Who remembers using or playing with a Viewmaster? I had the original as well as a talking one that allowed you to hear the story as well as view it. Remembering to always click the lever down to advance the little disc that had the images, and with the talking one clicking the lever down at the tone of the beep. I remember having mine and I would watch for hours for my parents always got me more little 'movies' to watch on this 'toy' and also a lot of batteries to go along with this toy. To me FUN!
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Mark Graham
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Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH12 days ago in Critique
Lingua ex machina
Peter Ayolov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Abstract This article examines the claim that language is not merely a product of human nature and evolutionary adaptation, but a force that, once constituted, begins to shape humans in its own image. Drawing on Elan Barenholtz’s Substack essay ‘Syntax is Dead! Long Live Syntax!’ and the University of Toronto discussion ‘The (Terrifying) Theory That Your Thoughts Were Never Your Own’, the text argues that language initially emerged as an adaptive coordination system but gradually detached from its biological origins through external memory technologies such as writing, print, audio, and video. With the advent of large language models, this autonomy becomes visible for the first time. Syntax appears not as an innate causal engine but as an emergent statistical shadow of predictive systems. Language, understood as an autogenerative informational system, now operates as a cultural and cognitive environment that produces meaning, belief, identity, and even metaphysical concepts such as God. In this sense, language does not reflect reality so much as organise it, creating human subjects through symbolic structures that precede intention and awareness.
By Peter Ayolova day ago in Critique
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I remember! I only had the visual one - don't remember the talking one. They were always super cool - or so I thought.
I use to love these too! The design was really neat and cool. Happy to see these again! What were those pipe things you’d look down with one eye and them you’d turn these and the patters would change at the other end (I.e.colourful arty type spirals etc.) Not as cool as the view finder but still very relaxing! ☺️
OHHH!!! A Blast from the past! I loved mine. Thank you for the memories.