I can write Eat This Newsletter while on holiday. Promoting it, however, is another story entirely. BLTN, the latest offers food-borne illness, conspicuous fruit consumption, and plant-based meat ... for pets.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-245-fruity/
One of the questions not raised by the latest Eat This Newsletter, which drops tomorrow, is why people who clearly want to subscribe, and are real people, don't activate their accounts? Am I justified in doing it for them? Do people really not check their spam?
Japan did get an increase in Pacific Bluefin Tuna quota, but not as much as it originally wanted. Increase of 50% for big fish and 10% for smaller fish. They originally wanted 230% and 30% respectively, so that really is a win for scientific management.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/07/16/japan/japan-tuna-catch-quota-up/
2024-07-16
I’m not clever enough
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From An alarmingly concise and very hinged summary of what it was like to build this site from scratch
“Yes, nearly everything about the platform felt worse than it did when I first started using it over a decade ago. ... Someone with even a modicum of clout should really coin a catchy term that everyone else can repeat ad infinitum until it loses all meaning. I’m not clever enough.”
Like, er, enshittification? Or was this an example of self-deprecating humour designed to flush out a reply guy?
I’m not clever enough to decide.
In the latest Eat This Newsletter, the surprisingly rapid recovery of Pacific Bluefin Tuna, more than 10 years ahead of schedule. Naturally Japan now wants to increase the quotas that enabled that recovery.
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-244-tuna/
I would have replied to @thesiswhisperer@aus.social directly, but they seem to delete all their posts immediately. I would have said thanks for fixing the coding of your blog post, which I found interesting and thought provoking. Maybe they’ll see this.