I find it strange, and deeply ironic, that a year on, an otherwise fine article still boasts an obviously doctored photograph of NI Vavilov. Seriously, who thought that was a good idea? See Nikolai Vavilov as he never was: A true scientist does not deserve a fake photo.
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
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This one involved some very lucky guesses, given that there were scores of words it could have been.
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https://stupidwordgame.com/ having fun in the wake of Wordle's recent attack of the Bowdlers.
Very puzzled. My helper suggested only one possibility, and that wasn't it. Solved it without help, but ... whaddayaknow? The actual target word is not in the list. Salutary.
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This one required a bit of thought.
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We've got this, me and my helper.
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Long enough not to need dumb luck.
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Nothing to brag about.
“having the resources to fact-check comes from a position of privilege” Huh? I suppose if you want someone else to check your facts that might be true, but still, why is anyone listening to this person?
To my knowledge this is the first time I've been mentioned over at Mastodon, so it seems only right and proper to see whether the wonders of IndieWeb allow me to reply there. Good to see old online friends but not sure I can handle another channel.
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@jeremycherfas if I were replying to mastodon, I would POSSE my reply (using the withKnown add on) to an account on a 🐘 instance…
, May 02 2022 on micro.blog
@cn You mean it doesn't Just Work®?
, May 02 2022 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas yours like mine isn’t micro.blog–hosted, so you don’t get ActivityPub included
, May 02 2022 on micro.blog
@cn Failing to find a suitable plugin in the usual places. Got a hint?
, May 02 2022 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas one I made a couple of contributions to: knownMastodon
, May 02 2022 on micro.blog
@cn That one looks like I need to have a Mastodon account, I can’t just send a reply from my site and have it show up there. Seems like too much faff for now.
, May 02 2022 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas such capability isn’t there yet; werd.io/2021/buil... Issue
, May 02 2022 on micro.blog
@cn Yeah, I read the whole issue at GitHub including the proposals, and it seems becalmed. Ben’s recent post gave me renewed hope, but that is fading too.
, May 03 2022 on micro.blog
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My word was a real word, but it wasn't THE real word. Which is ... frustrating.
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Back on form!
Huh? app.net is now a sign-in for Mastodon. Not going to happen, for me at least.
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@jeremycherfas Oh yes I saw that. I do miss those days!
, Apr 29 2022 on micro.blog
@m Yeah, although they did also lead to good things here and at pnut and 10C
, Apr 29 2022 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas oh yes totally.
, Apr 29 2022 on micro.blog
@m @jeremycherfas app dot net is not appdot.net
, Apr 29 2022 on micro.blog
@cn yes i know :)
, Apr 29 2022 on micro.blog
Today's IndieWebRing excursion took me to https://jamesvandyne.com/ and prompts the question, what really attracts people make of Disneyland? Maybe I'm too old, but even in my thirties, when I visited Florida's for work, I was underwhelmed by it all, especially EPCOT. It just seems so ersatz.
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I don’t get it. I was about to insert my guess, which involved a different letter in first position, but the field was already filled with a wrong answer.
Is it limited to three guesses? And why was the field filled in?
As I continue reading and sometimes re-posting things written on this day, I've decided to do one more thing at the end of a session: go to a random site in the IndieWeb WebRing. Today, I found something that resonates down the years: how to organise the content of a weblog.
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@jeremycherfas Can you provide the link?
, Apr 27 2022 on micro.blog
Not intuitive, I know, but this post is, in fact, a reply to the post I had found. So you could click on the Replied to a post on intothebook.net. It goes to https://intothebook.net/does-chronology-have-meaning-in-a-virtual-space/
@billbennettnz Not intuitive, I know, but the post is, in fact, a reply to the post I had found. So you could click on the Replied to a post on intothebook.net. It goes to intothebook.net/does-chro...
, Apr 27 2022 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas it’s an interesting post, but I can’t see anything other than strict chronological order making sense.
, Apr 27 2022 on micro.blog
@billbennettnz For me, it feeds into the Gardens and Streams discussion, and my take on that is that my garden is private, but occasionally I float a well-grown plant down the stream.
, Apr 27 2022 on micro.blog
Having moved my Dropbox folder to an external disk in an effort to reclaim space internally, I then discovered the value of an actual symlink, which means I don't have to rewrite anything. This is a good thing.
The fight for “post” rather than “blog” is lost in many quarters, but the fight for “blog” itself is lost when none other than John Naughton can calmly point to a Substack newsletter with “Heather Cox Richardson had a memorable post on her blog:"
https://memex.naughtons.org/thursday-14-april-2022/
The latest issue of Eat This Newsletter just went winging its way to all the subscribers, who will be seeing what I make of raw material from @bearistotle, @battlesuperbugs and @whetstoneradio, among others. You can read it too, at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-179-a-fresh-look-at-farming/
The joy of correcting a human-powered transcription. When the transcriber hears
“Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy” as
“the Gordon's Eyes Trilogy”
This is some of the most exciting news I have read in a long time. I hope Ben does find time to rebuild Known and would be willing to lend whatever support I can. “Another stable release” would be a wonderful start and would please lots of people.
A very warm welcome to the [redacted] new podcast subscribers who joined via Google Podcasts this past month. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWF0dGhpc3BvZGNhc3QuY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8
You know where to find me.
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I hadn't realised one of the bloggers I used to follow had suddenly died a while ago (because I stopped following him). Today, though, I was reminded of something he wrote not 6 but 16 years ago that is remarkably prescient. RIP @LanceMannion
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@jeremycherfas what was the particular prescient piece?
, Mar 13 2022 on micro.blog
@JeremyWxBaker Yeah, sorry about that.
www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/righ...
I’ve been bringing in old posts day by day, and this was one of today’s. (Hard to remember what does and does not get shared when I POSSE in different ways.
, Mar 13 2022 on micro.blog
Hi JC! On the subject of re-reading... I re-read "The First Champanzee" in the last week, after 20 years! The overall message so very relevant today (notwithstanding numerous details now outdated). I realise I failed to acknowledge in my book "The Secret Dinobird Story" some bits I must have got from T1C, but I'm writing a substantial piece now on the subject for a net journal. Not sure how into palaeoanthropology you are these days, but I've discovered one or two interesting papers that might be of great interest. I'll try to email you of I can find your address 🙂
Sounds interesting. I shouldn't be too hard to find.
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TIL there are far-infrared mirrors. Can't wait for next winter in the bathroom.
The value of the Gender Pay Gap bot, explained, withe link to the marvellous collection of organisations that felt it necessary to hide their shame.
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@jeremycherfas thanks for mentioning this! That is such a nice idea and good use of such public data :-)
, Mar 11 2022 on micro.blog
@V_ Isn’t it though.
, Mar 11 2022 on micro.blog
Just finished putting together the latest Eat This Newsletter, looking at label as a form of truth, ruined bread as a metaphor, tree-planting as a menace, crop-modelling as a pipe-dream and cheese as surplus.
If you want to know more, subscribe at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas
In the nick of time, I wrote up my celebration of Fornacalia 2022. Looking forward to another year of unburnt grain, and more besides.
I don't judge a book by its cover, but I do prefer to decide based on other factors. If they have a free-return policy, I would maybe buy, but otherwise, no way.
Today is the five year anniversary of installing WithKnown here. We’ve had our ups and downs, and it has been generally positive. Not sure about the future though, I must be honest.
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I don't know what you mean by “cross” but I know for sure that nobody has ever crossed a strawberry with a pineapple.
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See also Old faithfuls | DAVID STUART GARDENS](https://davidcstuart.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/old-faithfuls/) and [The elusive flavour of a perfect strawberry – The Campaign for Real Farming](https://www.campaignforrealfarming.org/2012/06/the-elusive-flavour-of-a-perfect-strawberry/)
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Case in point: the Deep in the Weeds podcast network at https://deepintheweeds.com.au/ @deepintheweeds with some excellent shows and episodes that could easily interest a wider audience.
There's plenty that is interesting in @emilyjwils article, but given that podcasting is global in scope, I do think it is a pity that the focus is entirely on the US -- apart from one ex-pat thrillingly discovering banana biodiversity.
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Case in point: the Deep in the Weeds podcast network at https://deepintheweeds.com.au/ @deepintheweeds with some excellent shows and episodes that could easily interest a wider audience.
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20/25 on Adactio's Font or Food? quiz. Not too shabby.
Hear me, O @tavolamed, As a foolish person, who knows not my ward, I await the set form of words with which Curio Maximus will proclaim the time for holding the #Fornacalia, so that I may celebrate on the last day to which it can be postponed.
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I too know not my ward. You and I both being fools, can offer at the quirinalia on the 17th. Don't forget the mola salsa! ;) tavolamediterranea.com/2019/02/07/bre…
, Feb 07 2022 on twitter.com
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Trying to use OCR in iOS is really tricky unless you can mask off the bits of the page you really don’t want. Unless I am failing to find a better selection tool. Maybe crop first?
Agreed, kefir is a total doddle (though I don't do any of the variations that other people do). I do feel bad when I don't have anyone to give surplus grains to. Although yoghurt is more of a faff, it isn't that difficult, especially with a good thermometer and a vacuum flask.
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Yes I’ve offered super healthy surplus kefir grains numerous times on Twitter and no one takes them. I don’t think I could live without kefir, so naturally find it implausible that others can!
, Jan 24 2022 on twitter.com
Understood. I've a mind to try folding them into a loaf of bread as an experiment.
@jeremycherfas Translation, please (doddle, faff)! BTW we enjoyed the yogurt-cast.
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
Understood. I've a mind to try folding them into a loaf of bread as an experiment.
, Jan 24 2022 on twitter.com
A doddle is something very easy, as opposed to a faff which is not actually difficult, but might be complex, with many steps. Kefir is pour milk onto grains in container, wait. Yoghurt is heat milk, wait for it to cool a bit, add yoghurt, keep warm, wait.
@JMaxB A doddle is something very easy, as opposed to a faff which is not actually difficult, but might be complex, with many steps. Kefir is pour milk onto grains in container, wait. Yoghurt is heat milk, wait for it to cool a bit, add yoghurt, keep warm, wait.
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
Wow, that could be a whole lot of fermentation. Interesting idea. Fold them into unleavened dough?
, Jan 24 2022 on twitter.com
@jeremycherfas Thanks! The podcast reminded me that, in my own lifetime, it was possible to find people who didn't know what yogurt is. In the late 1960s I used to pack a small carton in the lunch I took to my summer job. A workmate/friend asked me what it was. I explained that it was milk cultured with bacteria. He said "You mean GERMS!"
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
Yup. I’ve heard people say they have leavened a dough with nothing but kefir, but I think I’ll just try putting some in my standard sourdough.
, Jan 24 2022 on twitter.com
@JMaxB to me growing up, pizza was a unknown thing, pasta felt like new thing and Chinese food was some I read about in books, I had no chance of trying sushi until I was 30 something (I think) ... I now feel like a real country boy 😋
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
@jemostrom They used to tell us that Scandinavians live on cod and potatoes. It seems that times have changed.
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
@JMaxB I remember that my grandma to the main village with the order: Go and by some pork. She was eating moose meat and potatoes twice a day, almost every day and she was fed up with it 😋
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
@JMaxB great story. My mum was a health food nut way back, so we had brown bread bricks and made our own yoghurt in the sixties. Some things just stay with you.
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
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If mussels are “the oyster of the poor,” what were they when oysters were the oysters of the poor?
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I'm quoting Grimod de La Reynière, attributed, in Kettner's Book of the Table (1877), page 308. Hence the quotations. Full entry is even more fascinating. But good point.
, Jan 21 2022 on twitter.com
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Perhaps I'm old fashioned (no perhaps about it) but I am having a hard time seeing the value (to me) of Research Rabbit. As Ton says, it would just feed my inner collector.
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@jeremycherfas I'm curious about it. If you aren't writing up your own research or needing to keep up with a particular body of research, I don't think it would be helpful. I'm probably going to try it, though.
, Jan 19 2022 on micro.blog
@kimberlyhirsh I will be interested to see what you make of it.
, Jan 19 2022 on micro.blog
It may be Monday, it may even be Veganuary, but Eat This Newsletter happens not to be meatless today.
In this issue, nourishment from @JLewisStempel, @JSTOR_Daily, @ModFarm and @OurWorldInData.
Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-173-januarys-point/
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Ah, serendipity. To read, almost one after the other, David Sparks and Ben Werdmüller saying very similar things about the purpose of work. David had a great Walt Disney quote: “We don’t make movies to make money. We make money to make more movies.”
A little late with the first Eat This Newsletter of the New Year, but my boss says that's OK.
Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-172-policy-potato-and/ for thoughts on FOPLs, ag and food policy in the US and the UK, potato bread etc
Happy Birthday Ben. Such an interesting list. On a quick read, some of those things are already here (though perhaps not polished enough), some of them will never be here, and some of them ought to be here already. Thought-provoking.
Maybe you really want to build your own, but if not, Newsblur is an RSS reader has an excellent ability to include email newsletters.
When a human-powered transcript flows seamlessly from "tide disputes" to "Thai disputes" without once taking on board that "tides are these ecclesiastical taxes ...".
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@jeremycherfas Oops! Big difference.
, Jan 06 2022 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas also tithes?
, Jan 06 2022 on micro.blog
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I realise it is absurd to take to Twitter to wonder where are the blog carnivals of today, but ...
... where are the blog carnivals of today?
https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/weeding-mendels-garden-and-other-blog-carnivals
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Life is a carnival
, Jan 06 2022 on twitter.com
I thought life was a blog. It certainly used to be.
, Jan 06 2022 on twitter.com
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This:
For all the talk about how the internet isn’t as interesting as in the “Good Old Days”, there are so many places I would happily spend time reading and contributing to if each day was at least twice as long. So many chats, so many forums, so many blogs, so much social media.
Thanks, Ton, for your post linking to Alan Levine's Google-taming post. With your guidance, it was easy to knock up a few Alfred workflows. I should note, too, that DuckDuckGo has a !bangsearch for !flickrcc (which gives slightly different results, because it uses a different CC code) and possibly others
Great insights into the botany of the pine nut via @BitKblog. The botany would be the same for Araucaria araucana seeds, but I wonder why they aren't marketed -- too rare? -- or how the flavour profile compares.
https://botanistinthekitchen.blog/2021/12/19/the-adoration-of-the-pine-nut/
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, Dec 22 2021 on micro.blog
Is the A.bidwillii nut not extremely important in Australia where it occurs?
, Dec 22 2021 on twitter.com
Traditionally very important. Not commercialised in the way Macadamia has been.
, Dec 22 2021 on twitter.com
@cn don’t you mean 🐒 🧩 ?
, Dec 22 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas the emoji faces the wrong way 🙃
, Dec 22 2021 on micro.blog
Wikipedia certainly agrees with that.
, Dec 23 2021 on twitter.com
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So true! many people care about who checks and who doesn't.
Deborah, May 05 2022 on stream.jeremycherfas.net