Jeremy Cherfas

Started getting some interesting spam this week, in which an AI has read the show notes and responded appropriately and vacuously. So I’m deleting the website and email and posting it. Is that bad?

An amazing site (linked by Andy Baio) that tracks parking officers in San Francisco in real time. Two questions. Will the city shut it down? No Are the cops tracking the leaderboard? Officer 0440 needs to shape up, clearly.

Eat This Podcast: The Miracle of Salt

Talking to Naomi Duguid about her book The Miracle of Salt and we managed to avoid the whole pink salt diet trick nonsense. So should you. Listen at eatthispodcast.com/salt

John Naughton is in very good form in his latest Observer column.

Peter hasn’t been in Berlin since 2018. There’s some likelihood of an IWC in there on 1-2 November, and it would be great to see him there.

Top Artists for the week to 18 September, from last.fm.

1 Ludovico Einaudi 26 scrobbles 2 Zoë Keating 15 3 Bill Frisell 14 4 Group Listening 8 5 Faramarz Payvar Ensemble 6

Annals of Automated Translation, 2025-09-19.

“There’s a new mommy sort of flavour, because after all, remember, vanilla is fermented.”

Top artists for the week to 11 September, from last.fm

1 Calexico 15 scrobbles 2 Bill Frisell 14 3 Tommy Hayes 14 4 Charlie Haden Pat Metheny 13 5 Leon Redbone 13

Just for a laugh I decided to remove all the data that 1478 websites had stored about me. I mean, how much harm could it do?

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