Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD ✓

@DrTechlash

Communication Researcher, analyzing the tech discourse. Book Author: The TECHLASH. Substack: https://t.co/4SJJhqrzXn Signal: DrTechlash.16

7 011Followers

210Following

2 264Posts total

331.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views5 840this account7 156median for under 10K

Reach, %83.30%this account505.37%median for under 10K

Engagement, %0.92%this account1.06%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 840	7 156	0.82×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	83.30%	5.1× audience	0.16×
Engagement rate	0.92%	1.06%	0.86×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

230.7K31 Aug

9.9K1 Sep

87.5K

1.4K

1.8K2 Sep

448

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.46%31 Aug

0.94%1 Sep

0.77%

0.90%

2.34%2 Sep

1.56%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.06%.

What the audience does

Likes67.6%1 463 in total

Reposts11.1%241 in total

Replies5.1%111 in total

Quotes3.3%71 in total

Bookmarks12.9%279 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@DrTechlash We will simply push the button that makes everyone use a perfect sandbox & security practices, forever. 448 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @DrTechlash Blaming METR for OpenAI not doing better reports that did focus on the more prosaic security/organizational failures seems misplaced, and feels like making things too zero sum. Security, alignment, and incentives are all important parts of what happened. https://t.co 1.8K views · 40 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 @DrTechlash Thanks so much for watching! Good summary 1.4K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 This video captures the crux of the debate: Cybersecurity experts are pissed off by the METR/Redwood Research report because AI alignment has sucked the oxygen out of AI security, even though the OpenAI incident is primarily a security issue. Fiction is the product: The 87.5K views · 519 likes · 100 reposts · 34 replies 01 Sep 2026 There are three aspects of the HF OAI incident: 1. Agent behavior/alignment 2. Security/monitoring/controls 3. Organizational culture/negligence METR did a great report on #1. Zack and others are saying that 2 and 3 are also important and could have prevented the incident even 9.9K views · 79 likes · 4 reposts · 7 replies 01 Sep 2026 The independent review of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident, supposedly a watershed moment in cybersecurity, wasn't done by a cybersecurity firm and the authors have no cybersecurity experience. That's bad. Here's my new video. https://t.co/qYUyYp1apW 230.7K views · 805 likes · 137 reposts · 69 replies 31 Aug 2026