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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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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 9h

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 · 12h

We’re just normal men

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 15h

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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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Celebrating London and why DPAs need more money

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 3d

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 ...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Proud of my other half for talking about a very difficult topic in the hope it helps a few other folk: open.substack.com/pub/thefeelg...

What if...a conversation about suicide could save a life?

It's World Mental Health Day and we must keep talking openly about it.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Clifford Harper’s illustration of WWI soldiers in the trenches.

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a trench scene, two soldiers embrace, while one sits and another looks over the top of the sandbagged trench

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 3d

It's incredible how astutely – more than 2000 years ago! - the Greeks predicted email inbox management:

Gemini-created picture of Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 3d

For a bit of morning bliss. Stunning.

ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 3d

Hubble Space Telescope's images turned into 3D scenes are stunningly beautiful.
From BBC Horizon's "Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed".

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 3d

Incrementally Better #2

Celebrating London and why DPAs need more money

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 3d

I don't agree with all of it, but this is an interesting and very detailed article on the technical complexities of establishing sovereign cloud services, the geopolitical forces driving them, and the impact on the openess of the Internet - particularly for the global South.

Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 4d

Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have all reintroduced “sovereignty cloud” offerings in response to increased European desire for digital sovereignty from the U.S. Arun Sukumar explores how these cloud offerings could have negative consequences for the Global South.

Tech’s ‘Sovereignty Washing’ in Europe Will Ripple in the Global South

Tech companies’ promises of digital sovereignty in Europe warrant skepticism—and could have pernicious impacts on the Global South.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 3d

Apple announces new payouts for certain types of bugs - company will pay up to $2 million for anyone disclosing a chain of bugs that could be abused for spyware like Pegasus, as well as bonus awards for exploits that can bypass Lockdown Mode or are found while Apple software is still in beta testing

Apple Announces $2 Million Bug Bounty Reward for the Most Dangerous Exploits

With the mercenary spyware industry booming, Apple VP Ivan Krstić tells WIRED that the company is also offering bonuses that could bring the max total reward for iPhone exploits to $5 million.

www.wired.com

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