01 // Currently in production
An audio-only essay podcast from the frontier of digital culture. Written, recorded and edited by me since 2018.
permanentlymoved.online
A long-running audio essay show about digital culture, internet culture, and the changing shape of the web.
The show explores internet culture, artificial intelligence, worldrunning, and the shifting tides of social media — life lived online in the shadow of the stack, and what all of that does to the way we live and think.
Regularly in the iTunes Top 100 personal journal charts in countries around the world, and once at number one.
02 // Two eras of the show
Exactly 301 Seconds
For its first run, Permanently Moved was a weekly essay show exactly 301 seconds long. Five minutes and one second, every week, for three hundred and one episodes.
Any given episode might explore an aspect of the internet and how it changes us; stories about long-dead saints and why they matter; or the existence of a wild crisp conspiracy in the heart of UK supermarkets.
Tightly scripted, yet nakedly transparent about the creative process. A small, sharp thing you could finish before the kettle boiled.
The Long Way Round
The show has changed pace and scale. It is now a quarterly release: longer-form, and more willing to take the long way round.
Episodes are still tightly written, but with more space for detours, context, and the odd obsession to fully unfold.
Each new episode arrives alongside Start Select Reset, its print companion — an essay in the post four times a year, with an introduction and afterword that don’t exist in the audio.
03 // In the charts
For a small independent audio essay show, Permanently Moved is surprisingly well travelled.
In January 2020 Permanently Moved broke into the iTunes UK Top 50 Personal Journal podcasts chart for the first time; only 43 places behind 301’s bête noire Desert Island Discs.
It has since appeared in the Top 50 podcast charts in countries including Brazil, South Africa, and Sweden. In January 2023 it reached #1 in Personal Journals in Iceland — a small but very pleasing moment for an independent audio essay podcast.
04 // Newest episode
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EPISODE #303INTERNET OPERATOR
Social media as theatre: a long-form audio essay about puppets, profiles, avatars, AI, and how identity is animated online.
05 // Every episode
The full archive, newest first. More than three hundred episodes since 2018.
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EPISODE #2141What Happens When the Queen Dies? | 2141
The reality field produced by the British State will come crashing into contact with the State of Britain.
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EPISODE #2140The Light Is a Headlight | 2140
If you think that you see any kind of light at the end of the tunnel at all, you are mistaken.
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![[Guest Episode] Pit Of Snakes | 2139](https://thejaymo.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/301-Square-Cover-2139-1024x1024.jpg)
EPISODE #2139[Guest Episode] Pit Of Snakes | 2139
This weeks show is hosted by Laurie Pike creator of The Night Dream Podcast. Pit of Snakes is a story about how we have…
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EPISODE #2138Recommendations | 2138
In no particular order, here’s some recommendations of things from friends and acquaintances that I think you should check out.
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EPISODE #2137Dyslexia | 2137
I was introduced on call the other day as an essayist. The idea that someone would describe me as one left the kid in…
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EPISODE #2136New Glasses | 2136
I have two new pairs of glasses. For the first time in a long time I’ve been feeling self conscious. But this is my…
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EPISODE #2135This Week’s Podcast | 2135
Behind today’s 5min of content is about Five hours of work, and about 4.5k words. 3.5k of which I threw away.
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EPISODE #2134Power Fandoms | 2134
With Web3 enabled Permissive IP frameworks, Power Fandoms will own, produce and share the value created by their worlds. They are coming soon
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EPISODE #2133A Napster Moment For Collective Storytelling | 2133
Experienced Future shock this week with the launch of three NFT projects: LOOT, The Logged Universe, and Lifeforms. Permissive IPs are coming. If I…
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EPISODE #2132The Prompt in Interactive Fiction and AI Art | 2132
Sketching out some ideas around the relation between the shared indistinguishable surface of interactive fiction games and using GAN’s to create art. What comes…
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EPISODE #213110 Years With a Straight Razor | 2131
Since I have been old enough to do so, I’ve hidden my face behind a beard. Shaving with a straight razor requires the sacrifice…
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EPISODE #2130Episode 150 (Sprint Review) | 2130
4 years, 150 Episodes, 12.5hrs of audio, 9 Video Episodes and 160,000+ words of script. ‘Number goes up’ gives you a nice feeling. But…
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EPISODE #2129Learning Mode | 2129
I’ve been learning new software this week. The Covid brain fog is lifting, and I am experiencing the phenomenon of unspent mental energy coming…
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EPISODE #2128Friend to All Nations | 2128
The Lifeboat Service is one of the UK’s only institutions that embodies the notion of the Moral Good. I talk about Margate’s Great Storm…
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EPISODE #2127Don’t Call It a Comeback | 2127
This weeks show is about the TV show Whats My Line? and the power of Colonel Sanders’ image flowing backward in time.
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EPISODE #2126The Hybrid / Hyper Reality of Worlds | 2126
A conversation with Paul Czege, RPGs, Worlding worlds, and the experiences and memories that we acquire in them.
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EPISODE #2125I’m Talkin’ UAP UAP UAP | 2125
The UFO report, UAPs, the black bird analogy, industry developmental programs, orthogonal innovation, the democrats, and war with china?
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EPISODE #2124Big Feelings Are Like Beads in a Bowl | 2124
Moments of psychic intensity generate ‘Big Feelings’. That we then carry around with us as unprocessed loops that keep us awake at night.
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![[Guest Episode] The Dark Souls Method | 2123](https://thejaymo.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/301-Square-Cover-2123-1024x1024.jpeg)
EPISODE #2123[Guest Episode] The Dark Souls Method | 2123
Author J David Osborne guest hosts 301 this week. He talks Darksouls, Petscop, Gulags and Narrative strategy.
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EPISODE #2122The Experiment – The First Video Episode | 2122
An exciting car cash of an Episode. Over the sound of the wonderful accident I talk about Etsy buying Depop.
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EPISODE #2121The Self Help Section | 2121
You would be surprised by the number of people who come into a book store and need to ask where the self help section…
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EPISODE #2119The Inmates Have Taken Over the Asylum | 2119
This phrase is powerful anti-worker propaganda that has dominated the public imagination for a century. If we are going to get DAOs and more…
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EPISODE #2118Anything but the Election | 2118
Making an episode on the election would probably have done some good numbers. But I decided to talk about Babylonian evil sprits instead.