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Hmmn. I wonder what's in it for them?
Indeed. Currently editing my next episode, from @ECLLD recent meeting in Budapest, celebrating how the new EU reg on OHM is allowing farmers and food producers to be more sustainable and nutritious.
Hey @help. If I were to switch to a paid account (keeping my own domain) is there a way to import old posts from the RSS feed created by an export from Known?
@help If I were to move to a paid plan, is there a way to import posts from the RSS file exported from Known?
Feels stupidly good to be deleting ~5000 spam emails (since 9/21) and ~62,000 emails from Trash. I mean, they don't cost me anything directly, but still good to clear out. Also deleted everything pre 1/1/2018; nobody needs more than five years of email archive, do they?
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton has a very persuasive article on the boredom that faces us from generative AI and some ideas to deal with it.
I particularly liked:
Easier said than done, but one of the best ways to prove you're not a predictive language model is to demonstrate critical and sophisticated thinking.
Which ought to go without saying, but of course doesn't. And which ought also to include some sort of distinctive authorial voice.
And:
we can prove we're real humans by showing up IRL with our real human bodies
Bring it on.
New Years Eve at some point crossing the Atlantic. Time zones are hard.
I appreciate that other podcasters include transcripts of their shows, but can't you go the extra step of actually checking the transcript against delivery, as those speechifying press releases put it?
Beastly Clues: T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword
Fascinating deep read, prompting deep memories of my father's abiding interest in cryptic crossword puzzles and prodding me to maybe take up my pen (or more likely pencil) again..Maybe in the New Year.
Not entirely surprised to discover that Charles Darwin employed a slip-based system of note-taking, explained so clearly by Richard Carter. This will probably be of interest to @chrisaldrich and others.
New edition of Eat This Newsletter is out, with a few choice items and a reminder that the next podcast episode will go live on 24 December, for reasons. Read the newsletter at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/exchanges/ and, if you're so inclined sign up too. Thanks./
Well, that's a shame. I get a message saying No video with supported format and MIME type found. I was looking forward to watching "yeasty fireworks".
This sounds exactly like Amotz Zahavi's Handicap Principle. Any signal should involve a cost, to prevent cheats from issuing false signals.
Fogknife : Six days of the Python (5 minute read)
I feel so seen, and this by Someone Who Knows.
Oh my god web results for popular programming questions are terrible. The top hits for every search phrase with python in it lead to pages that technically contain the information I seek, but which clog up the browser window with animated ads, subscription pop-ups, and sliding survey pitches.Â
Either I've enjoyed a step change in fitness -- avge heartrate during HIIT down from 125 to 116 -- or Apple has changed what my watch is doing. I know where my money is.
Thanks Google. Three of the top 10 search terms that brought people to my podcast site involved wheat pennies. Alas, none wanted to hear about wheat and the growth of empires. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/empire-grain/
@MairBosworth Terrific listen that adds so much history, humanity and thoughtfulness to the value of human breastmilk.
Just finished tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter so I am going to take a nap and then read, because I can.
fluffy rambles: Warning signs with social media platforms
Still not feeling a whole lot of urgency about any alternatives to That Silo. Maybe that just reflects my lousy performance as a self-promoter.
52 things I learned in 2022
I really, really like this series, and am thankful it comes around each year. (Even though Medium's markup sucks.)
Shout-out to the intelligent, attractive, and discerning people of Ireland 🇮🇪 for helping put the podcast in the charts there. Brazil also gets an honourable mention 🇧🇷 for beating its previous best by quite a margin.
This will never work. Or will it? I can get a discount on Bike by replying to. Toot with a photo of my hometown, but I can’t attach a photo to this reply. Maybe Jesse with treat me kindly.
https://ooh.directory/
So that’s what $project was! A new blog directory from Phil Gyford. Reminds me of Halt and Catch Fire s04.
#indieweb
@seyloubakery Has it really been almost five years since I visited? Time flies when you're having fun. I listened again to Jonathan and it is no great surprise that Seylou has gone from strength to strength. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/bread-as-it-ought-to-be/
Health & welfare in a small farm future, Part 3 | Small Farm Future
TIL about TATT and MUS.
[C]ould it be possible that health care in a small farm future wouldn’t necessarily be inferior, because we have the wrong image of what health care involves?
Health & welfare in a small farm future: Part 2 – a game of Monopoly | Small Farm Future
More fascinating ideas from Chris Smaje:
Why focus so much on the undeserving poor, rather than on the undeserving rich? Accounts of the undeserving rich do exist in our politics, but they’re not nearly so prominent as their counterpart. The numerous ways that the fortunes of the world’s rich people and rich countries are extracted from the poor ones go too little remarked. Out of wealth comes the power to keep writing the rules in favour of wealth, and thence the need to keep dusting its crumbs from the table in the form of stigmatizing welfare policies.
TIL just how easy it is to write functions in zsh to automate little chains.
“Stop Using WordPress to Microblog!” Kinda funny to read this, 15 years on, just when people are thinking seriously about using their WordPress sites to microblog.
Broke out my IndieWeb reader and added some feeds to get going again, thanks to your prompt.
Is that the standard Activity display you have? My watch is a 6SE and I do not usually see heart rate because the strap is loose and never have the map or weather.