Stephan Geering

I see the Dildo of Consequences has arrived, and - as is traditional - it has not been lubed.

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

Sweet memories

Britain’s safety net isn’t set up for a widespread jobs shock The state does not offer a temporary cushion to support those who were previously in work

Great but sobering
@sarahoconnorft.ft.com article (£) on how the UK's unemployment system is not ready for a potential AI job disruption.

www.ft.com/content/771a...

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Well this piece certainly delivers and the last par is 😬

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Human Problems: It’s Not Always The Technology’s Fault We have met the enemy and he is us. When a teenage boy in Orlando started texting Character.AI’s chatbot, it started as an innocent use of a new tool. Sewell Setzer III customized the chatbot to ha…

I co-authored a @techdirt.com piece with Professors @brianlfrye.bsky.social Kevin Frazier, and Michael Goodyear on the human problems that AI is revealing to us, like suicide, and why policymaking approaches that ignore those human realities are ineffective.

www.techdirt.com/2026/03/10/h...

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

How the 'red v blue school wars' exposed the social media gap between children and parents Parents were frightened by social posts that seemed to encourage violence at schools. But it was more complicated than it looked

Good longread on how a "social media war" was just teenagers shitposting, as they do, and it was their parents freaking out in the school WhatsApp that was the problem www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Hey, Claude. I have a big project for you ..."

Important point

Fiery sunset sky with streaked orange, pink, and red clouds over silhouetted Grampians mountains in Victoria, Australia. Dramatic glowing horizon with deep blue fading to warm tones.

Vibrant sunset over the Grampians National Park, Victoria, Australia. Luminosity masking was used to bring out the dramatic glow

More about me & prints:
linktr.ee/steven.sandner

#Grampians #Sunset #LandscapePhotography

Four images featuring a work of art in wire and small pieces of colourful glass

“Unwoven Light” by Korean artist Soo Sunny Park, sculptural installations using glass, wire and light #WomensArt

Image depicts a technique used during the Dust Bowl era to prevent soil erosion by creating protective patterns in the farmland. Farmers used tractors to plow the land in curved lines, or contours, following the landscape's natural shape to stop wind from blowing away the topsoil.

Contour Plowing, Dust Bowl, Colorado
Margaret Bourke-White, 1954

Fair enough.

Hmmm. I prefer when regulators define desired outcomes of documents like a DPIA rather than prescriptive templates.

Which means posting more here I assume 😉

Satoshi - Viva Moldova! | Official Video YouTube video by Satoshi

Moldova has absolutely magnificent song this year at #Eurovision! Absolute banger 🔥🔥
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDo...

All good questions but I think you are asking the wrong person because I certainly don't consider myself a techbro. I just found it funny that the list name included the "derogatory" as it implies it needs distinction from a positive "techbro" moderation list.

Ok

Great track to lighten up a grey day #music

Having mastered epidemiology, Russian history, toilet paper supply chain logistics, bridge design, balloon aeronautics, and large language models, I'd like to offer my thoughts on how the closing of the Strait of Hormuz will impact Brent crude....(1/67)

I have a different intuition but I agree that is a valid option / opinion at this stage.

Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme

“KID, WE NEED YOUR GAS”

Kind of weird when you can watch the global market collectively go "oh shit he is that crazy".

The Evidence for AI Consciousness, Today | AI Frontiers Cameron Berg, Dec 08, 2025 — A growing body of evidence means it’s no longer tenable to dismiss the possibility that frontier AIs are conscious.

My point is that it is tricky to rule out AI consciousness if we don't fully understand how consciousness works (plus early signs of LLMs having some level of self-awareness). That's why I agree with the conclusion of this article that we need to take it seriously.

web.archive.org/web/20260109...

Interesting but not sure that's a a very convincing argument. 1) If you put a someone under general anesthetic are they still self aware? 2) Claude could be conscious until we switch it off (and just to be clear, I don't think Claude is conscious ... but I think it's hard to rule this out firmly).

Denis Leary Isn't Conan's Friend... He's His "F**king Cousin" | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend YouTube video by Team Coco

Can't recommend 'Conan Needs a Friend' more. Consistently #uplifting and hilarious.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYby...

Interesting episode on the dangers of automating state surveillance, the tension between private AI companies' alignment decisions and state sovereignty and the supply chain risk assignment as a 'political assassination'.

Substack asset for "AI as an existential risk?" with an AI monster breathing fire over the earth in the background

Latest Substack on why we need to take AI as an existential seriously

Spoiler alert: It's just good risk management.

incbetter.substack.com/p/ai-as-an-e...

Dawn mosaic of the asteroid 4 Vesta, taken from an altitude of ~2800 km on October 19, 2012. This image is a mosaic of three black and white images taken of the asteroid as the spacecraft prepared to descend from it's initial survey orbit into the first high-altitude mapping orbit. The North Pole is located at bottom center, and a distinctive cluster of three craters (nicknamed 'The Snowman') is found at bottom right. The grooves running across the surface are faults created by the Veneneia impact. This collision nearly broke Vesta apart, and left the asteroid with a distinctive out-of-round shape. Image Credit: NASA / JPL / DLR / Justin Cowart

Vesta - Dawn - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/28NSyQP