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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 4h

can we make it three sex pests before friday?

Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 12/09/2026

Remember the good old days when Tip and Ronnie hastily enacted a bill criminalizing computer hacking because of a Matthew Broderick movie? www.cnet.com/tech/tech-in...

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 02/09/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.

The Wire: Jim True-Frost, Lance Reddick, Dominic West, Clarke Peters, Deirdre Lovejoy, Sonja-Sohn

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 14/08/2026

When faculty are awarded tenure at @colorado.edu they get a bronze medal to wear with their academic regalia. I was away for the ceremony but delightful to find this waiting in my campus mailbox!

Bronze medallion with the University of Colorado seal

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 14/08/2026

No one could've seen this coming www.wired.com/story/openai...

Multiple current and former OpenAI employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private internal matters, tell WIRED they believe competitive pressures to quickly ship new AI models and products have made it difficult for staffers to sufficiently prioritize safety, security, and alignment.

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 11/08/2026

I was clearing out notifications and I made the mistake of clicking too far into a Microsoft Teams menu and was met with this terrifying array of apps for god knows what

A 4x4 grid of app icons in Microsoft Teams

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 05/08/2026

Just a little something I cooked up for an upcoming talk about the inherited infrastructures of high-tempo online collaborations around war mapping on @wikipedia.org

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 05/08/2026

Reminder to Blue Dogs and other centrists: vote blue no matter who!

Michigan senate Democratic primary showing AES at 59.6, Haley Stevens at 36.9, and Mallory McMorrow at 3.5

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 23/07/2026

I can't wait for these workers to die so I can open them up and feast on their data inside.

Running

Watch OCR to completion or worker death

Bash 11m47s

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 21/07/2026

You just love to see the chudoverse post L after L

Movie announced: go woke go broke

The critics are paid off, let the audience decide

Rotten Tomatoes is rigged the real test is box office

With marketing it needs to $700m to break even, it has no legs

Keep moving the goalposts

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 18/07/2026

I still remember when Saint Ronnie gave those Afghani freedom fighters weapons and funding to fight the Soviets and nothing bad ever happened afterwards.

Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on road to peace

Osama bin Laden photo

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 14/07/2026

Don't forget the godfather of lebensraum spending over a year traveling through the twilight of Reconstruction-era US and writing approvingly of indigenous genocide www.jstor.org/stable/10.39...

Ratzel recognized how far the extermination of America’s indigenous populations had progressed by the 1870s. He had visited California in the final years of a genocidal campaign that had decimated the indigenous population. And yet he only rarely expressed any pity for a race, or species, for that matter, that had been eliminated. ...America’s native population, he argued, had not managed to move beyond a huntergatherer society when the first European colonists arrived. The Indians had failed to build towns and cities and exploit natural riches such as iron ore and gold. Their thinking was irrational and superstitious and they were prone to alcohol and gambling addictions. Ultimately, Ratzel came to the conclusion that the extermination of the indigenous Americans was necessary because they had proven inferior in the natural struggle for space. “One is placed in a peculiar position in regard to the displacement and annihilation of a whole race,” he wrote in 1877. “As a sensitive human being, one cannot approve of the means by which this struggle is fought; but as a thinking human being, one cannot avoid feeling satisfied by its outcome.” The only way, he claimed, in which the indigenous Americans might find their place in American society was if they were as “scattered and few” as Europe’s Sinti and Roma. He was quick to add that anyone who had witnessed the Roma in Hungary would surely recognize the “general harmfulness” that these populations exerted within a Volk. “Such entirely different levels of civilization as the Californians and the Indians are even less likely to coexist in the long run; the strong simply washes the weak away.” This, surely, was natural selection at work.

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 07/07/2026

apparently there’s Discourse happening but I am blissfully unaware of it because I was right about it months ago

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 06/07/2026

Excellent illustration of the exonerative tense, @wired.com

goose chase meme

top: what is accelerating the destruction of gaza's cultural institutions?

bottom: who is destroying gaza?

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 02/07/2026

Conservative Catholics: I have been excommunicated for my sincerely-held conservative views! Me: For opposing abortion? CC: LOL no...no not those views Me: Opposing gay marriage? CC: No, not those views either Me: Which views exactly? CC: Oh, you know the ones apologies to @ndrew.bsky.social

A key Vatican II document rejected by the SSPX is one that, among other things, deplored antisemitism in every form and repudiated the “deicide” charge that blamed Jews as a people for Christ’s death. The Vatican crafted the document repudiating it as the church reckoned with the role traditional Christian teaching had played in the Holocaust.

The SSPX today says it rejects accusations that it ever taught or practiced antisemitism, and the SSPX distanced itself from one of the original 1988 bishops, the late Bishop Richard Williamson, when he denied the Holocaust.

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 01/07/2026

Looks like a 10-point margin this morning and clearing 50%. Definitely a mandate, not a split decision with Wanda James as a spoiler.

Election results for CO-1 Democratic primary shows Melat Kiros with a 51.3% lead over Diana DeGette at 41.7% and Wanda James at 7%

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 01/07/2026

Amazing archival work for Boulder election night nerds from @threatresearch.bsky.social ``` #Boulder Daily Camera, October 27, 1897: a list of political parties competing on the November ballot. infosec.exchange/@threatresea...

"Full page of the Boulder Daily Camera from October 27, 1897"

People's Party. Republican Party. Democratic Party. Silver Republican Party. Prohibition Party. Socialist Labor Party. Taxpayers Party. Citizens Party. Civic Federation Party. Just Taxation Party.

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/06/2026

It really is a mystery. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/09/who-...

In December, Ganahl praised John Eastman, a controversial conservative figure who was a visiting scholar at CU’s Benson Center, a privately funded entity that promotes conservative views.

“There are fantastic folks who come in,” said Ganahl said on conservative talk radio last year (here at 11:30). “Right now, it’s Dr. John Eastman, who’s riling some folks up.”

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/06/2026

Reminded of this visualization from @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org projects.propublica.org/climate-migr...

Days with high wet bulb temperatures with a choropleth map of the US

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 13/06/2026

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, says
Trump threw him under the bus. "If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody," Cornyn says. "There's never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish
adherence to whatever he wants."

Roll Call Vote 117th Congress - 1st
Session
Vote Summary
XML Question: On the Motion (Is Former President Donald John Trump Subject to a Court of
Impeachment for Acts Committed While
President?)

Cornyn in no column with 43 other Republicans who could’ve stopped this and still can whenever they want

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 23/05/2026

things are getting hot and heavy here tonight

import umap
import hdbscan
from sklearn.cluster import KMeans
from sklearn.metrics import adjusted_rand_score, normalized_mutual_info_score

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 26/04/2026

Meanwhile, millions of us teach and learn in classrooms with this posted on every exit because of the abject cowardice of politicians and elite political news media.

RUN
MHIDE FIGHT
BE PREPARED | ACTIVE HARMER RESPONSE
RUN
If a safe path is available, RUN
• Have an escape route and plan in mind
• Do not hesitate, get out
• Leave your belongings
• Evacuate regardless of whether others agree to follow
• Keep your hands visible
HIDE
If you cannot get out safely, HIDE
• Block entrances, turn off lights and lock doors
• Stay out of the harmer's view
• Be quiet and silence your phone (including vibrate)
FIGHT
Fight only as a
LAST RESORT
• Try to disarm and incapacitate the harmer
• Improvise weapons or throw items at the harmer
• Fight like your life depends on it
CALL OR TEXT 9-1-1
WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO
WHEN LAW
ENFORCEMENT ARRIVES
• Remain calm and follow instructions
• Raise hands and spread fingers
• Avoid quick movements toward officers, such as holding on to them for safety
• Avoid pointing, screaming or yelling
• Do not ask questions when evacuating
INFORMATION TO PROVIDE
TO 911 OPERATORS
• Location of the active harmer
• Number of harmers
• Physical description of harmers)
• Number and type of weapons the harmer has
• Number of potential victims at location
University of Colorado Boulder

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 24/04/2026

But please continue to submit and evaluate grants like everything is normal. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Cumulative number of NSF awards from grant-witness.us

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 23/04/2026

I saw #ProjectHailMary today and did what evidently several thousand other people have done

English Wikipedia pageviews since January 1 2026 for the articles "Tau Ceti" and "40 Eridani" showing a peak at March 20 corresponding to release of Project Hail Mary

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