A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
In keeping with one of the newsletter items, can’t wait to see what Tip-Top Tariffs makes of the UK’s latest crop breakthrough, assuming they eventually get enough to export.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wgeq702dyo
Eat This Newsletter 284: Marketing
Food bank economics, Pasta Grannies behaving badly, white olives, a eulogy for “foodie”, tariffs on “English” tea, and some food-flavoured Ig Nobel prizes.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-284-marketing/
Just got a warning that TimeMachine had not done a backup for 46 days. Seems like quite a delay to warn me that something is wrong.
The Tragedy and Comedy of Don Quixote (https://lithub.com/the-tragedy-and-comedy-of-don-quixote?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&...) , a recent article in Literary Hub, adds to my admiration for Laurent Binet’s Civilisations.
Started getting some interesting spam this week, in which an AI has read the show notes and responded appropriately and vacuously. So I'm deleting the website and email and posting it. Is that bad?
An amazing site (linked by Andy Baio) that tracks parking officers in San Francisco in real time. Two questions. Will the city shut it down? No Are the cops tracking the leaderboard? Officer 0440 needs to shape up, clearly.
Eat This Podcast: The Miracle of Salt
Talking to Naomi Duguid about her book The Miracle of Salt and we managed to avoid the whole pink salt diet trick nonsense. So should you. Listen at https://eatthispodcast.com/salt
The ‘three-sickbag spectacle’ of tech bros at the court o...
John Naughton is in very good form in his latest Observer column.
Peter hasn't been in Berlin since 2018. There's some likelihood of an IWC in there on 1-2 November, and it would be great to see him there.