alexi gunner
@idlegaze
cultural strategist
writes idle gaze; a newsletter exploring the undercurrents of the modern zeitgeist.
founder @ idle gaze consulting
cultural futurist @ RADAR
alexi gunner
@idlegaze
cultural strategist
writes idle gaze; a newsletter exploring the undercurrents of the modern zeitgeist.
founder @ idle gaze consulting
cultural futurist @ RADAR
From the point of view of normal middle-class people fully invested in the paycheck lifestyle, gigworkers appear to unreasonably and perversely reject perfectly fine standardized consumption-based life scripts, scripts that have worked for a century for billions of people. We have weird lives with lots of non-default aspects. We live in unexpected
... See moreEgbert was able to further demonstrate how the word itself has undergone a transformative journey — what linguists call “semantic drift.” It wasn’t so long ago that Americans mostly used “journey” to mean a literal trip, whereas now it’s more popular as a metaphor. Egbert demonstrated this by searching the more than one billion words in a database
... See moreQuantum koinonia is an idea within philosophy and theology that emerges when we start to test our faith via experiment. With the concept of quantum entanglement, the idea of a "small group" is extended to a group of two or perhaps three, where two or three individuals' minds are bound together at the quantum level, and even at the collective group
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