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Known for

20 views Real-time footage of Hugging Face's LLM-powered security program.

📊 Post engagement

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

20.4 / week

Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

9.8×

Follows 919 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Dario's post on open-weights models is intentionally misleading. With one hand, he proffers praise and admiration for the models. With the other, he tsk-tsks about the "danger" of biological attacks, demanding bans on chip sales and penalties for distillation. He's spooked. But … ★ 76

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ifin/117015863492143103 I've wanted to write this one since we started. ★ 6 Ooof, Codeberg appears to be mega-down. HugOps to them. Both the main site and their Mastodon instance seem to have suffered a failure. ★ 23 I'm too tired for outrage about Anthropic. They've been telling us they're reckless the whole time. ★ 25 Oh just realized this is old, ah well. ★ 2 I love a good EVE capital loss story. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvp7364q5no ★ 8 Everyone focuses on models' use of emdashes, but honestly the way they use colons is as big a tell to me. They just love to slam the brakes on a sentence for dramatic effect. ★ 12

Real-time footage of Hugging Face's LLM-powered security program. ★ 20 I would make a Claudewind wall of shame but it would take all my time just developing the list. The web design would be no CSS, just raw HTML. You get a <ul> and some <li>s and that's it. ★ 2 Finally was able to cohere my thoughts about the OpenAI/Hugging Face debacle. We keep making weapons. We will always want to use them. Can we break the cycle? https://taggart-tech.com/sharp-objects/ ★ 21 RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116992489655943718 Please see the update. Hugging Face was enrolled in the CVP. ★ 9 We now know Hugging Face's AI cybersecurity "program" was running Claude Code Opus 4.8 against some logs. They got a refusal, despite being in the Cyber Verification Program. They moved to GLM 5.2 with the detailed prompt "analyze this dat… ★ 24

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

infosec.exchange

A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

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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

Apr 2022

An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 4 years ago.

👁️Averages 19 views per post.

📤Posts about 20.4× per week.

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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 (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Verified account.
Established account (4+ years old).

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

About

Displaced Philly boy. Threat hunter. Educator. :ifin: Executive Director. #infosec, #programming #rust :rust:, #python :python: #haskell :haskell:, and #javascript :javascript:. #opensource advocate. General in the AI Resistance. Runs @thetaggartinstitute. Made https://wtfbins.wtf. Not your bro. All opinions my own. Dad. #fedi22 #searchable Pronouns: He/him.

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