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gumy-shark

playing stupid games but im really bad at them so im not even winning the stupid prizes

depsidase

capacity2

Anything that reminds me of anything makes me wanna throw up

indi-element

What's wrong?

everything bitch don’t act stupid

sealerssssss

saewiam

first sonadow in a whjile,... i mist them

depsidase

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In 1982 Ruffo Caselli was already afraid of notifications

The prophecy of "digital silence" from an artist who built talking circuits in the early 1980s

He was building circuits that "talked" on their own. No code. No network. No endless batteries. Just wires, salvaged chips, and intuition.

But he wasn’t doing it only to celebrate technology. He was doing it to warn us.

Ruffo used to say: "One day these machines will talk too much. And we will no longer know how to be silent."

He called it "digital silence". 40 years ago. Before WhatsApp, before email.

Look at these works from the early 1980s. They are not circuit boards. They are warnings. Circuits mounted on canvas, painted, exhibited like icons. Because Ruffo saw in the chips the same thing we see today: a new religion.

Castelli in New York didn’t get it. He said: "The world is not ready". Today the world is tired. Tired of noise.

And Ruffo’s prophecies arrived right on time.

This is the archive. These are the proofs.

CAPTIONS `Works by Ruffo Caselli, early 1980s. Circuits and mixed media on board

Read also: Talking circuits in 1982. No PC. +

link: https://cybernetic-existentialism.academy/2026/07/12/chips-are-us-2/

Source: In 1982 Ruffo Caselli was already afraid of notifications

yasbeych

trouble in paradise for the crime wives…(just kidding it’s a bit they’re doing) (they’re gay married)

rosefinchie

how it all feels lately

munchy-k

ive always rly liked the idea of a member of a group of adventurers having what everyone assumes is very well trained hawk and then at the end of their journey its casually revealed that thats actually just his buddy whos a shapeshifter and just rly likes being a hawk

munchy-k

the guy also like thinks everyone knows bc he never tries to hide the fact that the hawk is a person but everyone assumes hes always just joking. like the others being like "damn its crazy how he knows exactly what you want him to do its like he knows english or something." and the guy is just like "well yeah thats his first language so ofc he's fluent??" and they all go "haha good one" and move on, leaving him confused

munchy-k

they just think hes a quirky guy that really loves his pet and says things like "the 9 of us" even tho there are clearly only 8 people! he just cares about the bird so much he counts it as a group member haha !