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Followers
689
Account age
7 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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🧰 Free analysis for Kirch
Known for
📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
0.3%
Engagement vs followers
Aug 2018
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: As a kid who found freedom at the Public Library System, it's de · 6 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
57.7 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 1 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
0.5×
Follows 1.4K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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The radical reasons why you dream of making things by hand https://aeon.co/essays/the-radical-reasons-why-you-dream-of-making-things-by-hand
desire is the root of all suffering; and I need ruby for other things; so I'm not migrating my blog from jekyll right now, I'm leaning back into jekyll.
quitting vim is difficult; I've built a relationship with this editor, we understand each other.
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Oh, btw, why can't Anthropic donate the books instead of destroying them? Because it's cheaper to rip them up instead of caring for them and because of the legal requirements to get through this copyright loophole.
Libraries can't just tak…
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
the AI is producing technical debt faster than ever before; but only hackers care about technical debt because that's where the vulns are
The real "Tragedy of the Commons" isn't that individuals are trampling the Commons, it's that the Ultra-Wealthy can build their own private armies (or lobby the government to let them borrow the government's own private armies) to make sur…
Anthropic is the opposite of a Printing Press, they're using a loophole in copyright law to collect books and destroy them for "transformative use" in training their models and preventing model collapse... They trained on data stolen from …
Nobody seems to be paying for training, but some employers will give a stipend to pay somebody else for training in generalities about the systems they use. The individual specific systems defend themselves by only giving their builders ju…
The whole expansion of Datacenters reminds me of how Walgreens, Rite Aid, and CVS all expand into each other's closed stores and then eventually closed, or all the Pizza Huts turning into other businesses, and hole-in-the-wall strip mall j…
"When J.M. Coetzee Secretly Programmed Computers to Write Poetry in the 1960s"
https://www.openculture.com/2017/07/when-j-m-coetzee-secretly-programmed-computers-to-write-poetry-in-the-1960s.html
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Oh, btw, why can't Anthropic donate the books instead of destroying them? Because it's cheaper to rip them up instead of caring for them and because of the legal requirements to get through this copyright loophole.
Libraries can't just tak…
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
the AI is producing technical debt faster than ever before; but only hackers care about technical debt because that's where the vulns are
The real "Tragedy of the Commons" isn't that individuals are trampling the Commons, it's that the Ultra-Wealthy can build their own private armies (or lobby the government to let them borrow the government's own private armies) to make sur…
Anthropic is the opposite of a Printing Press, they're using a loophole in copyright law to collect books and destroy them for "transformative use" in training their models and preventing model collapse... They trained on data stolen from …
Nobody seems to be paying for training, but some employers will give a stipend to pay somebody else for training in generalities about the systems they use. The individual specific systems defend themselves by only giving their builders ju…
The whole expansion of Datacenters reminds me of how Walgreens, Rite Aid, and CVS all expand into each other's closed stores and then eventually closed, or all the Pizza Huts turning into other businesses, and hole-in-the-wall strip mall j…
"When J.M. Coetzee Secretly Programmed Computers to Write Poetry in the 1960s"
https://www.openculture.com/2017/07/when-j-m-coetzee-secretly-programmed-computers-to-write-poetry-in-the-1960s.html
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
tilde.zone
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✅ 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
Aug 2018
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2018 — 7 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 57.7× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
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 (~0.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (7+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Hacker, Aphorismist, Thaumaturgist, Unimportant Mediocre Post-Post-Modern Renaissance man.
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