Jeremy Cherfas

Identifying strongly at the same time as feeling even more isolated.People sometimes forget that podcasting, like blogging, started out as an egalitarian medium infused with the anti-hierarchical values of the open-source movement in software. If it is to retain a little of that democratic character in the face of rampant corporatization and Hollywoodization, it needs a flourishing middle class of independent makers who have the freedom to focus on their audio work, follow their creative instincts, and choose honesty over fake neutrality. 

Two explainers on tomato colour at

frogsleapfarm.blogspot.com/2014/04/g… and

www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/T…

I cannot recall anything but red tomatoes from my youth. Yellow was dangerously exotic maybe 30 years ago. All that diversity, hiding out of plain sight!

@person72443 @omgitswinx Or, you know, come on over and explore indieweb.org direct and join the chat. We’re quite friendly …

I too replaced an 11-year-old MacBoook Air with a new MBA M2, and I agree, it is a thing of beauty. So I am in need of a case. I doubt that the PKG is available in Europe (a shame) but the side-zipper is now something I need to keep an eye on.

Created a portable install of Reaper, my digital audio workstation, which I hope will make it easier to work on sound wherever I find myself.

Sweetly naive cartoon.

When is a tangerine not a tangerine? When it is a tomato! Italians are embracing tomato diversity as farmers, breeders and eaters select new orange tomatoes to take advantage of loosening seed regulations in the EU.

www.eatthispodcast.com/orange-to…

With @matteo_petitti of @retesemi

“UK citizens’feelings about their incomes were a substantially better predictor of pro-Brexit views than their actual incomes.”Just one of several interesting observations in this piece.

Grateful to @leckerpodcast and @dearlucy for the opportunity to eavesdrop on the ever-so-interesting chat between @angela_hui and @rebeccamjohnson about their books and their lives. overcast.fm/+HXBq1vac…

In honour of last week’s 29th annual Golden Spurtle championship, I refer you to two previous epsiodes.

Porridge: Not your usual all-day breakfast www.eatthispodcast.com/porridge/ and Why a spurtle makes a superior porridge stirrer www.eatthispodcast.com/spurtle/

Latest Eat This Newsletter has it all: mac and cheese, sourdough, Indian Indian, microplastics in mothers milk, and the drive to large chain restaurants.

buttondown.email/jeremyche…

Totally frustrated trying to update the url of a broken reference link in Wikipedia. After half an hour of well-intentioned getting nowhere, I abandoned my civic duty. If anyone wants it, they can find it themselves.

What a shame. This site had been spam-free since August 7, and then some dork had to show up and ruin it.

Interesting comment. I hadn’t considered dairy allergy, which would have taken me even deeper into the thickets. I take it human milk was not an option.

Fascinating article, although it omitted one of the finest juggling acts I’ve ever seen. The Gandinis, at the Edinburgh Fringe long ago, lying on the floor and rolling water bottles from hand to hand. Slow juggling, very meditative and entrancing.