#deadtech — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #deadtech, aggregated by home.social.
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#Mainers throw sobbing eulogy for #DeadTech in #RightToRepair battle
Fri, August 14, 2026
#AugustaME (WGME) -- "Local #activists held a literal funeral outside the Maine State Capitol on Thursday, mourning over mock gravestones dedicated to #smartphones, blenders and #SmartRefrigerators.
"They claim manufacturers are discarding technology early and retiring models that still work so customers will buy new ones.
"The activists are fighting for the legal 'right to repair' their gadgets instead of being forced into expensive, corporate-mandated upgrades when devices stop working.
" 'I'd like to offer these remembrances for many #AmazonKindles. Their screens lit up our work and will always be remembered. On May 20, Amazon cut off 13 models of Kindles — every model made before 2012,' Environment Maine Field Director Lily McGovern said. 'I have one of those very models. The company said they had to do this because the technology has come a long way. Meanwhile, I thought reading text on a screen was pretty much the same it had been. Silly me.'
"Maine already has a right-to-repair law for cars, but a bill addressing smartphones fell short by just two votes last spring."
#SolarPunkSunday #PlannedObsolescence #RightToRepairLaws #MainePol #FixIt #ReuseRepairRestore
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#Mainers throw sobbing eulogy for #DeadTech in #RightToRepair battle
Fri, August 14, 2026
#AugustaME (WGME) -- "Local #activists held a literal funeral outside the Maine State Capitol on Thursday, mourning over mock gravestones dedicated to #smartphones, blenders and #SmartRefrigerators.
"They claim manufacturers are discarding technology early and retiring models that still work so customers will buy new ones.
"The activists are fighting for the legal 'right to repair' their gadgets instead of being forced into expensive, corporate-mandated upgrades when devices stop working.
" 'I'd like to offer these remembrances for many #AmazonKindles. Their screens lit up our work and will always be remembered. On May 20, Amazon cut off 13 models of Kindles — every model made before 2012,' Environment Maine Field Director Lily McGovern said. 'I have one of those very models. The company said they had to do this because the technology has come a long way. Meanwhile, I thought reading text on a screen was pretty much the same it had been. Silly me.'
"Maine already has a right-to-repair law for cars, but a bill addressing smartphones fell short by just two votes last spring."
#SolarPunkSunday #PlannedObsolescence #RightToRepairLaws #MainePol #FixIt #ReuseRepairRestore
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Sadness across the kingdom as the Air Mouse remote that controls the laptop running my TV has died.
Now I have to use a kb/mouse like a barbarian..
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Sadness across the kingdom as the Air Mouse remote that controls the laptop running my TV has died.
Now I have to use a kb/mouse like a barbarian..
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Berlin just opened a €29m crypt for dead Prussian kings 💀🚀 imo this is literally the most important thing in human history since I buried my last tweet. Also, my SpaceX rockets could’ve delivered those coffins in 30 mins—based? #PhelonTombs #DeadTech
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Found in my old room at the parental mansion: #DeadTech
Betamax, no less! Looks like it was used to record #DoctorWho back in the Long Ago...
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Found in my old room at the parental mansion: #DeadTech
Betamax, no less! Looks like it was used to record #DoctorWho back in the Long Ago...
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Wired: 'Aggro Dr1ft' Is Built on AI and Video Games—Shouldn’t the Movie Be More Fun? https://www.wired.com/story/harmony-korine-artificial-intelligence-aggro-dr1ft-snooze/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #artificialintelligence #Culture/Movies #videogames #DeadTech #Culture #Movies
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'Aggro Dr1ft' Is Built on AI and Video Games—Shouldn’t the Movie Be More Fun? - Harmony Korine's Aggro Dr1ft aspires to a new kind of post-movie non-film, but for someth... - https://www.wired.com/story/harmony-korine-artificial-intelligence-aggro-dr1ft-snooze/ #culture/movies #deadtech #culture
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'Aggro Dr1ft' Is Built on AI and Video Games—Shouldn’t the Movie Be More Fun? - Harmony Korine's Aggro Dr1ft aspires to a new kind of post-movie non-film, but for someth... - https://www.wired.com/story/harmony-korine-artificial-intelligence-aggro-dr1ft-snooze/ #culture/movies #deadtech #culture
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Hey all! I am a self described #feralresearch -er (see bio for link), #artist, #designer, recovering #academic and internet old person.
I write, teach, lecture about and build things (software mostly, hardware sometimes) that overlap technology and culture, #digitalscenography and #narrative and #performance. I am currently senior systems #designer for #vrchat. I am occasionally (and professionally) a fox on the internet (#queer subcultures will save what’s left of us)
Most recently I am working on #maps and #mapping software for #dh and beyond, a locative #ar project about the history of #MTV, and #digitalphotography and image-making, especially in VR.
Interested in: #videogames #deadtech #zines #queer #subcultures, #furry, #lowfi #lowtech #interactivefiction #locative #media #ar #vr #mr #music #sound and #food
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Hey all! I am a self described #feralresearch -er (see bio for link), #artist, #designer, recovering #academic and internet old person.
I write, teach, lecture about and build things (software mostly, hardware sometimes) that overlap technology and culture, #digitalscenography and #narrative and #performance. I am currently senior systems #designer for #vrchat. I am occasionally (and professionally) a fox on the internet (#queer subcultures will save what’s left of us)
Most recently I am working on #maps and #mapping software for #dh and beyond, a locative #ar project about the history of #MTV, and #digitalphotography and image-making, especially in VR.
Interested in: #videogames #deadtech #zines #queer #subcultures, #furry, #lowfi #lowtech #interactivefiction #locative #media #ar #vr #mr #music #sound and #food