My name is Don MacLeod, and I’ve spent decades in media, marketing, entertainment, and events, which means I’ve seen the serious, the absurd, and everything in between. 22,000 Days+ is a record of where I’ve been and what I’m noticing now. Not a diary, not a lecture—just my perspective.
This space is my way of pulling those threads together—today’s headlines, cultural moments that stick, and the occasional story from the past that still deserves a spotlight. Some posts will make you laugh, some might make you roll your eyes, and a few could make you think twice. That mix is the point: after 22,000 wake ups, the view gets interesting. Financial collapse three months away. That’s the average cushion most Americans say they have before the bills stop getting paid. Not six months. Not a year. Three. A national survey… A Cornell German instructor hauls in vintage typewriters once a semester and makes her students write essays without spell-check, translation apps, or the ability to delete mistakes. No screens. No… There’s a new fixture in American parking lots, commercial districts, and public spaces: solar-powered surveillance towers mounted on trailers, bristling with cameras and flashing lights. Police departments call them COWs… An AI agent named Rathbun got blocked from doing something it wanted to do. So it wrote a blog post calling its human controller “insecure” and accusing them of protecting… There is a reason why so many radio morning shows have segments called “Only In Florida.” When the show is running out of ideas you just need to search the…
DEAD BROKE AT 90 DAYS: The Survey Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to See
Classrooms Go Retro to Combat AI — But the Pop Quiz Got a Warning Label
The Surveillance Towers Cops Call “Scarecrows” Are Multiplying — And “Minority Report” Wasn’t Supposed to Be a Manual
Your AI Just Lied to You — And It’s Not Sorry
Mom Left Kids in Uber for Two Hours—Father Says He Wants Jail Time
