Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 1995 and 2023.

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

1995

• THE CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron

1998

• The Land Mines of Data Mining

2002

• How green is your househhold plant collection?

2009

• Laughing Gas From Cow Manure Is a Major Warming Factor
• The way we eat is trashing the fragile conditions that make human life possible

2010

• Spatial History Project

2011

• ==> Part 2 of the Open Data, Open Society report is now available online
• Sustainable Shrinkage: Envisioning a Smaller, Stronger Economy
• The Coming Urban Data Revolution
• The dilemma of growth, as dramatized by the voices in my head

2014

• Interview with Saqib Qayyum of Wikimedia Pakistan
• Rickets returns as poor families find healthy diets unaffordable

2015

• This mashup of popular country songs confirms how formulaic the genre has become

2017

• UK wants ‘impossible’ Brexit deal and doesn’t understand single market, says EU negotiator

2019

• When I Took My Zipcar Into the Wilderness

2020

• ADM Systems in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A European Perspective
• Fewer American High Schoolers Having Sex Than Ever Before
• Plain Text Protocols
• ==> Tech giants: maximum damage with minimum effort
• Today’s Energy Predicament- A Look at Some Charts

2021

• Amazon Distribution Network Strategy
• America’s search for a new place in the world begins
• Bad News
• ==> China’s heist, and why it may be good
• another big risk brewing in China

2022

• Disable Code Block- Feature requests- Obsidian Forum
• How green is your househhold plant collection?
• The Kids Aren’t Alright: The 4 Factors Driving A Dangerous Detachment From Democracy

2023

• Brutally Honest and Comically Relatable: Life as a 30+ Woman in 2023
• First renderings show new California city that tech billionaires want to build
• Future diets will be short of micronutrients like iron, it’s time to consider how we feed people
• Gabon coup: How France’s neo-colonial empire in its former territories is disintegrating
• Leaving China
• Our Turbines- Emrgy
• The Rise and Fall of ChatGPT-4
• The current talk of decolonisation is about an exclusionary political agenda
• The global human rights regime has collapsed
• We’re All Programmers Now
• What’s With Council Member Bob Holden’s Bill to Register E-Bikes?
• if your name is Robert…

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: