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A $5 million partnership with businesses across Vermont is working to ensure no one goes hungry. Our Adam Sullivan 🇺🇸 explains how it got started. wcax.com/2020/07/31/how…

Technology gave us the dream of a cocooned future. Now we’re living it, writes douglas rushkoff. read.medium.com/1hZkY0s

Occupy Wall Street started nine years ago today. The stock market is up 233% since then.

The Consolations of Free Thought dlvr.it/Rm3VcZ

More than meets the eye, here's what a cell looks like up close. Pretty amazing visial

#RepresentationMatters: Reservation Dogs will be the first show about Native Americans produced by Native American and Indigenous people, and will have a Native writers room. lakota.law/2LGTfVt

The 10th & final ArtPlace field scan "Centering Creative Youth in Community Development" builds on the incredible depth and breadth of evidence that exists in the fields of arts education and creative youth development. Learn more: ow.ly/mhfw50CRdc0 Campaign for a Creative Generation

Facebook users, randomized to deactivate their accounts for 4 weeks in exchange for $102, freed up an average of 60 minutes a day, spent more time socializing offline, became less politically polarized, and reported improved subjective well-being [study: buff.ly/2yl3JmE]

What’s the role of narratives and how do we update them once they’ve become obsolete? Anna Simpson discusses the process of shifting narratives in follow up to 2020. bit.ly/3b9sV0M #Explorethefuture #FuturesThinking #PowerDynamics #narratives

Online Communities Ain't Got Nothing On My Mother’s Garden Club Because of Implicit Feudalism: hackernoon.com/online-communi…

Social media companies profiting from partisanship and vitriol are not trustworthy as gatekeepers of our democracy. See #surveillancecapitalism Luckily there are amazing people cultivating new #digitalpublicinfrastructure and building new tools for civic participation! #vtpoli

Democracy peeps - check out what vTaiwan has been doing since 2014. You'll find hope! #vtpoli needs alternative digital spaces where everyone can engage in civic participation without sacrificing their personal data to FB/YT/TWTR who are now the gatekeepers of our democracy.

Digital Public Infrastructure has never been needed more - no one's coming to save us from silicon valley who now controls access to democracy and our personal data. "WHERE, WHAT, AND WHO IS DIGITAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE?" pacscenter.stanford.edu/research/digit… #vtpoli

VT has already received (if my math is correct) ~$5.5 Billion dollars, as of 12-31-20, *plus* whatever we've received since then... Wow, that's a lot of VT cheddar for the legislature to be slicing up auditor.vermont.gov/content/covid-… #vtpoli

We wanted to use Instagram ads to highlight how ad tech invades your privacy. Instead, Facebook shut our account down: signal.org/blog/the-insta…

These Signal ads are amazing. Facebook banned them for being a little bit too relevant. signal.org/blog/the-insta…

After a multi-year investigation, we found the nation's largest broadband companies funded a secret campaign to influence the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules — resulting in millions of fake public comments impersonating Americans. These illegal schemes are unacceptable.

Great to see (study) committees back in the statehouse in-person and still streaming the meeting. This broadens access for voters who want to participate but can't drive to Montpelier. Best of both worlds, hybrid tech for the win! #vtpoli

There are important conversations happening that will impact how accessible the legislature will be. 9-1 straw poll in favor of a seating capacity 10-0 straw poll in favor of live streaming Also: Does the press have a constitutional right to be in committee hearings? #vtpoli

Somehow the Simpsons always calls it right youtu.be/lKPZDq9IQIU