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Stephan Geering

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Deputy General Counsel & Compliance, Trustworthy AI and Global Privacy Officer at Anthology. Posts are my personal views. Dad, immigrant, tech geek. He/him/his. Substack: https://incbetter.substack.com/

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 22d

As a little birthday present to myself, I created my Substack "Incrementally Better". The first edition on why the EU AI Act is not truly risk-based (and more) is now live:

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Incrementally Better #1

On why the EU AI Act is is not truly risk-based and my blogging past

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 4h

This article (£) is as insightful as concerning

"What I see is a disillusioned generation, doubtful that liberal democracy can do anything worthwhile. We need some new, fresh thinking — as well as a free and open environment in which to test, debate and challenge it — to prove it still can."

Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 2d

For this week's column I wrote about the way that the countercultural intellectual energy of the right - and lack thereof on the left - is drawing in young people, esp men, who would once have been drawn to radical leftist thinkers

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The fashion for the young: turn to the radical right

The intellectual energy of new rightwing movements is drawing in young people

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic column by Gideon Rachman on the longterm prospects of the Trump plan:

Why peace in the Middle East may still be elusive

A ceasefire and hostage release are cause for celebration. But big questions remain about the rest of the Trump plan

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 9h

good to see the government getting to grips with Premier League managers using translators

The Independent @the-independent.com · 13h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 6h

And beautiful avenue of course.

Photo of main hall of Atelier Tanneurs in Brussels taken from back seats with audience in foreground and pannel in background.

Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 6h

On the way back from the Brussels Privacy Symposium (by @futureofprivacy.bsky.social and @brusselsprivacyhub.bsky.social). Fab event with great insights. The best as always is to see so many privacy friends. All that's missing is those two organisations posting about it here (nudge, nudge) #BPS2025

Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 7h

👀 Quite the chart, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

(via Jack Clark's Import AI, open.substack.com/pub/importai...)

FRB Dallas projecting AI GDP boost over time. With a pretty matter of factly drawn 'extinction' scenario which tanks GDP rapidly in the 2030/40s.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 12h

🥳For the first time in history, renewables overtook coal as the world’s biggest source of electricity during the first half of 2025, according to energy think tank @ember-energy.org.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 11h

Celestial Fireworks (widefield, annotated): First Amateur Detection of Light Echoes from 19th-Century Great Eruption of Eta Carinae - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/2pqiQri

The images in this gallery are the first amateur images of light echoes from the 19th-century Great Eruption of Eta Carinae. These light echoes have been detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and from large observatories such as the CTIO 4m telescope, but this is the first time that amateur images reveal these transient features. My other first amateur detection of light echoes from supernova SN1987a inspired me to try looking for the fainter echoes near Eta Carinae.

What are Light Echoes?
Light echoes occur when the initial flash from a bright source, like a supernova, is reflected back to us from a slightly different direction. Dust clouds in interstellar space reflect a portion of the outward-traveling light from the supernova, redirecting it towards Earth. These faint light echoes can be observed decades or centuries after the original flash. Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky, known for his contributions to supernovae, neutron stars, dark matter, and gravitational lenses, predicted the existence of light echoes as early as 1940. Together with Walter Baade, he coined the term 'supernova' in 1934 and proposed that faint echoes of historical supernovae could be visible long after the initial explosion.
The Great Eruption was a significant brightening of the star Eta Carinae that occurred in phases during the mid-19th century.
The light echoes are produced when the initial flash from the eruption is subsequently reflected off interstellar dust as light travels outward from ...

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 10h

A coup just took place in Madagascar. I wrote about it--and why it's the most interesting island you probably know nothing about.

The yogurt kingpin, the radio DJ coup, and the most interesting island on Earth

Madagascar is a fascinating island home to 30+ million people. It's also home to bizarre, volatile politics that virtually nobody knows about. And the president just escaped on a helicopter.

www.forkingpaths.co

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 23h

nanochat by Andrej Karpathy is neat - 8,000 lines of code (mostly Python, a tiny bit of Rust) that can train an LLM on $100 of rented cloud compute which can then be served with a web chat UI on a much smaller machine simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/13/...

nanochat

Really interesting new project from Andrej Karpathy, described at length in this discussion post. It provides a full ChatGPT-style LLM, including training, inference and a web Ui, that can be …

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 1d

We’re just normal men

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 1d

Saturn ring shadows and Enceladus - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/qBkXJE

This is an approximate true color view of Saturn. Shadows of Saturn’s rings are cast upon the planet (below the rings to the lower right). Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus also appears to the lower right of this image.

This composite is made of images that were taken by Cassini's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on March 7, 2015 and received on Earth March 9, 2015. The camera was pointing toward UNK (Saturn's moon Unk must have been behind Saturn at the time these images were taken), and the images were taken using the blue, methane band, and continuum band filters.

Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans
about.me/valerieklavans

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 1d

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 25d

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 1d

Mandatory song on Brussels trip playlist:

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Bruxelles je t’aime

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 1d

How to enhance productivity in the UK: Remove the current prohibition to offer acceptable network coverage or decent WiFi at airport, train stations and along train lines. I know, it would be a cultural shock, but I think we can do it!

Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 1d

I which I compare funding of DPAs against that of financial services regulators.

Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 3d

My second Substack post, Incrementally Better #2, is out. In it: Why I love London and why data protection authorities need more money. Plus recommended reading and listening.

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Incrementally Better #2

Celebrating London and why DPAs need more money

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think people have updated enough on the capability gain in LLMs, which (despite being bad at math a year ago) now dominate hard STEM contests: gold medals in the International Math Olympiad, the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics, International Informatics Olympiad...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Lawren Harris’ Mountain Forms, 1926

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2d

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 2d

Great piece on the increasing use of AI companions and the related issues. It looks like we haven't learned much from the negative consequences of social media.

Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 4d

Six hours after my AI avatar was launched, I performed fratricide and killed my digital twin. On this week’s No Mercy / No Malice, I explain why: www.profgalloway.com/love-algorit...

Love Algorithmically | No Mercy / No Malice

For six hours, my AI avatar roamed the Earth. I receive 20 to 30 thoughtful emails a day asking for professional and investment advice. I can only answer a fraction of them. One of my former graduate ...

www.profgalloway.com

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 3d

Saturn's giant moon Titan.

By Cassini.

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been brought to my attention that it’s World Migratory Bird Day. I can think of no better excuse to share four of my best pictures of the undisputed king of migratory birds - the kuaka (bar-tailed godwit), which boasts the longest non-stop migration on the planet. Alaska-Aotearoa. 🪶🇳🇿

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

There was a period in history during which full-plate armour was so impregnable, and ransoming back captured nobles so lucrative, that the knights could treat warfare as a game while their men-at-arms got slaughtered in the mud.

I think about that a lot when I look at modern politics.

Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 3d

If we survive this, and Democrats are able to take back power, I guarantee you we will have to endure think-piece after think-piece that demand the rest of us reach out, stop shaming, and forgive fascists and the crimes they’ve committed. I absolutely guarantee it.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 3d

For today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #glow. It was right at sunrise on Bow Lake in the Canadian Rockies. Crowfoot Mountain is a stunning subject no matter the time of day, but it stole my heart in the early morning hours. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #Canada #Alberta #banffnationalpark

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