On this day, October 14
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 Black Eye for Cloud Computing
- A scary new climate study will have you saying ‘Oh, shit!'
- European Internet Rights and Amendment 138: The Parliament betrayed by its negotiators
- Internet coalescing into lump of Google
- Our old electric grid is no match for our new green energy plans
- The Spanish solar collapse
- The U.S. military’s battle to wean itself off oil
- Why solar won’t topple in Germany
2010
- If IT Policy is Your Thing, Keep an Eye on Europe
- Italy’s Job Crisis: Why Young Italians Are Leaving
- Technology Solutions That Drive Education
- What Monsanto’s fall from grace reveals about the GMO seed industry
2011
2013
- Cooking as the Cornerstone of a Sustainable Food System
- How Greer’s catabolic collapse challenges Kevin Carson’s ephemerilisation thesis
- How feminism became capitalism’s handmaiden - and how to reclaim it
- How your grandparents’ life could have changed your genes
- Polemic: how readers will discover books in future
- The Demise of Italy and the Rise of Chaos
- Why Microsoft Word must Die
- Work Is Dead, Long Live Life
2014
- France Is Living Fat and Giving the Finger to Germany
- Is Polygyny a Slave to History?
- It’s here and energy is largely behind it
2015
2016
- Can you rid us of Emperor Zuck?
- Saving the Planet, American Style - A Critical Review, and Some Thoughts and Ideas
2017
2018
2019
- Benefits system automation could plunge claimants deeper into poverty
- Computer says no: the people trapped in universal credit’s ‘black hole’
- Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor
- Do or Daesh
- How Silicon Valley Broke the Economy
- ==> There is no artificial intelligence
2020
- ==> A foreigner’s opinion on Walt Disney’s debts, or bailouts
- Reimagining the new social contract for the digital age
2021
2023
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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