// Welcome to thejaymo.net! <br>My homepage on the World Wide Web since 2009
Hi I’m Jay Springett
Computers, their consequences,
and the worlds they make possible
Worlds
I am interested in the design, administration and flourishing of worlds of all kinds
My primary thesis: All techno-social systems should be seen through the lens of worlds
I’m currently writing my first non-fiction book: The Web Was a Side Quest — an exploration of worlds as a medium and how they came to be. My essay collection on World Running can be found at worldrunning.guide
Signals
Since 2018 I’ve been making Permanently Moved. A 301 second long personal podcast that condenses complex ideas into digestible bites
An early voice in the Solarpunk movement, I’m committed to envisioning and navigating towards sustainable, regenerative futures
My new interview podcast on creativity and aphantasia is called Experience.Computer
Contact me about working together
01 // Podcasts
Permanently Moved is an iTunes Top 100 personal journal.
301 seconds in length. Written, recorded and edited by me weekly since 2018.
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EPISODE #302Monsters In The Mirror
What are large language models, really? On AI, Language, and the new entities that wear language as their skin.
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EPISODE #2601
Pre-Flight: The New Container
I’m emerging from a chrysalis. Six months since I finished 301, and closed the loop on the biggest creative project of my life.
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EPISODE #2520
Episode 301
Begun at age 32, completed today, the day after I turned 40: one fifth of a lifetime distilled into a body of work.
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EPISODE #2519
Landing Sequence
This show represents an enormous amount of effort and discipline. Sustaining any single format for eight years is achievement enough for me.
02 // Weeknotes
A weekly missive sent from my virtual desktop. Each issue covers what I’ve been: reading, doing, thinking about, some link recommendations, a good meme and more.
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WEEKNOTE #445
Why We Should Start Naming Heatwaves
Listening to the rain arrive out the open window, I decided we should name heatwaves the same way as we do storms.
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WEEKNOTE #444
The Future Arrived in June
I often think that it’s best to explain that a climate model simulates a ‘possible world’ where a set of assumptions are allowed to…
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WEEKNOTE #443
Taste As Interface Behaviour
It’s an apparatus that observes you observing, then changes its own behaviour based on that observation, which in turn shapes the future view you…
04 // Agent Worlds
The shape of the worlds agents wake up inside; and why it matters.
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Thinking Inside Out
An introduction to three essays on agent environments, worlds, and ontological hardness.
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Three Worlds for Little Guys
OpenClaw, Gas Town, and Cantrip through the lens of ontological hardness
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Hard Worlds For Little Guys
Why LLM agents need hard worlds; lessons from interactive fiction engine design.
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Ontological Hardness
Why the first question about agent failure should be about the world, not the model
05 // Projects
Experience.Computer 🔊
Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech.
An interview show by Jay Springett about aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination
Start Select Reset 📑
Subscribing to SSRZ supports my online work and creative projects.
As a thank you, I send you my zine four times a year, just like it’s 1994.
Slides and speaker notes for my keynote on Solarpunk given at Unsound Festival (2019)
Solarpunk is a collective ‘Memetic Engine’. A cultural construct, a tool to power and provides the ‘re-futuring’ that our collective imagination needs
07 // Themes
AI 🤖
I’ve been using modern AI tools for years, I’ve also already had my identity stolen by an AI slop content farm. Obviously I’ve had thoughts….
08 // Start Here
Some posts that caught algos attention. An ideal starting point if you’re new around here
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Words for a Departed Wizard
Last month, my friend Gordon White set sail for the Undying Lands. Yesterday was his birthday. I spent it thinking about him, writing this, and remembering him.
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The Near Future of AI Agents
A primer on the near future of agentic AI, and the governance layer that will become the most important product space this year.
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Making Friends with AI
It’s worth exploring whether a Tamagotchi style lifecycle design pattern could be applied to AI assistants to help users maintain healthy emotional distance.
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Solarpunk: A Container for More Fertile Futures
My original essay from Solarpunk Magazine’s first issue. It examines the rise of Solarpunk as a creative force for sustainable futures.
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Future Music
I am fixated on the vocal static. I hear at the edges the AI-anna Grande model unspooling into pure material waveform. This is future music.
WEEKNOTE #291
I’ve been blogging since 2010. Web-logs are the most social of medias.
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Jun 2026 | Photo 365
Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 6. Photo-a-day for the month of May 2026.
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Summer Hiatus
In other blog admin news, thejaymo.net will be going on a short hiatus.
WEEKNOTE #446 -
Why We Should Start Naming Heatwaves
Listening to the rain arrive out the open window, I decided we should name heatwaves the same way as we do storms.
WEEKNOTE #445 -
The Future Arrived in June
I often think that it’s best to explain that a climate model simulates a ‘possible world’ where a set of assumptions are…
WEEKNOTE #444 -
Taste As Interface Behaviour
It’s an apparatus that observes you observing, then changes its own behaviour based on that observation, which in turn shapes the future…
WEEKNOTE #443 -
The Backrooms as Permissive IP
The Backrooms movie shows how modern myth, world literacy, and permissive IP can produce culture that Hollywood can only arrive at later.
WEEKNOTE #442
THE ARCHIVE
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