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Stefan Laser

My blog and portfolio—a hub for research experience, personal commentary and street photography. I am situated at Ruhr-University Bochum, GER, and I do research trips to Asia.

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May 6, 2026 ∞
The UAE’s ambassador to the US, son of an oil magnate, writes an op-ed for the FT. “Leaving Opec is not a commercial calculation alone; it is a responsibility.” UAE wants to be so much more. A detector flags the piece as 100% AI slop. Ok? archive.is/fO95N
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May 4, 2026 ∞
Der Taiwancast hostet die Dresdener Wirtschaftsförderung – guter Pod mit diversen interessanten bits und pieces zur TSMC-Ansiedlung in #Dresden, und der Kollege und ich waren wohl zeitlgleich zur SEMICON-Messe in Taipei unterwegs. #Halbleiter intaiwan.net/2026/05/0…
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Apr 30, 2026 ∞
Join us TODAY for a fly book launch. “Staying with the Planet” is a sci-fi story about ecological troubles of our modern universities. ⏰ 2pm CET 📍 RUSTlab RUB, or Zoom: tinyurl.com/RUSTlab 👇Find more info about the event and book (open access, y’all!) on the RUSTlab website.
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Apr 29, 2026 ∞
Why tho, #DB? I am sitting in a German #train, virtually missing an important meeting, because we have more than 3hrs delay. We’re currently resting our not-well oiled machines in Hameln, waiting for the rats to catch us. Infrastructural decay is tough to swallow, ngl
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Apr 28, 2026 ∞
Thinking #AI through its future ruins: We just published Anne Pasek’s lovely ride of a keynote from the Before Ruins #STS conference, which took place at Ruhr University in #Bochum. With hot beats by Mace. www.youtube.com/watch @apasek.bsky.social @aepa@Aepasek@scholar.social
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Apr 23, 2026 ∞
Über “Arten des Lesens”, von extraktiv über kritisch hin zu generös und situiert – eine Ressource für die #Lehre. Die “ways of reading” von Murphy waren lange in meinen Bookmarks, nun habe ich sie für Seminare an der #RUB übersetzt. Feel free to use. docs.google.com/document/…
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Apr 21, 2026 ∞
Honey, wake up, another episode of Cultures of #Energy dropped, a #waste one!! Highly recommended, with haunted insights from landfills in Czechia, based on Dan Sosna’s book “Europe’s Disappearing Waste.” Lovely, lovely stuff! cenhs.libsyn.com/253-disap…
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Apr 20, 2026 ∞
“Es wächst also alles gemeinsam und gleichzeitig. Holz, Öl und Kohle stehen nicht in Konkurrenz zueinander.” Eine Symbiose, die sich mit Erneuerbaren fortsetzt. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (“More and More and More”, 2025) im Surplus Magazin: gegen ein Denken in Anteilen. #Energiewende
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