Category: Weeknotes 🗓️
A weekly missive from the virtual desktop of Jay Springett.
Each issue covers what I’ve been: reading, doing, thinking about, some links recommendations, a good meme and more.
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Back 3 It
I used my break to turn 41 years old, finish recording the next episode of Permanently Moved, engaged in some serious life admin, and also built a new blog theme,…
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Summer Hiatus
In other blog admin news, thejaymo.net will be going on a short hiatus.
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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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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 play out.
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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 see though the window.
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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.
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Daily Averages
I still have a web time tracker extension installed in my personal browser profile. Six years later, here are my daily averages across that whole period.
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Telephone
Rumours talk hold when highly important events are shrouded in ambiguity in the presence of a censorious cultural environment.
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Just Sad
Grief is a process that has only a beginning, so I am trying not to mistake this first darkness for the whole sky.
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Jubensha Con
On Saturday I went to Jubensha Con 2026. The first english language convention about the Chinese social phenomenon of Jubensha.
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Turnstones
I can’t belive its MAY. With every passing year, it feels like life is accelerating, but then again, so are events.
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Nearly Doable
I can honestly report that sending physical things to people is bloody brilliant.
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Novel Cognition
The novel brought about a new kind of cognition; and why AI might be doing the same.
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Everyone Vibe Codes Their Own Markdown Editor Eventually
I think judging an LLM on it’s writing output is a complete category error. It’s what they possible with language that is important.