Jeremy Cherfas

Currently reading: The Amateur: The pleasures of doing what you love by Andy Merrifield, ISBN: 9781786631060

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Maybe: It all depends on dinner.

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 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.

Nuggets galore.

 * 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 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.

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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.

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…

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.