Jeremy Cherfas

Too Many Zucchini

'Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future' - out this week | Chris Smaje

Just put the finishing touches to Eat This Newsletter 208. Fancy a pot luck of food-adjacent links? Sign up at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas

Replied to a post on sarajaksa.eu :

Nice to see someone else trying to revive blog carnivals in an IndieWeb context. Sara Jakša's first taster appeals on two levels; it is a blog carnival and it is about food. Count me in.

We’ve Lost Our Damn Outrage Because ‘The Community’ Knows Where Their Money Comes From And Are Scared to Lose That Income — But My Fucking Money Comes from Readers, And I’m Pissed – The Brooks Review

”But what is the price of letting egomaniacs ruin unique little businesses, destroy trust, mistreat workers, mistreat society, and break apart core democratic values? Or letting them dictate politics in even the slightest way? Or even working for them for free as all users are, but also moderators on Reddit — providing all the valuable content for “their” platforms?”

Web 2.0 may finally be democratized

AI transcriber, you did well to get Mirza Ghasemi, Baba Ganoush and Imam Bayildi correct. Sveaborg is a good approximation of isfidhahaj, as is Sepid Bar for sepidba. But you mangled tahdig repeatedly. For context, the transcript of @labnoon at https://eatthispodcast.com/labnoon

I just received an email that included this message in the signature:

“Sent from my iPhone, forgive predictive autocorrection errors😀”

So, what, you're just giving up any semblance of care?

Out for a spin and took the opportunity to move my saddle about 1cm back. Makes a difference, in a good way.

Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control

A real eye-opener, for me.