Monday was the 80th anniversary of the roundup and deportation to Auschwitz of the Jews of Rome. That much I knew as I was planning this episode. More recent events took me and everyone else completely by surprise. Then I had two days of network outa
Parking, Italian style
I asked a colleague for evidence that ...
I asked a colleague for evidence that an intervention was associated with changes in behaviour.
We don’t know. It’s more about awareness.
M’kay.
Awareness may be a precursor of behavioural change, but on its own it offers me nothing of value.
Alan Jacobs -
You could literally take a hungry climate ...
“You could literally take a hungry climate refugee and put them in the middle of a field of food, and they’d still starve to death.” Interesting take, with which I fully agree. I wonder how the writer might feel about Chris Smaje’s Small Farm Future?
The wholeness of the word: 'Regenesis' as myth, Part II | Chris Smaje
”Plants are energised by zero-carbon, zero-cost sunlight, whereas factory-produced microbial biomass is energised by generated electricity at an energetic cost amounting to at least an order of magnitude more.”Not going to quibble about that order of magnitude greater than zero. The point is very well made: Proposed ecomodernist solutions to future food supply are not solutions at all.
And it's out, the latest issue of ...
And it’s out, the latest issue of Eat This Newsletter buttondown.email/jeremyche…
A slew of stories from around the web, each of them connected to at least one of the others because that’s the way of the food and agriculture system.
I was wrong about Healthkit not exporting ...
I was wrong about Healthkit not exporting distance data. The data are there with distance in a cycling workout recorded as km between records, which are 1 or 2 seconds apart. The numbers are there, obscured by being of the order of 0.007 km. Solved at www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/tran…
Just finished the draft of the latest ...
Just finished the draft of the latest Eat This Newsletter, which goes out tomorrow at around 13:00 CEST.
One thing I was especially grateful for was @mastoreaderio@mastodon.social from @badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place