Hi 👋 I’m Jay Springett
Worlds, Culture, and Computation
Online since 2009. Field notes on computers and their consequences.
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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Weeknotes 🗓️
The weekly missive sent from my virtual desktop.
Jubensha Con | Weeknotes #438
On Saturday I went to Jubensha Con 2026. The first english language convention about the Chinese social phenomenon of Jubensha.
Turnstones | Weeknotes #437
I can’t belive its MAY. With every passing year, it feels like life is accelerating, but then again, so are events.
Nearly Doable | Weeknotes #436
I can honestly report that sending physical things to people is bloody brilliant.
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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.
Agent Worlds 🤖
The shape of the worlds agents wake up inside; and why it matters.
Thinking Inside Out
An introduction to three essays on agent environments, worlds, and ontological hardness.
Three Worlds for Little Guys
OpenClaw, Gas Town, and Cantrip through the lens of ontological hardness
Hard Worlds For Little Guys
Why LLM agents need hard worlds; lessons from interactive fiction engine design.
Ontological Hardness
Why the first question about agent failure should be about the world, not the model
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 📌
Ideal starting points if you’re new around here
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.
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?
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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April 2026 | Photo 365
Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 4. Photo-a-day for the month of April 2026.
Start Select Reset Zine #015 | Monsters In The Mirror
Start Select Reset Zine issue #15. 36 pages. A5. Properly printed on heavy stock with thick covers. Hand stamped twice, copy number…
Raindrop.io Stella Prompts for Batch Processing Bookmarks
Using Raindrop.io’s Stella assistant and MCP tools to tame 18 years of bookmarks.
We’ve Been Here Before
AI adoption in the workplace is still evolving. But like spreadsheets before them, language models are becoming a new programmable medium for…
March 2026 | Photo 365
Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 3. Photo-a-day for the month of March 2026.
Thinking Inside Out
An introduction to three essays on agent environments, worlds, and ontological hardness.