Jeremy Cherfas

So glad to see this site spring back to life, and this post is a great example of how anecdote can illuminate data.

A reminder of how things used to be in a fairly functional democracy.

“States with more permissive gun laws and greater gun ownership had higher rates of mass shootings, and a growing divide appears to be emerging between restrictive and permissive states.”

As a non-gamer, I had no idea that this was even a thing. And some of these games are almost tempting. Found via Craig Mod’s Ridgeline newsletter.

Rachel Laudan is promising a personal look into some of the history of the organic farming movement in England. Looking forward to the rest of her series.

@khurtwilliams In the interests of science? I’ll accept your report.

It will be interesting to see how tonz develops this idea of an automated personal assistant. I know other people use Shortcuts in all sorts of clever ways to do similar things. I still prefer paper and pencil and a sort of bullet journal.

Currently reading: Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Half a world away, two outages fried my wifi extender. You have my sympathy.

@usfoodpolicy I have a different question:

Who could eat a bacon ice-cream sandwich? I know I couldn’t.

I realise the risk I run saying this, but I do believe that the amount of spiced ham this site has received has dropped off over the past six months.