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Halo teman-teman semua, mau minta pendapat dong tentang privasi digital. Kemarin kan saya iseng ikutan forum diskusi online tentang investasi dan bisnis digital yang mengharuskan anggotanya masuk ke grup koordinasi via WhatsApp. Nah, apesnya saya lupa nyalain settingan privasi nomormu jadi bisa dilihat bebas sama ratusan anggota lain. Hasilnya, beberapa hari kemudian banyak akun random yang gak dikenal tiba-tiba nge-chat nawarin produk gak jelas dengan manggil nama saya. Serem banget kan jaman sekarang data pribadi gampang banget bocor ke tangan orang iseng. Kalau mau gabung forum publik gitu enaknya pakai nomor kedua apa ya yang aman tanpa ribet beli kartu fisik lagi?

The first time you hear it — really hear it — from inside a circle, standing barefoot on the earth by Spring Lake, you understand why the Coahuiltecan people have called this place sacred for thousands of years. The heartbeat rises up from the ground. The dancers move like prayer given a body. The regalia catches the sun. And for a moment, all of the noise, all of the news, all of the rush of 2026 falls away — and you remember something ancient your bones already knew. 🪶

That’s what Sacred Springs Powwow gives us every October. Not entertainment. Not a festival in the modern sense of the word. But a gathering — intergenerational, culturally powerful, and rooted in the longest continually inhabited site in all of North America. Organized with love and care by the Indigenous Cultures Institute, it welcomes 6,000+ of us each year to sit in…