On this day, August 29
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2011 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)
2011
- In the future, nobody will THINK about what we KNOW
- Life After 50: Your Number One Financial Liability? The Numbers On The Scale
2018
- 3D-Printed Firearms Are Blowing Up
- Add GUIs to your programs and scripts easily with PySimpleGUI
- Do You Own Your Data?
- Is Your Email Address Holding You Back?
- Linux Foundation on Track for Best Year Ever as Open Source Dominates
- Migrants and refugees are good for economies
- Non-discrimination is a core value of open source
- Nuance: A Love Story. My affair with the intellectual dark web
- Single payer vs single pricing in USA
- Single-Payer Healthcare Isn’t Necessary, Single Pricing Is
- The Race Is On to Mine the Deep Ocean, But Scientists Are Wary
- USA Temperature: can I sucker you?
- Why Right Wingers Are Going Crazy About Meat
- evolution of popular music: USA 1960-2010
2019
- City-led Open Mobility Foundation Uses Open Source To Manage Transportation
- Students will do the right thing, for the WRONG reason
- Why carbon offsetting is not going to solve the problem of climate change
2020
2021
2022
2023
- Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone
- How Burning Man Failed
- How drought in Central America is pushing up the cost of living in Australia
- Online Dating Is Better With My Burned Haystack Method
- Reshaping real world assets with tokenization and original Ethereum’s vision: AMA with Mattereum
- The Daily: 29 August 2023
- The end of cool small cars
- This Is Why You’re Still Single
- USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage
- Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness
- Visualising the 2,056 nuclear tests conducted since 1945
- Why I Traded My Smartphone for an Ax
- Why Isn’t Ukraine a Global Superpower?
- You Don’t Need Massive Battery, Or Fast Charging To Give Up Gas
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).
You may follow this Almanac and my work via Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn or X/Twitter, not to mention RSS, which remains the most efficient, less distracting, more private and more future-proof way to follow news online. If you don’t know why, read here. Last but not least, thanks for supporting my work in any way you can.
- 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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I am Marco Fioretti, tech writer and aspiring polymath doing human-digital research and popularization.
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