Very peeved. Time Machine can no longer see my Time Capsule and neither can I. Tried restarting the computer, but that didn't help. Don'[t really want to do a factory reset. What else can I try?
"UK podcast listeners willing to pay £4 average for monthly subscriptions" it says here: https://podnews.net/press-release/uk-podcast-listeners-four-quid
Standing by, here: https://www.eatthispodcast.com/supporters/
I do not believe that consumers are the main beneficiaries of recent trends in the centralisation and industrialisation of food production. Convenient, perhaps, but safe and affordable? At what price?
Podcasts are not radio shows. Or at least, they didn't used to be. Now, judging by how almost all awards lump them together, there is no meaningful distinction. Except that, in our hearts, we know that there is.
The big problem with the “all food is processed” and “everything is a chemical” arguments is that they fail to speak the same language as the people for whom “processed” and “chemical” have other meanings. I prefer to ask who benefits from the processing and the chemicals.
Galileo and failure. Tim Harford, are you listening?
Tim Harford certainly belaboured the point that safety systems may make things more prone to failure, what with the Oscars fiasco (two systems bad; three systems worse). Wheeling out Galileo was a masterstroke. Little could he have anticipated that someone who actually knew about statics would be listening..
Dr. Drang kindly shared his expertise.
I think we can forgive Galileo this lapse. He was creating new knowledge and, given his trouble with the Vatican, was desperate to get it published. Editing was of secondary concern at best.
I’m less forgiving of Tim Harford. Anyone who’s taken a statics class could have told him that the story on which he was basing “Galileo’s Principle” didn’t demonstrate that principle.
I wonder whether Tim Harford will even see that. Probably not; comments are closed.
Who is the real Dice Man? The elusive writer behind the disturbing cult novel
Fascinating stuff. I remember reading The Dice Man, and wondering, briefly, whether I would do something like that. Then I moved on.
Day 1 of IndieWeb Challenge https://indieweb.org/2019-12-indieweb-challenge.
Fixed all the feeds for my main blog website and checked their validity.
#IndieWeb_challenge #IndieWeb
Great piece about the difficult life of a solo podcaster, with lots of insights that another solo podcaster can both appreciate and make use of. But why on Earth limit its reach to Medium? You should have your own site, where you control the content.
Where to push for greater food safety as food supply systems change is such a difficult question, as discussed in my podcast with Shirley Tarawali and Delia Grace @ILRI https://www.eatthispodcast.com/in-praise-of-meat-milk-and-eggs/
What magic is this? https://www.outpan.com/app/3ef086df04/musical-chord-progression-arpeggiator Found thanks to https://indieweb.xyz/en
Pro-meat campaign may have turned some social media users against planetary health diet | EurekAlert! Science News
Maybe they'll start to take communications professionals seriously ...
Notes: We’ve Got Blog (2002)
I wonder whether I'd have any of the same reactions if I re-read it, 20 years on?
Just published the latest issue of Eat This Newsletter at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/1b16073c-be83-40c9-a168-aeee7fb26b25
Chris Aldrich wanted to know if I have a feed of podcasts I've actually listened to. Last time I checked, the RSS feed was very broken, a symptom of a site-wide problem. But the h-feed works, so there's that. At https://www.jeremycherfas.net/stream
I confess, I missed this story https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/norwegian-strawberry-group-and-altor-swoop-on-thomas-cook-assets-... when it first came out, and have not seen responses, but if a major backer of EAT has bought an airline, it does rather call into question the whole "less meat" aspect of climate change campaigners.
At last, I think I may have an actual genuine use for an IPad in my life https://overcast.fm/+NvaKdHCuY #Automators
Indeed, many of the people I've talked to about cashew nuts don't know the human suffering that goes into them. I learned about it ages ago, when the World Bank interfered with cashew production in Mozambique. That capuchins manage it amazes me.
Good work so far. As you note, micro.blog already offers a lot of the IndieWeb building blocks. And it recently started to offer an option to register your own domain, addressing another of your points. It's a good option for people (who can afford it) to explore the possibilities, and the nice thing is you can always move your content somewhere else if you want to. That's another good reason not to rely on silos.
Tim Harford — Hug your enemy rather than wrestling the pig
One starting point is the old proverb, “Don’t wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and the pig enjoys it.” There’s truth in that. We just need to find a version that doesn’t dismiss our opponents as pigs.
And there's the rub, really. You have to get over thinking of them as pigs.
