survives, but the economy is gonna get real bad for a bit. I am sure our current leadership will face that with calm determination and in no way freak out or do weird shit.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 10h

New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

Assistant Professor

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

unc.peopleadmin.com

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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · Jun 10

American cities have stagnated. Residential neighborhoods, transportation systems, and commercial districts have changed little in 50+ years.

My new book, "The Unfinished Metropolis," explores how that happened — and how to fix it.

Preorder now: shorturl.at/PInVb

The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution

www.amazon.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 13h

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 18h

This was so, so, so cathartic to read. Thank you @lopatto.bsky.social!

And now we don't have to link to a 7-year-old Glenn Greenwald article either for the definitive roundup of Weiss's hypocrisy and incompetence!

To make matters worse, you have never reported, and they all know it. You don’t know anything about the challenges or judgment calls required for complicated stories. You’re an op-ed writer who rode Bret Stephens’ coattails into The New York Times newsroom, then quit in a huff because they wouldn’t fire you for whatever it was you wanted to pretend to be a free speech martyr for. (You might want to pay for your personal website, by the way. It’s expired.) The closest you came to doing anything like reporting was the flop “Twitter Files” work, which exposed… um, people having banal conversations. In the context of the Twitter Files, this was a win since you didn’t actively dox anyone.

Honestly, I thought your experience with Elon Musk might have prepared you for what a bad idea this was, since, you know, he got mad at you when you asked the wrong questions about China. Sure, you’ve made a career out of kissing the right asses to move ahead, but you must have learned by now that means you will be disposed of whenever it’s convenient.

You had such a good gig going, too. Your entire pitch at The Free Press — lol, lmao — was that you were standing boldly against big bad corporate media that simply wouldn’t tell the truth! This was an easy pitch — albeit one made by every Substacker from Taylor Lorenz to Ken Klippenstein to Naomi Wolf — and, judging by your audience, a fairly lucrative one. You didn’t even have to get stories right! Remember when your columnist Coleman Hughes published a column about George Floyd that was so wrong it got dogwalked not once but three times by Radley Balko? And you personally got dogwalked a fourth time? And your response was that Balko should do your podcast?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 21h

The NY Times continues to be the biggest sucker in the world for bad faith bullshit, just so the publisher can claim they're not too liberal and to pretend they'll somehow convince MAGA they're being fair to them.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22h

Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."

Opinion
Guest Essay

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

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

"KPop Demon Hunters" has once again overtaken "Charlie Kirk" for English @wikipedia.org pageviews

English Wikipedia pageviews for Charlie Kirk (red) and KPop Demon Hunters (blue) from 1 June 2025 to 5 October 2025

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

a woman says it 's true in front of a sign that says ' coco '

ALT: a woman says it 's true in front of a sign that says ' coco '

media.tenor.com

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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 19d

Everyone uses Wikipedia. Few people understand how it works.

The policies, rules, systems, and ways of working that have guided Wikipedia's growth into one of the internet's most iconic platforms serve as lessons in building trust in a changing information environment ➡️ medium.com/freely-shari...

Parts of planet Earth. Text says: How we can keep the internet’s knowledge reliable. Learn the lessons that helped Wikipedia grow into one of the internet’s most iconic platforms.

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

full professor, associate professor, assistant professor

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

The Zeroth Rule of basic income experiments is that they work and should stop being experiments.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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

"KPop Demon Hunters" has once again overtaken "Charlie Kirk" for English @wikipedia.org pageviews

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Eel-AIEEEE (Eli, he/they) @elindur.at.app.wafrn.net · 1d

"This is a fucking madhouse. You need message discipline. You need to be professional, for god's sake. When you write posts on a social media platform that you run, those aren't posts, they're company comms. Sorry. You can't be a mod and a poster at the same time."

Bravo, well fucking said!

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

"Why is antagonizing the existing bluesky userbase harmful to bluesky inc's goals?

It feels odd to even have to answer this question"
azhdarchid.com/jay-graber-c...

Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals

As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

azhdarchid.com

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

“This time really is different!”

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Something fundamental has broken in the brains of elites. No matter how many op-eds they read, write and publish denouncing identity politics, they still think it's a heterodox viewpoint you can't find anywhere.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 7d

📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

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

We need to turn down the temperature by ignoring the people who have been right about everything to center the feelings of the people who are responsible for everything.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 1d

The new Supreme Court term starts today, meaning that -- in a novel twist -- the justices will hear oral arguments in some cases before they issue rulings that actually explain what they are doing.

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

This is going to age like milk.

@remindmeofth.is October 6, 2026

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Mar 8

Happy International Women's Day!

A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people.

A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈

www.wired.com/story/the-te...