New episode: Farming’s Overlords. The top four companies globally control more than 60% of the inputs modern farmers need: machines, seeds, chemicals. That concentration, plus their size, gives them unprecedented power.
Anti-Big Tech Journalism
Tech language does not work. That includes the 'Fediverse'. Campaigns isolated on decentralised networks do not work. By claiming platform 'purity' no one new is learning about these spaces. Build and they will come is not true. Humans are complex things and they need more than four walls to feel at home.
True for almost everyone, not just journalists.
Top Album Artists last week:
1. Willie Nelson 15
2. The Cranberries 13
3. The Little Willies 13
4. Salif Keita 10
5. Jerusalem Quartet 9
Interesting and educational to read about Reilly’s bash script for writing a now post. I’m still in the metaphorical Dark Ages of having a template that I save in the right place under a new name with updated variables.
XKCD on tariffs is actual genius.
https://xkcd.com/3073/
I feel the same, and am now tempted to rename Miscellaneous to Dunno.
Time again for Eat This Newsletter.
- Some things called pepper
- Welsh oats
- Chickens with olives
- Hot potatoes
- Civil Eats’ Food Policy Tracker
Read (and subscribe) at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-267-more-diversity/
Thanks for the introduction to wikiloc.
Might just be me, but Apple’s launchctl seems badly broken, at least for new services. Followed https://www.navidrome.org/docs/installation/macos/ to the letter, and it just doesn’t work. The exactly same command directly from the terminal works perfectly. Cannot figure it out, but it seems I am not alone.
New episode: Quinoa’s Rise and Fall
Between 2007 and 2014 farmers on the altiplano of Peru saw their income from quinoa increase by almost 900%. The boom was followed even more quickly by a bust.
https://eatthispodcast.com/quinoa