All 50 states are poised to receive large grants of federal money to expand broadband access, but they have a lot of work to do to meet the government’s requirements.

States are also in something of a race: The first ones to get funding will be able to begin hiring from the limited pool of technicians capable of installing fiber optic cables.

https://theconversation.com/every-state-is-about-to-dole-out-federal-funding-for-broadband-internet-not-every-state-is-ready-for-the-task-214356
#infrastructure #technology #digitaldivide

The Canada #Infrastructure Bank has already got $2 billion in equity investment loans out to Indigenous communities and is looking for more opportunities to grow that number.

Loans for up to 90 per cent equity can be arranged for projects in #green infrastructure, clean power, public transit, #trade and #transportation, and #broadband infrastructure ranging from $5 million to $100 million.

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/infrastructure-bank-provide-loans-indigenous-equity-investment-major-projects

#Indigenous #FirstNations #Inuit #Métis #equity #industry #business #CIB

"The real disconnect is not between our human nature and all the other beings; it is between our image of our nature and our real nature."

Superb read: https://t.co/NvwUa2KpMS

"A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you."

Poet and philosopher John O'Donohue on the essence of friendship and the beautiful ancient Celtic notion of "anam cara" (soul friend) https://t.co/7qGXjLhfWe https://t.co/tmqC4D2FOM

After Paris banned electric scooters, something surprising happened in the city

https://electrek.co/2023/12/06/after-paris-banned-electric-scooters-something-surprising-happened-in-the-city/

#micromobility #scooter #bike

#BBC’s Experiment in the #Fediverse, with Senior Firestarter Ian Forrester (Dot Social Podcast) 

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-ian-forrester/

Skills and social rights in times of technological transformation https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/special_report/skills-and-social-rights-in-times-of-technological-transformation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EventReport #skills

#CBC News : #Rogers told to produce records for Competition Bureau investigation of #wireless phone plans
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-competition-bureau-1.7048677
#canada #telecoms #competition #investigation

"To study the #Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly."

– Dōgen

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

Well I had been considering a move to BMO - this totally changed my mind. Not very good customer relations

CBC News : Alberta BMO customer on the hook after almost $10K disappeared from her account 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/bmo-camrose-county-10k-line-of-credit-1.7044049 #banking #BMO #canada

#Google tricks ChatGPT into exposing itself
https://boingboing.net/2023/11/29/google-tricks-chatgpt-into-exposing-itself.html #AI #ChatGPT

How to Ensure Community Perspectives are Represented in #Digital #Equity Program Evaluations

https://www.benton.org/blog/how-ensure-community-perspectives-are-represented-digital-equity-program-evaluations

#Broadband #internet

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way... As a man is, so he sees."

On Blake's birthday, his classic letter about the creative imagination https://t.co/wRFV1IRigC

"Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons. Do not see others' faults with a hateful mind. There is an old saying that if you stop seeing others' faults, then naturally seniors and venerated and juniors are revered. Do not imitate others' faults; just cultivate virtue. #Buddha prohibited unwholesome actions, but did not tell us to hate those who practice unwholesome actions."

– Dōgen

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Dogen

In praise of being wrong – the uncommonly insightful and just plain wonderful Lewis Thomas, born 110 years ago today, on the value of generative mistakes https://t.co/LULYWlJLjb

Far-right conspiracy theorists accused a 22-year-old Jewish man of being a neo-Nazi. Then Elon Musk got involved

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/business/brody-musk-lawsuit-invs?cid=ios_app

#socialmedia #misinformation #reputation #conspiracy

Discover the 20 #Best #SciFi #Films of All Time

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/11/20/discover-the-20-best-sci-fi-films-of-all-time/

The Shadow Elephant – a tender illustrated fable about the healing power of just allowing the difficult emotions to be https://t.co/2EbMD0saS0

"Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life."

Bertrand Russell, who lived nearly a century, on what makes a fulfilling life: https://t.co/x6NOnuzyqD

Well, at least the #FCC is doing it's job for once as they adopt rules to prevent digital #discrimination of access to #broadband services. I can expect a legal challenge though. https://themarkup.org/still-loading/2023/11/15/fcc-approves-rules-to-prevent-digital-discrimination