On this day, September 9
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2011 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)
2011
2014
- Civic Tech and Engagement: In Search of a Common Language
- Edward Lucas: Russia is winning
- Fanning the Flames of the Systemd Inferno
- Partpic Makes It Easier To Find Repair Parts For Your Whozits, Whatsits, And More
- The Day I Decided to Take My Social Life Back from the Robot
- The Internet of Things Could Drown Our Environment in Gadgets
- The Story Behind ‘init’ and ‘systemd’: Why ‘init’ Needed to be Replaced with ‘systemd’ in Linux
- Best of capitalism is over for rich countries - and for the poor ones it will be over by 2060 - Paul Mason
- When Babies Become Commodities
- Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away
- Why food prices scaled the peaks - and why it matters
- Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault
2018
2019
- Being “Indistractable” Will Be the Skill of the Future
- ==> The problem of crowdwork remains the crowd
2020
- A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion
- ==> What is the Value of Open Source Hardware Development?
2021
- China’s Red New Deal: Tracking all the different crackdowns on companies going on right now
- ==> One more proof that cyberspace does not exist? Great!
2022
- “A new way of life” : the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan
- Can AI Be Sexist?
- How Social Media Destroys the Things That Matter Most
2023
- Animated Knots
- Superheroes are dying and what that means
- The lessons of Chile’s struggle against Big Tech
- Water withdrawal, depletion, demand: the World’s Wells are in Trouble
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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