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Jeremy Cherfas

Podcasters: About to record my first episode using Zoom. I normally record from FaceTime and Skype (RIP) mix-minus to my DAW. It is worth doing the same as a backup for Zoom’s local recording?

I guess I'm asking how reliable is Zoom's local recording.

Jeremy Cherfas

Eat This Newsletter 279: No Excuses

An attack on industrial agriculture.

Science-based fisheries management works.

Beware the poppy seed, and dodgy drug tests.

Read it at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-279-no-excuses/

Jeremy Cherfas

What a rare treat. Someone recommends an episode of a podcast I don't subscribe to. I go to the page in question. I like the look of it. I attempt to Huffudff the episode. It Just Works. I carry on about my business. The end.

Jeremy Cherfas

I'm not sure I ever forgot how to surf the web, but in case you have, David Cain spells it out at his blog Raptitude: https://www.raptitude.com/2025/06/how-to-surf-the-web-in-2025-and-why-you-should/

And in keeping with his advice, I got there from Tim Bray's latest collection of Long Links: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/04/Long-Links

I would also repeat: use RSS

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Eat This Newsletter 277: Latest scientific research predicts it is only a matter of time before some valiant entrepreneur offers freeze-dried maggot supplements to gullible eat-like-a- Neanderthal knuckleheads.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-277-empty-calories/

Jeremy Cherfas

I vaguely knew, in a theoretical way, about S-spun and Z-spun yarns, but not about their impact on crochet and knitting. Finally, buried deep within the useless and the slop, a site that was very helpful.

https://yarnsub.com/articles/twist

Jeremy Cherfas

Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Trump is the head of a cult that has figured out how to turn fear, precarity and pain into the top of a sales funnel that destroys anyone who gets caught in it.

A fine diagnosis, through and through. The challenge now is, how to mass deprogram the members of the cult.

Jeremy Cherfas

2025-07-22

rabbit_quest geohashing 20250722-W-AY68OD

1 min read

Composite image. On the left a map showing the location of the quest and my position. On the right, two cars, one white and one darker, parked in front of a shuttered shop entrance with a sign that reads

* On foot
* 41.8847, 12.4596
* 22 July 2025
* 423.90 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

If you’re triangulating my location — and why would you? — this is the closest to home I have ever been.