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THE OTHER SIDE: Witches burning (Part One)

As we have learned over the centuries, when it comes to burning witches, it doesn’t really matter if you have burned a real witch or just someone who, in your fevered, partisan, and paranoid imagination, could easily become a witch in the future. It is the burning that is the message.

AMPLIFICATIONS: My weird corona life

I realized my expectations are very diminished, but I’m feeling greater joy when something works out.

Cutting the connection with social media

When you no longer have time for social media and you lose interest in it, you finally realize how much of your life it has wasted once you step outside the box and see it for what it really is... a huge waste of time, electricity, and bandwidth!

Life without Facebook: Deleting my account

I was able to calm down and temper my anxiety by acknowledging that social media is not reality. FB was not feeding my soul, and feeding my soul is what I need, especially in these times.

CONNECTIONS: Fake news, tool of the autocrat

We need to know what is real. The facts are the basis for good decisions. Our entire form of government ceases to work without real news.

BerkShares Business of the Month: Off the Shelf

With the help of their social media followers, they decided to cement their identity with the use of hot pink egg cartons.

News Briefs: Democratic gubernatorial candidates’ forum; Rural Health Network conversation; Senate passes social media privacy bill; Senate passes animal welfare measures

The three Democratic candidates for governor of Massachusetts will share the stage in Berkshire County for a forum on the future of the region and Massachusetts, moderated by Sen. Adam Hinds, D-Pittsfield.

Larkin about in America: Airborne

The news we are fed daily is divisive and alarming, but if we get out of the bubble we find there are also good things happening.

CONNECTIONS: Alone in the Age of Connection

Technology enables social isolation. We are “always connected” but no less alone. Communication no longer includes human speech. We no longer need to hear or listen or see another human being to call it conversation. The light we are basking in is not another human being’s smile but the glow of a computer screen.
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