Garrison Lovely ✓

@GarrisonLovely · Brooklyn, NY · joined 08 Sep 2011

Author of Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us—and How to Stop It (Nation Books, Sept 29). Bylines: @NYTimes, @Nature, @BBC + others.

10 685Followers

5 541Following

6 688Posts total

137.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views10 704this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %100.18%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.96%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	10 704	2 896	3.70×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	100.18%	9.51%	10.5×
Engagement rate	1.96%	1.56%	1.26×

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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

31.7K26 Aug

10.7K2 Sep

54.9K

4.1K

1.1K

31.9K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.74%26 Aug

2.23%2 Sep

0.52%

2.14%

2.56%

0.28%

1.96%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes70.9%827 in total

Reposts8.6%100 in total

Replies5.5%64 in total

Quotes2.9%34 in total

Bookmarks12.2%142 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

a16z lobbyist calling state legislators regulating AI "bugs." Bold strategy, wonder if it'll pay off for them. https://t.co/659PeoI4iW 3K views · 53 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 How Silicon Valley lost its war against state AI laws https://t.co/Kvrkag3Puh 31.9K views · 59 likes · 20 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 'no, the top of the slope isn't even really slippery.' 1.1K views · 25 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 The AI race was already out of control. OpenAI just made it worse. The AI industry has presented itself as capable of self-governance through voluntary commitments. This has failed in many ways, but one place it has actually largely worked: companies avoid dangerous but tempting 4.1K views · 70 likes · 13 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 There seems to be a misunderstanding about the piece and what OpenAI is up to. There are new techniques at frontier labs that involve loop transformers and similar. As we say in the piece, OpenAI is putting limits on the loops and trying to make sure CoT is visible with Astra. 54.9K views · 231 likes · 16 reposts · 31 replies 02 Sep 2026 Incredible. Joshua manages to defend OpenAI doing a thing the entire AI community (including OpenAI 10 months ago) agreed was reckless while attacking journalists for reporting that OpenAI is doing that thing. He doesn't even work there anymore, he's just doing this for the love 10.7K views · 218 likes · 9 reposts · 11 replies 02 Sep 2026 🚨 Update: My book Obsolete comes out Sept 29! 🚨 Preorder: https://t.co/k7XOoxnIFn That's a bit over 6 months after I finished the manuscript—lightning fast for book publishing, but an eternity in AI-world. An early reader asked me if I was pulling my hair out as https://t.co/7 31.7K views · 171 likes · 36 reposts · 15 replies 26 Aug 2026