Permanently Moved is an audio-only essay podcast from the frontier of digital culture; written, recorded and edited by @thejaymo since 2018.
Produced since 2018, Jay Springett’s podcast Permanently Moved is a long-running audio essay show exploring digital culture, internet culture, and the changing shape of the web; regularly appearing in iTunes Top 100 rankings around the world for its category.
For its first run (2018–2025), Permanently Moved was a weekly essay show exactly 301 seconds long. Any given episode might explore an aspect of the internet and how it changes us; stories about long-dead saints and why they matter; or the existence of a wild crisp conspiracy in the heart of UK supermarkets. Tightly scripted, yet nakedly transparent about the creative process, it was a small, sharp thing you could finish before the kettle boiled.
Now the show has changed pace and scale. It is now a quarterly release; longer-form, and more willing to take the long way round.
Episodes are still tightly written, but with more space for detours, context, and the odd obsession to fully unfold. These days the show explores internet culture, artificial intelligence (AI), worldrunning, and the shifting tides of social media; life lived online in the shadow of the stack, and what all of that does to the way we live and think.
In January 2020 Permanently Moved broke into the iTunes UK Top 50 Personal Journal podcasts chart for the first time; only 43 places behind 301’s bête noire Desert Island Discs.
It has since appeared in the Top 50 podcast charts in countries including Brazil, South Africa, and Sweden; and in January 2023 Permanently Moved reached #1 in Personal Journals in Iceland, a small but very pleasing moment for an independent audio essay podcast.
Paid supporters receive my eternal gratitude and Start Select Reset 📑 via snail mail 4 times a year;
a physical essay zine posted worldwide.
Quarterly zine; my gift to you ✉️
Newest Episode
Permanently Moved #302 – Monsters In The Mirror
What are large language models, really? On AI, Language, and the new entities that wear language as their skin.
Episode Archive
Pre-Flight: The New Container | Permanently Moved
I’m emerging from a chrysalis. Six months since I finished 301, and closed the loop on the biggest creative project of my…
Episode 301 | 2520
Begun at age 32, completed today, the day after I turned 40: one fifth of a lifetime distilled into a body of…
Landing Sequence | 2519
This show represents an enormous amount of effort and discipline. Sustaining any single format for eight years is achievement enough for me.
King of Mind | 2518
The glowing screen does not possess the king of mind. You merely have rehearsed the reflex of the infinite scroll.
It’s Beginning to Feel a Bit Like The Future | 2517
We must attempt to reclaim some proximity to the future. We have to stop strip-mining yesterday and act as though the future…
No-Go London | 2515
Over the last few months I’ve been having a conversation with someone about why, exactly, “London is over/a bleak woke dystopia”
More Distant Than Ever | 2514
Growing up in Britain in the 1990s, America felt like a country that existed only on television and in toy boxes. A…
GPT Job Losses: Slowly, Then Suddenly | 2513
AI boosters on LinkedIn will have you belive AI will be taking everyone’s job tomorrow, but the anti-AI voices however still say…
Overdosed on AI Music | 2512
This week, I stood at the Slop Machine, experiencing not the future, but the extreme present. All day, every day, I’ve been…
Be Generous Online | 2511
Generosity is the protocol that transforms the web from a collection of isolated ‘contents’ into a thriving, interconnected community.
The Work Of The Body, Though Toil | 2510
Amidst the day-to-day rhythms of the body, The Artist must pay attention to the humble thoughts that might become great actions.
Surface Without Substance | 2509
With its smooth, depthless glass, the smartphone is the ultimate surface. It denies the body its place in the interface.
Leaving Worlds Behind | 2508
To run a world is to be responsible for its edges as much as its centre.
Practice Makes Progress | 2507
Another reflection in my long running ‘Artist’ series, on why the journey matters more than the destination. Creation begets creation. Practice makes…
Information Age Iconoclasm | 2506
The Ghibli image crisis isn’t really about copyright or ethics. It’s about who gets to make images? and what gives them meaning.
Helpful LLocal Models | 2505
Tutorial engines are coming. And they’ll run atop local AI models embedded in our devices at the OS level..
Human Gunk and the AI Slopocalypse | 2504
If you find it hard to distinguish between content slop written by AI or content written by a human, don’t worry.
Desktop Publishing | 2503
I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone seriously use the phrase ‘Desktop Publishing.’ Maybe the mid-2000s?
Email is a Destination | 2502
In primary school, we had a lesson in the new computer lab which involved sending an email to each other at adjacent…
Survive Until 2025 | 2501
Survive Until 2025. 2024 is leaning over into this year in a way that makes everything feel very precarious.
EOY 2024 | 2430
Permanently Moved will be evolving next year. 301, 301 second long episodes, is enough.
The Processing of Words | 2429
In 1984, author Ray Hammond reminded readers that ‘the computer has no power to write words.’
The New Economic Entertainment | 2428
The future of entertainment is interactive, monetised, intertwined with AI and social media, gaming and gambling.
When Is The Audience? | 2427
Instead of optimising for immediate visibility, you always have the opportunity and option to create for a future audience. One that’s somewhere…
Shape Thief | 2426
I’ve become a shape thief. Pirating the real world, acquiring artworks, and taking them home.
NotebookFM | 2425
I’m sorry. I’ve made some slop. But only because I really wanted to be a guest on my newest favourite podcast..
Dig Back In | 2424
If you create something that’s to your taste, you have to dig back in. Figure out exactly what it was that worked…
Make Something to Your Taste | 2423
You can, you know, just make any creative work you want, and post it on the Internet.
Boycott Hooliganism | 2422
An episode about eponymity—when someone’s name echoes through history, immortalised by their actions or legacy, becoming part of everyday language
Newsletter 📨
Subscribe to the mailing list and get my weeknotes and latest podcast episodes, sent directly to your inbox
