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Summer chill creeps incupboards emptied,bags in bags.Orbiting, warmer worlds soon. Bank Holiday SortingPhoto 365Start Select Reset 📑Terminal AccessDipping the StacksReadingMusicRemember Kids: Bank Holiday Sorting I hope everyone has had a great summer and late August bank holiday weekend. And a warm welcome to new readers following my weeknotes via Warren’s very kind mention in this weeks Orbital Operations. The weekend here at JMO Synaptic Industries has been one full of friends, family and…

Breath moves cursor.Thought arrives aloud.Paragraphs become landscape.The voice makes clay.Draft zero, still warm.I compose forwards. A Way of ComposingOn The BlogStart Select Reset 📑Photo 365Terminal AccessDipping the StacksReadingMusicRemember Kids: A Way of Composing I was telling someone the other day about just how completely dictation and speech-to-text software has taken over my life. How it’s transformed not only my relationship with writing, but also with my computer. One of the things…

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Start the thingLet it stewFind the energyPick it upFinish the thingBegin again tomorrow Precious Brain SpacePermanently MovedPhoto 365Terminal AccessDipping the StacksReadingMusicRemember Kids: Precious Brain Space It’s been well over a year since I finished making an Epsiode of 301 weekly. One of the things I’ve observed in myself since then, is that having dropped a creative practice (explicitly) built around self-imposed constraints like word counts deadlines, the ‘muscle’ required to keep…

August 11, 2026 | 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…

Metadata Blooms,Searching backwards.Two true names.One spoken,One summonedClick first,touch later Two Names of EverythingOn The BlogPhoto 365Terminal AccessDipping the StacksReadingMusicRemember Kids: Two Names of Everything I’ve decided that internet SEO has pickled my brain. But in a good way. Earlier in the week I was searching for some house paint across different parts of the web, and found myself totally baffled by the product names. Here’s the product’s name as it appears on the…

Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 7. Photo-a-day for the month of Jul 2026.

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Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 6. Photo-a-day for the month of May 2026.

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Last month, my friend Gordon White set sail for the Undying Lands. Yesterday was his birthday. I spent it thinking about him, writing this, and remembering him. A Recent DreamThe Cringey WizardThe Visitor at the FarmSmall ApocalypsesNews of the DepartureStart Select Reset 📑This is only the second time I have written words for the dead on here. The first was for Eriol, another member of the Rune Soup community, whose death Gordon announced to us at the end of 2019. I didn’t

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Please forgive me. I am once again writing about taste. I might spin up a category to collect the thread,that’s been unfolding, here, over the years. Table of contentsTaste As Interface BehaviourThe Guardian had a great piece over the weekend by pop culture writer Rachel Aroesti called Have I been influenced, or is this actually me? How personal taste fell out of fashion. It’s about taste. Good taste and bad, and the author’s suspicion that due to the state of social media, we might not have…

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Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 5. Photo-a-day for the month of May 2026.

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Towards the end of my post back in march about the near future of agents I mentioned possible changes to the architecture of how Application and UI interact. Once that hard layer is built into applications and websites, something happens to the way software operates. The UI stops being the only control layer, and becomes the human layer only. The app and the interface become completely divorced. Jay https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/06/the-near-future-of-ai-agents/ This idea has basically been the…

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The world after lossis still recognisable.Streets. Receipts. Birds at dawn.Only the proportions alter.More of this now, and less of youI now learn to carry absencethe way we once carried cigarettes;everywhere. Just Sad Start Select Reset 📑 Photo 365 Dipping the Stacks Reading Music Remember Kids: Newsletter 📨Just SadIt has frankly, been a shit week. My friend Gordon White died.A loss of a force a

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Photo 365 2026. Year 5, Month 4. Photo-a-day for the month of April 2026.

Small birds stitch the edge of the tide, then vanish,And the day holds, briefly, like a cup cooling in hand. Turnstones Photo 365 The Ministry Of My Own Labour Terminal Access Dipping the Stacks Reading Music Remember Kids:TurnstonesI can’t belive its MAY. It feels like only yesterday that I got back from Sri Lanka. With every passing year, it feels like life is accelerating, but

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Issue #015 of Start Select Reset went out by snail mail yesterday to my supporters (£5/month+).Start Select Reset is delivered straight to your snail mailbox four times a year, just like it’s 1994!Issue #015 – Monsters In The Mirror Issue #15 is the physical shadow of the audio essay of the same name. It is an essay about artificial intelligence and cultural mirrors; mirrors as magical surfaces, instruments of mastery, and habitats. It turns on the transistor as a second Promethean moment,…

Raindrop.io recently released Stella, an AI assistant for searching, organising, and summarising bookmarks. I’ve been using it to work through nearly 18 years of saved links, and the experience of chatting with my bookmark archive has been surprisingly great. In some situations, it has even replaced mindless doomscrolling, especially in the little moments like waiting in a supermarket queue.At first I was using Stella for simple library maintenance; cleaning up duplicate tags, fixing spelling…

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AI adoption in the workplace is still evolving. But like spreadsheets before them, language models are becoming a new programmable medium for business logic. The post We’ve Been Here Before appeared first on thejaymo.net.

I think judging an LLM on it's writing output is a complete category error. It's what they possible with language that is important. The post Everyone Vibe Codes Their Own Markdown Editor Eventually | Weeknotes #434 appeared first on thejaymo.net.

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