Stephen Ramsay
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Followers
780
Account age
3 yrs

📊 Post engagement

4
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: One thing I love about Mastodon is that my feed is linguisticall · 14 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.54 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.5×
Follows 222 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
🔥 Top post One thing I love about Mastodon is that my feed is linguistically diurnal. Mostly English, but I usually wake up to German and French. Which is a nice exercise with one's morning coffee. ★ 14
I've started running again. All previous attempts have been plagued by injury, and sure enough -- eight weeks in -- I'm having some kind of knee thing. AI just suggested wall sits. I think this definitively proves that LLMs are (a) sentien… ★ 1 Been playing around with yash (Yet Another Shell). Fast, minimalist, POSIX-obsessed, slow release cycle. As a quite dedicated 1970s computing reenactor, I find it enhances my constant quest for increased realism. https://magicant.github.io… Turns out POSIX ME HARDER is one of the more fruitful AI prompts. #Linux #Unix #programming If you were wondering who is the last person on earth to learn of Apache Arrow, that would be me. I had never heard of it until today. I was thinking, "The world doesn't need more languages. It needs more IRs." And lo! ★ 1 The Cric (from Future Sound Systems) is about as close as I could ever imagine getting to my Platonic Ideal of an analog drone synthesizer: A kind of mashup of the EMS Synthi and the ARP 2500. https://www.futuresoundsystems.co.uk/returncr… IA new album entitled *The Obstinacy of Ants.* https://stephenramsay.bandcamp.com/album/the-obstinacy-of-ants Apologies to those who follow me on here for DH (and not Perlin Trio or something like that). Then again, the Venn diagram betwe… ★ 1 Like a lot of middle-aged electro-acoustic artists, I have excellent monitoring, a pro-grade interface, a well-tuned mixing and mastering workflow, a great sounding room . . . and an air conditioner that cycles on right when I'm trying to … One of my goals for #droneday was to finish a drone record I've been working on (with the Stylophone DS-2, since you asked). I might do it, but then again, "Hurry up and finish your . . . drone album . . ." doesn't seem quite in the spirit… ★ 1 Drone Day is May 30th, and I have a Lyra-8 arriving that day (that I ordered weeks ago). https://droneday.org/ I'm not sure what this means. A lot, obviously. ★ 5 Happy to answer any questions about these panels. We hope to see you LA next year! (5/5) "We invite contributions from literature, cultural studies, linguistics and cognitive science to an interdisciplinary panel on surprise as a cognitive-affective mechanism of interpretation. Send a 250-word paper abstract and a 100-word bio…

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
hcommons.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.5× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

75/100 Good
  • Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
92%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Professor of English and Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Writer of books. Mainly #DigitalHumanities. Way into #Linux and #UNIX #Programming (esp. #CLIs). I teach all that, plus #TheoryOfNewMedia, and #TheaterHistory. Fanatical about #ElectronicMusic (especially #drone), #FountainPens, and #Coffee. I always come back to C. Thoughts are my own. I think.

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