Created an account at alltogethernow.io. It's a start.
Property ownership in a small farm future | Small Farm Future
[S]o many people in the world today lack the opportunity, knowledge and skill to provide even the most basic perquisites of daily life, and I believe this is a silent pathology that eats at contemporary society.
Yup.
I find this very interesting. As a podcast producer, I do not, generally, use a lot of music behind speech. That might be because I am a stick-in-the-mud old fart who learned that craft, such as it is, at a well-known broadcaster. Also, it is really difficult, especially when there is no-one I can ask to do it for me. Listening to track after track after track to find the right one is so time-consuming. But maybe that’s a waste of time? You seem to be suggesting that I just bung some smooth jazz under everything.
J-School Confidential
I'm pretty sure nothing much has changed in the intervening 28 years.
Thomas P.M. Barnett - Blog - As a Writer, What Would It Be Worth to You to Be Able to Instantly Mine Everything You’ve Ever Written?
Thomas PM Barnett seems to be building a combination personal search engine and Zettelkasten called InfoSquirrel and plans to sell it as a service. I doubt I will ever be able to afford it, but it does look interesting and I certainly wish him well.
I had a whole extra hour this morning to work on tomorrow's Eat This Newsletter, with small family farms, food and GHGs, Sumerian legends, palm oil parasitism, a cookbook writer's memoirs and a bunch of loose ends. To make sure you get it, subscribe.
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I love this idea:
Oct 30 (the number 30 in the octal number base) is the same as Dec 24 (the number 24 in the decimal number base)
Thank you Björn Wärmedal
Yes: Wish I could be at IWC Dusseldorf in person, but remote will have to do.
@ChrisWiegman Strange you should say that. The protocols I use are alive and well, and they give me part of what I need from a community. I do feel good too, and that is part of the story, but to dismiss something you personally don't care for or use seems uncalled for.
Intrigued by a new role-playing board game called Rulal Commerce, based on China's demand for tea and what it is doing to Laos. Can't find any explanation of the significance of the name, though. Does it, I wonder, mean anything?
https://pim.cgiar.org/2021/10/25/rulal-commerce-boardgame/
Part 1: It will think you are crunching bones
Always readable.
Strangeness for #WorldPastaDay
TIL
1. You can buy broken bits of leftover pasta.
2. It costs exactly the same as uniform, whole pasta.
3. Why?
Step aside 75%, which achieved mythic status as the amount of genetic diversity lost since ~1903. The new not number is "almost 80%", the proportion of studies in a global meta-analysis that found evidence of some genetic erosion. I hope that's clear.
https://agro.biodiver.se/2021/10/almost-80-is-the-new-75/
Huge congratulations to Chris Otter, whose fascinating book Diet for a Large Planet has just won the AHA Bentley Prize in World History. We had a great chat about how the British created global food outsourcing and made it was it is today.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/large-planet/
19.10.40 | Orwell Diaries 1938-1942
Thought for the Day
The unspeakable depression of lighting the fires every morning with papers of a year ago, and getting glimpses of optimistic headlines as they go up in smoke.
Pig apples: or, why small farmsteads are efficient and effective | Small Farm Future
[W]hile it’s feasible to wander around a smallholding with a trug looking for apples to feed two pigs, it probably isn’t feasible to wander around a largeholding with a trug looking for apples to feed two hundred or two thousand pigs. So there are diseconomies of large scale to the ecological efficiency of the farm’s unbidden bounty.
That doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile
Ghostwriting – Study Hall
Very interesting long essay about what it is to be unseen, unheard and yet vital. But that professional podcast world? Awful.
15 years ago today I wrote enthusiastically about @Mann_Library @Cornell gathering up great graphics to share and inspire.
The old website remains at https://web.archive.org/web/20170719024829/http://martha.mannlib.cornell.edu/charts/ but where are the original submissions and what happened to the project?
On this day in 2009, I never thought I would be directing this post to @danielpunkass https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/the-software-ate-my-homework-honest.
Long may it continue.
Hey @marcoarment Overcast.fm still giving errors: ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed when I try file_get_contents(overcast_url)
Is this a relic of the big certificate fail a while ago? If not, I wonder what I can do about it.
@AgroBioDiverse You are a star! Manuel Elkin Patarroyo is the man.
"The chemically manufactured vaccine known as SPf66, invented by Patarroyo, had limited results with "only" 55 percent effectiveness. Even so, it was a breakthrough."
I hope @thedailybeast follows up.
@LSHTM All this talk of a first malaria vaccine ... first approved, maybe.
I can't be the only person who remembers early trials by a Venezuelan whose name, alas, I cannot remember. There was protection, but not enough. Does anyone else remember what I'm talking about?
Very nice idea. @croptrust is offering to help seedbanks in less well-off countries financial help to duplicate their collections and store them safely in Svalbard.
What are you waiting for? Apply now. https://www.croptrust.org/svalbard-grant-call-for-proposals/
How to help someone use a computer
I just rediscovered this page, which I first linked to on this day in 2004. Timeless advice that I try to follow when I give and appreciate when I receive.
In my ignorance, I didn't know who Phil Agre was; now that I want to know more, it is hard to do so.
Hey @marcoarment Has something changed in Overcast back end? I am getting errors like `file_get_contents(): Failed to enable crypto` from my all data XML file. Maybe part of that root certificate thing, which I confess I do not fully understand. #indieweb
2021-10-01
International Coffee Day
1 min read
It's #InternationalCoffeeDay2021, the whole point of which is promotion, right? So here's a link to all previous episodes of Eat This Podcast on coffee https://www.eatthispodcast.com/coffee/
@Economicbotany This six-week online course on Country Houses and the British Empire looks like it would be great, based on previous lectures from @corinne_fowler. I hope I can make time for it.
@ajspadial What made you remember?
Giving up on Defeated on Netflix after two episodes. Too dark, too violent, too one-dimensional.
Opting Out of TurnItIn – Terence Eden’s Blog
Not sure I can be bothered to expend the effort, but the reasoning is sound.
My argument is "Fuck You. I don't want you to hoover up my content and then sell it without my permission."
Godwit – Music of Sound
Wonderful in so many ways, from the natural to the highly technical.
@FallingTreeProd I've only heard one episode so far, but Scene on Radio's new series on the environmental crises with @amywestervelt is riveting, easily equaling the quality of previous series.
