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13.8K

Account age

3 yrs

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Known for

41 views just gotta render this to mp3 and then I can go to bed

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.3%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Since a few folks asked—I stepped back from my WIRED column afte · 82 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.39 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

15×

Follows 902 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Since a few folks asked—I stepped back from my WIRED column after many years. WIRED did great by me, and I’ll do stuff for them as long as they’ll have me. But I felt I was repeating myself, and…I should make space for others. ★ 82

To my fellow NYC data+climate nerds: Would love to see you at this event in NYC late September! https://lu.ma/ho5akgvr We're adding climate data to Aboard (https://aboard.com) to make it useful for doing adaptation work, and then...doing … ★ 14 Trouble sleeping? Here’s a 1960 album about how to create a flight plan, coordinate with air traffic control, and fly a small airplane around California. https://archive.org/details/lp_instrument-flight_no-artist ★ 68 Why not relax to the soothing sounds of the 1963 office? Enjoy my favorite track—“Plastic Laminator.”https://archive.org/details/lp_the-sounds-of-the-office_michael-siegel/disc1/02.04.+Plastic+Laminator.mp3 ★ 55 Me: The world is moving backwards. There's no progress. It's over. My terminal: A new release of pip is available. To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip. ★ 69 My spouse could not figure out why my alarm kept going off at 1:30AM, and kept trying to turn off whatever was beeping on my phone. Little did she know that I had gone to bed listening to a 1974 recording of the Bay Area Synthesizer Ensemb… ★ 65 “On October 18, 1972, Tom Zahuranec invited the radio audience down to the KPFA Music Office to communicate mentally with a philodendron which was wired with liquid electrodes feeding impulses into a Buchla synthesizer.” https://archive.or… ★ 13 This is a wild interview from 1994—about growing up during the Cultural Revolution. I keep thinking about it. Basically every content warning applies: https://archive.org/details/RTFM-Comm-940530 ★ 28 These are good things to support! https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/02/journalism-us-media-industry-layoffs-co-ops ★ 23 Is this the painful end of a golden age, or the painful beginning of a golden age? ★ 16

just gotta render this to mp3 and then I can go to bed ★ 41 This is very beautiful. https://thingswemake.com/suite-2412/ ★ 57

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

tilde.zone

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On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 44 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.4× per week.

🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

72/100

Good Credibility score

94%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

💚 Brand affinity

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Brands Paul Ford's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.

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About

Writer, programmer, editor, business human, parent in Brooklyn, NY. Mauna Loa 329.15.

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Jay Kuo 50%

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Antifa International 45%

Graham Cluley 31%

The Public Domain Review 15%

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PlatformMastodon

JoinedNov 2022 · 3 yrs

Followers13,751

Updated21 hours ago

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