On this day, September 13
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2012 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)
2012
- Climate bombs called HFCs - Corporate Europe Observatory
- NBN pricing critical as digital divide deepens
- The Balance Between Open Data and Privacy
- The Original Hacker’s Dictionary
2013
- A concept you learned in middle school math could save us from climate disaster
- Meeting aliens will be nothing like Star Trek
2014
2016
2017
2018
- Baltimore County Student Writes Op-Ed On How To Survive Mass Shooting
- Day-to-day effects of no-deal Brexit stressed in new impact papers
- Google Employees Are Quitting Over The Company’s Secretive China Search Project
- Grocery stores aren’t dead, but they need help with real-time data
- Jeff Bezos to fund schools where ‘child will be the customer’ with new charity
- Please Stop Telling Poor People to Leave Town
- The Rise of the Inequality Industry
- The death of democracy and birth of an unknown beast
- The loss of science stream privilege
- Year 11 and 12 students in NSW will no longer learn about women’s contributions to physics
2019
2021
- George Church, Ben Lamm create Colossal to bring back woolly mammoth
- ==> Something meaningful about driverless, for a change
2022
2023
- AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To)
- All planetary boundaries mapped out for the first time, six of nine crossed
- Australian CEO Tim Gurner wants to “kill” the attitude where “employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them”
- I Was Never Lonelier Than When I Got a High-Paying Tech Job in Seattle
- Only A Supervillain Could Stop Climate Change
- The Economy’s Safety Net Is Finally Gone
- The Enchippening
- The case against pets: is it time to give up our cats and dogs?
- What American Bullies tell us about men
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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