Gigabit Libraries Network
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GLN operates as an open collaboration of tech savvy, innovation libraries cooperating as a distributed global testbed/showcase environment.
Sausalito, CA
Joined October 2016
Project Launch: State Libraries and AI Tools (SLAAIT) State libraries to explore strategic use of AI around workforce development. Join tomorrow. https://t.co/MGEn6L23Hl
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Join for an introduction to this new national project.
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With faith in the future.
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Some of the world's most celebrated authors have written manuscripts that won't be published for a century – why? Richard Fisher visits the Future Library in Oslo to find out.
“News” as the media reports is understandably short term but misleadingly dark. There are so many good trends missed. Take a look at the uplifting Swedish site @Gapminder which will make you feel much much better about humanity.
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SpaceX today has greater launch capacity than all others. Combined! Starlink is a ubiquitous, semi-autonomous, high-performance communications system, nearly impervious to disruption. Likely a five year lead in both. May even be growing. That is a lot of power in one place.
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Check out this gifted article from @nytimes. https://t.co/7rByH1T5VX Guy nails it. Humans may be too adaptable and therefore too ready to accept the new (ab)normal. AND that US & China MUST lead. Very very soon! Is there anything else worth working on?!
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A dispatch from the flooded house of our new lead writer.
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Hey @elonmusk !
Hey @elon, if you are in fact a free speech absolutist or even free speech minimalist, why aren’t you championing the world’s #publicibraries at the front lines in the struggle against book bannings and for the right of free expression and private inquiry? Who tops that?!
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Hey @elon, if you are in fact a free speech absolutist or even free speech minimalist, why aren’t you championing the world’s #publicibraries at the front lines in the struggle against book bannings and for the right of free expression and private inquiry? Who tops that?!
Culture war in the stacks: Librarians marshal against rising book bans
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Culture war in the stacks: Librarians marshal against rising book bans
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Facing smear campaigns and death threats, librarians are on the front lines of an urgent battle for intellectual freedom.
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https://t.co/PIJbTJwX4x
@AfLIACon For those to whom US$43/mo is still too high or for any other reason there's the shared access at a community hub.
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The Gigabit Libraries Network and the National Library of Nigeria has signed an agreement to ensure that five public libraries gain free access to
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Elon Musk launches Starlink in Nigeria at reduced prices
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The Nation Newspaper Elon Musk launches Starlink in Nigeria at reduced prices
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SpaceX's Starlink is active in Africa for the first time https://t.co/bY9BaaP4UB via @businessinsider
https://t.co/t4pGEWeK1q Libraries address affordability challenge through shared free use. Not perfect but in @elonmusk parlance, better than nothing! @AfLIACon
businessinsider.com
Isa Ali Pantami, Nigeria's minister of communications and digital economy, celebrated the milestone in a social-media post.
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Five Nigerian libraries gain free access to Starlink https://t.co/gPHtZgAmIq Just the beginning!
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Dolly Parton free library signups soar after Alabama announces program https://t.co/jhpmHCudDc Sweet!
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Here's how to enroll your child in the free book program.
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Five Nigerian libraries gain free access to Starlink
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The Gigabit Libraries Network and the National Library of Nigeria has signed an agreement to ensure that five public libraries gain free access to
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Actually Now! Africa is Open! @SpaceXStarlink "Nigeria to Receive Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Broadband Access in Public Libraries" Pilot program is first in Africa and will bring enhanced internet connectivity and increased community resilience against outages.
Starlink approved by Nigeria 🇳🇬 & Mozambique 🇲🇿 https://t.co/Q1VvqVmJ2i
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Climate change and the new language of weather https://t.co/0TNwBpafNH via @GreenBiz A whole new ballgame!
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The weather outside is frightful. What, exactly, do we call it?
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El Niño Is Coming—and the World Isn’t Prepared | WIRED The proverbial is hitting the fan. We are so not prepared.
wired.com
Global heating will set the stage for extreme weather everywhere in 2023. The consequences are likely to be cataclysmic.
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This year I’m thankful for US public libraries – beautiful icons of a better civic era | Moira Donegan https://t.co/TSBzQZQzTN “it aspires to encounter people as minds” - open to all - Reminds of our better selves.
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The US can often be cruel to its citizens, but the public library is a sanctuary and a vision of what our country might one day be
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Anyone, I hope, Read here: https://t.co/cWQfuCMq4E Once again! Great @rayadverb gives us seriously hilarious take on ourselves. Thank you!
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It’s time to don surgical gloves, reach deep down inside the big bag of stupid that was the past 12 months, and see what we pull out.
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