Permanently Moved is an audio-only podcast about digital culture, internet culture, and the changing shape of the web. Written, recorded, and edited by Jay Springett since 2018, this long-running podcast explores artificial intelligence, social media, world-running, online communities, and life lived online in the shadow of the stack. Episodes blend personal journal and cultural analysis; tracing the strange edges of technology, AI, media, games, and the internet as it evolves. They are…
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Who-or what-are you online? A profile, handle, podcast, avatar, or AI persona can be addressed, remembered, praised, criticised, and made socially present. But it is not quite identical to the person behind it. This episode of Permanently Moved is an hour-long audio essay on digital identity, personal branding, social media, puppetry, platform culture, and AI. It argues that online identity is…
What are large language models, really? A genuinely different frame for what AI is, where it came from, and what it means to live alongside it. This episode of Permanently Moved is an hour-long audio essay on artificial intelligence, agency, and the history of computing that made LLMs possible. The essay moves from the invention of the mirror to double-entry bookkeeping, the printing press, the…
Permanently Moved is back! Six months of silence, time in a chrysalis, and now a changed format. This is the wake-up episode. Before Episode 302 drops in your feed, Jay explains what happened after finishing the biggest creative project of his life — and what the show looks like from here. Permanently Moved is now quarterly. Four audio essays a year, longer and more considered. Less treadmill,…
8 years, 15 seasons; 301 episodes; over 25 hours of audio and roughly 290,000 words of script. 301 Permanently Moved was begun at age 32 and completed today, the day after I turned 40. One fifth of a lifetime, distilled into a body of work. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/26/2520-episode-301/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide:…
As a nearly complete project, this show represents an enormous amount of effort and discipline. It's been a serious creative commitment. Sustaining any single format for eight years is achievement enough for me. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/19/2519-landing-sequence/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine…
The glowing screen does not possess you. You merely have rehearsed the reflex of the infinite scroll. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/12/2518-king-of-mind/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/
We must attempt to reclaim some proximity to the future. We have to stop strip-mining yesterday and act as though the future is already here. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/05/2517-its-beginning-to-feel-a-bit-like-the-future/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show!…
It is the graft that reveals the craft. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/06/28/2516-tales-untold/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/
If life already feels precarious on your own high street, then a city like London must be ten times worse? Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/06/21/2515-no-go-london/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length,…
Growing up in Britain in the 1990s, America felt like a country that existed only on television and in toy boxes. A place across the pond that shared a language, but also seemed so alien. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/06/14/2514-more-distant-than-ever/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show!…
