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1 week ago | 
reactormag.com | Jo Lindsay Walton
I spent the whole of April in Chicago, staying with Ada, and came home to Montreal in early May. In April I only really finished one book, and in May I read twenty-three, giving a total of twenty four over two months. If we pretend I’d read twelve in each month that would seem perfectly reasonable! However, moving swiftly on, you’ll be glad to know I read an interesting bunch of books, and they were very varied.
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1 week ago | 
reactormag.com | Jo Lindsay Walton
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2 months 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.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
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.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
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 …
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
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.
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Feb 2, 2025 | 
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
