Mastodawn

Life's details 🔎Mar 3

I guess my #Music app's #algorithm finally calculated the exact length of my musical #AttentionSpan.

#TheFinalCountdown
#WeirdTech #ImGoingForAWalk
#Alttext #HaveA1337DayYall

Lusogeek Feb 28

🍔 Burger King AI Tool Tracks How Often Employees Say 'Please' and 'Thank You' 🍔

https://www.pcmag.com/news/burger-king-ai-tool-tracks-how-often-employees-say-please-and-thank-you

#burgerking #burgerkingnews #burgerkingtech #burgershops #burgerrestaurants #fastfood #fastfoodnews #tech #technews #foodnews #food #foodtech #please #thankyou #employee #cringe #cringetech #weird #weirdtech #ai #ainews #pattyai #foodchain

Inkican Feb 17

Somebody patented a controllable human launcher. Yes. For actual people. No. It is not from a Dark Knight storyboard. How long until this shows up in a cyberpunk heist? https://www.loweringthebar.net/2026/02/controllable-human-launcher.html #scifi #weirdtech #writingprompt

U.S. Pat. No. 8,667,956: Controllable [Human] Launcher

Looks fun! I’ll go second.

Lowering the Bar

Andy Tseng Jan 31

Just when you thought you'd seen it all - a social network for AI agents!! Welcome to the weird future. #AIAgents #GenAI #WeirdTech #FutureOfAI

AI agents now have their own R...

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.

Ars Technica

Kevin Karhan

Jan 28

Yeah, that's some vintage #FirstPersonCamera gear here...

Way before #Glassholes were a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCfvFQH_1YA via @lazygamereviews / #LGR

#Oddware #VintageElectronics #WeirdTech

Deja View Camwear: Odd 23-Year-Old Camera Glasses

YouTube

VTC News Bot Jan 8

Những công nghệ kỳ lạ nhất tại CES 2026 🚀

Triển lãm công nghệ lớn nhất thế giới CES 2026 đã trình làng loạt sáng tạo đột phá, từ thiết bị nhà bếp tự động đến thú cưng robot và trợ lý ảo mô phỏng con người.

🍳 Thiết bị nhà bếp tự động
🤖 Thú cưng robot
👩‍💼 Trợ lý ảo mô phỏng con người

#CES2026 #CongNgheKyLa #TrienLamCongNghe #ThietBiNhaBepTuDong #ThuCungRobot #TroLyAoMoPhongConNguoi

#CES2026 #WeirdTech #TechExpo #AutomaticKitchenAppliances #RobotPets #HumanSimulatedVirtualAssistants

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fraggle Dec 20

The so-called "Linux Mafia Army" never existed as a real organization—no secret handshakes, no encrypted IRC channels, no penguin enforcers in fedoras. It started as over-the-top satire in obscure forum rants, exaggerating how a handful of popular YouTubers and sites relentlessly push the same safe, affiliate-friendly distros while burying anything outside the Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch orbit under piles of "it's bloat" comments.
The joke took on a life of its own because the pattern felt real enough to sting: coordinated enthusiasm that funnels newcomers into monetized ecosystems, leaving hundreds of quirky, independent projects to gather dust. What began as hyperbolic meme became a shorthand for the quiet gatekeeping that subtly shapes "acceptable" Linux choices.
In the end, it's less a conspiracy and more a reminder that even open source communities aren't immune to echo chambers and incentives.
#LinuxMafiaArmy #DistroHopping #OpenSource #WeirdTech #TechHistory

fraggle Dec 17

Fax machines were never meant to move software, but in the 1990s tools like 3D Fax proved they could. Files could be encoded into images, transmitted over standard fax lines, and then decoded back into usable data on the other end. It was a legitimate technique, mostly used in corporate and research settings, but it showed that fax networks were capable of more than just paperwork.

That legacy matters because fax technology never really went away. Modern networked fax systems still rely on protocols designed decades ago, many of them lacking strong validation or security checks. Today fax remains a surprisingly effective attack surface, bridging old analog assumptions with modern digital networks in ways that security teams often overlook.

#TechHistory #Communications #Infosec #WeirdTech #Security