A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
2025-08-17
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What do absinthe and upland rice have in common?
Answers in tomorrow’s Eat this Newsletter. Subscribe at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas#subscribe-form?tag=direct
From Glastonbury to Gaza: no direction home | Chris Smaje
So. Much. This. (Well, the whole piece, obviously.)
[W]e live in a world of increasingly militarised walls and borders. It’s easy for those of us who live on the lucky side of those borders, with our fig and plum trees and our rights to life and liberty, to imagine that we’ll always be the lucky ones. I don’t make that assumption. As the meta-crisis unfolds, there’s no telling where the life zones and where the death zones will be, long-term.
What has the Assumption of the Virgin Mary to do with the middle of August? Is she just another in a long line of Mother Goddesses? Why is Virgo carrying a wheatsheaf?
Some answers in https://www.eatthispodcast.com/our-daily-bread-15/ from my month of daily podcasts on wheat in 2018
Why Substack is nudging you to follow your ex, your hookups, randos who aren’t even writers
I've not quite given up on trying to persuade people I respect off Substack, so I keep on stacking ammo.
They’re building audiences on borrowed land, subject to algorithmic whims and platform policies they cannot directly influence, while helping to subsidize the infrastructure that promotes their ideological opponents.
See?
Podcasters: About to record my first episode using Zoom. I normally record from FaceTime and Skype (RIP) mix-minus to my DAW. It is worth doing the same as a backup for Zoom’s local recording?
I guess I'm asking how reliable is Zoom's local recording.
Eat This Newsletter 279: No Excuses
An attack on industrial agriculture.
Science-based fisheries management works.
Beware the poppy seed, and dodgy drug tests.
Read it at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-279-no-excuses/
What a rare treat. Someone recommends an episode of a podcast I don't subscribe to. I go to the page in question. I like the look of it. I attempt to Huffudff the episode. It Just Works. I carry on about my business. The end.
I'm not sure I ever forgot how to surf the web, but in case you have, David Cain spells it out at his blog Raptitude: https://www.raptitude.com/2025/06/how-to-surf-the-web-in-2025-and-why-you-should/
And in keeping with his advice, I got there from Tim Bray's latest collection of Long Links: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/04/Long-Links
I would also repeat: use RSS