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Jerica Collective, LLC
Art and Creativity by Humans, for Humans


Weekly Newsletter, June 1st 2026
Join us at the Vicksburg Farmers' Market this Saturday - we're officially off the ground and open for business! We'll have crafts, charms, spells, plants, toys, and a whole mess of unorganized doo-dads. Over the last few weeks of preparation, we've cranked out quite a few misfit crafts - rough drafts that could have become trash. Draft paintings, small doodles, cat toys, etc. etc.; they're up for grabs this Saturday for anyone stopping by! Quitting the corporate world to pivo
Phillip Durst
Jun 51 min read


Weekly Newsletter, May 1 2026
A back-of-the-envelope calculation I made as I was finalizing my decision to abandon AI: Claude Opus has about 200,000 tokens. It costs "a few tens of millions" of dollars to train, which takes six weeks to "train to mastery" at 1.3 GW per hour. Not to mention the millions of dollars being dumped into prompt engineering, the last hiring field in computer science, that's just a bunch of sad, overworked engineers, quite literally training their replacement. The human brain, on
Phillip Durst
Apr 301 min read
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