WAKTM

29/01/2026

He went to the primary school (Sheen Mount) that my oldest brother went to - but not at the same time. There's a plaque about him at the local (East Sheen) library.

Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail

18/01/2026

01/11/2025

https://x.com/sethharpesq/status/1984650050421543090/photo/1

11/10/2025

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2499487-evolution-of-intelligence-in-our-ancestors-may-have-come-at-a-cost/

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities may have led to our vulnerability to mental illness

22/09/2025

"At a time of high anxiety around technology’s impact on arts and culture, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Collider Fellowship is focused on new opportunities, welcoming multi-disciplinary artists to explore how emerging tech can transform live performance and the performing arts." TechCrunch

At a time of high anxiety around technology’s impact on arts and culture, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Collider Fellowship is focused on new opportunities, welcoming multi-disciplinary artists to explore how emerging tech can transform live performance and the performing arts.

18/09/2025

"So, why do female humans go through menopause—the process that ends a woman’s reproductive cycle—and live to tell the tale? Could it be a symptom of achieving a higher level of consciousness? According to some experts, it isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Evolutionary biologist Deena Emera, Ph.D., explains that there are several hypotheses for why menopause arose in humans—and the scientific community can’t seem to agree on which is correct."

Menopause could hold they key to longevity, but experts can’t agree on why women experience it.

14/09/2025

Sir Tim Berners-Lee - credited as being the inventor of the web - has become "disillusioned' with social media as he believes the companies behind them have purposely made them addictive.

504 likes, 19 comments. ““They deliberately make their algorithms addictive to keep you scrolling””

13/09/2025

"But in fact, a great deal of the book is devoted to a defence of Meta and big tech, and that defence begins by conflating the internet (which is widely loved) with social media (a subset of internet activity that evokes more ambivalence)." The Guardian

Instead of recognising that social media harms mental health and democracy, the former deputy PM and Meta executive repeats company talking points

31/08/2025

What's the difference between intelligence and consciousness?

"He suggests the creation of artificial general intelligence might lead people to think not that AI is conscious, but rather that it is highly intelligent, and therefore consciousness doesn’t matter much."

In the mid-20th century, consciousness research was largely pushed aside as “too philosophical, too strange.” Could history repeat itself?

14/08/2025

Deep under Clapham South / Common in tunnels built to protect people during the Blitz

08/08/2025

"Why write an opera about Mars? Because when we talk about Mars we are talking about ourselves – about our ideas of the future, and about the operations of power in the present.

So, then, how to write an opera about Mars? You begin by choosing a librettist. The writer Mark O’Connell was the obvious choice. We both share an interest in technology, AI, Silicon Valley and a bundle of ideologies that may or may not be on the average person’s radar. These range from transhumanism and futurism through to pronatalism – a movement, increasingly popular in Silicon Valley, that advocates for improving fertility and increasing birthrates to address demographic decline in western countries."

Four women travel 140m miles across the heavens – only to find their new world in hostile corporate hands. Composer Jennifer Walshe reveals what fed into her epic opera, from low-gravity procreation to Shrek in space

31/07/2025