Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Larry Tesler’s pithy description of AI, “Artificial intelligence is whatever hasn’t been done yet.”, is equally applicable looking back to the birth of photography. Photography had also not been done yet, and was then (a phenomenon described as the AI effect) soon integrated into most artistic and industrial practices.
DALL·E represents a shift from... See more
DALL·E represents a shift from... See more
OpenAI CLIP • Infinite Images and the latent camera
There's something in academia that is definitely an inspiration for me, the H index, though it is not perfect. An H index is a measure of an influential paper and what it does. Let's use CRISPR as an example. CRISPR is probably one of the most advanced and important technologies of the past 20 years, but we don't measure its importance by the... See more
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
if your authentic impulse is not to post, these apps make you feel like this antisocial piece of shit.
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
it is culturally telling that we habitually hack off the end of the long version: “A Jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”
Slate • General Education Has a Bad Rap
During much of his long life, he was the nexus of the scientific world, writing some 50,000 letters and receiving at least double that number. Knowledge, Humboldt believed, had to be shared, exchanged and made available to everybody.
But knowledge, for Humboldt, wasn’t merely an intellectual faculty — it was an embodied, holistic presence with life... See more
But knowledge, for Humboldt, wasn’t merely an intellectual faculty — it was an embodied, holistic presence with life... See more
Alexander von Humboldt • Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections
While similar to Disney’s “transnarrative” strategy, in which characters are interspersed throughout various media, most projects don’t cohere around a central figure or storyline. Instead, the emphasis is placed on the world itself.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
My body was not an obstacle to ambition, but the barometer for what sustainable ambition could look like now.
Substack • The Workplace Runs on Dysregulated Women
The creators of these new platforms believe that they can solve the knowledge problem of net zero with software. Given the proliferation of net-zero pledges, this is a profitable problem to solve. But the platforms all approach this problem in a particular way: they turn carbon into a tradable commodity. This points to a broader point: net zero, in... See more