Hi 👋 I’m Jay Springett
Worlds, Culture, and Computation
Online since 2009; field notes on computers and civilisation. Essays and audio about the worlds we live inside.
My primary thesis: All techno-social systems should be seen through the lens of worlds.
I am interested in how worlds of all kinds are run; how they are shaped, steered, and kept coherent over time. I write about worldrunning, digital culture, artificial intelligence, internet culture, and online communities.
I’m currently writing Slop Machines of Loving Grace; a diagnosis of the condition we find ourselves in as civilisation becomes software. My essay collection on World Running and worlds as a medium can be found at worldrunning.guide
Since 2018 I’ve been making Permanently Moved. An audio essay podcast about digital culture and life lived online in the shadow of the stack.
An early voice in the Solarpunk movement, I’m committed to envisioning and navigating towards sustainable, regenerative futures.
My long form interview podcast on creativity and aphantasia is called Experience.Computer
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Permanently Moved is an iTunes Top 100 personal journal at the frontier of digital culture.
Written, recorded and edited by me since 2018.
Permanently Moved #302 – Monsters In The Mirror
What are large language models, really? On AI, Language, and the new entities that wear language as their skin.
Pre-Flight: The New Container | Permanently Moved
I’m emerging from a chrysalis. Six months since I finished 301, and closed the loop on the biggest creative project of my life.
Episode 301 | 2520
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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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.
Writing for the Machines | Weeknotes #430
Maybe I should just admit to myself that all I really want, is for some small trace of me to live forever in the…
The Launch and the Climb | Weeknotes #429
The newest episode of Permanently Moved is officially out! Monsters In The Mirror marks the shift to the new, expanded format.
Up In Flames | Weeknotes #428
This evening I just junked the whole thing and went with with a SaaS tool. So that was 12 solid hours spent this weekend…
Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech.
An interview show by Jay Springett about aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination
The show examines how people perceive the world, and how they work with the creative tools they use to make their work with
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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
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….
World Running 🌐
A speculative research project about worlding worlds, and running them
Pinned 📌
Some posts that caught algos attention. An ideal starting point if you’re new around here
Living Alongside Computer People
The idea that we can avoid a future where social networks are populated by AI-generated profiles? That ship has sailed.
The Doc Web
Social media is no longer reliable for reaching an audience. But maybe there’s a weird way forward?
The Alms Race: A Brief History of Web2
The Alms Race: The escalating development of product features providing direct financial plumbing (and community) tools to users occurring across the legacy Web2 ecosystem.
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.
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.
Wind-up Worlds
Wind-up Worlds, Web3, World Running and the urgent collective pivot we need to make towards Slow Social experiences.
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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…
February 2026 | Photo 365
Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 2. Photo-a-day for the month of Feb 2026.
January 2026 | Photo 365
Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 1. Photo-a-day for the month of Jan 2026.
December 2025 | Photo 365
Photo 365 2025. Year 4, Month 12. Photo-a-day for the month of Dec 2025.