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Inactive — Find us elsewhere. We’re a nonprofit R&D lab reimagining social media as digital public spaces that help people connect and thrive.
Jul 6, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
If you want to borrow a book, go to the library. But if you’ve been recently (even digitally), you know libraries are so much more than that.

They're a catch-all public resource, filling gaps in services and serving as a vital community and social infrastructure. 1/ Image In its history, the library has gone from exclusive to democratic. The first libraries in the U.S. were created so that rich, white, male colonists could exchange books.

Boy, have they changed. 2/

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Jul 1, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In his book, “Palaces for the People,” advisory board member @EricKlinenberg writes about social infrastructure, or “the set of physical places and organizations that shape our interactions,” as he describes it in an interview with @asmall_word. civicsignals.substack.com/p/17-checking-… Examples of these palaces of social infrastructure are parks, playgrounds, childcare centers — and libraries. Image