On this day, September 3
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2005 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)
2005
2009
- ‘Time’ was right about cheap food-but forgot farmworkers
- A “Bullshit” Response from Jeffrey Tucker
- If the World were 100 PEOPLE
- Wave of unexpected factory occupations follows meltdown
2011
2012
2015
2017
- All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years in twin ‘death spiral’ for big oil and big autos, says study that’s shocking the industries
- Feminism and the refusal of work: an interview with Kathi Weeks
2018
- The Mythology of Work : Eight Myths that Keep Your Eyes on the Clock and Your Nose to the Grindstone
2019
- ==> A Spectre is Haunting Italy: the Spectre of Quota 100
- Brexit crisis deepens as Tories rebel against Boris Johnson
- Can satellite megaconstellations be responsible users of space?
- Cotton is Not What Made the United States Rich
- DON’T BUY MY BOOKS! (Not my Edge Science-Fiction and Fantasy ones, anyway)
2020
2021
- ==> Decentralization will never be enough. Even if it is digital
- Verso una prossima crisi finanziaria globale?
2023
- Eating Bavarian Boar
- How Will We Know If AI Is Conscious? Neuroscientists Now Have a Checklist
- Pope Francis Explains The “Harmony” That Religions Bring to Humanity and Recalls Ten Specific Aspects of the Asian - ZENIT - English
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:
Who writes this, why, and how to help
I am Marco Fioretti, tech writer and aspiring polymath doing human-digital research and popularization.
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