John L. Walters
@johnlwalters.bsky.social
Writer, composer, editor, musician, record producer.
‘The ouroboros of hype’
My review for @eyemagazine.bsky.social
Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications.
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
@emilymbender.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
My review for @eyemagazine.bsky.social
Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications.
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
@emilymbender.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
‘The ouroboros of hype’
My review for @eyemagazine.bsky.social
Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications.
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
@emilymbender.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
My review for @eyemagazine.bsky.social
Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications.
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
@emilymbender.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Imagine my surprise … @financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Imagine my surprise … @financialtimes.com @ftweekend.com
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‘The ouroboros of hype’
Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications.
Review by @johnlwalters.bsky.social
@emilybender.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications.
Review by @johnlwalters.bsky.social
@emilybender.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
‘The ouroboros of hype’
Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications.
Review by @johnlwalters.bsky.social
@emilybender.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
Packed with information, The AI Con pours cold water on ‘AI’ hysteria, while drawing attention to the tech’s environmental and ethical implications.
Review by @johnlwalters.bsky.social
@emilybender.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
Ewan Bleach with his Fleeting Paradise Orchestra – album launch at Sands Films in Rotherhithe. Wonderful.
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Ewan Bleach with his Fleeting Paradise Orchestra – album launch at Sands Films in Rotherhithe. Wonderful.
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Action is stronger than feeling, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/ac...
‘Doing the Work’, the 2025 St Bride Foundation design conference, brought some dynamic new personalities to the foreground.
Report by Anoushka Khandwala.
Conference curated by @gregbunbury.bsky.social
#graphicdesign #illustration
‘Doing the Work’, the 2025 St Bride Foundation design conference, brought some dynamic new personalities to the foreground.
Report by Anoushka Khandwala.
Conference curated by @gregbunbury.bsky.social
#graphicdesign #illustration
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Action is stronger than feeling, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/ac...
‘Doing the Work’, the 2025 St Bride Foundation design conference, brought some dynamic new personalities to the foreground.
Report by Anoushka Khandwala.
Conference curated by @gregbunbury.bsky.social
#graphicdesign #illustration
‘Doing the Work’, the 2025 St Bride Foundation design conference, brought some dynamic new personalities to the foreground.
Report by Anoushka Khandwala.
Conference curated by @gregbunbury.bsky.social
#graphicdesign #illustration
Reposted by John L. Walters
October 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
Design history in Ankara, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/te...
October 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Design history in Ankara, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/te...
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New on the Eye blog, review of The AI Con by @johnlw
‘The ouroboros of hype’,
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
‘The ouroboros of hype’,
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
October 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New on the Eye blog, review of The AI Con by @johnlw
‘The ouroboros of hype’,
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
‘The ouroboros of hype’,
www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/th...
Marc Andreessen is the business idiot’s business idiot.
He said this in January lol
October 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Marc Andreessen is the business idiot’s business idiot.
What a thrill to hear the Northern Spy / @bandcamp.com ‘listening party’ for Disquiet by The Necks.
October 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
What a thrill to hear the Northern Spy / @bandcamp.com ‘listening party’ for Disquiet by The Necks.
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Always acknowledge the gift of a book before there has been time to read it; if you wait you have to commit yourself to an opinion.
—T. S. Eliot
—T. S. Eliot
October 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Always acknowledge the gift of a book before there has been time to read it; if you wait you have to commit yourself to an opinion.
—T. S. Eliot
—T. S. Eliot
Choice quote: ‘He’s not a grifter, he’s three anxiety disorders in a trench coat.’
Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined in studio by astrophysicist @adambecker.bsky.social to talk about his new book More Everything Forever, the BS AGI story, why we should ignore Eliezer Yudkowsky, and why billionaires love LLMs.
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
Radio Better Offline: Adam Becker - Better Offline | iHeart
<p>Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York city.<br><br>Ed Zitron is joined in studio by astrophysicist Adam Becker to talk about his n...
www.iheart.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Choice quote: ‘He’s not a grifter, he’s three anxiety disorders in a trench coat.’
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Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Helen Morgan:
"Nigel Farage wants to impose Trump's dangerous anti-science agenda here in the UK. Peddling this kind of nonsense is irresponsible and wrong.
"It seems Farage would rather see pregnant women suffer in pain than stand up to his idol Donald Trump."
"Nigel Farage wants to impose Trump's dangerous anti-science agenda here in the UK. Peddling this kind of nonsense is irresponsible and wrong.
"It seems Farage would rather see pregnant women suffer in pain than stand up to his idol Donald Trump."
September 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Helen Morgan:
"Nigel Farage wants to impose Trump's dangerous anti-science agenda here in the UK. Peddling this kind of nonsense is irresponsible and wrong.
"It seems Farage would rather see pregnant women suffer in pain than stand up to his idol Donald Trump."
"Nigel Farage wants to impose Trump's dangerous anti-science agenda here in the UK. Peddling this kind of nonsense is irresponsible and wrong.
"It seems Farage would rather see pregnant women suffer in pain than stand up to his idol Donald Trump."
Reposted by John L. Walters
BBC Radio 3
Sunday Morning
Now Playing
Pamela Harrison & Hiroaki Takenouchi
Chiddingstone Cherry Pickers (Anderida, No 4)
Sunday Morning
Now Playing
Pamela Harrison & Hiroaki Takenouchi
Chiddingstone Cherry Pickers (Anderida, No 4)
September 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
BBC Radio 3
Sunday Morning
Now Playing
Pamela Harrison & Hiroaki Takenouchi
Chiddingstone Cherry Pickers (Anderida, No 4)
Sunday Morning
Now Playing
Pamela Harrison & Hiroaki Takenouchi
Chiddingstone Cherry Pickers (Anderida, No 4)
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New Eye newsletter, mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/...
September 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
New Eye newsletter, mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/...
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Another HP review, from July 2016, londonjazznews.com/2016/07/22/r...
@barbicancentre.bsky.social #UKjazznews #HermetoPascoal
@barbicancentre.bsky.social #UKjazznews #HermetoPascoal
September 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Another HP review, from July 2016, londonjazznews.com/2016/07/22/r...
@barbicancentre.bsky.social #UKjazznews #HermetoPascoal
@barbicancentre.bsky.social #UKjazznews #HermetoPascoal
Trump and the Russians: there’s no such thing as a ‘Russia Hoax’.
I appeared in the accompanying podcast with @nickcohen.bsky.social where we discuss whether Trump is in fact a Russian asset? The very fact that this isn't a spoof or conspiracy episode is mind-blowing...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
September 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Trump and the Russians: there’s no such thing as a ‘Russia Hoax’.
Reposted by John L. Walters
Literary BlueSky! Suggestions please for novels written around 1905-1910 and set in London, which give a good sense of daily life in the city at that time?
September 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Literary BlueSky! Suggestions please for novels written around 1905-1910 and set in London, which give a good sense of daily life in the city at that time?
Remembering the inspirational Hermeto Pascoal (1936-2025), www.theguardian.com/music/2005/j...
(My five-star @guardian review of his 2005 #jazzcafe gig.)
(My five-star @guardian review of his 2005 #jazzcafe gig.)
Hermeto Pascoal, Jazz Cafe, London
Jazz Cafe, London.
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Remembering the inspirational Hermeto Pascoal (1936-2025), www.theguardian.com/music/2005/j...
(My five-star @guardian review of his 2005 #jazzcafe gig.)
(My five-star @guardian review of his 2005 #jazzcafe gig.)
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So sorry to hear the awful news that John Morgan has died aged 52 after a long illness. I wrote a profile of John and his studio for #Eye83 in 2012. That issue has sold out, but you can read my full text online, www.eyemagazine.com/feature/arti...
JLW
#graphicdesign #typography #editorialdesign
JLW
#graphicdesign #typography #editorialdesign
September 12, 2025 at 6:59 AM
So sorry to hear the awful news that John Morgan has died aged 52 after a long illness. I wrote a profile of John and his studio for #Eye83 in 2012. That issue has sold out, but you can read my full text online, www.eyemagazine.com/feature/arti...
JLW
#graphicdesign #typography #editorialdesign
JLW
#graphicdesign #typography #editorialdesign
Say it loud: ‘Google quietly vanishes its net zero carbon pledge.’
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/05/g...
@davidgerard.co.uk
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/05/g...
@davidgerard.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Say it loud: ‘Google quietly vanishes its net zero carbon pledge.’
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/05/g...
@davidgerard.co.uk
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/05/g...
@davidgerard.co.uk
‘Trust People’, the latest single by Ben Barritt, tidal.com/browse/album... #benbarritt
Ben Barritt - Trust People
Listen to Trust People on your streaming service
tidal.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
‘Trust People’, the latest single by Ben Barritt, tidal.com/browse/album... #benbarritt
‘It’s not just the “AI” that hallucinates, it’s causing us to see things too.’
August 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
‘It’s not just the “AI” that hallucinates, it’s causing us to see things too.’
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Joe Caroff in #Eye102, www.eyemagazine.com/feature/arti...
August 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Joe Caroff in #Eye102, www.eyemagazine.com/feature/arti...