Don Means

Wild about libraries, worldwide!

[Don Means @donmeans]

Check out this article from @nytimes. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. https://t.co/hKCpzS06uY”Right now, the most powerful people in the world are deeply complicit in the gravest crisis that the world has ever experienced.”

[Don Means @donmeans]

Why seniors are blocking entrances to the four largest U.S. banks https://t.co/XBVmW3Co7z

[Don Means @donmeans]

@elonmusk where are you?

[Gigabit Libraries Network @GigLibraries]

Culture war in the stacks: Librarians marshal against rising book bans https://t.co/YdrUuxa9uB

[Don Means @donmeans]

@larrybrilliant Classic pattern of autocrats. Attack education and critical thinking. Did we ever suspect public libraries would be attacked? Libraries. who want nothing but to help with whatever you ask. And as the daily front line top defender of rights of free expression and private inquiry.

[Don Means @donmeans]

Outlook? Terrifying: TV weather presenters on the hell and horror of the climate crisis https://t.co/MAtJTZbILE
“Parker agrees there’s now a responsibility to educate. “We have to communicate climate in almost every forecast…”
Job has changed. Now an essential service!

[Don Means @donmeans]

The Climate Changed Fast This Year, and Institutions Responded | The New Yorker —Please deconstruct ⁦@RobAtkinsonITIF⁩
@billmckibben⁩ hyperventilating? Or extremely serious business? https://t.co/xF1xKAIZ8W

[Don Means @donmeans]

Forget everything you think you know about seasonal patterns. That future we thought would / might even not arrive much later is here today!

[Gigabit Libraries Network @GigLibraries]

Climate change and the new language of weather https://t.co/0TNwBpafNH via @GreenBiz
A whole new ballgame!

[Don Means @donmeans]

Thousands of records shattered in historic winter warm spell in Europe https://t.co/r2EJPZ962W Stand back @RobAtkinsonITIF and let the markets handle this… anomaly.

[Don Means @donmeans]

@PeterDiamandis Connect the unconnected to internet via LEO enabled community hubs/ libraries as critical to humanity’s adaptation to climate driven disasters. Cheapest most effective response. @GigLibraries

[Don Means @donmeans]

It’s a fair and tough question, Rob. Cannot speak for Bill. But unless you believe the situation is not an actual existential crisis, then probably no. Or if you think markets left to themselves will address this, then again not. Do you really?

[Robert D. Atkinson @RobAtkinsonITIF]

@donmeans @cleantechnica @billmckibben I see Don, if we just all focus on the planet then all will be well. Do you or Bill M honestly think the billions of people on earth will voluntarily spend money (and banks lose money) all at the same time to save the planet? Serious question.

[Don Means @donmeans]

@RobAtkinsonITIF @cleantechnica @billmckibben Perhaps this will fit in @RobAtkinsonITIF pipe. https://t.co/NgGKUIdNNH

[Don Means @donmeans]

Bill McKibben — HSBC Breaks With Other Banks On Fossil Fuel Financing https://t.co/VuN6cYLywc via @cleantechnica

[Don Means @donmeans]

@RobAtkinsonITIF @cleantechnica @billmckibben If we stop externalizing true costs to the planet the ROI will improve.

[Don Means @donmeans]

Astonaut shares the profound 'big lie' he realized after seeing the Earth from space https://t.co/NgGKUIdNNH
Mission to Planet Earth still unfinished.

[Larry Brilliant MD MPH FACPM 💛💙 @larrybrilliant]

Gulp.

The UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) reported this week that 60% of workforce inactivity (i.e. people not working) is now due to Long COVID.
https://t.co/TSNDxxqmWI

[Don Means @donmeans]

@TactNowInfo @larrybrilliant This has massive implications. Accelerated epigenetic aging effect potential for everyone infected.

[Don Means @donmeans]

Elon Musk Praised By Netflix Co-Chief Reed Hastings –
Not exactly faint praise. Who else has ridden to Musk’s rescue?
https://t.co/HUalqqQekn

[Don Means @donmeans]

@reedhastings Maybe the last moment of hope for what was to come.

[Don Means @donmeans]

Apparently the door only opens.

[Reed Hastings @reedhastings]

"Every 4 years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly & peaceful transfer of power & we are grateful to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent.” - President Elect Trump

[Don Means @donmeans]

LEO Technology Could Connect the Unconnected, Although Capacity Questions Remain : Broadband Breakfast https://t.co/kNXt65qJwX