On this day, September 17
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
- ==> A little known effect of Wikipedia
- Before Changing DNS Servers to OpenDNS or Google DNS, Read this!
- Climate change guardrail too hot for coral reefs?
- Freedom Not Fear: Creating a Surveillance-Free Internet
- Trend: The Micro-Everything Revolution
2013
- Carbon footprint is not as small as you think
- Evgeny Morozov’s “To Save Everything, Click Here” - Tom Slee
- Wasted food is a huge climate problem
2016
2017
- 5 Beliefs That Set Evangelicals Apart From Other Christians
- Are publishers making money on Facebook? “Not really,” a new report finds
- Building the New Economy: The Suburban Phase
- Half of millennials would give up their rights to get out of debt
2018
- 58% of Silicon Valley Tech Workers Delayed Having Kids Because of Housing Costs
- Antisemitism? Dump the Guardian!
- First evidence that soot from polluted air is reaching placenta
- Florence is not the “new normal” . We’ve destroyed normal forever
- How statisticians are trying to change the way we measure poverty
- Post-Growth Open Letter to EU institutions signed by over 200 scientists: Europe, It is Time to End the Growth Dependency
- The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis
- These 5 Rebel Movements Want To Change How Money Works
- We hold people with power to account. Why not algorithms?
- heading for a Blind Brexit
2019
2020
2021
- Gavin Newsom abolishes single-family zoning in California
- ==> Of supply chains, or why global is personal these days
- The Perils of Degentrification
- What Working at a Gun Store Taught Me About Gun Ownership in America
2023
- A note of caution about the withdrawal of cash
- The Zia symbol. An uncomfortable truth for New Mexicans
- Why You Should Read Dostoevsky. Dostoyevsky beyond Crime and Punishment
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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