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Followers
3.2K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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Known for
3 views
“Build blazingly fast R packages with Rust”
The {extendr} 📦 suite “provides developer-first tooling and support for publishing to CRAN.” #RStats #rust
https://extendr.rs/
1 views
Cool 2022 and 2024 US voter turnout dashboard from Redistricting Data Hub
https://redistrictingdatahub.org/resources/voter-turnout-dashboard/
#USPoli
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Sep 28latest
3
Avg engagement / post
1–3
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
48/100
Variable reach
Jun 2023
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 3 likes + reposts (median 2) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: “Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ · 13 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
5.5 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
6.3×
Follows 500 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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“Build blazingly fast R packages with Rust”
The {extendr} 📦 suite “provides developer-first tooling and support for publishing to CRAN.” #RStats #rust
https://extendr.rs/
The NYT authored a research paper about the chatbot tool - "Epstein Files Engine: Agentic Search for Investigative Journalism"
https://arxiv.org/html/2609.30611v1
#ddj
The NY Times built a chatbot for the massive Epstein files data dump using the open-source LibreChat project, Duy Nguyen told the Investigative Reporters and Editors #AccessFest26 conference this afternoon.
https://www.librechat.ai
He emp…
New unofficial Google Gemma 4B LLM for better speech to text?
“This is not an officially supported Google product.”
“[D]esigned to post-process, correct, and optimize automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker diarization outputs.”
htt…
“My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek” - Online News Association award-winning story by Viola Zhou at Rest of World @restofworld
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick/
Bose is making "throwback" noise-cancelling wired earbuds - no charging, no Bluetooth, just plug in. Annouced Monday, available to pre-order. Pre-orders are already sold out!
Apparently I'm not the only one who liked wired headphones.
http…
Cool 2022 and 2024 US voter turnout dashboard from Redistricting Data Hub
https://redistrictingdatahub.org/resources/voter-turnout-dashboard/
#USPoli
We're in the 3rd day of a #Noreaster - talk about weather that makes you want to take a nap! - but my weather station doesn't have data for the storm rain total. Wind snapped the old pole the weather station was attached to and all the wat…
"Frisket is an open-source AI spreadsheet for reporting! for research! for investigations!
"You can drop in documents, audio, video, emails, spreadsheets, etc. Ask questions, get structured data back." - Columbia Univ data journalism prof…
If you've got access to both Claude Code and Codex, there's now an official OpenAI Codex plugin for Claude Code. It lets you ask Codex to review Claude's plans, files and such - inside a Claude Code session.
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I'm using my $100 of Claude cloud credits to improve an ancient project on GitHub I still use daily, that also lives on my Windows PC and Linux server, but not in sync with each other (I know. Eek!). I need to rationalize it all. Fable is …
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
masto.machlis.com
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ Link-verified
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
Jun 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 5.5× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated52/100
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.
💚 Brand affinity
EstimatedBrands Sharon Machlis's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.
About
Author of Practical R for Mass Communication & Journalism
Still ❤️ R after all these years #RStats
Bluesky @smachlis.bsky.social
Can't imagine life without writing
Having fun with #GenAI
Learning #ASL
(Mostly) retired after a long career as a tech journalist. Eagerly exploring my next chapter.
Passionate about vibrant aging
Other interests: #Photography #DigitialDarkroom #Running #Bicycling #Crochet Pedestrian/bike-friendly cities
#NoBridge
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