Jeremy Cherfas

“Salt is a powerful thing. It ensures well-being, it cures, it pleases guests, and it attracts males. And it was brought from a mystical garden. To teach girls how to manage this power must have been an ongoing challenge for the elders.”Read (and subscribe) at buttondown.com/jeremyche…

TIL about the -c flag in rsync, which skips files based on checksum. The big benefit to me is that it preserves modification times, making it easier to find what I’m looking for. They say it takes more processor time; I don’t care. Hope there are no gotchas.

Got to be a win all round.

Food has become cheaper and more abundant over the past 70 years or so by ignoring external costs. As a result, our planet and our health have suffered untold damage. Is it even possible to turn the food system around? Listen at eatthispodcast.com/paradox

Top Album Artists last week

1. Bill Frisell 14
2. Calexico 13
3. John Hiatt 10
4. Tres Chicas 10
5. Astor Piazzolla and Gary Burton 6

Top Album Artists last week:

1. Ralph Kirkpatrick 35
2. Charlie Haden Pat Metheny 14
3. Galactic 13
4. Jenny Scheinman 12
5. The Iguanas 12

Eat This Newsletter 268

• Link to a truly thought-provoking essay on Malthus
• Fiction, fact, and myth in rural–urban conflict
• Crop variety names
• Celebrate Passover != Jewish

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Just for fun I went to look at the four sites Jason linked to, the ones he thinks may be of no value. Each asked me to share my information with 119 vendors. I’m not going to do that. And spending on adverts is not going to deliver visitors either.

Always good, and this time, super pleased by the link to a chart of which glue to use when, and how.

Tech language does not work. That includes the ‘Fediverse’. Campaigns isolated on decentralised networks do not work. By claiming platform ‘purity’ no one new is learning about these spaces. Build and they will come is not true. Humans are complex things and they need more than four walls to feel at home.True for almost everyone, not just journalists.

New episode: Farming’s Overlords. The top four companies globally control more than 60% of the inputs modern farmers need: machines, seeds, chemicals. That concentration, plus their size, gives them unprecedented power.https://www.eatthispodcast.com/titans

Top Album Artists last week:

1. Willie Nelson 15
2. The Cranberries 13
3. The Little Willies 13
4. Salif Keita 10
5. Jerusalem Quartet 9

Interesting and educational to read about Reilly’s bash script for writing a now post. I’m still in the metaphorical Dark Ages of having a template that I save in the right place under a new name with updated variables.

XKCD on tariffs is actual genius.

xkcd.com/3073/

I feel the same, and am now tempted to rename Miscellaneous to Dunno.

Time again for Eat This Newsletter.

• Some things called pepper
• Welsh oats
• Chickens with olives
• Hot potatoes
• Civil Eats’Food Policy Tracker

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Thanks for the introduction to wikiloc.