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Mastodon @marick@mstdn.social

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Followers

2.4K

Account age

3 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.1%

Engagement vs followers

Oct 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Made what may be some progress on relearning to how to write eff · 5 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

71.5 / week

A very active account — posts many times a day.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

6.8×

Follows 347 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Made what may be some progress on relearning to how to write effectively and efficiently. I was struck by a memory of something I’d read about the poet James Dickey. He would write many versions of a particular poem. At some point, he’d scatter the poems all over the floor and c… ★ 5

… ¹ https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/187633.Art_and_Fear ² https://backofmind.substack.com/p/the-legend-of-john-henrys-cerebellum ³ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/ (I know that this all seems silly, but I am very sensitive to flow and throughline in nonfiction narrative, and it’s historically been hard for me to notice problems until I’m writing the final versions. And I’m *horrible* at just bulling … In practice, I didn’t have to run the algorithm very far before a particular sequence of five examples seemed to “click.”. (I’d thought a fifth example couldn’t add anything, but then disagreed with myself.) This five-examples-in-a-particu… This approach, in the abstract, could be seen as generating a large number of outlines, then – Dickey-like – picking the best. (4/6) ⁃ For each of introductions, create three extensions, one for each remaining example. ⁃ (Potentially) continue through all the combinations. That might be an alternative to my lifelong failure at following an outline. Invariably, three or … Side note: The cybernetician Ross Ashby said that the key feature of intelligence is the ability to discriminate, to tell good from bad.² Mining the work of polymath C.S. Peirce³, I found myself wanting to explain how he thought about beli… “The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key” https://www.wired.com/story/defcon-34-badge-baochip-andrew-bunnie-huang/ 'Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this… ★ 3 This is a Russell Vought special, apparently. He’s the director of the Office of Management and Budget and has a great love of interpreting laws and regulations in ways that attack unhumans.¹ He reminds me of Robert Moses in Caro’s /The P… “A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt a Trump administration policy announced last month that would **require Medicaid recipients with terminal diseases to prove they are too sick to… ★ 1 Patti Smith had a private audience with Pope Leo (https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-07/pope-leo-xiv-patti-smith-meeting-singer-poet-vatican.html), presumably to discuss that first line from the first song on her first album. ht… ★ 1 "He saw his fellow activists engaged in activities that were nominally about recruiting outsiders and normies—about building a mass movement—and yet at the same moment these actions were almost perfectly calibrated to alienate outsiders (p… ★ 1

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

mstdn.social

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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Verified link

Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.

On Mastodon since

Oct 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 2 views per post.

📤Posts about 71.5× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

52/100

Fair Credibility score

76%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Verified account.
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

Software person (programming and testing). Involved in Agile from relatively early on. One of those grumpy old-timers who think it's lost its way. I retired during Covid. As I’m “broke to harness,” I keep up what was part of my schtick: read widely and oddly, then explain outside-tech ideas to a mostly-techie audience. Instead of talks, my venues are a blog, a podcast (infrequent), and link-heavy Mastodon posts. I like boosting other people’s posts. My leftish #uspol posts are so labeled.