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

• A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint
• Eddyburg
• Older Unemployed Struggle to Rejoin the Work Force
• the good ones vs. the looters

2011

• Promoting Open Source Software in Government

2012

• ‘We will find you’ marketing gone wild: Candy bars that guarantee stalkers
• High-Frequency Trading: It’s Worse Than You Thought
• If You Were A Tree… What Kind Of IP Protection Could You Get?
• The Tyranny of Algorithms

2013

• Poking Pope Francis
• NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration
• When Ephemeralization is Hard to Tell from Catabolic Collapse

2014

• Christables = Catholic Prefilled Communion Cups
• Ensuring the Future of Data Archiving
• Naomi Klein is right: Unchecked capitalism will destroy civilization
• Out in the Open: A Blogging Tool That Lets You Actually Own What You Post on Facebook
• You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia

2015

• All Our Jettas

2016

• HP detonates its timebomb: printers stop accepting third party ink en masse
• Libya’s people smugglers: inside the trade that sells refugees hopes of a better life
• Our roads are choked. We’re on the verge of carmageddon
• Should New York City abandon its waterfront?

2018

• Google tells Congress it continues to allow developers to scan, share Gmail data
• Kyung Hee Kim on “The Creativity Crisis'

2019

• Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah
• ==> The scam of AI and Industry 4.0: not only about journalism

2020

• Build Personal Moats
• The ‘new normal’ has been postponed (and probably canceled)
• Vote-by-mail meltdowns in 2020?

2021

• After the West’s response to Covid, Africa cannot expect support on climate change
• ==> Digital murder? We knew it was coming
• The Marketplace in Marseille

2022

• Psychology might be a big stinkin' load of hogwash and that’s just fine
• Telegram Has a Serious Doxing Problem

2023

• AI data training companies like Scale AI are hiring poets
• Google Health’s Chief Clinical Officer Talks About Incorporating AI in Health Care
• History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, Three, Four, and Six
• How much stuff does it take to not be poor? About 6 tons per year
• No Country for Old Ocelots
• Philips Hue Will Soon Require Online Accounts to Control Lights
• Pricing In The End of Obesity
• Saudi Arabia is trying to disrupt soccer’s world order. The reasons why might surprise you

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).

You may follow this Almanac and my work via Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn or X/Twitter, not to mention RSS, which remains the most efficient, less distracting, more private and more future-proof way to follow news online. If you don’t know why, read here. Last but not least, thanks for supporting my work in any way you can.

1. 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: