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Jeremy Cherfas

Replied to a post on matigo.ca :

There's much to applaud in Jason's write-up of a university student's efforts to show people in Japan where positive responses to the coronavirus are. And one thing to abhor, and that's the description of "a foreign virus running rampant". The virus may have had an origin elsewhere, but there is no sense in which a pathogen can be considered foreign. This sort of wording legitimises xenophobia.

Jeremy Cherfas

Nice idea, but anecdotally, the few people on Twitter whom I’ve asked have said they don’t have a blog of their own.

Jeremy Cherfas

Wait a minute. Are the campaign to abolish recipe headnotes and the campaign to insist on listening to podcasts at 1x somehow related? I'm not going to tell anyone what to do with their time. Listen at any speed you like; but listen. @kathrynw5 @nwquah

Jeremy Cherfas

"My Brexit stash of tins of beans and toilet paper has had a rebrand. It’s now the corona virus emergency stash."

Very clever.

Jeremy Cherfas

@webby2001 Of course, it could easily evaporate, if something happened to Medium. Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a copy on a site you actually control?

Jeremy Cherfas

@LisaLodwick Exciting indeed. Frustrating that it remains behind a hefty paywall, especially as the research it reports was probably funded by public money. As bad as more than half the cemetery sites being unpublished.

Jeremy Cherfas

@MGraybosch Fine sentiments, and for a one-page site with a single message, not sharing metadata is an OK choice. But a little markup with microformats on a site helps others to find and enjoy the in their own way.

Jeremy Cherfas

@EIT One newsletter reader suggested it was because cooking in the US is much more aspirational than in the UK. So UK cooks want to get on with it, I think, while US cooks want to think they could get on with it.

Jeremy Cherfas

I hope you enjoyed it. Just to let you know, I've just finished brewing another episode on coffee, to be published noon GMT tomorrow.

Jeremy Cherfas

.@jpnudell (Apparently long threads can get lost so I was asked to break them up, hence the choppiness)

A better solution might be to also write on your own website, or even at Humanties Commons. Somewhere we can avoid the choppiness and understand you better.