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Jeremy Cherfas

Tim Harford — Article — Ten years of social media have left us all worse off

Last Christmas I vowed to spend less time on my smartphone. It worked — until a couple of months ago, when I started using Twitter much more. Why? I had something to sell. That seems wretchedly appropriate.

Yup, that seems right. Even when no money actually changes hands.

Jeremy Cherfas

Since getting a new VPN, Spotify thinks I am in Sweden, and it is remarkable how much more tolerable the ads are. Not just because I don't understand them, because they are so much less frenetic.

Jeremy Cherfas

Why can’t food scientists and nutritionists be friends?

For one thing, it's a lot easier to call yourself a "nutritionist". Then again, where do food scientists work except in industry, or training more food scientists?

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I wrote about reviving my sourdough after an extended absence.

https://www.fornacalia.com/2020/sourdough-revival/

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Checked into Museo di Roma in Trastevere

For the Inge Morath show. 

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@TavolaMed At last. Thanks for saying it loud and clear: farro is spelt and einkorn and emmer, and the point is that they are traditionally grown as a mixture, all three in the same fields. So yes, farro is all three, but on their own none of them is farro.

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I'd certainly pay for an app that used RSS (or similar) to aggregate photographers' streams. Heck, I'd even exert pressure on my own favourite photographer to create a dedicated photo stream. I've kickstartered less promising pitches. h/t @chrisaldrich

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Weeknotes 52 - 4 minutes a day — Nat Buckley

But seriously: why does it seem so weird to pay for a podcast, when I pay for music, films, TV etc?

And answer came there none.