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📚 PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (Faculty of Information)
🤖 Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation
🍄 Part-time bread baker, mushroom hunter, and game designer
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Starter packs were a dead end. It's time to bring back web rings.
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It's been interesting to see that a quarter or more of the libraries I've found are rogue. They don't have a Little Free Library registration number and aren't tracked on the official website. I only stumbled on them incidentally! littlefreelibrary.org/map/
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Whew! Did a couple radio interviews this week to talk about this piece. Thank you to 880 CHED and QR Calgary (@globalnews.ca) for having me on.
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Thanks! And yes, a lot of grocery technology flies under the radar since it's so everyday and innocuous looking.
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A friend of mine commented that they've seen customers, one after another, pick up a discounted pack of strawberries, see that it's American, put it back down on a giant untouched pile, and then move on.
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And yes, we are seeing an impact already. thehill.com/policy/inter...
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This would be very funny if it's true. media.blogto.com/eat_drink/20...
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Balzac's, Second Cup, Coffee Time, Country Style... chains I mention offhand in papers but then have to go back and contextualize because no one has heard about them outside of Canada.
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This move feels even more carceral than the receipt gates. At a certain point they aren't even going to let us in the store anymore. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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I'm actually working on a policy explainer about self-checkout accessibility. That's why I have all these pictures! The weird Michaels ones are definitely on my radar. They don't even *try* to be accessible.
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And the Canadian Tire in the Eaton Centre has transitioned entirely to self-checkouts. The whole store has be reoriented around securitizing self-service, including prohibiting exit on the basement level.