The first is entitled "The Joy of Walking" from BBC radio's The Documentary. It's partly about how the simple act of going for a walk has multiple benefits to stories such as one about a doctor who has integrated walks with patients into their healthcare regimen.
The second is from CBC's Ideas podcast - "The inconvenient truth about convenience culture". An interesting jeremiad against the onrush of AI and the concept of letting machines do everything for us, generally speaking.
It looks at the view that embrace of convenience is a progressive one, one that indicates you welcome the future which, by definition, is better than the present. There's also the proposition that convenience is anti-human, essentially, but also incredibly difficult to opt out of.
Lots of food for thought.
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Carrying on day after day without a mobile telephone does get harder. I have suspended shopping at Jewel-Osco (Albertsons) due to its insistence I give it a phone number where it can send a text before buying any of its 'forU'-priced items. I do not have a phone which can receive a text, and I am not getting one. Not while Trump / Vance are the chief executives. Thankfully, the State of Illinois has passed a law that there must be an alternate method for shoppers to avail themselves of those discounted prices. It takes effect on 1 January 2027.
Not-quite-P.S.: I enjoy all your photographs of Willow.
Hi Steve. I hope you're well.
Is Illinois doing something to force retailers to accept cash as well?
P.S. - Willow says hi.
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