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Followers
148
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Sep 5latest
6
Avg engagement / post
4–8
Typical post (engagement)
4.1%
Engagement vs followers
80/100
Very consistent reach
Mar 2023
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 4 and 8 likes + reposts (median 6) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: AI. The financials are insane. We're talking seriously insane. E · 14 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3.6 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.7×
Follows 86 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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This Tanabe Mitsukuni clip wins the internet for jazz guitar sound*.
Tanabe is a crony of the guy I used to study with, and let me try his Gibson Johnny Smith one evening, so I bought one. But he, and teach, and Satsuma Jun are mainly Supe…
Linguists having too much fun.
In ancient times, the linguists on the blog "langauge log" used to take glee in brutally trashing the linguistic incompetence of "prescritive linguists", those blokes who said "avoid passives" (they'd incorre…
Probably behind a paywall, but the title says most of it:
"Dartmouth faculty, students call for removal of provost accused of using AI to write op-ed about AI use"
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/25/metro/dartmouth-provost-artificial-i…
TIL: Mothers-in-law are four times as interesting (problematic?) as fathers-in-law.
And I've got the numbers to prove it.
In a smallish corpus of Japanese text, father-in-law (舅) is used 351 times but mother-in-law (姑) is used 1454 times…
Some good news: mathematicians are fighting back*.
I still claim that the "Our LLM solved this math problem" claim is problematic. What actually happens is a bunch of well-paid in-house mathematicians use the company's LLM to _help them so…
TIL: (Well, yesterday, actually)
Some folks who have almost no reaction to the first of the two Shingles shots can have a monster clusterfrack of a nasty reaction to the second one.
I was going to go out, but felt a bit tired. By the 7:00 …
Ed Zitron's at it again*.
The Hugging Face attack can be better described as a combinatorial program that uses an LLM to generate all possible attacks (and the code to try them) and then tries them. There's no "AI" there: just combinatoric…
If you were wondering why Ron Carter is the most recorded bass player in history, here's why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQcCFytnv-g
#jazz #music #MusicLegends
It's a true joy to see a US politician getting so much right.
In addition to realeasing the 9/11 files...
Mamdani Issues AI Moratorium in NYC Schools
Kids “need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York’s mayor said Wednesday.…
"AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip"
"Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend"
This link is thanks to "Mike the Mad Biologist", whose daily list of science …
Terence Tao, one of, if not the, leading mathematician of the current period, is changing his tune.
Previously, he had seemed enthused about LLM-based math proofs.
Now, he's finally figured out that it's problematic in the extreme, and ser…
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Home server
mastodon.mit.edu
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On Mastodon since
Mar 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 3.6× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated66/100
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Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~4.1% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Retired translator hiding out under a rock in Tokyo, Japan. Interests includes photography, jazz guitar, juggling, Materials Science, Go, Japanese literature, Comp.Sci., and AI.
Programming experience in Fortran, Lisp, BCPL, C, C++, Python, and assembler on IBM, CDC, DEC, and Intel architectures.
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