Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Bingo night is the new warehouse rave
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Misery influences politics. James Carville famously said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” But that’s too narrow. Often it’s human flourishing, stupid, including community cohesion, a sense of being respected, social connection.
New York Times • Opinion | The Rising Tide of Global Sadness
What’s important about the bitter bias is that it’s unethical and dishonest. Of course, sometimes we moralize people’s behavior because it’s actually immoral, but I think just as often we refashion it that way so that we can claim the moral high ground, thereby countering our feelings of inferiority.
“tiny touches” (when someone you live with is... See more
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Substack • #93: 5 new terms (that I made up)
It might seem that the close coupling of digital innovation with the market was inevitable, but our present reality is only one possible digital world — creating others is still possible, and there is little time to waste.
Rachel Coldicutt • Sunshine Machines: Towards a Feminist Future of Digital Care
reading someone else’s words before I write always stirs something new in me.
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
As places where disaster has already occurred, ruins are proof that life continues even when everything goes wrong — and that beauty and connection can be cultivated in the process.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
God, I mean, I think capitalism has infiltrated almost everything on the internet at this point. I think the reason a lot of people are spending more time in group chats and discord servers is because it's a reaction to all of this. They want spaces to express themselves that are free from algorithms and brands.
Embedded • How Taylor Lorenz Went From Tumblr Queen to Internet Historian
At its heart, belief magic is a combination of community knowledge + solidarity networks + folklore.
Sarah Drinkwater • Magic, belief systems + web3
Trust as connective tissue — what allows coherence without control. It operates at every scale: Somatic (can I trust my body?), Relational (the warm lifeboat — seeing each other in solidarity), Linguistic (shared language as trust infrastructure, exformation), Institutional (from control to coordination), Temporal ("meet me, don't try to match me"... See more