Money isn’t real. Value is. Although most of humanity is obsessed with “getting that bag” - the truth is that money is a construct on which we have agreed. And, the “value” of money is not consistent. Those that have sold their soul to the dollar bill have effectively sold their soul for nothing because that is the...

Day 1 of NaPoWriMo. My poem First poem for the challenge. Written in short meter. Daemon possessed Daemon on my system Someone call an exorcist And bring a couple scriptures too Preferably from Genesis We'll trip him in his tracks Since he's always on the run Then cast the daemon out Before the processing is done!...

Two e-essays for your consideration! The first is Models All The Way Down by Christo Buschek and Jer Thorp. It’s all about LAION-5B and the enormous corpus of questionable data that’s used to train AI models under the hood. Here’s the kicker: ...how do you investigate something that takes lifetimes to look at? Yes,...

A look back on Minecraft, its editions, its culture, and how it shaped me as I turn 18 and transition into adulthood.