On this day, September 2
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2008 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)
2008
2009
- ‘Demographic Winter’ Exposes the Century’s Overlooked Crisis
- 10:10
- Are biofuels really worse than Canadian oil sands?
- Can we make it?
- The Demographic Winter - bastard.logic
- Vox Popoli: Demographic winter
2014
2015
- ==> Hacker proves with Open Data that Microsoft license costs don’t matter
- What’s Next for Kim Davis and Kentucky’s Gay Marriage Standoff
2017
2018
2019
- ==> Are Library of Tools and Things still missing in Europe?
- Bringing an end to hypervisor vs bare metal debate
- Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in
- Economics of Electric Vehicles Mean Oil’s Days As A Transport Fuel Are Numbered
- How Hydrogen Could Solve Steel’s Climate Test and Hobble Coal
- Ivan Rogers: the realities of a no-deal Brexit
- The Posthuman Transition in 7 Phases - The Slippery Slope of 1998 Mariah Carey
- Tony Blair warns UK Labour: Don’t fall into election ‘elephant trap’
2020
2021
2022
2023
- Changes in Music, 1998-2022
- In Japan, the young find dating so hard their parents are doing it for them
- Is AI “Sacred” Art Actually Sacrilegious?
- The Secrets of Happiness & the Meaning of Life
- The forgotten end of the second world 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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I am Marco Fioretti, tech writer and aspiring polymath doing human-digital research and popularization.
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