Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The cultural logic of the 2010s is best represented by the starter pack meme. In the starter pack meme, classes of people are identified through oblique subcultural references and products they are likely to consume.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
imagination can’t float entirely free from evidence and knowledge. We need better fusions of deep knowledge and lively creativity.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
With positive secrets, there’s usually a plan for when they will be revealed — and because they have an expiration date, those secrets can be exciting and energizing.
Elisabeth Egan • Unpacking ‘The Secret Life of Secrets’
our machines often work only to the degree that we learn to conform to their patterns. Their magic depends upon the willing suspension of full humanity.
Substack • LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment
trans activists linking arms with reproductive justice activists promotes cultural peace: the coalition illustrates how these fights are linked under a common umbrella of gender justice and bodily autonomy.
Religiously Blonde • How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future
Like the introduction of the personal camera, it is easy to imagine a near future scenario in which all amateur and professional workflows across creative industries are augmented by these tools, helping people to more clearly depict what is in their mind through common language and an ever expanding training corpus.
OpenAI CLIP • Infinite Images and the latent camera
A world built via hypercapitalism is a world that creates increasing inequality, and increasing inequality is bad for everything, including our brains. The phones, the schooling, the discourse—all of it is part of the same rot at the root of our society.