@OracleSpirit We haven't progressed socially, only with technology. The same people who jailed Galileo are still with us today pulling the same shit.

#Books
#Art

Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism
By Charles Darwent

Review:

By 1941, the arrival in New York City of émigrés like André Masson, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst and the ‘Pope of Surrealism’ himself, André Breton, was precipitating what Darwent calls ‘one of the greatest cultural exchanges in modern history’.

By Dominic Green

https://literaryreview.co.uk/drippers-printmakers

Book:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/surrealists-in-new-york-atelier-17-and-the-birth-of-abstract-expressionism-charles-darwent/18962321

#DogsofCoSo
#Dogs

Researchers have now for the first time determined the structure of the canine distemper virus "docking protein" and depicted it at molecular level. This lays the ground to develop novel therapies for a better management of the diseases induced by CDV and related viruses, such as the measles virus.

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-opportunities-canine-distemper-virus.html

You might not have noticed, but @th3j35t3r has been a bit busy keeping this place safe, and troll free. Nor should you notice, because security here is proactive, not just reactive.

How is this done?
It is the work of @th3j35t3r
And all the people supporting his work by going pro !

It's just $5.00 a month.

Not right away, you are welcome to use this for free.

But think about it.

https://counter.social/supportcoso.html

Disgraced #NewOrleans cop and ‘mentor’ gets twice as much prison time for sexually assaulting 15-year-old rape victim after judge rejects DOJ-backed deal

Full story here: bit.ly/3Lmovpk

Katie Porter posts a video to Twitter Explaining how Republican and Democratic members of Congress who helped passed rollbacks of Dodd-Frank regulations are responsible for the turmoil at the Silicon Valley Bank. https://youtu.be/YF6OKuOTJqU

@Minholkin

As you wish....

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Folks, we’ll never know bc @th3j35t3r got ahead of the problem-

But can you *imagine* how disruptive and harmful the activation of those bots would have been to our culture? Not only would the dis/misinformation have been damaging, it would have sown the seeds of mistrust and dislike. Conflict. Scorn. Feelings of loss and estrangement. All of the negatives folks encounter elsewhere would have been suddenly salient here.

There are layers of beneficial implications from J’s work.

#gratitude

Insulin makers are slashing prices to avoid generating billions in Medicaid rebates as rebate cap expires

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/heres-why-slashing-insulin-prices-will-actually-save-big-pharma-money/

There isn't a social media site on earth that takes your safety and security more seriously than CounterSocial. #CoSoTips

Happy 90th, 99!

PSA - Some of you may have noticed increased security measures on login & registration pages. We have identified an uptick in bogus accounts registering from eastern block nations that satellite Russia (Russian IP space is banned).

Looks like they are trying to skirt our geo-block.

The measures have been put in place with legitimate users in mind - cause the least hassle for legitimate traffic, but unsustainable inconvenience for bad guys.

Just letting you guys know. 👍

cc: @th3j35t3r

Overlooked No More: Dilys Winn, Who Brought Murder and Mystery to Manhattan
She opened Murder Ink, believed to be the nation’s first mystery bookstore, and brought fans together through interactive whodunits and other events. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/obituaries/dilys-winn-overlooked.html

NARRATOR'S VOICE: He is, in fact, saying "12 white men" would have avoided this mess.

Francisco Ayala, Biologist and Defender of Evolution, Dies at 88
A leading evolutionary biologist who defended Darwin’s theory in books and in the courtroom, he was forced to retire amid charges of sexual harassment. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/science/francisco-ayala-dead.html