Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓

@gothburz · Austin, Texas · joined 16 Dec 2017

The Cyber Populist | Hacker. Writer. Heretic. | Reverse engineering narratives, systems, and power. Holding the pen.

192 704Followers

618Following

25 515Posts total

27.6MViews on collected posts

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Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz4 Sep

I am the Public Disclosure Coordinator for a regional field office. My job, in one sentence, is deciding when the public finds out what already happened. I want to be exact about what that job is not. I do not decide what happened. I did not fire a weapon on March 25th of last 4.5K views · 21 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz4 Sep

I am the Executive Scheduler in the Office of the Secretary. I kept a mileage log, because I keep a mileage log for everything, which is either a personality trait or a coping mechanism, and after this year I've stopped trying to tell those apart. Line item, March 14th. Depart 4.9K views · 23 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz4 Sep

I am the Lead Developer on https://t.co/kcpgeRpBfe. We shipped 5 games in one sprint, which is fast for a government website and, I've been told by 2 separate reporters this week, fast for anything. Nobody on this team has the title "18F" anymore, because there is no 18F 15.8K views · 35 likes · 5 reposts · 26 replies Open on X →

Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz3 Sep

I am the Director of Organizational Design at Uber. This month we are removing 3,300 nodes from the org chart. Our CEO said it plainly, on the record, and I want to be clear that I agree with every word of it. Rapid growth gave us more layers, more coordination, more fragmented 6.2K views · 23 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz3 Sep

I am the Head of Trust and Safety at Kalshi. This week I signed our first-ever lifetime ban. This year our platform moved $3.9 billion through sports contracts held by people too young to place the same bet at a casino. Both of those sentences are true and I want to walk you 5.1K views · 23 likes · 6 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz3 Sep

I am the Director of Sponsored Products Auction Design at Amazon. For 7 years, there was a word on your invoice you were never shown. The word is reserve. Here is what we told you. Second-price auction. You bid what the ad is worth to you. You pay $0.01 more than whoever bid 5.5K views · 28 likes · 5 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz2 Sep

We are the houses on the roads around the business park, 400 or so of us, all inside the same county supervisor's district, close enough now to hear it. We used to worry about our own thermostat. That was the whole system. You set it. You felt guilty in July. You checked the 6.1K views · 32 likes · 10 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz2 May

@gothburz Extremely well written, Peter. Should be republished in every top magazine & news outlet. 4/00: “It’s very possible that I could be the 1st presidential candidate to run & make money on it. 1/26: On his family’s unprecedented level of self-enrichment: “I found out tha 5.2K views · 124 likes · 26 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz2 May

@gothburz The entire Trump administration is a rug pull https://t.co/wnY7iBg3Ob 7.8K views · 207 likes · 25 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz27 Jan

@gothburz Print fiat to buy hard assets. The name of the game. https://t.co/KUpEpItfe4

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Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz26 Jan

@gothburz Been pushing precious metals to family/friends since 2020—zero takers. They think it's conspiracy talk. Just point out: every single fiat currency in ALL history eventually collapsed to zero. This time is NOT different. https://t.co/H0pPGvzsfa

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Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz26 Jan

@gothburz Luckily, the calculation of inflation was corrected from years ago. In the 80s, it used to include things like food and energy. These were removed because they were "too volatile" (volatile = stuff people actually used.) Now the main driver is the price of iPads in Zair 5.3K views · 109 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz26 Jan

I'm a Reserve Manager at a central bank. My job is buying gold. 297 tons this year. Quietly. While we print money. Loudly. Gold hit $5,000 an ounce yesterday. We've been buying since it was $1,800. That's called "reserve diversification." Diversification means we don't 1.5M views · 16.6K likes · 3.7K reposts · 645 replies Open on X →

Peter Girnus 🦅 ✓@gothburz11 Dec 2025

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I 26M views · 170.1K likes · 25.3K reposts · 5.1K replies Open on X →

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7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views5 504this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.86%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.55%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	5 504	5 983	0.92×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.86%	1.49%	1.92×
Engagement rate	0.55%	0.93%	0.59×

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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

26M11 Dec

1.5M26 Jan

5.3K

18.3K

27.1K27 Jan

7.8K2 May

5.2K

6.1K2 Sep

5.5K3 Sep

5.1K

6.2K

15.8K4 Sep

4.9K

4.5K

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.79%11 Dec

1.39%26 Jan

2.17%

1.39%

1.40%27 Jan

3.05%2 May

2.94%

0.74%2 Sep

0.73%3 Sep

0.64%

0.45%

0.49%4 Sep

0.55%

0.51%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes65.2%187 911 in total

Reposts10.1%29 122 in total

Replies2.0%5 791 in total

Quotes2.1%5 915 in total

Bookmarks20.6%59 501 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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