Weeknotes 🗓️
A weekly missive from the virtual desktop of Jay Springett.
Each issue covers what I’ve been: reading, doing, thinking about, some links recommendations, a good meme and more.
The Backrooms as Permissive IP | Weeknotes #442
The Backrooms movie shows how modern myth, world literacy, and permissive IP can produce culture that Hollywood can only arrive at later.
Daily Averages | Weeknotes #441
I still have a web time tracker extension installed in my personal browser profile. Six years later, here are my daily averages across that whole period.
Telephone | Weeknotes #440
Rumours talk hold when highly important events are shrouded in ambiguity in the presence of a censorious cultural environment.
Just Sad | Weeknotes #439
Grief is a process that has only a beginning, so I am trying not to mistake this first darkness for the whole sky.
Jubensha Con | Weeknotes #438
On Saturday I went to Jubensha Con 2026. The first english language convention about the Chinese social phenomenon of Jubensha.
Turnstones | Weeknotes #437
I can’t belive its MAY. With every passing year, it feels like life is accelerating, but then again, so are events.
Nearly Doable | Weeknotes #436
I can honestly report that sending physical things to people is bloody brilliant.
Novel Cognition | Weeknotes #435
The novel brought about a new kind of cognition; and why AI might be doing the same.
Everyone Vibe Codes Their Own Markdown Editor Eventually | Weeknotes #434
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.
Easter 2026 | Weeknotes #433
Over Easter I hung out with my parents, went for walks, participated in a chaotic church raffle, and did a bunch of odd jobs around the house.
Creative Loop | Weeknotes #432
All a scene really is, is just people just prompting each other in a tight feedback loop.
Try Our Best | Weeknotes #431
At the time of writing, we are about thirty hours from finding out whether the current global settlement is still to be or not.
Writing for the Machines | Weeknotes #430
Maybe I should just admit to myself that all I really want, is for some small trace of me to live forever in the mind of the machine god?
The Launch and the Climb | Weeknotes #429
The newest episode of Permanently Moved is officially out! Monsters In The Mirror marks the shift to the new, expanded format.
Up In Flames | Weeknotes #428
This evening I just junked the whole thing and went with with a SaaS tool. So that was 12 solid hours spent this weekend totally up in flames.
The Firehose and the Feed | Weeknotes #427
When I read the RAND paper and Paying Attention side by side, the physics of the incentive landscape were made quite a bit clearer to me.
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