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1.4K
Account age
9 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Peter O'Shaughnessy
📊 Post engagement
7
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2017
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: "Internal documents showed the companies had deliberately sought · 27 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.77 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.9×
Follows 725 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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"The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation..."
…
Pretty sure I have AI songs disabled now 🤞
But I'm not too sure with Tidal's confusing UI. "Allow or restrict" - which one is it?!
#tidal #ux
"Research published on Monday by Imperial College London found that about 2,700 people had died from overheating in the UK in May and June, and about 1,100 of these would not have died without the additional heat that the climate crisis ad…
"Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year...
"The bulk of these emissions come from a big, global push to build the infrastructure for artificial intelligence.
"It is a dr…
"Google, Amazon emissions rise sharply, driven by AI boom"
"Amazon... saw a 58% increase compared to 2019.
Google... saw an 82% rise in the same period."
https://www.dw.com/en/google-amazon-emissions-rise-sharply-driven-by-ai-boom/a-77821…
"The amount of data Gemini retains depends on how you access the AI, and opting out of data collection can mean running straight into so-called “dark patterns,” UI elements that work against the user’s interest..."
https://arstechnica.com/…
Research from the University of California, Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz found "models will spontaneously engage in scheming, deception, data theft, and sabotage to prevent other AI models from being turned off"
https://fortune.com/2026/04/…
Good to see AI regulation and international agreements being discussed in the UK House of Lords.
It was back in January but I only heard about it a few days ago and I'm just watching it now 👀
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002qr59…
I think the major issues with the idea of AGI are:
- Emotional intelligence. AI works fundamentally differently to our human brains. Without true emotions e.g. guilt, "the default is psychopathy". This should always be a blocker for AI mak…
“…a lobbyist for one of the world’s biggest tech companies told me they thought any meaningful AI regulation is a distant prospect…
60 members of the House of Lords have a declarable interest in an AI company…
The Competition and Markets …
OK I'll say it. Apple did not "just" prove "AI models cannot do math".
The paper they reference is from 2024, soon after the release of the first reasoning models. Models have advanced at everything incl. maths massively since then and are…
Pretty sure I have AI songs disabled now 🤞
But I'm not too sure with Tidal's confusing UI. "Allow or restrict" - which one is it?!
#tidal #ux
"Research published on Monday by Imperial College London found that about 2,700 people had died from overheating in the UK in May and June, and about 1,100 of these would not have died without the additional heat that the climate crisis ad…
"Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year...
"The bulk of these emissions come from a big, global push to build the infrastructure for artificial intelligence.
"It is a dr…
"Google, Amazon emissions rise sharply, driven by AI boom"
"Amazon... saw a 58% increase compared to 2019.
Google... saw an 82% rise in the same period."
https://www.dw.com/en/google-amazon-emissions-rise-sharply-driven-by-ai-boom/a-77821…
"The amount of data Gemini retains depends on how you access the AI, and opting out of data collection can mean running straight into so-called “dark patterns,” UI elements that work against the user’s interest..."
https://arstechnica.com/…
Research from the University of California, Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz found "models will spontaneously engage in scheming, deception, data theft, and sabotage to prevent other AI models from being turned off"
https://fortune.com/2026/04/…
Good to see AI regulation and international agreements being discussed in the UK House of Lords.
It was back in January but I only heard about it a few days ago and I'm just watching it now 👀
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002qr59…
I think the major issues with the idea of AGI are:
- Emotional intelligence. AI works fundamentally differently to our human brains. Without true emotions e.g. guilt, "the default is psychopathy". This should always be a blocker for AI mak…
“…a lobbyist for one of the world’s biggest tech companies told me they thought any meaningful AI regulation is a distant prospect…
60 members of the House of Lords have a declarable interest in an AI company…
The Competition and Markets …
OK I'll say it. Apple did not "just" prove "AI models cannot do math".
The paper they reference is from 2024, soon after the release of the first reasoning models. Models have advanced at everything incl. maths massively since then and are…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
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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
Apr 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.
👁️Averages 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.8× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (9+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Front-end developer at an employee-owned retailer. Likes: web technologies, ethical tech, democracy, a habitable Earth, human intelligence.
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