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Account age

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Known for

552 views Just say it. Stop pretending you don't know. Say it each time.

42 views “Gentler”??

📊 Post engagement

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

3.8 / week

Posts several times a week.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

64×

Follows 349 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post This is #AIhype disguised as a confession. OpenAI wants to pretend that its product has supernatural powers. The LLM didn't "go rogue" and it didn't "infer" anything. It did what its programmers designed it to do, when they gave it the necessary information to target Hugging Fac… ★ 588

In which the president of the United States summons an ostensibly independent US Attorney to the White House after she failed to prosecute an innocent man. Because that's completely normal. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/us/politics/tr… ★ 60 All you have to do to make this robot stop is shoot it or stab it in the chest. Feel safe now? https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/117031440806469503 ★ 23 In which Trump confirms that the single greatest priority of his presidency is to insure than his decades of personal tax fraud will go unpunished. And even the supposedly principled lame-duck Republicans roll over. https://www.nytimes.com… ★ 42 “I often think that the purest type of the artist is the humorist who laughs alone at his own jests.” —W. Somerset Maugham ★ 23

“Gentler”?? ★ 42 In which our new AI overlords can't find Nigeria, Mozambique, or Ivory Coast. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/state-department-map-africa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.11A.lNyS.3iGLT5bdkwkC&smid=url-share ★ 31 In the same paper. Heat waves? They're just happening. Not our job to explain. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/travel/europe-summer-heat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0VA.hREU.blLIaoXFO4ds&smid=url-share ★ 62

Just say it. Stop pretending you don't know. Say it each time. ★ 552 “Telephone,” said Kurt. “Let it ring” said László. —Andrew Miller, “Oxygen” ★ 3 The best solution of all. #DaylightSavingTime https://indieweb.social/@xkcdbot/116927033107852297 ★ 11 Through carelessness and greed, humanity is on the verge of shutting itself off from space travel for eons to come. https://flipboard.com/@spacecom/space.com-06o8ff5iz/-/a-CUrZyXOHTCm7lX3jscwK_A%3Aa%3A1693190246-%2F0 ★ 62

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mas.to

A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.

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On Mastodon since

Aug 2024

An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 2 years ago.

👁️Averages 125 views per post.

📤Posts about 3.8× per week.

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

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Estimated

90/100

Excellent Credibility score

99%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Verified account.

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

About

Author. The Telephone: A New History Chaos. Genius. The Information. Time Travel.

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