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Followers

71

Account age

3 yrs

Known for

Celebrating the Fourth with an abandoned Statue of Liberty in a fenced-off area of an RV park stuck between a river, a highway and a camp for migrant farm workers. (You just can’t make this stuff up.) Happy 4th!

2 views Celebrating the Fourth with an abandoned Statue of Liberty in a fenced-off area of an RV park stuck between a river, a highway and a camp for migrant farm workers. (You just can’t make this stuff up.) Happy 4th!

📊 Post engagement

2

Avg engagement / post

2.8%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Published "Why AI is Different" Eight ways in which AI is dif · 3 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.71 / week

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

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

1×

Follows 68 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Published "Why AI is Different" Eight ways in which AI is different from prior tech advances. My most surprising conclusion: "AI is effectively a societal regression from information agriculture to information foraging." related link: https://hbowie.net/writings/why-ai-is-dif… ★ 3

Released Notenik Version 19.3.0 Added a new setting to allow the user to choose how to handle a note/collection reload after using one of the Text Edit functions to edit a note/template in an external text editor. Plus some other cool e…

Celebrating the Fourth with an abandoned Statue of Liberty in a fenced-off area of an RV park stuck between a river, a highway and a camp for migrant farm workers. (You just can’t make this stuff up.) Happy 4th! ★ 2 It's Time for the New Centrists We need the New Centrists to come forward, and rally around these twelve tenets. related link: https://hbowie.net/writings/its-time-for-the-new-centrists.html #Culture #Politics ★ 1 Released Notenik Version 19.2.0 A few small fixes and enhancements, including Markdown support for embedded audio and video files. related link: https://notenik.app/kb/version-19.2.0.html #Notenik #Pkm ★ 1 Published "Our Cultural Confusion" Our current confusions about culture are causing several significant problems for modern human society. Let’s take a quick but insightful look at a number of related topics. related link: https://hbowi… Released Notenik Version 18.9.0 Added a new Image Layout field; Fixed a Folder exclusion bug; Documented a new Use Case for Presenting with Notenik; Added a new Nav Slug that can be used to access navigational info within a Merge Templa… Released Notenik Version 18.8.0 Improved Notenik app icon to better support dark, clear and tinted styles; default Tahoe menu item images have been restored; added support for smart quotes in titles; additional slide styling for present… Published "On The Passing of Paul Ehrlich" For some he seemed to be a hero, while others considered him to be a demon. Let's dive below the surface to see if we can unearth a more nuanced view. related link: https://hbowie.net/writings/… Released Notenik Version 18.7.0 Massaged the title parser a bit more to respect embedded HTML line breaks, but mostly this release gets Notenik a little bit closer to being useful for preparing and delivering a presentation (aka "slide … Published "On The Passing of Paul Ehrlich" For some he seemed to be a hero, while others considered him to be a demon. Let's dive below the surface to see if we can unearth a more nuanced view. related link: https://hbowie.net/writings/… Released Notenik Version 18.6.0 Added an optional menu bar extra (for the right side of the menu bar); fixed limited Markdown parsing of the Title field to leave underscores within words undisturbed. related link: https://notenik.app/kb…

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

c.im

A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.

✅ 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

Nov 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 0.7× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

90/100 Excellent

Est. 93% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong content engagement (~2.8% of followers) — an active, real audience.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

Est. authentic audience

93%

Fake-follower risk

Low

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Author and software developer, writes as The Practical Utopian, author of the Notenik app. University of Michigan alum, lives in Seattle.

🔀 Audience overlap

Estimated

Estimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.

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