Podcast
Permanently Moved
Hosted by Jay Springett · EN
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 accompanied by Start Select Reset, a physical essay zine sent by post to supporters, with limited copies also available for purchase.
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Episode 302: Monsters In The Mirror
Mar 201:03:06Tap to summarizeWhat 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 Manhattan Project, the transistor, and the particular civilisational strangeness of ChatGPT and its successors. It argues that the question everyone is asking about AI "is it intelligent?" is a trap, and it tries to ask a better one. START SELECT RESET Issue 15 of SSRZ, the print companion to this episode, is available to pre-order now until Monday 16th March. 36 pages, A5, containing the full transcript plus an introduction and afterword not in the audio. Membership (£5/month) shipping included: https://thejaymo.net/support/ Pre-order the zine (£18 + shipping): https://thejaymo.etsy.com/uk/listing/4465040020/monsters-in-the-mirror-start-select CHAPTERS (00:00:02) Introduction (00:00:34) Monsters In The Mirror (00:01:00) Part 1. The Mirror of Modernity (00:05:33) Part 2. The State's Gaze (00:11:28) Part 3. Paper Truths (00:17:27) Part 4. Crystal Fire (00:26:13) Part 5. The Silicon Mirror (00:31:54) Part 6. World(view) in the West (00:35:28) Part 7. Haunted Habitats (00:40:45) Part 8. Thinking Machines (00:49:28) Part 9. Abracadabra (00:54:26) Part 10. Monsters in the Mirror (00:59:03) Afterward (01:00:05) Support the Show (01:00:48) Credits Mentioned in this episode Tyson Yunkaporta — Sand Talk James C. Scott — Seeing Like a State Marion Fourcade & Kieran Healy — The Ordinal Society Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo — Exocapitalism Marshall McLuhan — The Gutenberg Galaxy Walter Ong — Orality and Literacy Jean Baudrillard — Simulacra and Simulation Nick Land — Fanged Noumena Monica Gagliano — Thus Spoke the Plant Benedict Anderson — Imagined Communities Bayo Akomolafe Gordon White — Rune Soup Permanently Moved is a quarterly podcast written, recorded, and edited by Jay Springett. --- SHOW NOTES https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/02/302-monsters-in-the-mirror-permanently-moved/ FIND EVERYTHING ELSE thejaymo.net: https://thejaymo.net/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/
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Pre-Flight: The New Container
Mar 200:07:25Tap to summarizePermanently 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, more terrain. And for the first time, each episode comes with a print companion: a physical zine, posted to you as part of your membership. Episode 302 - Monsters in the Mirror - is next up in the feed. THE ZINE Each episode of Permanently Moved now comes with an accompanying issue of Start Select Reset. Issue #15 is a 36-page A5 zine - properly printed, thick covers - containing the full transcript of Monsters in the Mirror plus an introduction and afterword that aren't in the audio. Pre-orders are open for two weeks. After that it goes to print. Membership (£5/month) shipping included: https://thejaymo.net/support/ One-off pre-order (£18 + shipping): https://thejaymo.etsy.com/uk/listing/4465040020/monsters-in-the-mirror-start-select --- FIND EVERYTHING ELSE thejaymo.net: https://thejaymo.net/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/
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2520: Episode 301
Jul 2600:05:02Tap to summarize8 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: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/
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2519: Landing Sequence
Jul 1900:05:02Tap to summarizeAs 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 support the show! https://startselectreset.com/
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2518: King of Mind
Jul 1200:05:02Tap to summarizeThe 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/
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2517: It's Beginning to Feel a Bit Like The Future
Jul 500:05:02Tap to summarizeWe 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! https://startselectreset.com/
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2516: Tales Untold
Jun 2800:05:02Tap to summarizeIt 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/
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2515: No-Go London
Jun 2100:05:03Tap to summarizeIf 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, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/
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2514: More Distant Than Ever
Jun 1400:05:01Tap to summarizeGrowing 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! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/
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2513: GPT Job Losses: Slowly, Then Suddenly
Jun 700:05:02Tap to summarizeAI boosters on LinkedIn will have you belive AI will be taking everyone's job tomorrow, but the anti-AI voices however still say never. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/06/07/2513-gpt-job-losses-slowly-then-suddenly/ 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, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/
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