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bkeegan

@bkeegan@hci.social

{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist.

@CUInfoScience. @ucwcolorado.

High-tempo collaboration, online commons, public interest data science.

Vice Chair, Cannabis Licensing and Advisory Board, City of Boulder.

Born at 345ppm.

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bkeegan, to random
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When thinking about , the 1940 US Presidential election happened between two major events in World War II and involved FDR’s unprecedented third term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_United_States_presidential_election

peter, to random
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leave it to the NYT to report this as if Trump still has an "edge." a ~1% lead is not a lead, it is WELL within the margin of error, especially given all the special elections over the last few years where Dems have outperformed.

bkeegan,
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@peter Imagine still reporting on a nation-wide average of opinions in the year of our lord 2024 as if the Electoral College gives a shit.

bkeegan, to random
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The reverse chron in my mobile app is wild on nights like tonight. Just blissfully scrolling along in a more innocent moment.

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Four days later, what word below best describes the online conversational health of in a post-Twitter social architecture?

What’s it like out there in the hashtag feeds right now? https://hci.social/@bkeegan/112222115753230127

bkeegan, to random
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@jordinn https://zirk.us/@jordinn/112258056342548786

TodayInTwitter, to random
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> One source at X told me that Musk has directed engineers to add Grok to the tweet box for users who pay for X Premium, the platform’s subscription feature, which means that users may soon be able to tweet with the help of AI (I imagine this will look similar to what X CEO Linda Yaccarino already posts).

lmao https://fortune.com/2024/04/12/elon-musk-grok-ai-x-premium-users/

bkeegan,
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@TodayInTwitter Paying an AI to write your tweets to the network of bots and AI accounts following you. Brilliant gambit, sir.

andresmh, (edited ) to random
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The eclipse was amazing. It reminded me of skydiving: a lot of preparation for a few minutes of awe. Totally worth the 4 hours stuck in traffic in Arkansas.

The main tip I learned online is to not waste time trying to take a good picture during totality. So I just took this one photo which shows some stars. But it’s one of those things that there are millions of better photos, so just enjoy the four minutes!

bkeegan,
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@andresmh ACKSHUALLY, those were probably planets. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14563

cfiesler, to random
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In honor of discovering that I've apparently had a Wikipedia page for a few months, I decided to tell the story of why I'm not a Wikipedian (a story I told Jimmy Wales lol) and this seems like the kind of thing that might interest you all: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5i1r68Lyk-/

Though TL;DR if you don't want to watch a four minute video, my attempt to increase coverage of children's literature on Wikipedia was met with exactly the kinds of gatekeeping acrimonious jerk behavior you might expect.

bkeegan,
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@cfiesler Your TikTok effect:

bkeegan,
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@cfiesler @karger Anazing! 🤩

bkeegan, to Astro
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My favorite image from ?

This visualization of the Saros 139 cycle to which the eclipse belongs showing similar eclipses from 1501 to 2763. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Saros_139

bkeegan, to Wikipedia
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And now the great battle for whose photo will make it into the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024

bkeegan, (edited ) to random
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The “free speech” party ejecting a journalist from a public meeting because leadership doesn’t like her reporting.

I stand with @fishnette and @coloradosun

bkeegan, (edited )
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More from @coloradosun on the Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams ejecting @fishnette from the party’s state assembly because he objects to her reporting.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/04/06/colorado-republican-party-kicks-out-colorado-sun-reporter/

bkeegan, to random
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I always forget how outlandish business/econ seminar Q&A culture is.

Derailing a speaker on their third side? Normal, expected, encouraged.

Waiting to ask a question until the end of a talk?

Black Panther “We don’t do that here”

bkeegan, to random
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Pulled the trigger on a Kagi search subscription as an effort to de-Google-ify my life on the recommendation of this @404mediaco article: https://www.404media.co/friendship-ended-with-google-now-kagi-is-my-best-friend/

bkeegan,
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@andresmh They had an outage earlier in the day that made it inaccessible and then slow, which was not a great experience as a first-timer. Much faster later today.

It's definitely uncanny not having results bloated with sponsored links, infoboxes, and other spamminess. Returns a different cross-section of results than I'm used to. Almost certainly a lack of individualized personalization means I get to see other "Brian Keegan"s! 🤓

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Love to have to log in to Facebook, Twitter, or NextDoor for the most up-to-date information on whether my house is at risk of flooding or burning down. https://beige.party/@chad/112203901546480330

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New karate club just dropped. https://social.skewed.de/@netzschleuder/112201040200911893

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Inject this style of reporting directly into my veins. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

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National Blend of Model estimates for sky cover (blue is clear, grey is cloudy) around the time of the April 8 .

https://blend.mdl.nws.noaa.gov/nbm-images

Select “Sky” under the Weather Element drop-down and a forecast time (hours from now). You may need to change default NBM Cycle to get a forecast far enough in the future.

bkeegan, (edited )
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Cloud cover anxieties about are grounded in two distinct models of prediction:

  1. Predicting a rare but regular configuration of the Sun, Earth, and Moon.

  2. Predicting a rare but regular configuration of land, atmospheres, and water.

And now social apes are chasing these predictions by crowding into infrastructure.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/airbnb-bookings-eclipse-april-8-map

It’s going to be so fun to use the eclipse as a causal instrument for on- and offline behavioral data.

bkeegan,
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Is there a hashtag for yet? Is there someone in coordinating this? Reply if I missed the memo. We gotta keep track across multiple platforms now… 🫠

bkeegan, (edited ) to random
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Is money, embarrassment, or legal risk going to get essential institutions to stop uncritically adopting bullshitting AI tools?

https://themarkup.org/news/2024/03/29/nycs-ai-chatbot-tells-businesses-to-break-the-law

cyberlyra, to opensource
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#hci peeps, who's written about the capture of #opensource systems by industry and for-profit companies? Asking for a grant application ...

bkeegan,
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@cyberlyra Elon enclosing Twitter, Threads enclosing the fediverse, Reddit enclosing mod labor, Sam Altman enclosing all structured knowledge…

bkeegan,
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@cyberlyra I’m down! 🤩

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