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

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...

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...

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...

Title: jan's garden Website: jan.systems RSS Feed: jan.systems/feed.xml Jan's personal digital garden, where you may find things related to computer science, electronics, music, games of all kinds but mostly tabletop and role-playing,...