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Where Your Ad Dollars Actually Go: The Real Work of Inclusive Marketing
Systems DéVon Christopher Johnson 4/27/26 Systems DéVon Christopher Johnson 4/27/26

Where Your Ad Dollars Actually Go: The Real Work of Inclusive Marketing

Why True Inclusive Advertising Should Be Less About the Message and More About the Invoice.

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There Is An Infrastructure Revolution Happening in Independent Publishing
Systems DéVon Christopher Johnson 4/22/26 Systems DéVon Christopher Johnson 4/22/26

There Is An Infrastructure Revolution Happening in Independent Publishing

Inside the Coalitions, Revenue Models and Shared Technologies Redefining Power in Media.

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How to Get Into Local Politics: A Practical Guide to Power, Process and Impact
Systems Gabriella Bock 4/13/26 Systems Gabriella Bock 4/13/26

How to Get Into Local Politics: A Practical Guide to Power, Process and Impact

The real pathways, structures and steps required to move from interested citizen to active participant in local government.

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Rethinking Recovery: What I Learned After Being Told There Was Only One Way
Systems Maggie Schwenn 4/3/26 Systems Maggie Schwenn 4/3/26

Rethinking Recovery: What I Learned After Being Told There Was Only One Way

11 Lessons that Emerged from Years of Showing Up Across Different Recovery Spaces

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How Male ‘Loneliness’ Became a Market for Digital Exploitation
Systems Michael Muyot 3/25/26 Systems Michael Muyot 3/25/26

How Male ‘Loneliness’ Became a Market for Digital Exploitation

The Making of Deepfake Abuse—and the Lonely Men Behind It.

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Inside the Tech Stack Keeping Deepfake Abuse Profitable
Systems Michael Muyot 3/13/26 Systems Michael Muyot 3/13/26

Inside the Tech Stack Keeping Deepfake Abuse Profitable

How platforms, advertisers and tech infrastructure providers profit from non-consensual sexual imagery while avoiding direct accountability.

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The Financial Class Could Easily Alleviate the Housing Crisis. Why Aren’t They?
Systems Alex Lindstrom 3/11/26 Systems Alex Lindstrom 3/11/26

The Financial Class Could Easily Alleviate the Housing Crisis. Why Aren’t They?

The Price Gap Agreement is a new proposal that leverages existing financial instruments to get outpriced buyers into homes. It begs the question: why aren’t we already doing this?

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From Assimilation to Ownership: How Dani Tan Rewrote the Rules of Success
Culture, Systems HYVEMIND 3/4/26 Culture, Systems HYVEMIND 3/4/26

From Assimilation to Ownership: How Dani Tan Rewrote the Rules of Success

Former corporate VP Dani Tan shares how navigating power, identity, and ambition led her to coach women of color toward ownership, clarity, and career authorship.

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The Forecast Looks Grim, You Should Step Forward Anyway
Systems Tripp Gomez 3/2/26 Systems Tripp Gomez 3/2/26

The Forecast Looks Grim, You Should Step Forward Anyway

When our systems feel unstable, the most immediate form of power is local participation, showing up in the places where you live, work and share responsibility.

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Scaling Harm: Platforms, Profits and the Rise of AI Sexual Abuse 
Systems Michael Muyot 2/27/26 Systems Michael Muyot 2/27/26

Scaling Harm: Platforms, Profits and the Rise of AI Sexual Abuse 

How AI image tools, platform design and global distribution networks have enabled non-consensual sexual imagery to scale faster than enforcement.

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Civic Discourse with Citizen Tripp | Episode 6: Engaging in Community
Systems Tripp Gomez 2/17/26 Systems Tripp Gomez 2/17/26

Civic Discourse with Citizen Tripp | Episode 6: Engaging in Community

Different ways to build and engage in community.

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The Citizens' Revival Is Already Happening (And This Is What It Looks Like) 
Systems Tripp Gomez 1/26/26 Systems Tripp Gomez 1/26/26

The Citizens' Revival Is Already Happening (And This Is What It Looks Like) 

 A love letter to the builders, neighbors and quiet revolutionaries who are stitching a new world into being, right where they stand.

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Every Billion Elon Musk Adds to His Wealth Is An Insult to All of Us
Systems Alex Lindstrom 12/29/25 Systems Alex Lindstrom 12/29/25

Every Billion Elon Musk Adds to His Wealth Is An Insult to All of Us

The tech-fraud’s endlessly growing lump of monopoly money is a case study for why Western institutions are in terminal collapse.

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The Backyard Begins It: How Ordinary Spaces Become Civic Engines
Systems Michael Muyot 12/19/25 Systems Michael Muyot 12/19/25

The Backyard Begins It: How Ordinary Spaces Become Civic Engines

As trust in institutions declines, civic engagement is rebuilding through backyard gatherings and neighbor networks.

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The Illusion Economy: What Layoffs, Black Friday and AI Have in Common
Systems Michael Muyot 12/17/25 Systems Michael Muyot 12/17/25

The Illusion Economy: What Layoffs, Black Friday and AI Have in Common

A look at the growing gap between economics, business + tech headlines and the everyday experience.

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Working Models: National Domestic Workers Alliance
Working Models, Systems Gabriella Bock 12/2/25 Working Models, Systems Gabriella Bock 12/2/25

Working Models: National Domestic Workers Alliance

The Organization Building Power in the Shadows of America’s Care Economy

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Meet The Indie Marketplaces Challenging Big Tech’s Grip on Small Sellers
Systems Gabriella Bock 11/26/25 Systems Gabriella Bock 11/26/25

Meet The Indie Marketplaces Challenging Big Tech’s Grip on Small Sellers

The e-com rebels refusing Big Tech’s rules.

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The Unreachable Hungry: Mapping the Distance Between Hunger and Help
Systems Gabriella Bock 10/31/25 Systems Gabriella Bock 10/31/25

The Unreachable Hungry: Mapping the Distance Between Hunger and Help

America’s hunger crisis has a transportation issue.

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Faith in the Machine: On Techno-utopianism, Mortality and the Religion of Innovation
Systems Gabriella Bock 10/28/25 Systems Gabriella Bock 10/28/25

Faith in the Machine: On Techno-utopianism, Mortality and the Religion of Innovation

Technology, transcendence and the fear of death.

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What Is a Municipal Government? (And Why It Matters Where You Live)
Systems Gabriella Bock 10/24/25 Systems Gabriella Bock 10/24/25

What Is a Municipal Government? (And Why It Matters Where You Live)

Understanding the power and purpose of local government.

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