Marc Abrahams

Mastodon @marcabrahams@mstdn.science

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Followers

1.9K

Account age

3 yrs

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From Your Brain, Please, Not Your Bot —— If you want to submit an article for possible publication in the magazine, write it using only the brain inside your head. Please do NOT send us anything ‘written’ with or by an AI program. [NOTE: We first published this statement on March 9, 2026. We republish it from time to time, as new waves of AI-generated crap arrive at our digital doorstep.] https:/

12 views From Your Brain, Please, Not Your Bot —— If you want to submit an article for possible publication in the magazine, write it using only the brain inside your head. Please do NOT send us anything ‘written’ with or by an AI program. [NOTE: We first published this statement on March 9, 2026. We republish it from time to time, as new waves of AI-generated crap arrive at our digital doorstep.] https:/

3 views July issue of the newsletter (mini-AIR), with Head Carrying Capacity Stuff https://improbable.com/2026/07/25/july-issue-of-the-newsletter-mini-air-with-head-carrying-capacity-stuff/

Techniques of Successful Con Men: When you make travel plans, don’t skimp on your well-being.
A headline in Axios, February 28, 2026: “Noem burning deportation cash on luxury jets — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s plan to use border funds for an almost $300 million luxury jet fleet has horrified top Trump officials, Axios has learned.” https://improbablestuff.substack.com/p/con-men-dont-

1 views Techniques of Successful Con Men: When you make travel plans, don’t skimp on your well-being. A headline in Axios, February 28, 2026: “Noem burning deportation cash on luxury jets — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s plan to use border funds for an almost $300 million luxury jet fleet has horrified top Trump officials, Axios has learned.” https://improbablestuff.substack.com/p/con-men-dont-

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.4%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: RE: https://mastodon.social/@RunRichRun/116977193948397680 Here’ · 25 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

13.8 / week

Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

4.7×

Follows 409 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post RE: https://mastodon.social/@RunRichRun/116977193948397680 Here’s why we are moving the ceremony to Europe: https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-is-moving-to-europe-after-35-years-in-the-usa/ ★ 25

Yes, yes, yes. This is the central aspect of anything called 'AI' that seldom gets discussed: 'But many decisions are judgment problems... AR makes this boundary visible in sport. AI is now forcing organizations to confront the same bound… ★ 2 Yes, yes, yes. This is the central aspect of anything called 'AI' that seldom gets discussed: 'But many decisions are judgment problems... AR makes this boundary visible in sport. AI is now forcing organizations to confront the same bound… "Capturing the Human Wind" [McGill University] https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-and-nutrition-technology-history/capturing-human-wind ★ 2 Thirty years after Robert Matthews won a prize for this, journalists are still discovering it: "Toast really does land butter-side down, and physics explains why" https://boingboing.net/2026/07/29/buttered-toast-phenomenon.html/amp ★ 8 If you’d like some warm, Iggy nostalgia, look back to the year before the Covid pandemic arrived. Here are some accolades from home institutions of some of the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize winners. Starting with: "Cockroaches win award for quantum … ★ 8 [The headline translated from Dutch into English: "Portrait of Kees Moeliker: from Egyptian goose to roadside duck”] https://www.bnnvara.nl/vroegevogels/artikelen/kees-moeliker-van-nijlgans-tot-bermeend ★ 5

Techniques of Successful Con Men: When you make travel plans, don’t skimp on your well-being. A headline in Axios, February 28, 2026: “Noem burning deportation cash on luxury jets — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s plan to use bor… ★ 1

From Your Brain, Please, Not Your Bot —— If you want to submit an article for possible publication in the magazine, write it using only the brain inside your head. Please do NOT send us anything ‘written’ with or by an AI program. [NOTE: W… ★ 12

July issue of the newsletter (mini-AIR), with Head Carrying Capacity Stuff https://improbable.com/2026/07/25/july-issue-of-the-newsletter-mini-air-with-head-carrying-capacity-stuff/ ★ 3 RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/116981131341012077 If this is what you want, sounds delightful. IF YOU DON’T WANT IT, sounds tolerable *IF AND ONLY IF* it’s easy to keep this stuff turned off. "Apple's iOS 27 update will allow #AI to writ… ★ 3 It's the Rube Goldberg approach in reverse (yet again): Rube Goldberg would solve simple problem in complicated ways. Mr. T creates problems in simple ways that create more problems: "Trump urges veterans to become truck drivers to replace… ★ 6

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

mstdn.science

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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 7 views per post.

📤Posts about 13.8× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

66/100

Good Credibility score

89%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.4% 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.

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About

editor of Annals of Improbable Research, organizer of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. I write about research (and other stuff) that makes people LAUGH then THINK. https://improbable.com/whatis/about-marc-abrahams/