Friday, July 10, 2026

Jerked by a Mechanical Turk

The latest iteration of the Neo domestic robot from startup manufacturer 1X has freakishly sensitive and mobile fingers. Very dextrous, pretty much the equivalent of human hands, capable of delicate chores like screwing in a light bulb, or... well, you know how people are.


Thing is, like most of these robots today, it's not entirely autonomous...
1X says the goal is full automation for Neo, but for now, the robot is partly teleoperated, as a Wall Street Journal video noted last year.
Some guy who works in a Singapore cubicle farm sits at the dinner table with a haunted, 1000yd stare.

“How was work today, honey?” asks his wife…

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Thank God It's Meme Dump!




Thursday, July 09, 2026

There's a reason I refer to it as "Karens-Dot-Com".

The official yard sign of NextDoor and every neighborhood Facebook group ever.


NextDoor is largely populated by the Ladies Auxiliary of these guys...



Bonnie Tyler has left the building.

Like everyone else who secretly loved the shit out of the song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and its bizarro video but was too cool to admit it, I am saddened by this news.

In tribute, the best spoof video of all time:

Meme Dump!