Jeremy Cherfas

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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.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-244-tuna/

Replied to a post on thesiswhisperer.com :

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.

Very strange web seen this morning. There didn’t seem to be a spider in view. I thought maybe caterpillars, but none that could see. It was like a suspended, open bag. Mystified.

Replied to a post on events.indieweb.org :

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

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240709-W-B0O8O3

Described in more detail at https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/rabbit-quest-20240709wb0o8o3/

* On foot
* 42.759728, 12.353907
* Tuesday 9 july 2024
* 421.44 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.759728&mlon=12.353907#map=14/42.7597/12.3539

Interesting article on whether LLMs are writing PubMed articles, that seems to conclude that on balance they aren’t. Yet. Perhaps unsurprisingly for a linguistic analysis, says nothing about the quality of the articles, no matter who might be writing them.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64877

I wouldn’t be sad if all the mosquitoes in the world went extinct. Does that make me a bad person?

An alarmingly concise and very hinged summary of what it was like to build this site from scratch

2024-07-16

I’m not clever enough

Very strange web seen this morning. There didn’t seem to be a spider in view. I thought maybe caterpillars, but none that could see. It was like a suspended, open bag. Mystified.