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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.

@brianckeegan.com
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{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info Director, University of Colorado Public Interest Data Science Lab, @cupids-lab.org High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science www.brianckeegan.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h
I wholeheartedly support this I think he should show up and campaign personally with every republican senate candidate, make it really clear that there’s no daylight between them he can start with susan collins
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 2h
The Jonathan Chatterton Friedersdorfs will be so very upset at this latest assault on American higher education. Hegseth is completely unprepared for the thousands of long-form words and high-profile declarations from these extremely good faith defenders of free speech.
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Boulder Progressives @boulderprogressives.org · 2h
"Join the Boulder Progressives Pre-Election Social" #boulder
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Join the Boulder Progressives Pre-Election Social
Join us this Sunday October 4th 1-4PM at Avanti in Boulder!
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/09/2026
The kool kaliper krew is going to use very objective and accurate AI to justify turning your community back into a sundown town
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/09/2026
legalize it, reparations for everyone imprisoned, and also 25mg of THC is roughly triple what normies should take
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The option to do this, all day, every day, has been readily available for every media outlet in the country since 2015. Including & especially just using the word "lies."
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/09/2026
they’re really gonna try to run the “Dems are for they/them” playbook after doubling the price of gasoline.
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AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s not difficult to see that Chris Rufo is laundering white identity politics/white nationalism while proclaiming his supposed color blindness. Here’s a screenshot of the thumbnail for an episode of his podcast - the “great replacement” conspiracy theory is a racist trope.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 28/09/2026
The Democratic Party’s centrist consultant machine needs to be completely rejected and dismantled if this country is ever going to embrace the future and put this fascist nightmare behind us. The time for half measures is long past.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
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Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice
OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 27/09/2026
that’s a no from me dawg
Birthday color is Baby Pink F4C2C2
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 27/09/2026
These boys have a very promising future waiting for them headlining Turning Point USA conferences and writing in the NYTimes and Atlantic about campus cancel culture run amok.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 27/09/2026
and then there are kids like me who get into MIT, quickly realize they’ll never be in the top 50% of its absurd curve, and fill the void by taking up other debilitating hobbies like student journalism
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
why is the water thing the only thing anyone cares about when it's the only argument against this stuff which isn't real
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 27/09/2026
but no so vast as to scare the corporate donor class
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 26/09/2026
10 retweets was discourse-shaping virality
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 26/09/2026
Free speech absolutists say what?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 25/09/2026
independent who voted three times for trump because of his business acumen and support for crypto and peptides
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 25/09/2026
someone is breaking the law so just start charging people instead of shrugging like “whatcha gonna do?” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s Public Service Announcement: ‘Love Me’
Taxpayers are funding a campaign-style ad for the president.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 24/09/2026
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It's Happening Isn't It? Meme
ALT: It's Happening Isn't It? Meme
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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 18/09/2026
Today I'm starting as the new Editor-in-Chief of @joss-openjournals.bsky.social. blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/09/dani... I can only do this because of the journal's incredible community and the work we've collectively done over our first 10 years. 🧵
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Daniel S. Katz is the new Editor-in-Chief of JOSS | Journal of Open Source Software Blog
After ten years, founding Editor-in-Chief Arfon Smith is handing over to Daniel S. Katz, effective 18 September 2026.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 24/09/2026
Yet another issue like Flock cameras and data centers that Democrats could pick up an enormous amount of popular support for if they cared about winning elections more than paying beltway political consultants to pivot to the center.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 24/09/2026
can we spend 200 million tokens and get a humane version of LaTeX
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In any reasonable society the next sentence would be ‘and so they were all put in jail for admitting to gross negligence and malfeasance on a scale previously unthinkable’
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 23/09/2026
@mikeblack114.bsky.social pointed me towards Downer’s Rational Accidents, which explores this in detail (going beyond Normal Accidents) and it’s definitely a “once you see it you can’t unsee it” sort of thing. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254699...
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Rational Accidents
Nuclear reactors, deep-sea drilling platforms, deterrence infrastructures—these are all complex and formidable technologies with the potential to fail cata...
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tfw the Vatican is telling you the baroque religious drama is a little much
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lol (WSJ article)
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 22/09/2026
car off ramp meme

straight: go to therapy
exit: outsource your brain to linear algebra
car: techbros
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 22/09/2026
Charging and detaining Waymo’s CEO without bail would be a good first step.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"I would've joined the military, but hurt my knee playing football"
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hangtime is the study of the time interval between first public notice of a rising right/MAGA/manosphere influencer and their first rape/sexual assault indictment www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-look...
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SCOOP: Looksmaxxer Clavicular Charged With Criminal Rape, Drugging
The manosphere celeb faces three counts stemming from an alleged encounter with a minor.
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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thrilled to announce that the De Gruyter Handbook of Critical Data Studies, co-edited by @ulises-mejias.bsky.social , @jasminemcnealy.com, and yours truly, is now out! 33 chapters, 50+ authors, and a wide range of perspectives on power, policy, methods, case studies, and resistance.
cover of the De Gruyter Handbook of Critical Data Studies, Edited by Ulises A. Mejias, Jasmine E. McNealy and Milagros Miceli
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Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not since 1992 has this much of Congress headed for the exits before an election. 100 members — 84 House, 16 Senate — have left or announced departures since January 2025. That's 18% of the 119th Congress.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 21/09/2026
Nothing is as expensive as being poor
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 21/09/2026
Cannot wait for the half dozen Jonathan Chatterton Friedersdorf columns about liberal cancel culture and how Democrats will deserve it when it comes for them
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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Oh my god all the people immigrating into our cities are driving the rent up” wow it sounds like we should build more housing and you should really be telling the Freeze The Neighborhood In Amber Until I Die caucus ro fix their hearts or, well, you know
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I wrote about the regrets of a Trump supporter whose fiancée was abducted by ICE, the ways these stories reinforce the exact spirit of supremacist exceptionalism that caused them in the first place, and the better, more honest, stories we might tell instead. www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/
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This is Us
Moving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 21/09/2026
sure wish there was some kind of populist movement focused on health and wellness that could be installed into the federal government's administrative apparatus to stop this kind of stuff
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 21/09/2026
Love (derogatory) a well-crafted opening sentence
Screenshot text: White nationalism has become increasingly visible in American public life. Superscript refs: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 21/09/2026
Our Communications team is at #iPRES2026 this week. So this #MemeMonday we're here to remind you that the real villain is inaccessible file formats. Even if you need specialty or proprietary file formats for your analysis, consider saving a final copy of your data in an open format.
Two meme Scooby Doo panel. The top panel has a masked villain labeled "Trying to rescue federal data" and the character Fred labeled "DRP." The bottom panel has the unmasked villain, labeled "inaccessible files and formats" and Fred is still labeled "DRP."
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Remember, Kevin Roose also wrote "The Latecomer's Guide to Crypto," which was methodically debunked by @molly.wiki and others in this brilliant piece. I don't understand why anyone takes him seriously about anything at this point. He's far too credulous to be a good journalist.
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The (Edited) Latecomer's Guide to Crypto
A group of cryptocurrency researchers and critics annotate the irresponsible cryptocurrency puff piece that was originally published in the New York Times.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 21/09/2026
Every five-year-old is going to be subjected to annual genital exams because of the threat of approximately five K12 trans athletes.
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