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Account age

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Known for

42 views Photo post

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📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.18 / week

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

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

3.3×

Follows 614 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Has it occurred to anyone that the real reason that Maduro was brought to the US was to serve as a political consultant? After all he was defeated by a two to one margin in the Venezuelan election and stayed in power…. Just sayin’….. ★ 76

https://olli.berkeley.edu/event/3036 Assigned reading for Marc Andreessen, the most arrogant person I know, the one who believes that the precautionary principle is the enemy of progress. https://unanticipated.substack.com/p/new-ways-to-poison-an-entire-planet?subscribe_promp… ★ 7 I'm having a conversation with Jonathan Weber tomorrow night at the Commonwealth Club in SF.... https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-06-16/jonathan-weber-city-edge-fight-soul-san-francisco ★ 1

Photo post ★ 42 A bit of (my) Silicon Valley history https://youtu.be/Jn4__qhM9Ro?si=0UnZnGZuszQIKqua ★ 5 please see that the world sees this. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/ ★ 11 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/bill-atkinson-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare ★ 5 “Woke, right wing bullshit!” — Tom Friedman, NYT….. pass it on…. ★ 3 April 16: free Computer History Museum event in Mountain View + online with panelists from 404 Media, The Washington Post, and Black Voice News, on tech and the future of news computerhistory.org/events/making-news-with-data/ ★ 9 I just went to Signal to make sure there were no war plans in my inbox. Damn! But seriously, doesn't this just make your head explode. Can this guy sleep at night, or did he never learn the word “hypocricy?” ★ 10 This is a human tragedy that will haunt us in 15 to 20 years. Making the world safe for stupidity…. Good going Elon and Marc. https://www.paloaltoonline.com/education/2025/03/19/santa-clara-county-cuts-early-education-program/ ★ 3

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

sfba.social

A the SF Bay Area server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

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 16 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.2× per week.

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Estimated

43/100

Fair Credibility score

73%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Established account (3+ years old).

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

About

once upon a time New York Times science and technology reporter. Stewart Brand biographer. (Aging) cyclist. Backpacker.

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