Jeremy Cherfas

Happy Birthday Ben. Such an interesting list. On a quick read, some of those things are already here (though perhaps not polished enough), some of them will never be here, and some of them ought to be here already. Thought-provoking.

Maybe you really want to build your own, but if not, Newsblur is an RSS reader has an excellent ability to include email newsletters.

When a human-powered transcript flows seamlessly from “tide disputes” to “Thai disputes” without once taking on board that “tides are these ecclesiastical taxes …”.

I realise it is absurd to take to Twitter to wonder where are the blog carnivals of today, but …

… where are the blog carnivals of today?

jeremycherfas.net/blog/weed…

This:

For all the talk about how the internet isn’t as interesting as in the “Good Old Days”, there are so many places I would happily spend time reading and contributing to if each day was at least twice as long. So many chats, so many forums, so many blogs, so much social media.

Thanks, Ton, for your post linking to Alan Levine’s Google-taming post. With your guidance, it was easy to knock up a few Alfred workflows. I should note, too, that DuckDuckGo has a !bangsearch for !flickrcc (which gives slightly different results, because it uses a different CC code) and possibly others

@C2ooth Interesting post, and much of what you are looking for already exists within the IndieWeb community. HTTPS://indieweb.org as you perhaps know. Moreover, we are not all disenchanted tech utopians

Physicists are more playful and less hidebound creatures than, say, biologists—partly, no doubt, because they rarely have to contend with religious fundamentalists challenging the laws of physics. They are the poets of the scientific world.Evolutionary psychologists claim they can explain—as the title of one recent book has it—“why sex is fun.” What they can’t explain is why fun is fun. This could.

Does the value recovered outweigh the cost of investigating these cases? From a simple dollar-for-dollar amount, certainly not. However, the existence of a rigorous investigations team helps deter staff and partner fraud.

Great insights into the botany of the pine nut via @BitKblog. The botany would be the same for Araucaria araucana seeds, but I wonder why they aren’t marketed – too rare? – or how the flavour profile compares.

botanistinthekitchen.blog/2021/12/1…

Chuffed to learn that @scotlandbread won @bbcfoodprog award for Food Innovation. If I were in Scotland, I’d be sourcing from Flour to the People. Instead, I gave a donation to the crowdfunder campaign at crowdfunder.co.uk/scotlandt…

I wasn’t affected by the somewhat scuzzy email sent out by chumps at Princeton to “research” internet privacy regulations, but I was prompted by Ton’s investigation to take a look at Tranco. And blow me if I’m not also in there. One of the compensations of being an old blogger.

Among the many fascinating charts that 538 selected from this year, this is the one I found most informative.

@mer_matthews You can get turnkey Indieweb at micro.blog for $5 a month. The bigger question is, what has payment to do with it? Not everybody who publishes online is looking for payment. Maybe some dislike being sharecroppers for the silos. Not the same as wanting to be paid.

@mer_matthews I’m not competent to judge everything you have said, but I do know that it certainly does not cost $25 a month to have a site that makes use of IndieWeb principles and building blocks. Do you have specific examples in mind?

Eat This Newsletter 171 is out, with Canadian chickens, proletarian food systems, sweetness and dark, and a tribute to NI Vavilov. All connected, even if somewhat tenuously. Read it at buttondown.email/jeremyche…