Jeremy Cherfas

There seems to be a bit of a theme to my morning linkages, with The Luddite making a good case against Substack and all the other so-called tech companies bent on “eventually becoming a pointless middleman in an industry that they’ve now cornered”.

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Google … is essentially telling people who used their service for decades that they may have believed that the goal of its service was to “find websites,” but Google thinks the actual goal of its website is to “find answers.” Those are two different things, and one ignores the deeply extractive nature of the other.Who, currently, is still working on the problem of micropayments? Because, optimistic fool that I am, I still believe that whoever succeeds will not only make money, they will enjoy the undying adulation of many millions of people forever and a day.

Stop Press: I just asked specifically, and sardines are different. Unlike anchovies, no need to refrigerate unopened tins.

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240529-W-BU4212* On foot* 53.360765, -6.253028* Thursday 18 April, 2024* 424.03 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMap My first ever rabbit quest that involved an actual landmark.

Illuminating talk by Banu Özden about the contribution of minority cultures - Rums, Armenians from Anatolia, and Sephardic Jews - to the food of Istanbul, an amalgamation of so many cuisines, she said, “the name of the city defines the cuisine”.

TIL you and shops ought to keep tinned anchovies in the fridge, even before opening. Who knew? Marcela Garcés knew, in her talk partially about how the anchovy is “misunderstood, underestimated or, worse, discounted entirely” in the US.

Excellent keynote at Dublin Gastronomy Symposium from Brendan Dunford of the Burren Trust about the long history of farming in the Burren and how the landscape is “a book written in stone”. Farming there is now being reimagined to deliver “ nature-based opportunities”.

Binged Rebus on the iPlayer because I had to. Brilliant.

🛫 on my way, eventually, to Dublin and DGS2024. Looking forward to all the talks and friends old and new.

I know I shouldn’t feel sad about this, but that’s how it is when I see Ben Werdmuller talking about Known in the past tense. I am not a coder, so I have no idea how much work it would take to make it a fully-fledged citizen of the Fediverse, but that is something I hope for. And support.

Eat This Newsletter 238 is out, with some pre-history for Rome’s decline and fall and a bunch of stuff on nutrition, good, bad and ultra-processed.

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rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240517-B-AY68O8* On bicycle* 41.883903, 12.459594* Thursday 18 April, 2024* 424.34 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapAfter a ride of about 22 km this morning, discovered the bicycle rabbit quest less than one km from home.

Very much enjoyed reading Paul Robert Lloyd’s reworking of the IndieWeb principles, and in my view they are a definite improvement.

Only one question: is the emoji for item 6. a bento box? My old eyes can’t be sure, but it would be appropriate.

I finally wrote about my trip to the Brompton World Championships in Venice. Still have to do the photos.

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Latest episode, I talk to Eleanor Barnett’s about her book Leftovers, which made me think that wasting food is the default human behaviour. Only shortage can stop us doing it. Her solution is to advocate for a new appreciation of the value of food. Is there time?eatthispodcast.com/leftovers

Well, why not?