The Day the World Stops Shoppong examined this and found that it doesn’t take a whole lot of concerted action to tank the consumption economy.

Buy nothing days are good but less good if you return to regular habits and redouble your consumption after the boycott is over.

My kid has been enjoying “Auntie Dolly’s” free Imagination Library books since he was born. In Canada. That woman is a treasure.

I worked there during the frozen donut transition. A few really cool stoner night bakers got let go from my store.

I’d say he’s headed for his billionaire bunker but he likes golf too much to follow the scared dictator playbook.

Happening but not happened quite yet. It’s still a minefield at the grocery store to shop for things not partially or fully prepared in the US. For seemingly ubiquitous things like cream cheese or pickles, from recent outings.

I think it’s harder to find the signal from the noise of sameness.

I used to be able to find interesting bands and artists by watching The Wedge on MuchMusic or listening to my local alternative radio station. Now those stations all play Top 40 and TV shows got replaced by algorithmically curated beige.

As much as I am complaining I’d love if somebody could recommend some useful sources for somebody who wants to navigate away from Apple Music and Spotify streaming land.

It totally did. I am old enough to remember laughing at Abe Simpson and now I am become!

I remember when modern music was interesting enough to want to pirate.

It’s a rare Klingon life hack that doesn’t make use of a bat’leth.

Set the automatic coffee pot… FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

I eat meat, too.

In the same way as people can be okay or not with eating meat, I think it comes down to individual values.

LLMs have consequences to climate, labour, and (if you don’t disclose in some situations) how others perceive your creativity.

For me, I would have no problem asking and AI agent to speak to a colleagues AI agent to automatically find a mutually acceptable time for a call or meeting.

I would not use AI to compose a best man’s toast or funeral eulogy from scratch.

The quote about “I want AI to do my dishes and laundry so I have time for more creativity, I don’t want AI to do my creativity so I have more time to do dishes and laundry” applies to me.

It didn’t start grey but then I read the issues tracker.