On this day, September 15
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
2011
- ==> A quick summary of the status of programmable ICs and Open Hardware
- Are civil servants giving more work to SMEs - or less?
- ==> It’s time to bring FPGA design to the masses
- Want to correct misinformation? Try doing it with a graphic
2012
- Wanna Build a Supercomputer? You’ll Need Legos and Raspberry Pis…
- ==> You will not die. You will just have a hard time, forever. Unless…
2013
2014
- Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems
- The Mathematics of Ebola Trigger Stark Warnings: Act Now or Regret It
- Torvalds says he has no strong opinions on systemd
- We don’t need no (moral) education? Five things you should learn about ethics
- Why a Massive International Effort Has Failed to Contain the Ebola Epidemic
2016
2018
- Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks
- ==> Comments to “Whither Peer Production”
- Here come connected vehicles and urban analytics: what do they mean for privacy?
- How algorithms reproduce social and racial inequality
2019
2020
- Analysis: World has already passed “peak oil” , BP figures reveal
- Bielorussia, Naval’nyj, Ucraina: capire le radici
- China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign
- How Algorithms Are Changing What We Read Online
- ==> The unbearable US-ness of online discourse
2021
2022
- A Mindedness Take on the Concept of Gender
- Do 50+ Men Have A Future? A Buddhist view
- Losing altitude - Travel as if every place matters.
- ==> My own thoughts on why trashware’s time has passed
- Patagonia Founder Avoids $700 Million Tax Hit By Donating Company
- State of Gen Z Mental Health 2022
- The biggest mistakes in climate communications, part 2 - Climate Brightsiding
2023
- Carrefour uses ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pressure PepsiCo, Nestle' and Unileve
- Fake News Detectors are Biased against Texts Generated by Large Language Models
- Fixing Search
- How White Biotechnology Is Innovating to Advance the Global Bioeconomy
- India’s Hindu children are being radicalised - will the country speak up?
- It is a monstrosity of the highest order to dismiss men…
- Madrid Health Service, a pioneer in applying Generative Artificial Intelligence to improve diagnosis for patients with rare diseases
- Nuclear Now?
- Red states quit nation’s oldest library group amid culture war over books
- Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Music
- We Thought We Were Saving the Planet, but We Were Planting a Time Bomb
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).
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