On this day, August 28
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2010 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraphs)
2010
2011
2015
2016
- Gawker, the open web, Thiel and Zuck
- ICO to probe WhatsApp’s data sharing deal with Facebook
- The saga of DC’s never-ending universe
2018
- Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals
- Does Google Actually Make Us Dumber? That Study, and Many Others, Were Just Called Into Question.
- How Google Earth led a team of scientists to discover a rainforest on Mount Lico
- In India’s Largest City, A Ban on Plastics Faces Big Obstacles
- Reason N. 999… why Sustainable Development needs good Open Data
- Rose McGowan Releases Detailed Statement On Asia Argento Accusations
2019
- Cap and Adapt: A Failsafe Approach to the Climate Emergency
- How to Make A Memex
- Indonesia pushes back against trickle down science
- The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
- The Real Reason the Climate Movement Has Failed
- Tim Ball Pleads For Mercy As An Irrelevant Sick Old Man, Gets It, Declares Victory
- What’s good in this deportation story
2020
- Algorithmic Colonization of Africa, part 2
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD)
- The Social Fabric of the U.S. Is Fraying Severely, if Not Unravelling
- Type A parenting: Here is how to give it up forever
2021
- What if the city were bad for brain?
- Youth in China, Japan and South Korea are ‘lying flat’ because they’re exhausted and without hope
2022
2023
- “I just assumed it would happen” : the unspoken grief of childless men
- “I’m done
- Decentralized social networks have a retention problem, say execs
- Is bothsidesism killing us? And why scientific consensus matters
- LLMs are agents of chaos
- MMT is a language of Ents, not Squirrels
- New California rules would crush rooftop solar for renters
- Please Don’t Steal My Work
- The AIKEA Effect
- The Army Wants to Slap a Next Generation Squad Weapon on a Robot Dog
- The business of silence: is there a hidden cost to noise cancelling?
What’s this, and who does it?
I am Marco, tech writer and aspiring polymath, researcher and popularizer of “Digital-Human Studies in many ways, including my newsletter.
Over the years, I have bookmarked thousands of articles and news of all sorts related to those studies, or to my personal interests. This post is a selection of the bookmarks that were published on this day, in several years (1).
I share them as a public service, because memory of what happened and serendipity MATTER. A lot. We are all too distracted and stressed by stuff that has no other merit than being “new”, or limited to our work, instead of being important (if you find broken links, please let me know).
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- This is in the spirit of the “Almanac of the next day”, an italian TV program aired from 1974 to 1994 that presented the most important historical facts happened on each day. This is a snapshot of its opening titles:
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