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“Yet it went from that to what it is now: a firehose from bedlam, an amplifier of every kind of human frailty and malice as well as a channel for “bots”, automated or semi-automated scripts designed to pump out propaganda. And the maddening thing is that, despite all that, conscientious […]

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Just lovely. Beautiful painting of flowers from the early 16th century. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-flower-studies/ #art #gardening #bloomscrolling

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Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers! (Badgers via Unsplash) https://unsplash.com/photos/white-and-black-animal-on-brown-soil-YGMyrU2sjUk

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If you enjoyed last week's podcast episode about Jews and the pig[1] -- or even f you didn’t — here's a very informative summery of the origins of the pork taboo in Archaeology magazine.[2] 1] [https://eatthispodcast.com/pigs 2] [ […]

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IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

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Chilli pepper seedling from a friend's plant, which still had fruit in February, 26 days after sowing and probably a day before I was about to give up all hope. #seeds #gardening

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Very happy to get an email from @wordloaf that the Wordloaf newsletter is transferring from Substack to Ghost. I look forward to the first issue from its new home. #bread #newsletters

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Most people know that Jewish dietary laws forbid pork. A new book asks why the pig — rather than any of the other animals banned by the Hebrew bible — should have become so inextricably bound up with Jewish identity. Author Jordan Rosenblum points out that […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Hugely disappointed, but not entirely surprised. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/03/elon-musk-royal-society-fellowship-survives-fractious-members-meeting

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Which is why I don't encourage it, even though I have a Patreon account. https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114084862737874091

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I'm of mind to go find the guy who stepped on that butterfly while time traveling, and smack him upside the head, myself.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Remember this?

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Happy First Radian Day, to those who celebrate. This is the 58th day of the year. 58 ≅ 365.256/2π. That is, it is the day during which the path traced by the Earth around the Sun, starting from the beginning of the year, is momentarily the same length as […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Just wow! https://www.c82.net/natural-colors/ The Natural System of Colours: Recreating Moses Harris’ color wheels from the eighteenth century. h/t https://anhvn.com/posts/2025/weeknotes-29/ #art

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I really miss working on Known and wish there was a way I could just do that full-time. I'd probably rewrite from scratch as a first-class fediverse platform with a migration path.

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Is it possible that corn (maize) farmers in the US eastern corn belt are collectively giving up on $99 million a year ($1.98 billion in lifetime benefits) by paying too much for seed? That seems to be one possible conclusion of a paper just published in Science. I wrote about it […]

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A driver killed a cyclist & then lied about it telling police, "I was driving, I didn't see him because of the sun." The collision investigation however concluded that the sun was not a factor in the incident. The driver was sentenced to just 20 months driving ban & 200 hours of unpaid work […]

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

bel video dell'ospedale di Darmstadt in germania che mostra cosa succederebbe al personale di una clinica se gli immigrati non ci fossero

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First measles death in Texas. (unvaccinated school age child). https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-measles-death-linked-outbreak-texas-confirmed-child/story?id=119208967&utm_source=mastodon #death #antivaxxer #measles #outbreak

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Today’s bake; naturally leavened “rustic three flours” with 70% bread wheat and 30% three other “ancient” species. Super spring and very delicious. #food #bread #natural_leaven

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Reading "When Driving is Not An Option" and realize the issues casual bicyclists have pale in comparison with the disabled or those who cannot drive (!).

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Eat This Newsletter, for your delectation. - 16,000 calories per calorie: isn’t that rather inefficient? - NuFood: ready for water lentils? - Marmalade, membrillo: what’s the difference? - Old menus from Munich: what to choose? - Jay Rayner: will he open up? Read (and subscribe) at […]

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Deal of the century. A fully reflective cap for €2 at a second hand charity shop downtown. Will surely help me be seen at night. #bicycle

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Just noticed that the rash of spam signups - not activated in two weeks - to my newsletter seems to be subsiding. I don’t know whether @buttondown did anything, but either way I am happy.

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”One of the big differences in the European and the US context is that the European framework is one of the precautionary principle, it has to be proven safe, whereas in the US we work on a proof of harm model. It’s much more generous towards industry. That shaped the trajectory of GMOs. We’ll […]

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Plans to boost capacity at St Pancras are welcome. But the hurdles to run trains from London to 🇩🇪, 🇨🇭 and 🇫🇷 beyond Paris are elsewhere, as I explain in this piece for the iPaper https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/rail-routes-st-pancras-upgrade-open-up-fewer-hurdles-3548255 […]

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I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359 Could anyone who has any Canadian followers […]

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”Transparency is almost taken for granted as how to communicate, but transparency can only be paradoxical It promises to reveal everything, but it can’t possibly reveal everything, so it reveals something. And the communicators decide what’s included within the frame of transparency. A very […]

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You couldn't make it up. https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114037193856656671

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Coming soon, to a podcast near me. https://babka.social/@dukepaaron/114033715315153936

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”Public concerns about food technology are not anti science and they’re not based in deficits. Rather they’re about big important questions, like what are the aims and the purposes and the values that the kind of technologies we’re developing and deploying serve? Those are big, important […]

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Marion Nestle's latest: "It would be nice if erroneous beliefs about nutrition could be corrected by presenting facts, but beliefs, especially those that are deeply held, are not necessarily fact-dependent. They often have more to do with faith in what trusted people say.”[1] Amply confirmed […]

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Good bake of natural leaven with 25% grano arso. That is a remnant of older times in Puglia, where poor people were allowed to glean in the wheat fields to gather grains of wheat burned by threshing machines and burning off the stubble. Now you pay a premium […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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It had never previously occurred to me that a larder contained pork preserved in lard. #TIL

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Latest episode: Food facts are not the answer to fear of foods “What kind of food system do we want for the future? What kind of questions should we be asking? Whose questions matter? What kind of questions matter and what kind of expertise is considered […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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2025-02-15: https://stream.jeremycherfas.net/2025/2025-02-15

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