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@cstross

MASTODON ● TRACKED BY VIRALHUNT SINCE AUG 2026 ▲ 114% · 30D OFFICIAL PROFILE ↗

@cstross is a Mastodon creator, tracked by ViralHunt since August 2026. Across 47 tracked posts they have accumulated 18.8K total engagement — an average of 401 per post. Of their top posts, 12 have been measured more than once and 12 grew between readings, adding 5.5K engagement, the fastest of them by 782%. Their engagement over the last 30 days is up 114% versus the previous month.

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47posts tracked
18.8Ktotal engagement
7.6Ktotal favourites
5.1Ktotal boosts

Most viral posts by @cstross

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1
I long for a world wide web that goes back to basics: Markdown for text, JPEG or PNG for images, *no* Javascript or other client-side execut
Sep 26, 2026
FAV 864 BOO 403 REP 88 QUO 5
2
Microsoft can't afford to proofread the slide decks for their HIGH PROFILE PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS by the CEO any more. It's true, relying on A
Oct 8, 2026
FAV 513 BOO 350 REP 57 QUO 6
3
AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents Financial Times reveals that OpenAI’s ann
Oct 10, 2026
FAV 277 BOO 279 REP 35 QUO 13
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On AI: "The risk, they and many of their former colleagues seem to imply, is no less than the potential end of the human race in the next de
Sep 20, 2026
FAV 293 BOO 203 REP 17 QUO 5
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Alternative Health Influencer Boasts That He’s Been Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight: “My favorite thing about radium w
Oct 4, 2026
FAV 203 BOO 186 REP 112 QUO 16
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Anthropic is planning an IPO and filed their draft S-1 prospectus in June! They were circulating that draft S-1 around their investors last
Oct 1, 2026
FAV 209 BOO 230 REP 25 QUO 3
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This is just to say I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me t
Oct 1, 2026
FAV 282 BOO 199 REP 10 QUO 1
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It says it all about the ethical values of the combatants in the Ukraine war that Ukraine is striking oil refineries while Russia is attacki
Sep 1, 2026
FAV 266 BOO 205 REP 10 QUO 1
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Things I hate about LLMs: that novelists are being challenged to prove they wrote their own work. Things I don't hate about LLMs: that they
Oct 4, 2026
FAV 317 BOO 125 REP 16 QUO 0
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Margaret Hamilton, pioneer of software engineering who led the software effort for the Apollo program, dies at 90: https://news.mit.edu/2026
Oct 7, 2026
FAV 167 BOO 203 REP 6 QUO 1
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Mad D&D monster idea: The gelatinous tesseract. Looks and acts just like a gelatinous cube *except* it extends through the fourth dimension
Sep 2, 2026
FAV 242 BOO 132 REP 24 QUO 1
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RIP Tim Curry: https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead/ (Died the same day as Dolly Parton, news seems to have been delayed for some r
Aug 26, 2026
FAV 177 BOO 151 REP 22 QUO 2
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