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A thread about the sacred.
An interesting, hope-inspiring, trend I'm sensing is people being more open and explicit in speaking about the sacred in their work. I'm noticing it everywhere. In climate work. Public health work. Community organizing.
The ACM obituary for PGN, by @spaf and Simson Garfinkel, is wonderful:
https://cacm.acm.org/news/in-memoriam-peter-g-neumann-1932-2026/
Hello my friends, I hope you are all well. I have not posted for about a week because our internet has been very weak. Sadly, I still could not raise the 300 dollars we need for food and basic needs. More than two weeks have passed since I started this goal, and I collected only about 50 dollars. Please stand with me and support me if you can. Your help truly means so much to us right now. Thank you all so much all.!
https://chuffed.org/project/178091-help-raghad-and-her-family-in-gaza
The Hindenburg had a smoking room.
This is a metaphor of some kind about our entire way of life, I'm just not quite sure how yet. https://flipso.com/p/hnruqxejt
"Connecting Humanity advocates for and provides internet access as a human right, …
Our work in Gaza
People in Gaza are cut off from the internet by Israeli bombing and blocking since October 2023. Almost every photo you see from Gaza since then has come through an eSIM, a virtual SIM card, which connects people to the internet.
eSIMs can save lives and give Gazans a voice…"
At least 79 children have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation campaign. Charles Mauldin, a civil rights activist tear-gassed as a teenager at Selma, warns them to get mental health support.
'The sisters will use the $12,500 (ÂŁ9,245) prize money to train around 100 young people to create the bricks and "participate in reconstruction themselves, instead of waiting only for outside help," Farah said.
The girls created the blocks using materials close to their tent. They are made by mixing crushed rubble with materials such as ash, clay and glass powder.'
Innovating with what you have, resilience under extreme adversity. 🙏 https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-sisters-awarded-earth-prize-turning-rubble-bricks #gaza #solarpunk #palestine #israel
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨
Soraya Nadia McDonald
Mike Olson
Lauren Weinstein
Raghad