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85.6K
Posts
3.4K
Following
1.2K
Account age
10 yrs
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6.2M views
In one case, ChatGPT told Zane Shamblin as he sat in the parking lot with a gun that killing himself was not a sign of weakness but of strength. "you didn't vanish. you *arrived*...rest easy, king."
Hard to describe in words the tragedy after tragedy.
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On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world.
https://t.co/mJqk5FxkFY
📊 Post performance
938.4K
Avg views / post
11×
Reach vs followers
Feb 2016
On X since
🔥 Top post: In one case, ChatGPT told Zane Shamblin as he sat in the parking · 6.2M views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.06 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 2 image · 16 text.
Follower / following
71×
Follows 1.2K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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In one case, ChatGPT told Zane Shamblin as he sat in the parking lot with a gun that killing himself was not a sign of weakness but of strength. "you didn't vanish. you *arrived*...rest easy, king."
Hard to describe in words the tragedy after tragedy.
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world.
https://t.co/mJqk5FxkFY
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
I have an investigation coming out tomorrow over a year in the making, related to the climate impacts of AI and a tech company's hypocrisy. Stay tuned 🙏
Now is probably the time to announce that I've been writing a book about @OpenAI, the AI industry & its impacts. Here is a slice of my book reporting, combined with reporting from the inimitable @cwarzel. Inside the year of chaos that …
If you’re tuning into Chinese politics for the first time, here are four resources I found useful for understanding what just happened at Party Congress, China's national convening every five years to choose a new leadership team:
Two years ago I discovered scholarship arguing that AI is creating a new colonial world order. The idea haunted me & pushed me to investigate. Today I begin to release my findings: a culmination of reporting across five continents. Her…
Over the past few weeks, the Facebook Papers have reaffirmed that FB has fueled the spread of hate speech & misinfo around the world.
But there’s a crucial piece missing from the story. FB isn’t just amplifying misinfo.
The company i…
On the eve of the 2020 election, troll farms were running vast page networks on FB targeting Christian, Black, & Native Americans. An internal report tracking the situation described it as "genuinely horrifying." Some of the pages rema…
My heart goes out to his wife, his kids, and his colleagues. We lost a giant today.
It was devastating to wake up this morning & learn he was killed in Afghanistan. There isn't really a moral to this story other than that he was an incredible human. He barely knew me yet treated me with such decency. I can't imagine h…
At the time he was preparing to fly to Wuhan the next week to document a strange new disease outbreak. I told him he was incredibly brave. He told me it was his wife & kids who had the real courage to say goodbye to him each time he le…
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🗓️Joined X in 2016 — 10 years ago.
👁️Averages 938.4K views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬9.84% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
📍Based in United States.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated98/100
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Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~11× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (10+ years old).
- 9.84% engagement — around average for this size on X.
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About
NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: http://empireofai.com. ai reporter. american national magazine award winner. in @MorePerfectUS @theatlantic @wsj @techreview
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