Stefan Geens
@stefangeens.com
Love complexity, fight entropy. Based in Stockholm.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Christophe Jacrot
Bologna, Italy
Piazza Maggiore
Bologna, Italy
Piazza Maggiore
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Christophe Jacrot
Bologna, Italy
Piazza Maggiore
Bologna, Italy
Piazza Maggiore
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
This essay by Kaiser Kuo articulates far better than I could the growing sense I’ve had over the past year or so that China is no longer catching up with the west, it is ahead, especially on future techs–wind, solar, battery, cars, AI, soon even space exploration. A must read.
I have a new, long piece in The Ideas Letter called “The Great Reckoning: What the West Should Learn from China," arguing that we must learn from China even (or especially) when its successes unsettle our assumptions. Link below.
October 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This essay by Kaiser Kuo articulates far better than I could the growing sense I’ve had over the past year or so that China is no longer catching up with the west, it is ahead, especially on future techs–wind, solar, battery, cars, AI, soon even space exploration. A must read.
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At this point, if the Nobel Peace Prize committee wants to choose a recipient designed to maximize Trump’s ire and rage, I should award the prize to the Open Society Foundations, and get Soros to collect it. The schadenfreude alone would make my week.
October 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
At this point, if the Nobel Peace Prize committee wants to choose a recipient designed to maximize Trump’s ire and rage, I should award the prize to the Open Society Foundations, and get Soros to collect it. The schadenfreude alone would make my week.
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This photo is everything!!
(Alaa with his remarkable mother Dr. Laila Soueif, who spent nearly 300 days on hunger strike to secure her son's release)
(Alaa with his remarkable mother Dr. Laila Soueif, who spent nearly 300 days on hunger strike to secure her son's release)
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This photo is everything!!
(Alaa with his remarkable mother Dr. Laila Soueif, who spent nearly 300 days on hunger strike to secure her son's release)
(Alaa with his remarkable mother Dr. Laila Soueif, who spent nearly 300 days on hunger strike to secure her son's release)
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The US as viewed by latenight comedians in Europe (it’s 20 secs of Dutch, the rest is English. We are so worried about you all we’re specifically trying to reach you through our latenight I guess…)
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The US as viewed by latenight comedians in Europe (it’s 20 secs of Dutch, the rest is English. We are so worried about you all we’re specifically trying to reach you through our latenight I guess…)
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I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
September 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
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Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer.
Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
Vance goes after NYC mayoral hopeful Mamdani: ‘He should show more gratitude to the United States’
Vance goes after NYC mayor hopeful Mamdani for not showing ‘gratitude’ to the US
www.independent.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer.
Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
That is some Mao-level shit right there.
August 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
That is some Mao-level shit right there.
Also just sped through @garymarcus.bsky.social 's Taming Silicon Valley. It's a quicker and slighter read than Empire of AI but it's got the same vibe as @timothysnyder.bsky.social 's On Tyranny.
August 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Also just sped through @garymarcus.bsky.social 's Taming Silicon Valley. It's a quicker and slighter read than Empire of AI but it's got the same vibe as @timothysnyder.bsky.social 's On Tyranny.
Just finished @karenhao.bsky.social 's Empire of AI. Takeaways: Sam Altman should have stayed fired, OpenAI is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the negative externalities of the AI industry are huge. 10 years into the latest AI summer, this is a good place to take stock as another AI autumn sets in.
August 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Just finished @karenhao.bsky.social 's Empire of AI. Takeaways: Sam Altman should have stayed fired, OpenAI is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the negative externalities of the AI industry are huge. 10 years into the latest AI summer, this is a good place to take stock as another AI autumn sets in.
That handshake will go down in infamy.
August 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
That handshake will go down in infamy.
This anecdote stood out to me in Karen Hao’s Empire of AI.
Then this. Ah, the fatal flaw in Musk's genius plan! FFS.
August 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This anecdote stood out to me in Karen Hao’s Empire of AI.
Just finished this wonderful history of Alexandria by Islam Issa. Brought me back to the time I spent there in 2008. I remember the people the best, especially their joy. I think I captured some of it in these photos: www.flickr.com/photos/stefa...
August 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Just finished this wonderful history of Alexandria by Islam Issa. Brought me back to the time I spent there in 2008. I remember the people the best, especially their joy. I think I captured some of it in these photos: www.flickr.com/photos/stefa...
This man gave me my first job in journalism, as an intern at the Moscow Times in the summer 1993. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Find it out, write it down, get it out there. Leonid Bershidsky remembers pioneering journalist Derk Sauer — Meduza
Derk Sauer, who died in Amsterdam on Thursday at the age of 72, was a figure of rare consequence in the history of post-Soviet journalism. A former reporter and editor in the Netherlands, he departed ...
meduza.io
August 1, 2025 at 6:29 AM
This man gave me my first job in journalism, as an intern at the Moscow Times in the summer 1993. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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This is the joy we all have when vibing with our neighbors in NYC! He’s just one of us, the contrast is that _none of the other dudes ever were_.
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This is the joy we all have when vibing with our neighbors in NYC! He’s just one of us, the contrast is that _none of the other dudes ever were_.
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The stark fucking contrast of how absolutely absurdly ridiculously adorable and joyful this is compared to the frothing seething parallel universe of the national media/political establishment is goddamn ridiculous.
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
The stark fucking contrast of how absolutely absurdly ridiculously adorable and joyful this is compared to the frothing seething parallel universe of the national media/political establishment is goddamn ridiculous.
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the person who said "i voted for somebody who won something!" is soo relatable
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
the person who said "i voted for somebody who won something!" is soo relatable