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SUMMARY:Northampton Recovery Center Annual Ice Cream Social
DESCRIPTION:Come and celebrate Recovery Month with us! \nThe Northampton Recovery Center at 25 Armory St. in downtown Northampton is celebrating Recovery Month (September) with an Ice Cream Social! All are invited to drop by the center on Tuesday\, 9/8/25 between 1:00 and 4:00\, have some free ice cream\, listen to a bit of live music and check out the center. This is a safe/sober and family friendly event. \nThe Northampton Recovery Center is a safe\, peer-driven community that provides a positive welcoming environment for people on all pathways and in all stages of recovery from addiction\, as well as for their families\, friends\, and allies. Together we share support\, resources\, and hope. Peers lead and design opportunities for social\, educational\,l and wellness activities that support recovery. The NRC honors the value of lived experience and provides a creative place for people to heal and grow in mind\, body\, and spirit. \nAll are welcome! Please stop by\, we would love to get to know you!
URL:https://hsf.novacruxltd.com/event/northampton-recovery-center-annual-ice-cream-social/
LOCATION:Northampton Recovery Center\, 25 Armory Street\, Northampton\, MA\, 1060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,HSF Member Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Northampton Recovery Center":MAILTO:Lferro@wmtcinfo.org
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SUMMARY:Leaders Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Leaders Lounge—a free\, informal monthly meetup on the second Thursday of every month for nonprofit leaders and community builders. \nHosted by United Way of Pioneer Valley’s Community Leadership Connect\, it’s a space to share ideas\, test solutions\, and learn of best practices. All are welcome to join the conversation! \nCome as you are to connect\, grow\, and recharge in a welcoming\, relaxed atmosphere. We can’t wait to see you there!
URL:https://hsf.novacruxltd.com/event/leaders-lounge-4/2026-09-10/
LOCATION:United Way of Pioneer Valley\, 1441 Main Street\, Suite 137\, Springfield\, MA\, 1103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,HSF Member Event
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SUMMARY:“The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State“
DESCRIPTION:“The Artificial State is the factory farming of humans\, the sorting and segmenting\, the isolation and alienation\, as if humans were becoming to machines what animals had become to humans.” —Jill Lepore \n“Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of . . . the Artificial State\,” writes Jill Lepore in this passionate account of how rule by machine has ravaged the world. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism\, which argued in 1951 that the machinery of modern life was reshaping the very fundamentals of human existence\, Lepore\, profoundly disturbed by the technology revolution and by the soulless inundation of artificial intelligence\, unfurls a new history for our own twenty-first century. \nBuilding on an essay in The New Yorker in 2024\, Lepore’s clarion call traces our increasing dependence on and strangulation by data. Political campaigns\, awash in an avalanche of fake bots\, have been reduced to attention-mining algorithms\, while multinational media corporations dictate public discourse\, and the era of the liberal nation-state seems to be coming to a rapid end\, replaced by billionaire technocrats reliant on autocracy and the tools of AI. \nWith Orwellian overtones\, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State demonstrates how technology has corroded global democracy\, leading to the destruction of both human community and capacity for self-government\, creating a new form of AI government\, a digital citizen’s assembly\, where AI will recommend the course of action to humans in place of human-run legislatures. Especially sobering with this proliferation of “dizzying\, ever-changing schemes\, prophesies\, and predictions” is that the Artificial State has come at the expense of the natural world\, leading to catastrophic loss of wildlife habitat and biodiversity. \nDeliberately alarming\, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State\, despite its abundance of dire facts\, is not a funeral dirge; rather\, it’s an inspiring wake-up call\, written in Lepore’s typically elegiac prose\, which demonstrates that nothing about the Artificial State was inevitable\, for it is a “government without consent\, even government without humans.” It can\, Lepore asserts\, be dismantled. Other heinous systems\, like feudalism\, fascism\, and slavery\, have also been dismantled\, but disassembly requires identifying the parts\, tracing the sources. It requires telling a new history. This is the purpose of The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State. \nJill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University\, professor of law at Harvard Law School\, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the New York Times bestsellers These Truths and We the People.
URL:https://hsf.novacruxltd.com/event/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-artificial-state/
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,HSF Member Event
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SUMMARY:Community Syringe Pick-Up
DESCRIPTION:September 12 – Community Syringe Pick-Up\, Holyoke \nOn the 2nd Saturday of every month from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM (weather permitting). \nVolunteers are welcome—please wear closed-toed shoes and arrive by 9:45 AM for a brief training before the pick-up begins.
URL:https://hsf.novacruxltd.com/event/community-syringe-pick-up/
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,HSF Member Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Tapestry Health":MAILTO:events@tapestryhealth.org
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