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  • From: Dina Hornreich <hornreichdina AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [TypicalGirls] November 2025 HumanifestX Update: Big data is watching you (from a distance)!
  • Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:47:59 -0500

Dear Friends (new and old):


I am elated to share my Post-Media Literacy Week elation after trying to spread this “8 pillars of joy” for addressing “The Problem of Pain: How Journalism Turns to Altruism to Manage Suffering” <https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/6/3/140>

  • Altruism: (Others-focused)

  • Gratitude: Thankfulness for what life has made possible

  • Compassion: Recognition and enactment of easing the suffering of others

  • Generosity: Spirit of giving (physically, emotionally, etc.) in awareness of the interdependent nature of humanity

Introspection: (Self-focused)

  • Acceptance: Characterized by the recognition and embrace of the way things are

  • Forgiveness: Letting go of ill will toward those who have caused harm

Resilience: (Self-manifesting in response to crisis)

  • Perspective: Expanding the angles from which one looks at a problem

  • Humility: Recognizing vulnerability; not holding ourselves to be treated any differently from others

  • Humor: Transforming pain and obstacles into understanding and connection


As such, I would encourage you to consider how those ongoing efforts informed this new Talking Heads Dagger zine blog post: https://www.tumblr.com/daggerzine/800376249801375745/talking-heads-chronology-dvd-2011-by-dina


Since I have been especially affected by the questions posed in this clever handout: http://www.acmecoalition.org/files/ACME_shifts.pdf


In the meantime, I am pondering the creation of a learning media platform for my taskforce/campaign which is an idea that I have begun calling “Landiapaloozaism: Not Another Marketing Ploy” and its logic has been published as a wiki article which you can read (and edit), if you wish: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/NAMP:_Not_Another_Marketing_Ploy 


And the outline for this hypothetical community is currently sitting in a Google Doc which you can also peruse if you are curious:



Which perhaps could offer an alternative to a course like the one UConn has put on hold?  https://ctexaminer.com/2025/11/04/required-anti-black-racism-course-put-on-hold-at-uconn/


I am also still considering how we often find ourselves doing the right thing (eventually) – despite improper motivations initially?! Especially, as “surveillance capitalism” exhausts our resources as another holiday season approaches.


I faced ongoing obstacles to voting rights this past election season; after being deliberately misinformed by the City Clerk in Northampton with suggestions that would compromise my Medicaid and Food benefits. (In addition to ongoing myriad heartaches of the homeless lifestyle as I am witnessing ongoing hardships and betrayals.) Yet I am still grateful for process/outcome of local election which taught us why monopolies should remain illegal: https://gazettenet.com/2025/11/12/following-divisive-election-northampton-mayor-pledges-unity-after-razor-thin-victory


Moreover, more opportunities for pondering decolonialism arise again this Thanksgiving in Northampton (Sojourner Truth)?! We have commemorated losses in a communal grieving ceremony for losses in our community (Orlando, Pompeo, PJ, and Big Johnny) which involved SADOD (Support After a Death by Overdose), Cathedral in the Night, First Churches, Manna Soup Kitchen, etc. I mustered the courage to offer a humble poetry recitation at this gathering with moral support from an esteemed local activist Kalifa who is former owner of a local vintage clothing shop (called Hipster’s Paradise which was located above the historic music venue Iron Horse) <https://ironhorse.org/>) as well as a local musician named Jacob (from Riot Frog <https://riotfrog.com/>) since he seemed to remember my meanderings from an “Open Mic Night” at Northampton’s recovery center in 2023.


On a daily basis, I consider the political climate as the SNAP/EBT food benefits overhaul feels terrifying; but I continue to joke about a forthcoming Project 2041 hoping that the pendulum will eventually swing back (50 years after punk “broke” in 1991?). This supports my desire for supporting the transference of creative/artistic “socio-emotional” connective labor into public policy work in order to rebuild our communities once these culture wars have run their course (since we are overdifferentiated, decentralized, and otherwise suffocating from the ubiquity of “toxic masculinity”). This observation is highlighted when I consider how many churches and faith communities across the United States are increasingly closing their doors: <https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2024/0807/boston-churches-affordable-housing-older-adults>


As such, I remain grateful for the Jewish communal supports I received from the Chabad of Western MA who provided me with some "shmura matza" on Pesach; a Wellness House that is truly a “beit refuah" ("house of healing") behind the local marketplace; the CBI kevutzat on Prospect never disappoints me when I need to perform routine lifecycle mitzvot; an update to Herrell's ice cream shop in Thornes Marketplace (who has a local hechsher through that Chabad network); etc. Basically: All DEI/faith work is for supporting efforts in building a better world (no matter if/how you identify spiritually)!


Happy November! Don’t forget about Buy Nothing Day on 11/28/2025.


-Dina



Dina L. Hornreich, MS, MLIS 

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/NAMP:_Not_Another_Marketing_Ploy

linkedin.com/in/dina-hornreich-113a79283
medium.com/@dina-hornreich

hornreichdina AT gmail.com

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Advocating for better consumer safeguards and sustainable economic reform in the age of surveillance capitalism for "wising up" from rationality to morality in this emerging "Conceptual Age." 

Stopping the epidemics of misinformation, disinformation, & malinformation (propaganda) from disrupting our information, media, & technology (IMT) ecosystems by facilitating the effective, appropriate, & ethical comprehension/production of IMT artefacts on our journeys toward integrative recovery & holistic wellbeing.


Facilitating the acquisition of lifelong literacies, instead of reinforcing the perception that "natural vulnerabilities" are "permanent deficiencies," as a community of learners struggling to fight the onslaught of unhealthy messages generated by practices which condone/promote the exploitation of typical human fallibilities reinforcing the greedy, violent, and misogynistic approaches of a plutocratic tyranny who resorts to criminalizing, pathologizing, and otherwise blaming the victims of their wanton ludicrousness.


Alerting consumers to the impact of numerous illusions and other deceptive efforts that turn our individual differences into manufactured deviations (and other forms of "learned helplessness"); thereby revealing systemic injustices that are perpetuated by ongoing inequitable power dynamics (i.e. colonialism) and other accessibility barriers to the basic resources that support our universal human needs, wants, & desires.


Building a taskforce of nonviolent communicators who are:

  • Promoting an informed, engaged, & wise global citizenry and participatory transnational Democracy. (cf: listography)
  • Elevating “Conceptual Age” skills (design, story, symphony, empathy, play, & meaning) in order to remedy the shortcomings of residuals from the preceding "Information Age" and "Industrial Age."
  • Preventing media pollution, information disorder, & “techno-lust” from further disrupting our social, cultural, political, & economic ecosystems.
  • Championing mindful “meta-literacies” (i.e. becoming adept bullsh*t detectives) involving the creation, selection, organization, presentation, diffusion, consumption, & preservation stages for "processing" IMT artefactual innovations.
  • Adopting the principles of "Data Feminism": Examining power; challenging power; elevating emotion & embodiment; rethinking binaries & hierarchies; embracing pluralism; considering context; and making labor visible.


  • [TypicalGirls] November 2025 HumanifestX Update: Big data is watching you (from a distance)!, Dina Hornreich, 11/18/2025

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