My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter.

A LOT.

interesting things that happened on this day, from 2008 to 2023 (*), from #iraq to #brexit

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/08/on-this-day-2024-09-02/

I'm never gonna answer a job offer from Wells Fargo as long as I'm alive.

which is exactly the point here.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/29/arizona-wells-fargo-worker-death

13 years ago, #onthisday, I published what may be one of the first comprehensive #opendata reports in Italy, if not internationally. I dare say most of the conclusions are still relevant:

Open Data, Open Society:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2011/09/part-2-of-the-open-data-open-society-report-is-now-available-online/

@lifeinthePNW of course, it can have *significant* side effects. Like getting pregnant:

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/ozempic-babies-unplanned-pregnancies

but this time I was referring mainly to the inequality-enhancing effects, so to speak

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter.

A LOT.

Selected linksto stuff worth reading, from 1995 (1995!!!!!) to 2023:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-1/

Translation: the rich won't just look better, they'll live longer too

(yes, it's already so, but further progress in THAT direction only isn't something to really rejoy about)

#ozempic

This "let's put data centers in Space" thing made sense...

until it said "let's cool them with water taken (cheaply, for sure) MAAANY million miles away":

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-centers-space.html

Bah

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter A LOT.

That is, LOTS of interesting things today, from 1948 (1948!!!) to 2023:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/08/on-this-day-august-31/

(*) Like BoingBoing used to be, just with memory, but without ads and distractions.

@Cosmichomicide yes, please repost that story! That's VERY interesting

yes. The "We've found your JOB OF THE WEEK" messages are particularly insulting

@Cosmichomicide

Indeed. Data Center are the new Walmart:

https://stop.zona-m.net/tag/data-center/

#useless work, always masked as "productivity":

https://stop.zona-m.net/2019/03/the-rest-is-organizational-overhead/

VERY true for me:

"a lot of the jobs you're seeing on #LinkedIn and other job-posting sites aren't actually available jobs."

Do you agree? Also:

"From the number of interview sessions to the weeks of time needed to complete all those interviews to the intelligence-insulting aptitude tests to the requests to do actual work for the company as part of the interview process, the tech industry has gone completely off the rails."

https://www.inc.com/joe-procopio/tech-companies-cant-find-good-employees-its-their-own-fault.html

"When the AI bubble bursts, Texas is going to be filled with the rotting corpses of no-longer needed data warehouses — and no jobs to show for it."

(if so, the sooner the better, I say, so the rest of us can learn and get back to reality without being directly hurt)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/01/ai-data-centers-are-trashing-the-texas-energy-grid/

Economists saying tax on REALLY rich ppl would be

"more likely accepted if proceeds went to solve #climatechange than global ­#inequality."

don't say it's 2 sides of same coin

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/28/brazil-radical-plan-tax-global-super-rich-tackle-climate-crisis

#onthisday in 2015, I noticed 3 Wikipedia editions telling 3 different inventions of CGI (the metal)

NINE years later, it's the same, but in FOUR editions.

German & French #wikipedia mention an English and a German, the English one only the English guy, and the Italian one only the German one

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter.

A LOT.

Selected links on interesting things in this day, from 2010 to 2023 (*):

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/08/on-this-day-august-30/

(*) Like BoingBoing used to be, just with memory, but without ads and distractions.