On this day, September 18
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
- GPL Violations Are Still Pretty Common, You Know?
- Seven ways mobile phones have changed lives in Africa
- You won’t need a driver’s license by 2040
2013
2017
- It’s time to wake up to the devastating impact flying has on the environment
- Languages don’t all have the same number of terms for colors - scientists have a new theory why
2018
- ‘For me, this is paradise’: life in the Spanish city that banned cars
- AI Could Devastate the Developing World
- How Much Is Your Private Data Worth - and Who Should Own It?
- The Patriarchs of American Collapse
- What can Kosovo teach Taiwan about Civic Tech diplomacy?
- Why Women Don’t Get to Be Angry
- Yes, Government Creates Wealth
2019
- Desperate Central Bankers Grab for More Power
- ==> Shopping on Amazon is a blessing for rurals. For now
- The Problem With Sugar-Daddy Science
2020
- ==> An optimistic description of the Network Economy…
- Netflix’s The Social Dilemma fails to tackle the real issues in tech.
2021
2023
- Engineering whistleblower explains why safe Full Self-Driving can’t ever happen
- Google Removes “Written by People” From Helpful Content Update
- Hotline reports “shocking” rise in the sextortion of boys
- In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school
- Male loneliness epidemic: How fathers face a friendship deficit
- War over the Means of Reality Production
- Why did the South want California during the Civil War?
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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