Grok 3 from XTwitter: *What is the story with this Italian spoken-word vinyl record from 1960? Who are these people, where did it come from? We’re seeing some heavy traffic, so we’ve opted for an alternate model to get your answer to you faster. This vinyl record, Il Versificatore / Dove Cresce L’Erba by Primo […]

*The magazine’s not a magazine and the phone is no longer a phone, either, but that doesn’t get in the way of the technocultural struggle here.

This video is quite interesting in terms of “restoration” theory. A movie prop can be the “original prop,” but it’s not the “original pistol,” because the pistol is fantastic, dramatic and imaginary, never a real pistol. You’ll note that Savage has the plans of the prop-makers of the first prop, but he doesn’t feel driven […]

*I had never heard of it. Clearly it exists or existed, though. It also dates to 1960 and has Primo Levi’s name on it, which means that the story was originally circulated under Levi’s name rather than “Damiano Malabaila.”

*You have to be a brave city to have sudden-destruction-from-the-sky named after yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino_scale

*Okay, this Artmaker blog post is quite gimmicky — but it’s *less gimmicky* than it might have been a few years ago. https://youtu.be/DzuNgocP8WI?si=jpwQOB4MN6H0xkuQ

It’s interesting to see this power-struggle between “cybernetics” and “AI” so frankly addressed by Heinz von Foerster. From Vienna to California: A journey across disciplines: An interview with Heinz von Foerster Article in Kybernetes · January 2005 DOI: 10.1108/03684920510575717 (…) [FG] Indeed, it seems that classical artificial intelligence researchers tend to refrain from getting into […]

Of considerable interest to both prop makers and design-fiction aficionados.

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