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* On foot
* 41.88934, 12.46280 approx
* Friday 16 August, 2024
* N/A ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Bagged this on Friday, and it had been so long since the previous Rabbit I clear forgot to take the screenshot that enables me to post a day later. Or three days later.
Rain at last, and it smells … like victory.
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Editing audio, you accumulate so much cruft it is amazing. Out-takes, duplicates, alternative mixes etc etc. You pretend you might come back to them. But you don't. Eventually you decide to save only the final mix and the sound files it needs, and you spend about 90 minutes doing every podcast from 2014, and you reduce the size of that archive from 21.3GB to 9.1GB and that is a good thing.
2015 can wait.
That blueprint is at https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441.html which brilliantly analyses what made the original Patreon so attractive and how it has declined. As someone still able to use charge-by-item and someone who uses the support of patrons to make my stuff available to all, I really appreciated the piece.
Robert Kingett's heartfelt post about why he is leaving Patreon, coupled with my own attempts to streamline the support options for my own little endeavours, left me reminiscing about the original flattr and early Patreon itself. The blueprint for a replacement exists. Somebody, please build it.
Seven years ago I wrote a generally depressing piece about “science communication” and how little it seems to achieve. Someone please tell me how things have changed in the interim.
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/scicomm-what-is-it-good-for
Maybe everybody who needs to has already seen this sound advice for Patreon — and Ernie is not the only one — but I still think it bears sharing more widely.
https://tedium.co/2024/08/13/patreon-apple-platform-risks/
ETN 248: Slow
Even the internet firehose seems to have slowed to a trickle in this northern heat. Still, one or two good dribbles to share, on new chocolate species, culture and cultured meat, and the man who ate all the UPFs he could in a day.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn248-slow/
