On this day, September 7
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2007 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)
2007
2008
2009
2011
- A strategic balance for open government data publication
- Are jobs obsolete?
- Court: Some data on government cell phone tracking should be public
2012
- American Journalism Review
- Crime stats scrape the surface: education and employment key for African-Australians
- End of outsourcing as we know it
- How Voters Can Escape From Information Cocoons
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Open Data
- Los Altos School District & Khan Academy
- Norway becomes first OGP country to open its company data and Belgium announces it will too
- Politics on Social Networking Sites
- Search Is Obsolete" Says Xyologic, As It Takes On The Mobile Apps Long Tail
- Sudan’s Dictator Wants Satellites to Stop Spying on His Crimes
2015
2016
2018
- Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
- Britain loses medicines contracts as EU body anticipates Brexit
- Development as Freedom in a Digital Age : Experiences from the Rural Poor in Bolivia
- Facebook, Twitter Execs Admit Failures, Warn of ‘Overwhelming’ Threat to Elections
- Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code
- I’ve seen the future of consumer AI, and it doesn’t have one
- If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer
- India Pushes Back Against Tech “Colonization” by Internet Giants
- Introduction: The Green Transition and the Next System
- It’s Been 10 Years Since Banks Were Bailed Out and People Were Sold Out
- Marvel’s New Uberframework Graphs Every Character In The Universe
- More people are taking Facebook breaks and deleting the app from their phones
- On Redis master-slave terminology
- Pretty clear GRU’s goal was to weaken a future Clinton presidency
- Solar isn’t accessible to half of Americans. Can community solar change that?
- Ten years after Lehmans, it’s\u00a0as if we’ve learned nothing from the crash
- The Constitutional Turn: Liberty and the Cooperative State
- The Copenhagen Letter, 2017
- The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground
- The future is here today: you can’t play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions
- The open-source movement to hack your arugula
- The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world
- Ubu Roi in Hungary
- We won’t save the Earth with a better kind of disposable coffee cup
2019
2020
2021
- A Quick and Dirty Guide to Creating an EPUB with Pandoc
- Here’s How We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth
- How Do You Decode a Hapax? (Also, What’s a Hapax?)
- ==> If reskilling is not quick enough, it’s not COVID’s fault
2022
- AOC on the Fight for Abortion Rights and Whether She’ll Ever Be President
- Higher Ed’s New Woke Loyalty Oaths
- Politics Of Diversity Statements For Jobs In Higher Ed
- Slouching Towards Utopia: Brad DeLong on why the years from 1870 to 2010 were humanity’s most important
2023
- Abortions Rose in the U.S. in 2023, Data Shows
- Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language at home
- BMW Ends Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated It
- Book Publishing’s Broken Blurb System
- Everything can stay the same, except what women do
- It’s Official! The Democrats Have a Nonwhite Voter Problem
- New Elon Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire’s Ukraine dilemma
- Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave
- The “rising superpower” myth about China
- The China Model Is Dead
- The Tyranny of the Parking Lot
- The hidden digital roadblock that’s keeping green electricity off the U.S. grid
- The ideologues behind the RAAC crisis
- Understanding the Baby Boom
- Why Silicon Valley AI prophecies just feel like repackaged religion
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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