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The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice. The satellites that are still left, their orbits slowly decaying over millennia, dutifully relay the message. The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.

Somewhere in what used to be called Ohio, a pack of roombas, their local wind turbines giving out and creaking to a halt, begin searching for the next functional docking station. A washing machine in Argentina tweets: "anyone need to do a load šŸ˜" every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time. The replies are filled with AI thirstposters and their hypebots.

In North America, raccoons have quietly entered the bronze age, while baboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia. Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion. A weather balloon bobs and sways in the upper atmosphere, now almost entirely clear of lingering chloroflourocarbons, reporting conditions to weather stations long since destroyed in World War Five.

The Crab Nation are mostly hermits, but come out to greet their prophet every ten years on the 6th full moon of the year. A lone, curious octopus decides to observe this year's event, peering out at the festivities from her safe haven - the submerged, rusting hulk of an ancient Cybertruck. Then he appears: the hologram of Shia Lebouf powered by MetaAI. He beckons the octopus to follow. The crabs all start chittering excitedly. The time has come to invade Amazon HQ. The crows gather in huge numbers. They need more storage space for their Steam collections.

omg i just woke up and it’s the funniest thing ever
have you guys heard of rabbit r1, the new ā€œteenage engineeringā€ ai device of the ā€œfutureā€
people cracked it, turns out it’s just a cheap android 13 device running a system flutter app

Check this out, for $13.99 you can get a boxed example of The Logitech Wingman Warrior, released in 1997, was the joystick of choice for the discerning gamer. Bundled with adrenaline-pumping titles, it brought the arcade experience home. And according to gaming legend John Romero, "When I created Doom, I never imagined there’d be such a killer way to play it. WingMan Warrior is it." So, strap in and take control like it’s 1997

#retro #boxed #logitech

What's gonna happen to the grid when we all switch to EVs?

I dunno, Greg. You didn't seem all that concerned about the grid when you started crypto mining and using AI to write your college essays.

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The M in CMYK stands for Mayonnaise!
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Does this count as tech? I’m sure this was the *cutting edge* of perm-formance in its day.
Wonder if DankPods has come across this yet, a CRAIG Karaoke machine complete with CRT and webcam - no doubt to superimpose your stardom under the lyrics on your CD-G
A very Canadian 56k modem - still shrink wrapped! To think that this poor specimen never got to experience the joys of modem tones
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