Jeremy Cherfas

That blueprint is at siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441.h… which brilliantly analyses what made the original Patreon so attractive and how it has declined. As someone still able to use charge-by-item and someone who uses the support of patrons to make my stuff available to all, I really appreciated the piece.

Robert Kingett’s heartfelt post about why he is leaving Patreon, coupled with my own attempts to streamline the support options for my own little endeavours, left me reminiscing about the original flattr and early Patreon itself. The blueprint for a replacement exists. Somebody, please build it.

Seven years ago I wrote a generally depressing piece about “science communication” and how little it seems to achieve. Someone please tell me how things have changed in the interim.

www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/scic…

Maybe everybody who needs to has already seen this sound advice for Patreon — and Ernie is not the only one — but I still think it bears sharing more widely.

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ETN 248: Slow

Even the internet firehose seems to have slowed to a trickle in this northern heat. Still, one or two good dribbles to share, on new chocolate species, culture and cultured meat, and the man who ate all the UPFs he could in a day.

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@help Is there a reason I cannot paste into a reply (ios) or is it just me? I understand I cannot post because I am not a paid account, but I can reply from the app. But not paste into my reply.

[M]ake it easier to book international tickets, and that will mean more customers – and that should improve rail firms’bottom lines. It is just that defensive, national monopolist thinking, and a conservative mindset, is rather too prevalent in the rail sector just now.Bring it on!

The ending of Apple TV’s version of Presumed Innocent is what we in the IANAL profession call “A Swizz”. Nothing short of preposterous and vastly inferior to the book. Made me feel cheated after 7 3/4 fine episodes.

A bright blue swimming pool backed by loungers under shade and beyond them a green hedge, trees and a spotless blue sky. 

I can write Eat This Newsletter while on holiday. Promoting it, however, is another story entirely. BLTN, the latest offers food-borne illness, conspicuous fruit consumption, and plant-based meat … for pets.

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One of the questions not raised by the latest Eat This Newsletter, which drops tomorrow, is why people who clearly want to subscribe, and are real people, don’t activate their accounts? Am I justified in doing it for them? Do people really not check their spam?

Japan did get an increase in Pacific Bluefin Tuna quota, but not as much as it originally wanted. Increase of 50% for big fish and 10% for smaller fish. They originally wanted 230% and 30% respectively, so that really is a win for scientific management.

www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024…

From An alarmingly concise and very hinged summary of what it was like to build this site from scratch“Yes, nearly everything about the platform felt worse than it did when I first started using it over a decade ago. … Someone with even a modicum of clout should really coin a catchy term that everyone else can repeat ad infinitum until it loses all meaning. I’m not clever enough.”Like, er, enshittification? Or was this an example of self-deprecating humour designed to flush out a reply guy?I’m not clever enough to decide.

In the latest Eat This Newsletter, the surprisingly rapid recovery of Pacific Bluefin Tuna, more than 10 years ahead of schedule. Naturally Japan now wants to increase the quotas that enabled that recovery.

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I would have replied to @thesiswhisperer@aus.social directly, but they seem to delete all their posts immediately. I would have said thanks for fixing the coding of your blog post, which I found interesting and thought provoking. Maybe they’ll see this.

My first thought was “false flag”. That’s what these times have done to me.

Yes: Looking forward to a Homebrew Website Club that doesn’t interfere with my evenings.