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.
Die Of Boils, Mr. Sparky Car. – The Audacity of Despair
When a Goebbels or Streicher declares that Jews drink the blood of baptized children, the strategic defense against such is not to join the argument and say, no, actually, they do not, and then drone out an analysis of the Tsarist forgeries in which the claim originates. The solution is to call the lying motherfucker a taintsniffing shitmonger and send his tweet to digital oblivion. Mock, block and roll.
I'd certainly pay $8 to read more of this.
What's missing, for me, is a solid social reader that is as easy to use as the Big Silo. I'm using one now, which gives a bit more context that a simple RSS feed and allows me to reply, I hope. A single place to interact, rather than N different places.
Primed for Power: A Short Cultural History of Protein downloaded and ready to be read. Thanks @jessfanzo for the link to https://www.tabledebates.org/publication/primed-power-short-cultural-history-protein
As CSNY never sang, Feed Your Children Well
When I published last week's episode, talking to @TinaMoffat3 about how important school meals are in showing children what it means to eat well, I had no inkling that this would be #NationalSchoolMealsWeek
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/small-bites/
Just published the latest issue of Eat This Newsletter, concocted from bits and pieces of edible material found here and there. Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-190-inundated-3184/ and while you're there, consider subscribing.
Improvements over at searchmysite.net -- where searches can now be converted to feeds and, thus, subscribed to, definitely merit further investigation. https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/lots-of-new-web-feed-rss-and-atom-related-functionality/
I've never really understood why Byword has not so far embraced micropub, which would enable posting to all sorts of different recipient systems. I never used it to post to WordPress because I has MarsEdit for that, but I would surely use it to post here.
The Squeeze smelled something odd as we got on the plane. Minutes later, the captain agreed and called an engineer with a thick binder to confirm. Something was well dodgy, so here we are languishing back in the terminal and waiting for a new plane. The Romance of Travel.™️
Python dabblers: how do you avoid the dreaded "module not found" errors, when you know you installed the modules? I tried to get into virtual environments, but it seems like overkill. One nice all-encompassing install would do it for me, but it may be too late. Help!
An Indie Audio Maker’s Manifesto
Identifying strongly at the same time as feeling even more isolated.
People sometimes forget that podcasting, like blogging, started out as an egalitarian medium infused with the anti-hierarchical values of the open-source movement in software. If it is to retain a little of that democratic character in the face of rampant corporatization and Hollywoodization, it needs a flourishing middle class of independent makers who have the freedom to focus on their audio work, follow their creative instincts, and choose honesty over fake neutrality.
Created a portable install of Reaper, my digital audio workstation, which I hope will make it easier to work on sound wherever I find myself.
A Revolutionary Act – Music of Sound
Sweetly naive cartoon.
When is a tangerine not a tangerine? When it is a tomato! Italians are embracing tomato diversity as farmers, breeders and eaters select new orange tomatoes to take advantage of loosening seed regulations in the EU.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/orange-toms/
With @matteo_petitti of @retesemi
Economists must get more in touch with our feelings | Tim Harford
“UK citizens’ feelings about their incomes were a substantially better predictor of pro-Brexit views than their actual incomes.”
Just one of several interesting observations in this piece.
In honour of last week's 29th annual Golden Spurtle championship, I refer you to two previous epsiodes.
Porridge: Not your usual all-day breakfast https://www.eatthispodcast.com/porridge/ and
Why a spurtle makes a superior porridge stirrer https://www.eatthispodcast.com/spurtle/
Latest Eat This Newsletter has it all: mac and cheese, sourdough, Indian Indian, microplastics in mothers milk, and the drive to large chain restaurants.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-189-inauthentic/
Totally frustrated trying to update the url of a broken reference link in Wikipedia. After half an hour of well-intentioned getting nowhere, I abandoned my civic duty. If anyone wants it, they can find it themselves.
What a shame. This site had been spam-free since August 7, and then some dork had to show up and ruin it.
What We Owe The Future – A review by Tim Harford
Tim Harford's lukewarm review of William MacAskill's book.
If he is right, how could I justify giving £10 to a food bank today when I could set up a charitable trust, let the money accumulate centuries of compound interest before lavishing the proceeds on future generations? Are we morally obliged to live at subsistence levels to maximise the resources available for investment and research so our great-great-great-great-grandchildren will thrive? Such questions have been discussed and analysed at great depth in the literature on climate change. It is surprising to see them waved away with a few sentences here.
Is it that surprising, really?
Very happy to discover that my episode on Garum, Rome's museum of food and cooking, is peaking this week in Nigeria. What are they hearing that you haven't? eatthispodcast.com/garum-museum/
The White House Conference: They Pulled It Off! - Food Politics by Marion Nestle
“We must stop giving breadcrumbs and start building bakeries.”
Nice rhetoric. And then ...?
First time I have needed to restore files from @arqbackup in a genuine emergency, and it was such a good experience. Smooth, straightforward, did the job. Phew!
It astonishes me that a fad diet can admonish its followers to "drink the Snake juice" without, apparently, a trace of irony. And that reminds me, whatever happened to oil pulling? Not that I really care.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/fad-diets/
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Finished reading: The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
Friday 16 September, 2022 | Memex 1.1
In the UK at the moment, the average household consumes 3,731 kWh of electricity in a year. That comes to 10.23 kWh per day. So wouldn’t it be smarter — and fairer — to subsidise consumption up to that level, and let households which consume more face the market rate? And pay for the subsidy by a windfall tax on energy companies.
It won’t happen, of course, for the simple reason that it’s ‘unthinkable’.
This is a first. Never before had a sign-up say "Email address is invalid. Can you try a different one?" for a masked email from @Fastmail. Step forward sonix.ai to claim your prize.
An alternative to Marxist explanations of inequality – The one-handed economist
I wish I understood more deeply, but the more I read about Henry George and Georgism, the more inclined I am to believe it to be correct.
This is very bad news for me. On the one foot, NB 624s are the only sneaker-type shoes that come in a width that accommodates my misshapen feet. On the other, I'm reluctant to add to the CEO's profits. Recommend another brand, please.
Decision, decisions: is a touchbar on an M2 MacBook Pro worth €100? That’s the price difference from an M2 MBA, and the MBP has a slightly smaller screen and weighs 160 gm more. I’ve never seen anyone rave about a touchbar. So, what’s the deal? All thoughts welcome.
Finished reading: Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy by Gary Paul Nabhan
Finished reading: Sourdough by Robin Sloan