Episode 303: Internet Operator
Permanently Moved
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 best understood not as performance or authenticity, but as animation: a figure brought to life through an operator, audience, and apparatus. Moving from The Brand Called You and main character energy to...
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Episode 302: Monsters In The Mirror
Permanently Moved
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 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,...
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Pre-Flight: The New Container
Permanently Moved
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, 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...
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2520: Episode 301
Permanently Moved
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: Experience.Computer: Worldrunning.guide: Subscriber Zine support the show!
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2519: Landing Sequence
Permanently Moved
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: Experience.Computer: Worldrunning.guide: Subscriber Zine support the show!
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2518: King of Mind
Permanently Moved
The glowing screen does not possess you. You merely have rehearsed the reflex of the infinite scroll. Full Show Notes: Experience.Computer: Worldrunning.guide: Subscriber Zine support the show!
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2517: It's Beginning to Feel a Bit Like The Future
Permanently Moved
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: Experience.Computer: Worldrunning.guide: Subscriber Zine support the show!
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2516: Tales Untold
Permanently Moved
It is the graft that reveals the craft. Full Show Notes: Experience.Computer: Worldrunning.guide: Subscriber Zine support the show!
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2515: No-Go London
Permanently Moved
If life already feels precarious on your own high street, then a city like London must be ten times worse? Full Show Notes: Experience.Computer: Worldrunning.guide: Subscriber Zine support the show! Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast:
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2514: More Distant Than Ever
Permanently Moved
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: Experience.Computer: Worldrunning.guide: Subscriber Zine support the show! Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast:
info_outlineExperience.Computer is a slow radio show about high tech. Exploring perception, experience and expression.
IN THIS EPISODE
Jay Springett leads author and podcaster J David Osborne through a series of imaginative exercises.
Then they discuss:
- The concept of sensory and perceptual experiences
- The sensation of visualising numbers and mathematical operations
- The feeling of the sacred
- Chat app UX, and social media
- The shape of stories
- Using different software for writing and more
QUOTES
“A hyper real crunch. The crunch. The ultimate crunch, the ur crunch - right?”
“Every thought that I have are more vocal. It's more voice oriented. So I'm talking to myself in my brain. Other thoughts are feelings. As a matter of fact, you having me do this exercise is interesting because it makes me realise how few times I do focus on the images in my head like that.”
“The only way that I can describe it is that it just feels right. It just feels correct. Something happens, and you think, and I learned over time to listen to that instead of worry too much about plot because sometimes I'd get an idea that felt correct. And then I would think, well, my character wouldn't do that.”
ABOUT THE GUEST
J. David Osborne is co-founder of Broken River Books, a collective of five aspiring full-time writers. He is the author of the Wonderland-Award-winning novel By the Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends, the surreal noir Low Down Death Right Easy, and the cyberpunk novel series God$ Fare No Better. He is the co-host of Agitator Podcast with Kelby Losack, and Lost Xplorers with Kris Saknussemm, and lives in Oklahoma with his wife and son.
IN YOUR MIND
Has this interview sparked any thoughts or questions about your own mind's eye, creative process, or inner experience? I'd love to hear your insights! Share your reflections in the comments below or on social media!
LINKS:
- Agitator on Spotify
- Agitator Patreon
- Lost Xplorers on Spotify
- Gods Fare No Better series on Amazon.com
- Broken River on Substack
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ABOUT THE SHOW
In 2022 writer and host Jay Springett discovered he had aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily create mental images in one's mind. For 36 years he thought 'picture this' was a metaphor.
Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech. An interview show exploring perception, experience and expression. The show examines how people perceive the world, and how they work with the creative tools they use to make their work with.
ABOUT THE HOST
Jay Springett is a strategist and writer. His work focuses on the design, administration and flourishing of worlds of all kinds He has hosted the 301 second long essay podcast Permanently Moved since 2018, and Experience.Computer since 2023. Jay is currently working on his first book ‘The Web Was a Side Quest‘ and writes online at thejaymo.net