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Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 1d

Buying used books can be an adventure. You get a book, sure, but sometimes you can also glimpse the personality of the previous owner. For example, I just got a book, where based on the underlining and marginalia, I concluded that the previous owner was an idiot.

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Kapitál @kapital-noviny.bsky.social · 24d

🗳 J͢e͢d͢n͢o͢u͢ ͢f͢r͢a͢š͢k͢a͢,͢ ͢p͢o͢d͢r͢u͢h͢é͢ ͢t͢r͢a͢g͢é͢d͢i͢e͢
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@apolenarychlikova.bsky.social píše pár dní pred voľbami v Česku o tom, že kampaň je pokojnejšia než pred rokmi, no spoločnosť sa triešti. Polarizácia podľa nej siaha tak hlboko, že ani jasný výsledok volieb nemusí priniesť pokoj.

Jednou fraška, podruhé tragédie: dva světy českých voleb - Kapitál

Do nesledovanějších voleb, tedy voleb do Poslanecké sněmovny, zbývají v Česku už jen dny. Intenzita politizace veřejného a mediálního prostoru vrcholí, sociální sítě explodují. Možná to tak na první p...

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Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 23d

Odteraz ma oslovujte len "slowakische Politologe"! Môj minulotýždňový text pre Kapitál o zmene ústavy teraz vyšiel v nemeckom preklade na JÁDU magazíne.

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Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · 26d

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Zvrchované barbarstvo - Kapitál

Akú kultúrnu zvrchovanosť nám to vlastne vtlačili do ústavy?

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 28d

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

Infographic titled "AI Isn't a Ticket To an A," explaining how chatbots work, what the data show about the prevalence of these technologies and how they're used, what we know about the quality of their output, and what we know about the impact that frequent use of these technologies has on their users and on content creators, low-wage workers, and the environment.

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Samo Trnka @samuso.bsky.social · Sep 3

SÍRENEN NEWS: DOSKÚŠALI SME

Drahé poslucháčstvo, Sirény od septembra končia. Nerozhodli sme sa tak my, ale nové vedenie. Prečo? Netušíme, dôvod sme sa nedozvedeli.
Ako sme sa dopočuli, nie sme jediní, o ktorých nové vedenie rozhodlo, že končia. 1/7

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Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · Aug 12

Som si ešte znovu zhrnul uhorkovú kauzu

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Och nie, ovplyvňovali voličov!

Premiér Fico sa ešte pred výbuchom tendru na sanitky pokúsil vytvoriť bájku o „zasahovaní do volieb“ a „zahraničnom vplyve“.

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Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · Jul 15

A very powerful essay by Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov, arguing that:
a) Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and
b) denying this threatens to "undermine everything that Holocaust scholarship and commemoration have stood for."

Do read the whole thing www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

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Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · Jun 22

I couldn’t help myself, had to do the meme; Arrested Development was timeless…

#arrestedforeignpolicy

“But it might work for us” meme format from Arested Development adapted to bombing as US foreign policy tool

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · May 20

Anti-trans policy means surveilling cis women in a culture of gender suspicion.

Closed borders means surveilling natives in a culture of "Papers please" suspicion.

Segregation means surveilling whites to prevent race-mixing and race treason.

Fascism erodes the freedoms even of those not targeted.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · May 20

The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves

Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · May 20

This is going to be an absolute car crash, the Supreme Court verdict looks more absurd by the day
www.thetimes.com/article/86fb...

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · May 13

If complementing someone for a paper you haven't read is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · May 13

Like look at this shit. The Nation accuses Fauci of lying because he says he never read the paper before publication yet told the authors "nice job."

This is not a lie! Have you ever worked in an office or had a human relationship before

Amid questions about his own involvement with the Proximal Origin paper, Fauci reportedly told a writer for the New York Times opinion section in late March this year that “he’s not sure he ever got around to reading the paper.”

Documents, as well as Fauci’s April 2020 statement from the White House podium, seem to indicate otherwise. According to e-mails obtained via FOIA, Kristian Andersen on March 6, 2020, wrote to Farrar, Fauci, Collins, and others to tell them the paper had been accepted for publication. “Thank you for your advice and leadership as we have been working through the SARS-CoV-2 ‘origins’ paper,” he wrote. “We’re happy to say that the paper was just accepted by Nature Medicine and should be published shortly (not quite sure when).”

Fauci’s response: “Thanks for your note. Nice job on the paper.”

Given the context that surrounded its production, publication, and promotion, the Proximal Origin paper is sure to figure into forthcoming House hearings on the origin of Covid-19, according to a Republican select subcommittee aide. The subcommittee’s next hearing, on April 18, will “examine China’s role in the origins of Covid-19 and the intelligence surrounding where Covid-19 originated.”

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Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · May 13

*reading a student thesis
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huh, i guess asking the AI model - which clearly wrote much of this tripe - to order your references alphabetically would have been a prompt too far, wouldnt it...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · May 3

The US government says reading Toni Morrison or Maya Angelou is political.

In my terrorism class, I explain how “Great Replacement” is a false conspiracy theory that’s motivated multiple terrorist attacks. Now that America’s leaders push the theory too, teaching that is political.

Should I stop?

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Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · Apr 29

putting a delicious Canadian twist on the old "go woke, go broke" mantra www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...

Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s Opposition Leader, Loses Seat in Parliament

It was a stunning upset for the Conservative Party leader, who was first elected in 2004.

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Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science @skytteprize.bsky.social · Apr 23

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆

He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Apr 4

tariff plan is going well I see

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “only the weak will fail!”

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · Apr 2

AI (like crypto) needs to be properly taxed to reflect the environmental and technological costs.

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · Apr 2

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.

AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Apr 1

This is 💯% correct (and reading/sharing it on social media is a bit... ironic?)

Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Mar 31

“…The viral outrage disseminated on social media actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.”

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · Apr 1

No political science in post-communist Europe, except for Czechia and Russia? 🤔❓

Also, they painted Crimea blue.

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The caption—"“yes” when one or more political science departments are located in a country"—does not quite correspond to the selection criteria.

A chart with a caption that reads

"Figure 1 Countries in the Sample

Note: Country coverage of study sample equals “yes” when one or more political science departments are located in a country."

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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · Mar 27

‘DST—Democracy Saving Time?’ the article practically writes itself. Wouldn't pass peer review in political science journals, but hey, there's other journals, and with higher impact factors to boot.

A reboot of an old joke with @pavolhardos.bsky.social and Miro Oroš.

Two maps of the world arranged above each other. The top map, by Pew Research Center, shows the use of the Daylight Saving Time, the bottom one V-Dem's Liberal Democracy Index in 2024.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Mar 23

You might say “But I was only into the Harry Potter lady’s crank bathroom jihad, I didn’t want the Nazi stuff” and that is just too bad, this was not in fact about what *you* wanted. You have been taken for a ride by calculating psychos.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Mar 19

Literally straight out of the book. We've gone way past "it could happen here" and are straight into "it is happening."

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Pavol Hardoš @pavolhardos.bsky.social · Mar 19

Dobrá správa na dnes: žaloba denníka Štandard na náš projekt Konspiratori*sk bola zamietnutá.

Súd v celom rozsahu zamietol žalobu denníka Štandard na projekt Konšpirátori.sk

…za zaradenie na zoznam sporných a nedôveryhodných webov. Štandard hovoril o poškodzovaní dobrého mena.O rozhodnutí Mestského súdu Bratislava III informuje Pavol Hardoš z projektu Konšpirátori.sk. Píš...

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Csaba Gálffy @galffy.bsky.social · Mar 9

The only western democracy hell-bent on protecting itself is... Romania?

Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · Mar 9

Romania: The central electoral bureau has rejected Georgescu(*) candidacy, the decision follows the annulment of the 2024 presidential elections by the constitutional court.

According to polling averages, Georgescu(*) was projected to win a plurality of votes.

➤ europeelects.eu/romania

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