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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, an I do research trips to Asia.

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Dec 8, 2025 ∞
From (1) street food to (2) temples to (3) a waiting spot for Uber Eat drivers to (4) elevated (thus protected) electronic infrastructure. Old town life in a rapidly changing place. #streetphotography, based on our first Silicon Urbanism walkshop in Hsinchu, #Taiwan. A TW-GER happening
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Dec 8, 2025 ∞
Epic insights on the #semiconductor industry in #Taiwan. We’re on the second day of our workshop, with a heavy focus on walks. / The industry came to the island in the freaking 1950s. Here’s a precious IBM machine, infamously transported by horse car 🐎 because trucks were to shaky for the silicon!
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Dec 6, 2025 ∞
I want to inform my fellow #Germans that I’m stranded in a Taiwanese train. There is a problem with the tracks. A rare instance. Never have I been better prepared for disaster
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Dec 6, 2025 ∞
#Taipei film, capturing poetic retro vibes 🕹️ #streetphotography
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Dec 6, 2025 ∞
Back in #Taiwan, ready for a cracker tour through the wee #semiconductor industry with our interational “Silicon Urbanism” research group. From clean rooms to water streams, we’ll do it all
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Dec 3, 2025 ∞
Die Zeit berichtet vom #Luddite Meetup in Brooklyn – auf den Punkt, und auf die Barrikaden. Ein good read, als Gift-Artikel: www.zeit.de/kultur/20…
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Nov 29, 2025 ∞
A distressing story about how #car battery #recycling (not of the electric car ones!) poisons workers and people across the planet, and companies have known this for 3 decades. Lead, the ignored matter. www.nytimes.com/interacti…
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Nov 24, 2025 ∞
The chat interface was a marketing bet. Selling #AI as if it is not auto complete. It still is. #ChatGPT shifted the user’s relationship to text, moving the prompt from a ‘piece of writing for the model to finish’ to a ‘question calling for an answer’. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-was-…
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