Jay Springett
@thejaymo.net
Writer of words, maker of podcasts, runner of worlds.
Senior Prod making Indie Games
First book in progress: 'The Web Was a Sidequest'
🖥 www.thejaymo.net
🎤 www.permanentlymoved.online
🎤 www.experience.computer
📄 www.worldrunning.guide
🌱 www.solarpunks.net
Senior Prod making Indie Games
First book in progress: 'The Web Was a Sidequest'
🖥 www.thejaymo.net
🎤 www.permanentlymoved.online
🎤 www.experience.computer
📄 www.worldrunning.guide
🌱 www.solarpunks.net
Them: "Hi Jay! nice to see you!"
Me: "You too! So then, what's happened with you in the last TWENTY YEARS?"
Me: "You too! So then, what's happened with you in the last TWENTY YEARS?"
Nice To See You | Weeknotes #423
I went to a friend's birthday at the weekend and had a lot of conversations with people I haven't seen since my early 20s.
thejaymo.net
January 26, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Them: "Hi Jay! nice to see you!"
Me: "You too! So then, what's happened with you in the last TWENTY YEARS?"
Me: "You too! So then, what's happened with you in the last TWENTY YEARS?"
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I know these mandatory transparency laws for AI training data sound like a good idea, especially to some copyright folks, but it bears emphasizing that how a generative model is trained, including the datasets selected and excluded, is itself an exercise of editorial judgment, subject to 1A.
January 25, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I know these mandatory transparency laws for AI training data sound like a good idea, especially to some copyright folks, but it bears emphasizing that how a generative model is trained, including the datasets selected and excluded, is itself an exercise of editorial judgment, subject to 1A.
Everything is now cyber studies
January 26, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Everything is now cyber studies
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Retrospectives for 2025 are still dropping in my RSS reader so here’s mine: a macro-to-micro tour of the year, plus a few other things.
2025
Retrospectives for 2025 are still dropping in my RSS reader. Here’s mine: a macro-to-micro tour of the year, plus a few other things.
thejaymo.net
January 23, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Retrospectives for 2025 are still dropping in my RSS reader so here’s mine: a macro-to-micro tour of the year, plus a few other things.
Retrospectives for 2025 are still dropping in my RSS reader so here’s mine: a macro-to-micro tour of the year, plus a few other things.
2025
Retrospectives for 2025 are still dropping in my RSS reader. Here’s mine: a macro-to-micro tour of the year, plus a few other things.
thejaymo.net
January 23, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Retrospectives for 2025 are still dropping in my RSS reader so here’s mine: a macro-to-micro tour of the year, plus a few other things.
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such a lovely thing to think about
January 21, 2026 at 10:21 AM
such a lovely thing to think about
Anthropic going full Asimov www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Claude's new constitution
A new approach to a foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude is
www.anthropic.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Anthropic going full Asimov www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
The exhibition was to my eyes, just a bunch of (in once case quite literally, rags) clothes grouped together under some tenuous curatorial direction written in International art english. But I did also get to see some drippy/bad ass fits that I liked a great deal.
Dirty Looks | Weeknotes #412
On Saturday I went to the 'Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion' exhibition that's currently at Barbican until the 25th of Jan.
thejaymo.net
January 19, 2026 at 2:24 PM
The exhibition was to my eyes, just a bunch of (in once case quite literally, rags) clothes grouped together under some tenuous curatorial direction written in International art english. But I did also get to see some drippy/bad ass fits that I liked a great deal.
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Hell of a LinkedIn profile.
June 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Hell of a LinkedIn profile.
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I don't "understand this," but I do understand that he's doing something technical novel that requires this explosion of neologistic jargon. There's no simpler way to explain it.
steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...
steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...
January 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I don't "understand this," but I do understand that he's doing something technical novel that requires this explosion of neologistic jargon. There's no simpler way to explain it.
steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...
steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...
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The thing about Gas Town is that it creates some tricky professional conversations for me. On the one hand, I need people to look at it and understand it, because it’s the shape of things to come in 2026. On the other hand, I have to preface every conversation with “So, this is unhinged, but”.
January 15, 2026 at 8:53 AM
The thing about Gas Town is that it creates some tricky professional conversations for me. On the one hand, I need people to look at it and understand it, because it’s the shape of things to come in 2026. On the other hand, I have to preface every conversation with “So, this is unhinged, but”.
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In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
Photo 365 2025. Year 4, Month 12.
Photo-a-day for the month of Dec 2025.
Photo-a-day for the month of Dec 2025.
December 2025 | Photo 365
Photo 365 2025. Year 4, Month 12. Photo-a-day for the month of Dec 2025.
thejaymo.net
January 15, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Photo 365 2025. Year 4, Month 12.
Photo-a-day for the month of Dec 2025.
Photo-a-day for the month of Dec 2025.
Is there anyone in my network with a pair of Xreal 1S AR display glasses?
If so could we meet up and can I try them?
If so could we meet up and can I try them?
January 15, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Is there anyone in my network with a pair of Xreal 1S AR display glasses?
If so could we meet up and can I try them?
If so could we meet up and can I try them?
"Alternative to a longer life is a mind with a long enough exposure to photograph the long truth" - Heart of the Original @steveaylett.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
"Alternative to a longer life is a mind with a long enough exposure to photograph the long truth" - Heart of the Original @steveaylett.bsky.social
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The thing I think is interesting is that LLMs could totally make non natural language interfaces too, so it's not like this isn't doable.
January 14, 2026 at 3:25 AM
The thing I think is interesting is that LLMs could totally make non natural language interfaces too, so it's not like this isn't doable.
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From the 1967 comic book adaptation of 'The Fantastic Voyage'.
January 14, 2026 at 5:08 AM
From the 1967 comic book adaptation of 'The Fantastic Voyage'.
It already seems hard to belive that only a week ago I was sitting on the golden yellow sands of Negumbo Beach in Sri Lanka
420 – Back From Sri Lanka
It already seems hard to belive that only a week ago I was sitting on the golden yellow sands of Negumbo Beach in Sri Lanka
thejaymo.net
January 13, 2026 at 8:22 PM
It already seems hard to belive that only a week ago I was sitting on the golden yellow sands of Negumbo Beach in Sri Lanka
Thought the right hand picture was Claude for a split second
January 12, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Thought the right hand picture was Claude for a split second
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C4 (Claude Code Command and Control)
January 11, 2026 at 6:54 PM
C4 (Claude Code Command and Control)
