Keely Adler

One of the very first metalabels is the Royal Society, founded in 1660. The Royal Society began when a group of people in the 17th century pooled money and resources to fund experiments and publish the first scientific journals so that scientific thinking and practices would be accepted in English society.

Because of this, the language around the metaverse must be evangelical and unceasing in its conviction. There is a conspiracy of positivity at the heart of it all.

the idea of vulnerability, and its different levels of meaning: vulnerability as a window, and vulnerability as a wound.

bigger vision for what Mad Realities can become. They want to build out an underlying protocol and a distribution platform on top of it, allowing any person or community to create permission-less UGC.

"you're not acquiring knowledge you're entering a relationship with knowledge"

The proliferation of “-core” style nicknames reminds me of what Kaitlyn Tiffany described as a staple of digital life, dating back to MySpace, Tumblr, and BuzzFeed quizzes: the urge to identify with esoteric aesthetic subcultures such as “cottagecore” and “romantic academia” and “pastel goth” because you want to locate your niche and belong... See more

Scrying is the art of divination, of extending perception through magical means. To scry, you need three things: a target, a means of obtaining information, and a way to interpret that information. Interpretation is often done through free-association, archetypal imagery, cold reading, or lookup tables.

Roblox is not an overnight success. We’ve been around for about 15 years. The vision of our founder was something he called human co-experience: people doing things together in synchronous 3D spaces. I think people call that the metaverse now, but it’s always been what we focus on. A lot of people called us a game company, for years. We kind of... See more