On this day, September 19
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
- Bangladesh: Digitizing Land Records to Combat Corruption
- Premier Wen vows transparency in govt budgets
2012
- Apple’s Maps Are A Disaster Waiting To Happen
- Arctic Resources, Exposed by Warming, Set Off Competition
- Jane Goodall On The Amazing Story Of “Chimpanzee
- Open data: Is there a business case?
- What Not to Eat: Arsenic!
2014
- Bad Managers Talk, Good Managers Write
- China’s workers are turning from analogue slaves into digital rebels
- Inuit folklore kept alive story of missing Franklin expedition to north-west passage
2017
2018
- Are IQ scores going down? What researchers say about whether we’re getting dumber.
- Facebook is letting job advertisers target only men
- Facebook wanted banks to fork over customer data passing through Messenger
- Filthy air is a global disgrace
- How Connected Is Your Community to Everywhere Else in America?
- John Deere Just Cost Farmers Their Right to Repair
- Shedding light on health misinformation in Nigeria
- The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media
- ==> The embarrassing absurdity of Article 11, explained
- Three things we can all learn from people who don’t use smartphones or social media
- Turn Off Push Notifications
- U.S. Near Bottom, Hong Kong and Singapore at Top of Health Havens
- What Will it Take to Avert Collapse?
2019
- An NI-only backstop is Johnson’s only option - and it still won’t save him
- Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source
- Greta Thunberg: “We are ignoring natural climate solutions”
- ==> The real danger of (digital) advertising is LONG TERM conditioning
- Your Navigation App Is Making Traffic Unmanageable
2020
2021
- Affective polarization in the digital age: Testing the direction of the relationship between social media and users' feelings for out-group parties
- Aphorisms Toward A Cultural Philosophy For The Present Time
2022
2023
- Can ‘road ecology’ save millions of animals?
- There’s an Alternative to the Infinite Scroll
- Watching Girls Die Online
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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