On this day, September 4
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2009 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)
2009
2010
- 187 Access to Information: Is Mexico a Model for the Rest of the World?
- In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification
- Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone?
- Open data, democracy and public sector reform
- Two Schools of Internet Pessimism
2011
2013
- China could become the first country to legalize parcel delivery by drone
- China’s brand-new abandoned cities could be dystopian movie sets
- For the first time, the combined GDP of poor nations is greater than the rich ones
- From Example to Excess in Silicon Valley
- Government may ban Gmail for official communication
- Millennials Need To Learn These 14 Rules
- Seeding Eden - The Creation of the Food Forest
- The west’s threat to attack Syria is an idiotic gesture
2014
- Cause of global warming hiatus found deep in the Atlantic Ocean
- Don’t dismiss MOOCs - we are just starting to understand their true value
- Even the Council on Foreign Relations Is Saying It: Time to Rain Money on Main Street
- How much do we really know about privacy on Facebook?
- In the on-demand economy, flexibility isn’t control and algorithms won’t protect workers' rights
- The Permaculture Fail
- The Power of Petroleum in One Little Pill Post Carbon Institute
- The Secret Life of SIM Cards
- Think the Southwest’s drought is bad now? It could last a generation or more
- Working Anything but 9 to 5
- You can’t write a CV on a smartphone - digital literacy is no help to unemployed youth
2015
- Every hour you spend in front of a screen is linked to poorer exam results
- IU researchers lead effort to unlock economic potential of maker movement
2018
- It’s time to break up Facebook
- This is how big an impact air pollution can have on solar power
- What John Stuart Mill Got Wrong about Freedom of Speech
2019
- Climate change will dramatically devalue farmland in southern Europe, EU agency reveals
- Dasein and the Fourth Political Theory: Towards an Adequate Critique of Alexander Dugin’s Political Theory
- Drowning in plastic
- Getting pronoun badges right: Five recommendations for event organizers
- Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
- ==> RSS is still great. And needed. More now than ever
- This is why Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson want an election - but not yet
2020
- Nazi Hippies: When the New Age and Far Right Overlap
- Oyo is reintroducing boy scouts in public schools
- The Trump Era Sucks and Needs to Be Over - Reporting by Matt Taibbi
- Why Humanity Remains Locked in a Mid-Prepersonal Level of Development, Part I: Why We Do Not Recognize that Our Development is Fixated, Joseph Dillard
2021
- Facebook is Subcontracting Its Content Moderation for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
- ==> Peak car is just one face of peak complexity
2022
2023
- Experts warn ‘green growth’ in high income countries is not happening, call for ‘post-growth’ climate policies
- France’s waning influence in coup-hit Africa appears clear while few remember their former colonizer
- Japan wrestles with its views on “outside people” amid population crisis
- Mexico gender reveal party pilot dies after plane crashes
- The Guardian’s block on ChatGPT using its content is bad news
- The Social Mobility Illusion
- We will all become boring
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.
- 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:
