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By: Leaving Worlds Behind | 2508 - thejaymo

Leaving Worlds Behind | 2508 - thejaymo — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:11:59 +0000

[…] I’ve written elsewhere: every world needs a ritual of welcome. But each also needs a ritual of […]

By: 🤖 Waking Up in a New World - thejaymo

🤖 Waking Up in a New World - thejaymo — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 09:38:47 +0000

[…] Prompts have been a fascination of mine for a long time, and I’ll have some more to say about all this in future. And obviously this has a great deal of overlap with navigation of worlds and their physics. […]

By: Going Deep | 2407 - thejaymo

Going Deep | 2407 - thejaymo — Sun, 05 May 2024 19:23:02 +0000

[…] If techno-social systems (like games) are worlds, then speedrunners are people who are engaged with a system so completely that they understand the world’s physics. […]

By: World(view) | 2327 - thejaymo

World(view) | 2327 - thejaymo — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 11:56:10 +0000

[…] techno-social system has both innate rules – its digital physics – and cultural norms. I described back in Episode 22-22 the failure result of unsuccessfully moving between models – you get […]

By: The Rise of Co-Play: The Future of Multiplayer Software | 2325 - thejaymo

The Rise of Co-Play: The Future of Multiplayer Software | 2325 - thejaymo — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 22:45:18 +0000

[…] multiplayer software is a techno-social system, and therefore a world with its own digital physics. Who doesn’t think Figma has a kind of game […]

By: Future Music | Weeknotes - thejaymo

Future Music | Weeknotes - thejaymo — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:27:57 +0000

[…] The online world of Web2 recast as all as lossy data-shadows. Only ever as legible to the advertising engines of algorithmic platform capitalism as the database scheme will allow. The navigation of these vast techno-social systems dictated by ‘the algorithm’. Followers, likes, retweets and replies, a realtime chat room with added scoreboard. Culture had changed in response, some of us now even think and behave by network logics. […]

By: Goncharov's New Dabloons | 2242 - thejaymo

Goncharov's New Dabloons | 2242 - thejaymo — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 17:29:57 +0000

[…] navigation of the world of Dabloons via TikTok’s platform physics is however intriguing from a world running perspective. You can only interact with the world of the […]

By: Metaverse & Monsters - Thoughts on One D&D - thejaymo

Metaverse & Monsters - Thoughts on One D&D - thejaymo — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 15:53:50 +0000

[…] my posts about how individuals navigate code-spaces and the way platforms capture value are relevant to WotC going after Roll 20 and Tailspire. They […]

By: Petervan’s Delicacies – 20 July 2022 | Petervan Studios

Petervan’s Delicacies – 20 July 2022 | Petervan Studios — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:34:30 +0000

[…] brainworms: when virtual messes up your understanding of the real world. By […]

By: Pinball Wizard | Pinball Wizard - thejaymo

Pinball Wizard | Pinball Wizard - thejaymo — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 20:47:24 +0000

[…] commonality that all these topics share is that a world is a place. For the Pinball Wizard, that place, that metaverse is the playfield and the […]

By: Navigation Styles | 2225 - thejaymo

Navigation Styles | 2225 - thejaymo — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 21:12:21 +0000

[…] people navigating the world implicitly ie Brainwormed. or explicitly ie doing something with […]

By: 'Making Moves' In DALL·E mini | Weeknotes - thejaymo

'Making Moves' In DALL·E mini | Weeknotes - thejaymo — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:19:47 +0000

[…] The prompt is the most important element of interacting with algorithmic systems. The ability to explore the ‘world’ created by the algorithm returns agency to ‘Interactor’ or user. A completely diffrent experience to being trapped inside an algorithmic new feed in the ‘world’ of Twitter. […]