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Followers
12K
Account age
9 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$67 – $109 / sponsored post
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Known for
36 views
Photo post
11 views
*Vietnamese totally digging AI, USA trembling in fear
10 views
*Copilot is really *taken in by the stage trick," you see, it's as naive as a small child
*I don't know why I found this noteworthy and startling, but it changed my opinion of the chatbot's capacities
10 views
*Then I realize that Copilot really believes that the "Uomo Meccanico" is a functional humanoid robot
*It can't understand that it's merely an actor in an FX costume
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Oct 12latest
12
Avg engagement / post
8–11
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
68/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2016
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 8 and 11 likes + reposts (median 10) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Photo post · 36 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
21.1 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
20×
Follows 612 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Photo post
*Once it *realized* that the robot was a costume, it gave some quite good advice about costume construction and fabric preservation
*But it hallucinates when visually classifying "robots"
*Copilot is really *taken in by the stage trick," you see, it's as naive as a small child
*I don't know why I found this noteworthy and startling, but it changed my opinion of the chatbot's capacities
*Then I realize that Copilot really believes that the "Uomo Meccanico" is a functional humanoid robot
*It can't understand that it's merely an actor in an FX costume
*So I'm discussing this early silent-film with Microsoft Copilot
*How to measure the robot costume, use photogrammetry to reverse-engineer the robot and derive the proportions, and so on
https://youtu.be/nGHfF1wmSIg?si=MwjSwzdVSS1L6U-1
*He thinks that agents can figure out the snarls and tangles in big-model neural nets
https://already-clean.goodfire.com
*This Nordstream trial ought to be a thriller movie, but they arrested one of the guys while he was consulting for a thriller movie
https://eutoday.net/nord-stream-trial-germany-ukrainian-officer-war-crimes/
*It used to take quite a while for Internet trends to become pop videos
https://youtu.be/ydVKpQE-zr0?si=5E5jp7TkkOO2TXTC
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica/117442976585251847
*I blame science fiction dystopias
*So, create a subgenre and then create a specialized magazine for it, that seems pretty good
https://monstroustimes.com/about/
*Vietnamese totally digging AI, USA trembling in fear
*An extensive,we-built-an-AI manifesto, that is as dense with jargon as marzipan
https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
*Copilot is really *taken in by the stage trick," you see, it's as naive as a small child
*I don't know why I found this noteworthy and startling, but it changed my opinion of the chatbot's capacities
*Then I realize that Copilot really believes that the "Uomo Meccanico" is a functional humanoid robot
*It can't understand that it's merely an actor in an FX costume
*So I'm discussing this early silent-film with Microsoft Copilot
*How to measure the robot costume, use photogrammetry to reverse-engineer the robot and derive the proportions, and so on
https://youtu.be/nGHfF1wmSIg?si=MwjSwzdVSS1L6U-1
*He thinks that agents can figure out the snarls and tangles in big-model neural nets
https://already-clean.goodfire.com
*This Nordstream trial ought to be a thriller movie, but they arrested one of the guys while he was consulting for a thriller movie
https://eutoday.net/nord-stream-trial-germany-ukrainian-officer-war-crimes/
*It used to take quite a while for Internet trends to become pop videos
https://youtu.be/ydVKpQE-zr0?si=5E5jp7TkkOO2TXTC
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica/117442976585251847
*I blame science fiction dystopias
*So, create a subgenre and then create a specialized magazine for it, that seems pretty good
https://monstroustimes.com/about/
*Vietnamese totally digging AI, USA trembling in fear
*An extensive,we-built-an-AI manifesto, that is as dense with jargon as marzipan
https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
cliff.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2016
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2016 — 9 years ago.
👁️Averages 12 views per post.
📤Posts about 21.1× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated72/100
Good
Credibility score
94%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Established account (9+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
💚 Brand affinity
EstimatedBrands Bruce Sterling @bruces's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.
About
Bruce Sterling, an #author, #journalist, editor, #critic in #Turin, #Austin and #Ibiza #sciencefiction #fantascienza #BruceSterling
https://medium.com/@bruces
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🔀 Audience overlap
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