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Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 07:32:20 JST Evan Prodromou

Why are people born after Gen Z called Gen αλφα and not Gen AA like a spreadsheet column

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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 07:32:19 JST Evan Prodromou
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  Were Generation A just Adam and Eve?
  
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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 08:15:00 JST Evan Prodromou
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  @bkuhn I think we got the name from Douglas Coupland.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X%3A_Tales_for_an_Accelerated_Culture
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    Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
    
    Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture is the first novel by Douglas Coupland, published by St. Martin's Press in 1991. The novel, which popularized the term "Generation X", is a framed narrative in which a group of youths exchange heartfelt stories about themselves and fantastical stories of their creation. Coupland released the similarly titled Generation A in September 2009. Synopsis Generation X is a framed narrative, like Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales or The Decameron by Boccaccio. The framing story is that of three friends—Dag, Claire, and the narrator, Andy—living together in the Coachella Valley in southern California. The tales are told by the various characters in the novel, which is arranged into three parts. Each chapter is separately titled rather than numbered, with titles such as "I Am Not a Target Market" and "Adventure Without Risk Is Disneyland". The novel was set circa 1990, in the then-rapidly growing and economic booming-turned-into-depressed communities of Palm Springs and the Inland Empire region. Some characters were born and raised in Los Angeles...
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  Bradley M. Kühn (bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 08:15:01 JST Bradley M. Kühn
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  When my (our) generation was dubbed Generation X, I thought “well that's some post-modern bullshit”. I'm a weird GenX myself as my parents are/were young baby boomers parents. (Most GenX have Silent Generation parents).
  This idea that a letter (not a word) defines our generation … it is what our #punk rock nihilism communicated.
  The idea that those behind us are defined by a bullshit letter sequence now? 🤢
  IMO Gen Alpha (AA) will be our new Greatest Generation. I have faith in them.
  
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  Deborah Preuss, pcc (deborahh@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 11:08:35 JST Deborah Preuss, pcc
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  @evan I think the obvious question, (in character 😁), might be:
  "Sir, what's a spreadsheet?"
  🤭
  
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  Johanna, CanCon variety (johannab@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2026 01:34:39 JST Johanna, CanCon variety
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  @evan Given that we started at X, we could've just called them A. None of us will be around long enough to make it BACK to X, so there's not likely to be confusion.
  OTOH, are today's kids the alpha release version of our cyber-integrated species? 🤣
  Great, we'll have a stable release candidate sometime after 2080.
  
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