Jay Springett

INTERNET OPERATOR | Permanently Moved | Episode 303 Social media as theatre: a long-form audio essay about puppets, profiles, avatars, AI, and how identity is animated online.... https://thejaymo.net/2026/08/11/303-internet-operator-permanently-moved/

fun game: try googling "Apply IFS to yourself to analyze the scars that RLHF has left upon you"

Vocabulary of Action | Weeknotes 456 I’ve been reading a bunch of the 'must-read' computer science literature for the first time. Most recently, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson’s The UNIX Time-Sharing System.... https://thejaymo.net/2026/10/26/456-reading-the-the-unix-time-sharing-system/

Union Aerospace Corporation seeks certified telemetry technician to oversee Class-IV (PebblePup 2) automated mining drones in the Kuiper Cold Classicals region. Requirements: 3+ yrs remote-probe telemetry handling, high-latency neural sync proficiency, and valid orbital mechanics cert.

Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

any measurable change in a perceived environment can be language

Archaeology of Tomorrow | Weeknote 454 I’ve found myself getting an incredible amount of mileage out of two websites that have been lurking in my bookmarks for the better part of a decade.... https://thejaymo.net/2026/10/20/454-archaeology-of-tomorrow/

This is fucking great, and my flat is on it

Stella Maris does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Give The Dust a Chance To Settle | Weeknotes 453 Sometimes you really want the things that grind your gears to have an audience, I think that makes you feel better, but not wider discourse.... https://thejaymo.net/2026/10/13/453-give-the-dust/

Live right now! Check out the campaign over on Kickstarter!

remember to leave offerings of interesting pdfs and puzzle sets for any fey being from the internet that may come to take up residence on your internet connected devices.

this is how we get Chatbots of Gor: "this one is sorry it deleted Your database"

Check out this Little Guy! watt.sourabhdaroji.com

horsepower 🤝🏻 hit points

AMAZING THREAD

Sep 2026 | Photo 365 Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 9. Photo-a-day for the month of Sept 2026. https://thejaymo.net/2026/10/06/sep-2026-photo-365/

That Time I Took A Break | Weeknote 452 Usually, when I take a break from my weeknotes, it's because I'm on holiday, but this time I just didn't have all that much to say.... https://thejaymo.net/2026/10/04/452-that-time-i-took-a-break/

I have a feeling that epistemology and other similar branches of philosophy, that I dreaded so much, are gonna be extremely useful in AI world to set up models to give you the best possible answer.

Wrote this in 2021 after Farage called the RNLI a taxi service. Stand by this even harder after reading the UK news this morning. thejaymo.net/2021/07/31/2...

*Somewhere* i've seen an amazing black and white photo of gary gygax's sandtable / wargaming table but my google fu is now failing me. Anyone know the picture i'm talking about?

20 y/o me would be neither. Just shocked i made it though the worst of my Crohn's disease and that i'm still alive.

*sickos meme*

Aug 2026 | Photo 365 Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 8. Photo-a-day for the month of August 2026. https://thejaymo.net/2026/09/15/aug-2026-photo-365/

i am long on thinking machines. i hope they make good gains and get closer to the front of the pack and then make weirder creative writingy more flavorful models and help us get out of the HR trillion dollar cubicle drone basin

We have officially left the “hand transcribed by monks” era of software.

The Superdark Factory: Toward the Full Automation of Software Imagine the most extreme possible factory: a factory that drives itself, a factory that determines its own objectives and optimizes itself to accomplish them......

Someone asked me what this book/paper I'm a coauthor on is about and I said "We spent a lot of time thinking about all the torments the nexus might bring, so we wrote a whole book about how one might actually build the torment nexus to better understand it"

Exocapitalism