James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ ✓

@JimPethokoukis · Washington, DC · joined 27 Sep 2008

@AEI @CNBC Book: The Conservative Futurist Substack: Faster Please! Cirrus. Socrates. Particle. Decibel. Hurricane. Dolphin. Tulip.

58 786Followers

8 041Following

133 719Posts total

370.5KViews on collected posts

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James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ ✓@JimPethokoukis18 Sep

Maybe the AI catastrophists can bank-shot kill the nuclear renassiance, too! "Holtec Nuclear is postponing the IPO it announced in July. The company's CEO has said market concerns about the AI sector have played a part in the decision." https://t.co/JVktChXrwv 649 views · 1 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ ✓@JimPethokoukis18 Sep

Paris may yet be saved. 2.4K views · 25 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ ✓@JimPethokoukis18 Sep

"Doctors are exploring whether weight-loss drugs could also treat conditions such as endometriosis and Crohn’s disease." https://t.co/qaM4o5q5BA 1.2K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ ✓@JimPethokoukis18 Sep

It's an extremely relevant line for our times! 4.4K views · 20 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ ✓@JimPethokoukis17 Sep

A brief throwaway movie line that I think about all the time in Congress and the U.S. government, delivered by Captain Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan- “You have to learn why things work on a Starship.” https://t.co/n3n7JPbNrX

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James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ ✓@JimPethokoukis17 Sep

SITUATION DETECTED: GPT-6 Astra cracked a previously unsolved 1941 German Army Enigma message in about 10 hours, searching archives, writing attack code, and testing keys autonomously. 235K views · 3K likes · 108 reposts · 65 replies Open on X →

James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ ✓@JimPethokoukis3 Jul

Please check out my pro-progress Up Wing newsletter, FASTER, PLEASE! I cover the economics, culture, policy, and politics of faster technological progress and productivity growth. ⏩ ⤴️ https://t.co/jzjvyNjlwC https://t.co/m9JamZWyIW

11.5K views · 12 likes · 2 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

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7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views4 428this account922median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.53%this account3.39%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.50%this account1.53%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 428	922	4.80×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.53%	3.39%	2.22×
Engagement rate	0.50%	1.53%	0.32×

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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

11.5K3 Jul

235K17 Sep

115.4K

4.4K18 Sep

1.2K

2.4K

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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

0.19%3 Jul

1.35%17 Sep

0.51%

0.50%18 Sep

0.25%

1.14%

0.46%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.53%.

What the audience does

Likes82.0%3 525 in total

Reposts3.9%169 in total

Replies2.0%86 in total

Quotes1.4%62 in total

Bookmarks10.6%457 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.

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