* 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.
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
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
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/
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
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.
2025-07-22
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Eat This Newsletter 276: Sharp practice is alive and well marketing dairy products to countries in Africa, as Ireland's big dairies know well. Also, food deserts, colourful carrots, garlic seeds, and Neanderthal butchery styles.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-276-diversities/
Eat This Newsletter 275
* Neanderthal fat factory; yes they could
* A history of school lunches in the USA; unintended consequences
* Pity the Snack Food Giants; sales plunge
* Big not-so-pink trouble in the rice fields.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-275-infrastructure/