Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2010 and 2023.

(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)

2010

• 10 ways data is changing how we live
• Apertus, The Open Source HD Cinema Camera
• Bank Profits a sign of economic sickness, not health
• Collaborative innovation in open government: Is there an app for that?
• What Bernanke doesn’t understand about deflation

2011

• 9 Reasons Why Your Content Is Not Shared on Social Networks: New Research : Social Media Examiner
• A Case for Open Data in Transit
• The World’s Most Toxic Value System

2015

• Email Is The Last, And Ultimate, Social Graph
• How Pitsco’s 3D printing curriculum is changing the way STEM is taught in the classroom
• The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles
• Why smart cities - what about happy?

2016

• Why calling screen time ‘digital heroin’ is digital garbage

2017

• The Dangerous Delusions of Richard Dawkins

2018

• Container ships are getting cleaner, but the effort is adrift
• What Does The Decentralized Web Need?
• How Manhattan’s Streets Would Look as Valued Public Space
• The Saaka Lands Linking India and Europe
• The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its laws
• What Makes Food Deserts So Resilient?

2019

• Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms
• One Very Bad Habit Is Fueling the Global Recycling Meltdown
• The World Is Complex. Measuring Charity Has to Be Too
• What could Europe learn, and copy, from India’s electric rickshaws?

2020

• THE REAL CHALLENGE IS NOT 5G-BUT WHO IS DATAMINING?

2021

• Ditch the US Dollar Before It’s Worthless
• Speaking of electric cars powering the grid…
• The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors

2022

• How likely is deceptive alignment?

2023

• AI Model Weight Providers Should Not Police Uses, No Matter How Awful They Are
• AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed
• Decoupling isn’t phoney
• How to make Plastics without Fossil Fuels
• Is China’s economy a ticking time bomb?
• The End of the Subscription Era is Coming
• The Plasticene Era: Understanding the Dangerous Effects of Microplastics on Brain Health
• The World Will Never Know the Truth About YouTube’s Rabbit Holes
• Why America’s Hustle Culture Might Kill Us Before Anything Else Does
• Why Did Apple Endorse California’s Right-to-Repair Bill?
• Why Government Intervention in Healthcare is Necessary (and Inevitable)
• Why India’s soaring food inflation is a global problem
• Why write

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.

1. 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: