Alexander Thurow

Mastodon @alexthurow@mstdn.social

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Followers

277

Account age

4 yrs

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

8.6 / week

Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

0.8×

Follows 342 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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"Despite their quirks, pareidolia and anthropomorphism aren’t flaws. They reveal a fundamental truth about the human mind: we are storytellers, wired to weave meaning from noise. Seeing faces and minds where none exist stems from social in… „… to conspiracy thinking driven by perceived patterns. Both processes reflect our drive to impose coherence on ambiguity. This is a comforting antidote to randomness, but unchecked it can mislead.“ /2 "In an age of algorithms and automation, these ancient biases shape how we interact with technology. Chatbots that “sound empathetic” can elicit trust or intimacy far beyond what their code warrants. Social media users anthropomorphise rec… "Pareidolia and anthropomorphism often appear together, which is why people confuse them. Spotting a “face” in an object involves pareidolia; believing that the face feels or reacts involves anthropomorphism. The first is perceptual, a tri… „… assigning agency to the inanimate. Technology amplifies this effect. Virtual assistants, social robots, and even chatbot companions are designed to invite anthropomorphism through voice, eye-like sensors, and conversational responsivene… "If pareidolia is about seeing, anthropomorphism is about feeling, the tendency to attribute human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. […] The roots of anthropomorphism lie in our powerful social cognition. Human surviva… Joseph Pelrine: "PsychNuggets | Why We See Faces in Toast and Talk to Our Toasters“ https://ckarchive.com/b/lmuehmhnqeqqxbd7kkm78c8kxn400ighv6x3g #OnModernDev #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuReading "Max Weber warned of modernity’s iron cage a century ago. Today, the cage has a new name: the 1.0-2.0 machine, supercharged by a trillion-dollar industry, the logic of inevitability, and the daily downloading that floods our calendars and … Otto Scharmer: "Leadership’s Blind Spot in the Age of AI" https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/leaderships-blind-spot-in-the-age-of-ai/ #OnModernDev #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuReading „… energy prices, to not care about job loss, and just to race to get there first, that is their incentive.“ /3 „… that makes people doubt whether the consequences are real. […] A, we don't have that time with AI. “And B, you can actually know a lot of those harms if you know the incentive. Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's business partner said, if … “The harm lands on the balance sheet of society. It doesn't land on the balance sheet of the companies. And it takes time to see the harm. This is why we get sucked in. And the companies exploit that. […] Immediately print money on the pro…

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

mstdn.social

A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.

On Mastodon since

Apr 2022

An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 4 years ago.

📤Posts about 8.6× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

58/100 Fair

Est. 75% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Limited engagement data — score uses the signals available.
Established account (4+ years old).

Est. authentic audience

75%

Fake-follower risk

Medium

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

„For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.“ (inspired by H. L. Mencken, 1880-1956)

🔀 Audience overlap

Estimated

Estimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.

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