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  • 10 Years @ Thejaymo.net

    10 Years @ Thejaymo.net

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    So the site move is done. It took A LOT longer than expected due to the general crappiness of wordpress’s xml importer. I still have a quite a few things to do like move subscribers over from wordpress.com via jetpack, and have built up quite the list of CSS tweaks to work on – like…

  • The Last Post??

    The Last Post??

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    *If* providing everything goes well next week. This should be the last post on this blog from me.

  • 1Two Birthdays

    1Two Birthdays

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    I’m in Poland for Unsound Festival. I’m writing this from my hotel room. Full report next weekend. I

  • I Think I Will Cause Problems On Purpose

    I Think I Will Cause Problems On Purpose

    I Bought Untitled Goose Game at 9am on launch day last week. I’ve been going on about it to anyone that will listen. Most ‘Gamers’ in my life think the whole premise sounds dumb. But really it is they who are dumb.

  • It Was Simple Enough

    It Was Simple Enough

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    Yeah Boi! 101 posts! I thought it might be fun to go back to post 000 from back in the heady days of my late 20’s and review: its july 2012 and i turn 27 this month. i thought maybe its about time i started a blog.. 000: seems simple enough Good for you. Why don’t…

  • Start Select Reset Zine – Your Attention Is Sovereign

    Start Select Reset Zine – Your Attention Is Sovereign

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    This first zine is a collection of transcripts on the attention economy, social media, and device use that have emerged as a recurring thread thought making permanently moved in the last 18 months.

  • Social Media Planning

    Social Media Planning

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    I’ve been doing a lot of life admin this week. Crossing T’s, dotting I’s, sorting out tax rebates and chasing invoices etc. It might sound vein or narcissistic but the main thing I’ve done this week is that I’ve put a lot of thought into my social media strategy. But then again its 2019 and…

  • Fracking Whitney

    Fracking Whitney

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    Last weeks podcast was about ‘cultural fracking’ and how the purveyors and controllers of mass media culture can only continue to make money by fracking the past. Content from a time when mass culture still existed. As their business model relies on their audience being inside a shared reality or shared cultural grammar. When I…

  • Salvage/Rescue

    Salvage/Rescue

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    Kaleidoscopic compass of speculative multispecies imaginaries.

  • Half formed thoughts On ‘Ralphing’ and Compass Memes

    Half formed thoughts On ‘Ralphing’ and Compass Memes

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    This week feels like the week that the weird Accelerationist political 4×4 compass meme levelled up out of cave twitter and went into wider consciousness.

  • One Step Forward Two Steps Back

    One Step Forward Two Steps Back

    Well, after talking how much better my mental health was last week. This week has been dark and terrible. I don’t want to talk about it.

  • Micronutrients

    I’ve had the lurgy again this week. Maybe I picked it up some of whatever eve had last week but fought it off. Its been a whole week of feeling around 80% and then doing something like walking into town and having to abort the mission to go home back to bed and sleep it…

  • Birthday!

    Birthday!

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    It was my birthday this week. I spent the day melting in the record breaking heat. Eve got me the Folio Society edition of Dune. It’s wonderful.

  • Back From Sonar(+D) – Mega Post

    Back From Sonar(+D) – Mega Post

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    I attended Sonar+D Last week to take part in a panel on ‘Tales of the Next Internet’. I spoke alongside cybersecurity journalist Marta Peirano, researcher and activist Xenia Ermoshina, with the panel moderated by Ash Sarkar.

  • July Vibes

    July Vibes

    Regent’s Park was looking particularly lovely – tho we had to be careful not to get absolutely baked by the sun.

  • Coded Matter(s): Terra Fiction | Stage II of Worldbuilding

    Coded Matter(s): Terra Fiction | Stage II of Worldbuilding

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    You may remember I spoke at Fiber Festival last year in Amsterdam. They just released a short 8 minute mini documentary recapping the themes of the festival with interviews with the participants. It features me talking about Platforms and Solarpunk. I almost sound like I know what I’m talking about. The idea of terraformation was…