John L. Walters
@johnlwalters.bsky.social
Writer, composer, editor, musician, record producer.
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Book your tickets for #TypeTuesday, ‘Light Fantastic’, on 25 November 2025 with Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins, bit.ly/TypeTuesday52
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Book your tickets for #TypeTuesday, ‘Light Fantastic’, on 25 November 2025 with Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins, bit.ly/TypeTuesday52
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November 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Here’s my review, ukjazznews.com/kurt-elling-... @seb-scotney.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Here’s my review, ukjazznews.com/kurt-elling-... @seb-scotney.bsky.social
But surely not ‘deeply shocking’ …
💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
But surely not ‘deeply shocking’ …
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Come to Type Tuesday on 25 November, with Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins.
#graphicdesign #recordphotography #spectacle #projectionmapping
mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/...
Come to Type Tuesday on 25 November, with Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins.
#graphicdesign #recordphotography #spectacle #projectionmapping
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Read the latest newsletter.
mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/...
Come to Type Tuesday on 25 November, with Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins.
#graphicdesign #recordphotography #spectacle #projectionmapping
mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/...
Come to Type Tuesday on 25 November, with Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins.
#graphicdesign #recordphotography #spectacle #projectionmapping
Good to hear Kurt Elling and the Yellowjackets last night, playing the music of Weather Report at Cadogan Hall. #efglondonjazzfestival #jazz
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Good to hear Kurt Elling and the Yellowjackets last night, playing the music of Weather Report at Cadogan Hall. #efglondonjazzfestival #jazz
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David Allen Green: The BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump
The BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump
By apologising, the broadcaster has taken the sting out of Trump's excessive attack
www.newstatesman.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
David Allen Green: The BBC is right not to pay damages to Trump
Mike Gibbs celebration – report by John Watson for UK Jazz News, ukjazznews.com/honorary-doc...
#doctorhonoriscausa #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs
#doctorhonoriscausa #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs
Honorary Doctorate awarded to Michael Gibbs in Birmingham - UK Jazz News
Michael Gibbs, often hailed as the world's greatest living jazz composer, was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Birmingham City University at a ceremony at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's Brads...
ukjazznews.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Mike Gibbs celebration – report by John Watson for UK Jazz News, ukjazznews.com/honorary-doc...
#doctorhonoriscausa #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs
#doctorhonoriscausa #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs
Great day in celebration of Michael Gibbs’s honorary doctorate at Birmingham Conservatoire.
Friends, family, staff, students and lots of music inc. a terrific student big band at the Eastside Jazz Club.
Big thanks to Ed Puddick.
#doctorhonoriscausa #jazz #jazzcomposition #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs
Friends, family, staff, students and lots of music inc. a terrific student big band at the Eastside Jazz Club.
Big thanks to Ed Puddick.
#doctorhonoriscausa #jazz #jazzcomposition #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Great day in celebration of Michael Gibbs’s honorary doctorate at Birmingham Conservatoire.
Friends, family, staff, students and lots of music inc. a terrific student big band at the Eastside Jazz Club.
Big thanks to Ed Puddick.
#doctorhonoriscausa #jazz #jazzcomposition #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs
Friends, family, staff, students and lots of music inc. a terrific student big band at the Eastside Jazz Club.
Big thanks to Ed Puddick.
#doctorhonoriscausa #jazz #jazzcomposition #michaelgibbs #mikegibbs
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The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
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Panorama should just re-edit the programme.
Removing the edit Trump complains about.
Replacing it with the last 1 minute 16 seconds of his speech, unedited.
In which he repeats exactly what Panorama put in the edit.
From 69:36 to 70:52.
www.marketwatch.com/video/trump-...
Removing the edit Trump complains about.
Replacing it with the last 1 minute 16 seconds of his speech, unedited.
In which he repeats exactly what Panorama put in the edit.
From 69:36 to 70:52.
www.marketwatch.com/video/trump-...
Trump's Full Speech at D.C. Rally on Jan. 6 - MarketWatch
At a rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, former President Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claims of fraud in both the November election and the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff, saying "We will never g...
www.marketwatch.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Panorama should just re-edit the programme.
Removing the edit Trump complains about.
Replacing it with the last 1 minute 16 seconds of his speech, unedited.
In which he repeats exactly what Panorama put in the edit.
From 69:36 to 70:52.
www.marketwatch.com/video/trump-...
Removing the edit Trump complains about.
Replacing it with the last 1 minute 16 seconds of his speech, unedited.
In which he repeats exactly what Panorama put in the edit.
From 69:36 to 70:52.
www.marketwatch.com/video/trump-...
‘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
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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."