On this day, September 12
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2009 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)
2009
2012
- Cycling solution to gadget recycling
- E-Lex
- Government Transparency Sites: Moving into the 21st Century
- Industries Dependent On Copyright Exceptions Contribute $182 Billion To Australian Economy
- Like FOSS Fog, Cloud Confusion May Not Matter
- Open Data Emerges as a Global Movement
- Organic food: Still More Than an Elitist Lifestyle Choice
2013
- Bear hair study in Banff proves animal highway crossings work - High Country News
- Of Milk Cows and Saudi Arabia
- Italy floated plans to leave euro in 2011, says ECB insider
- Reporter Barton Gellman Explains Why It’s Extremely Unlikely The Russians Or Chinese Have Snowden’s Documents
- Superbugs move faster than governments can act
2014
- In a warming world we can’t keep depending on the same few crops
- The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious
- The Revenge of the Circulating Fan
- The keys may be on your fingertips, but that doesn’t mean biometric locks can’t be picked
- Why fingerprints make lousy authentication tokens
2015
2018
- Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you
- How Will Climate Change Affect Politics?
- How to stop data centres from gobbling up the world’s electricity
- Soccer Mom Hate
- The Economy’s Not Booming. Capitalism Is
- What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About Low-Skilled Jobs
- What a Society Designed for Well-Being Looks Like
- What lies beyond the meritocracy?
- What the world needs now to fight climate change: More swamps
- Why Growth Can’t Be Green
- Your Child, Your Choice: How the United States Made Parenting Impossible
2019
2020
2023
- AI image generators have a moderation problem
- Ancient Roots: A Promising New Project to Organize Humanity’s Universal Heritage
- China Fertilizer Curbs Show a Fragile Food Supply Chain
- The South China Sea’s Resource Wars
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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I am Marco Fioretti, tech writer and aspiring polymath doing human-digital research and popularization.
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