Jo Lindsay Walton

Brighton, Bristol

Arts and Humanities Researcher and Consultant at Freelance

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Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2025

2 weeks ago | reactormag.com | Jo Lindsay Walton |with Ada Palmer

March was a great month where I was in Florence with friends visiting, and then I flew to Chicago, where I still am. I was very busy, and I only read six books. Genoa, ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Pirate Merchant Superpower — Nicholas Walton (2015)How excited I was to have another Genoa book, to go with Epstein’s Genoa and the Genoese! And yet, this was a little disappointing.
The Winter’s Tale at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol - a marvellous production with much to say about the modern world

1 month ago | theconversation.com | Jo Lindsay Walton

The first half rips your heart out. The second attempts, tenderly, to put it back again. This is The Winter’s Tale, currently being performed at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol. In Shakespeare’s tragicomedy, King Leontes of Sicilia, in a fit of jealous paranoia, falsely accuses his wife Queen Hermione of adultery with their friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia. Quickfire catastrophe unfolds.
The Winter’s Tale at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol – a marvellous production with much to say about the modern world | Flipboard

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Jo Lindsay Walton

Peter Oswald will be taking part in poetry events along the route from Bristol to London. A British playwright has embarked on a 150-mile fasting …
Jo Walton’s Reading List: February 2025

1 month ago | reactormag.com | Jo Lindsay Walton |with Ada Palmer

February was personally a great month, I was in Florence the whole time, I had friends staying, and we ate great food and looked at art. As far as the rest of the world goes, good gracious. It was hard to stop doomscrolling. The best analysis I have is that we’re now living in a Philip K. Dick novel. (Did I ever mention how much I hate Philip K. Dick?) I read ten books, most of them terrific. A Scatter of Light —Malinda Lo (2022) Re-read, book club.
How applicable is Jevons' Paradox to DeepSeek AI?

2 months ago | medium.com | Jo Lindsay Walton

Jo Lindsay Walton·Follow2 min read·--How applicable is Jevons’ Paradox to DeepSeek AI, really? Jevons’ Paradox refers to a situation where improved efficiency in the use of a resource leads to increased consumption of that resource. It is obviously not something that always happens. If you have a piece of toast each morning for breakfast, and start to put less butter on it, you won’t magically run out of butter more quickly.
Trump and Dump

Jan 20, 2025 | medium.com | Jo Lindsay Walton

Jo Lindsay Walton·Follow4 min read·--CoinMarketCapCryptocurrency emerged from a convergence of right libertarian ideologies, cryptographic experiments, and a longer history of attempts to create digital currency.
Jo Walton’s Reading List: December 2024

Jan 15, 2025 | reactormag.com | Jo Lindsay Walton |with Ada Palmer

December was a month where I was at home in Montreal finishing writing a novel, with a celebration at the beginning for my birthday and at the end for Christmas and New Year. I read sixteen books, and some of them were disappointing but some of them were really great. The Summer Pact — Emily Giffin (2024) Deeply disappointing book. I kept waiting for the rich, spoiled protagonists to wake up and get it, and I suppose in the end one of them did to some extent.
Will AI save the planet? Why the evidence is flawed

Dec 16, 2024 | theconversation.com | Jo Lindsay Walton

Optimistic advocates for AI say this environmentally costly technology will become more sustainable with time. We can use AI more efficiently, and explore less energy-intensive designs inspired by the human brain. We can build data centres more sustainably, using wood or low-carbon concrete and steel. The heat from the data centres can warm homes in the local area.
Some of Reactor’s Best Articles About Fiction, Reading, and Writing in 2024

Dec 11, 2024 | reactormag.com | Jonathan Thornton |Christina Orlando |Jo Lindsay Walton |Ada Palmer

It’s time once again to look back at some of our favorite non-fiction articles from the past year! Today, we’re highlighting many of our favorite essays about books, reading, writing, and storytelling—there will be a separate list of articles discussing TV, movies, and other media coming soon.
Bestselling comic, World Without End, rips the fossil fuel economy apart - and controversially embraces nuclear power

Nov 21, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Jo Lindsay Walton

By Jo Lindsay Walton, Senior Research Fellow in Arts, Climate and Technology, University of Sussex A skydiver stares up at his parachute. It’s on fire. Hurriedly, the skydiver pulls out his spare … but hesitates. There is something spooky about the spare parachute, with its lime-green glow. The vibes are off. Playing it safe, the skydiver casts his spare parachute into the clouds. Then he reveals his trusty knitting needles.