On this day, September 6
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
- Exposed: The Swine Flu Hoax
- Information feudalism and permanent rent in the cloud
- It’s Raining OLPC Total Costs of Ownership (1 of 4)
2010
2011
2012
- How Google Builds Its Maps-and What It Means for the Future of Everything
- Welcome to the new reputation economy
- Why Johnny can’t stream: How video copyright went insane
2013
- Bullshit Markets or Markets in Bullshit?
- Ed Miliband says lobbying bill will put charities in jeopardy - Politics
- Jonathan Koomey: Blog
- Our Democracy? - Dissident Voice
- unHagiography: what modern-day social innovators can learn from the life and times of St. Benedict
2015
- On the viral rise of divorce selfies (and the death of traditional marriage)
- ==> What do USA special forces and Mexican drug lords have in common?
2016
- Here’s why a massive 1859 solar storm still terrifies scientists
- What If Evolution Bred Reality Out Of Us?
2017
- A Serf on Google’s Farm
- Russian Operatives Bought U.S. Political Ads on Facebook. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal.
- Who are Jordan Peterson’s followers?
2018
- Bloodbath Coming in the US Banking Sector
- Fraunhofer: Agrophotovoltaic farming works
- How social-media platforms dispense justice - The deciders
- MatterHackers
- Seven Reasons Why The Internal Combustion Engine Is A Dead Man Walking
- Study: More U.S. girls starting puberty early
- Telcos Dead In 20 Years - And They Deserve It
- Who Killed Henry Ford’s Hemp Car?
2019
- A globalised solar-powered future is wholly unrealistic - and our economy is the reason why
- America’s aging population is leading to a doctor shortage crisis
- ==> Have we missed something in FOSS? Of course
- Outside the Walls
- The Limits of Clean Energy
2020
2021
- A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: I Just Feel Lost
- ==> Hey Google, Siri, Alexa… tell me how this ends
2022
- DSHR’s Blog: Impossibilities
- I’m a psychologist - and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health
- Is Quiet Quitting Real?
- The gossip trap
- YouTube is Dead and Something New is Coming
2023
- Airbnb effectively banned in New York City
- Be careful when you laugh at Burning Man
- Chinese EV battery manufacturers flock to Hungary
- Chuck Your Privilege
- Experimental biology and social media experiments on the mind
- Extreme heat poses heightened death risk for those with schizophrenia
- From sex life to politics, car driver data grab presents privacy nightmare
- Google’s Waymo hopes to lure weary passengers with new safety study on driverless cars
- Robots Are Already Killing People
- Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg
- The Great Tech Deflation. How the tech industry could suffer
- The Next Big Populist Revolt
- The future headwinds
- Cars Are a Privacy Nightmare
- Time To Crowdfund a UBI Platform
- Why China’s imperial map is drawing criticism from neighboring nations
- Yes, it’s OK to laugh at wealthy Burning Man attendees mired in muck
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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