On this day, September 8
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
- A Different Environmental Threat: Peak Rare Minerals, China, and Green Technology
- Blending in on campus reportedly not so easy for ‘Potter’ star
- Facebook theory of economic development
- The Easiest Way to Fight Global Warming?
- The strategic use of technology for social change: APC and the women’s movement
2011
- Chart: Who owns our modern myths and legends?
- EU Officially Seizes The Public Domain, Retroactively Extends Copyright
- Going Green but Getting Nowhere
- What teachers really want to tell parents
- What we SHOULD have been taught in our senior year of high school
2012
- Call for applications: Web-based course on Participatory Democracy, Urban Management and Crisis Capitalism - TNI
- Has The German Pirate Party Lost Its Way?
- Is open government open enough?
- Japan in WWII: A Casualty of Usury?
- The Myth That Japan Is Broke: The World’s Largest “Debtor” Is Now the World’s Largest Creditor
- Wikipedia told Philip Roth he’s not “credible source” on book he wrote
- how science, policy and politics can work together
2015
- HTTP is obsolete. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web
- Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot
2016
2017
- Amazon acquires Roomba: iRobot CEO says they will never sell your data
- Civic Tech in the Global South: Assessing Technology for the Public Good
- Hackers Can Silently Control Siri, Alexa & Other Voice Assistants Using Ultrasound
- New AI can work out whether you’re gay or straight from a photograph
- The ‘internet of things’ is sending us back to the Middle Ages
- When Did the Anthropocene Begin and Why Does It Matter?
2018
- How feelings took over the world
- Joseph Stiglitz on artificial intelligence: We are going towards a more divided society
- On embodied emissions, exploitation and the unsustainability of consumer products
- Ring the changes on sustainable growth
- The Invisible Thread Between Smartphones And Child Labor
- Why American Mass Transit is So Bad
- Why organized labor is (still) a Catholic cause
2019
- He Who Must Not Be Tolerated
- MIT Media Lab personal food computers don’t work and elements were faked, staff say
- Marchetti’s Constant: The curious principle that shapes our cities
- Oil prices and the coming financial ‘Ice Age’
- The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy
- Why Africa’s Policy Makers Should be Worried About Virtual Platforms and Virtual Currencies
- Why industry is going green on the quiet
2020
- David Graeber: ‘To save the world, we’re going to have to stop working’
- How philanthropy benefits the super-rich
- ==> The first thing to know about Artificial Intelligence? Its myths
2021
- A distributed conscience system
- ==> Promising news for right to repair from Germany
- The Small Website Discoverability Crisis
2022
- Generation Z is Waging a Battle Against Depression, Addiction and Hopelessness
- Text Is the Universal Interface
2023
- AI trains on your Gmail and Instagram, and you can’t do much about it
- Abused, traumatised and powerless: South Korea’s teachers on why they are protesting
- Deadly humid heatwaves to spread rapidly as climate warms
- EV growth to hit 19% next year
- Friend coaches and the end of friendship
- In U.S.-China AI contest, the race is on to deploy killer robots
- Niger coup sanctions drive Ghana’s onion prices up, deepen food crisis
- Nobody Will Tell You the Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label
- The Labour Supply Crunch
- Voting online is very risky. But hundreds of thousands of people are already doing it
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:
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