I can easily see why people would choose Substack in preference to what I do here — and indeed, if I had to make my living solely from writing I would almost certainly be using Substack myself. (Also, I would almost certainly be living below the poverty line.) But every Substack user needs to realize that (a) Substack writers are not truly independent, (b) Substack will almost certainly undergo enshittification, and, therefore, (c) anyone using the platform needs an unenshittifiable backup. All you really need to know
This is madness. I have 653 different ...
This is madness. I have 653 different tags on my ~4000 bookmarks in linkding. Fully 267 of them have a single entry. Clearly I urgently need to procrastinate by cleaning everything up.
Underrated reasons to be thankful IV
Nuggets galore.
2024-11-26
* On foot* 41.882431, 12.455121* 26 November 2024* 424.57 ppm CO2* OpenStreetMapJust across the road from my barber, whom I had planned to visit in any case.
Bennett's Law says that as poor people ...
Bennett’s Law says that as poor people have more money they shift from coarse grains to fine and then to animal proteins. But it isn’t really a law, more a regular occurrence. Today, the first empirical test of Bennett’s Law, with researcher Marc Bellemare.
Trawling around after briefly noting Cooklang as ...
Trawling around after briefly noting Cooklang as a way of marking up recipes, I came across a recipe for gnocchi sauce that called for 300ml of cream as well as a burrata cheese and thought to myself, talk about gilding the lily.
2024-11-20
Links are powerful — that’s why Instagram and Twitter and Threads punish and limit them, and why Substack tries to take credit for them. And that’s why “wherever you get your podcasts” is such a radical concept — like email, it’s a medium that the tech tycoons don’t, and can’t, own. People can read your writing “wherever they get their email”.Anil Dash lays out the future of Sbstck www.anildash.com/2024/11/1…
2024-11-19
Needless to say, it was hard to glean any of these alleged meanings from the works themselves. Rather, they could be discovered only from the descriptions on the wall, which read like the everything-is-connected code-breaking ravings of an overeducated cabal convinced that a hidden semiotic language of resistance lies below everyday objects, camera angles, orientations, and gestures made so very many times before.https://harpers.org/archive/2024/12/the-painted-protest-dean-kissick-contemporary-art/Much to agree with, much more to be bemused by.
After years of using it for spices, ...
After years of using it for spices, I put my coffee grinder to work grinding, er, coffee because a friend gave me some French Roast beans from The Philippines. The coffee is good, with more than a hint of cumin.
Long reads from Eat This Newsletter. Modern ...
Long reads from Eat This Newsletter. Modern industrial production for better and worse. A review on dietetics so you don’t need to read the book. UK farmers sharpening their pitchforks; I’m not convinced. And more.