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Who remembers this 90s Internet anthem?

🎵 On your mark, get set!
We're riding on the Internet!

youtu.be/A81IwlDeV6c

10 truths I know:

1. It's the grid, stupid.
2. Immigration lifts all boats.
3. Prohibitions don't work, regulation does.
4. The US federal government cannot run out of money, just as a baseball team cannot run out of points.
5. Continuous economic growth is a cancer.
6. 16 inches of topsoil is all that stands between you and extinction.
7. There ain't NO away, to throw stuff.
8. Cars bad, trains good, bikes better, walking best.
9. Plastic is a crime.
10. Love is not a noun, it's a verb.

One of the hardest adjustments that new CounterSocial users struggle to get used to is the fact that follower count is truly meaningless here. It affords neither stature nor status.

It's one of our best features. Being yourself is all that is required.

Any spreasheet wizards here? I'm trying to do something with a combination of VLOOKUP and SUMIFS that's beyond my skill level, and I cannot figure out the syntax to do it after 2 days of trying.

Please let me know if you can help and I'll DM you a screenshot.

"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth:

There is no spoon.

Then you will see it is not the spoon that bends; it is only yourself."

THIS is newsworthy? And apparently my AP app thought worthy of a notification?

The bar for what needs an entire article has dropped far too low.

apnews.com/article/apple-iphon

@Alfred Based on my posts, generate a photograph of what you think I look like.

Anyone here at Hacker Summer Camp?
Maybe you might consider mentioning CoSo when social networks come up in discussion.

Postlight Reader clears the clutter (and often, the paywall) from any website.

(been using this for a while now it's pretty good)

You can simply activate the Postlight Reader extension any time you see a paywall to instantly strip the paywall from just about any news site(works with mostly all pawalls but not all)

install on chrome, or chromium based browsers, and firefox

reader.postlight.com/

github.com/postlight/parser

This piece was famously used in the movie Hiroshima, underscoring Little Boy was being loaded onto the Enola Gay.

@White_Rabbit

^ I should add that while this concept sounds simple, the effect created here is like nothing you've ever heard. If you listen straight through and make it to the end, you just might be in a puddle of emotions. It's gut-wrenching.

cc: @White_Rabbit

Here is a modern version of a Mensuration Canon, where the same melody is played simultaneously at different speeds by augmenting or diminishing note values proportionally. In this case, many different rates at the same time. Otherwise, it's just a descending a natural minor scale, played on alternating short and long note values.

Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Paavo Järvi

youtube.com/watch?v=KImKBJ1jQf



György Ligeti: Étude No. 13: L'escalier du diable / The Devil’s Staircase
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
youtu.be/uoLam2O3gtY

Background and interactive score - highly recommended if you want to understand what's going on here:
explorethescore.org/pgs/ligeti

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CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.