Not great that the richest man in the world agrees with this post. Note the giant gun in the image. 👀 1/

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

The world's largest platforms are built around US free speech norms. But do users elsewhere actually share those norms? New paper (N=13,475; 10 countries) with @spyroskosmidis.bsky.social, @janzilinsky.bsky.social, and @friederikeq.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mám rozhovor v Denníku SME pri príležitosti 10. výročia projektu Konspiratori*sk a tiež pri príležitosti nášho víťazstva na ústavnom súde. Tu: www.sme.sk/domov/c/slob...

🇺🇦😄 Ukrainian Monobank has a new card design

What is perhaps the saddest part is that, as she realizes she is going to be raped by Tate, she worries about her “brand”.

Shocked by the number of people who fall for this one. “Feminists and misogynists are the same because they are both dissatisfied with gender relations.”

“What we are seeing is a coordinated and well-resourced effort to roll back trans people’s rights and reshape public debate.” New research maps, for the first time, the rapid rise of ‘gender critical’ organisations alongside high volumes of anti-trans media coverage.

2. Toto blahosklonné pokyvkávanie hlavou intelektuálov nad obyvateľmi z menších miest je nový štylistický štandard? "Hľa, ľud, prišli sme vám rozumieť!"

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

That these racist thugs have morphed into "far right influencers" is central. Being a bigot used to be a hobby. It is now a profession. We don't have to treat the monetisation of hate as an inevitable phenomenon. We can regulate platforms - not to supress speech, but to remove financial incentives.

One more thought: what if the internet-fueled participatory propaganda cycles — and those who know how to exploit them — are really good at garnering attention, harnessing grievance, and tearing down things (trust, institutions, USAID, the WH's east wing, etc.) but really bad at actually governing?

It’s been only 8 days since the Supreme Court’s VRA ruling. Republicans in Florida and Tennessee have already passed new congressional gerrymanders for 2026. Alabama is on the verge of doing so, and Louisiana will follow within days. Mississippi and South Carolina are actively debating it too

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

“1940: The Invention of Western and Eastern Europe”, one is tempted to quip tongue in cheek.

Emotional support animal: makes the owner feel more comfortable in social situations. Dominance support animal: makes others feel less comfortable in social situations.

For years, but especially in the last few months, I have been trying hard to imagine what it will feel like seeing Orban decisively defeated. I just couldn't. And yet here we are: it is truly and well over. I have more reservations about Peter Magyar than I could say in 300 characters or a thread...

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

well well well

Mr Fico's junior gov't partner SNS proposes to regulate political polling and assign the supervisory authority to the state-controlled Statistical Office of The Slovak Republic. Bolivia comes to mind. All of Slovakia's established pollsters estimate SNS < the 5% entry threshold since late 2024.

'Hey, look at #Denmark! Social Democrats can stay relevant and marginalise the #farright by becoming - get this! - a bit like the far right!' Parrotted by every medium, contemplated by every SD party, ridiculed by every political scientist.

For those who don't read (and let's be honest, who does anymore).... here is the recent REDACT project final report in the form of a video! Featuring @cb-hq.bsky.social @beetroot.bsky.social @mlmadisson.bsky.social and Michael Butter, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz & Nebojša Blanuša youtu.be/U5QPNDHa0JE?...

weird how every time a "moderate liberal" party cites "electoral realities" for embracing fascist policies they get shit canned 🙃

This article by Joep van Lit and Carolien van Ham is very useful for those interested in empirically studying democratic erosion in all its complexities.

The problem with training AI models on existing human-made data is that there might not be enough smart content. The 80:20 rule and all that; what you will end up with, at best, is a general artificial mediocrity.

"NATO has never been as strong as it is today"

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Organizujeme konferenciu, kde nám budú prednášať napr. @tomaskoblizek.bsky.social aj @pavolhardos.bsky.social, tak šup šup... Call je stále otvorený! www.juls.savba.sk/dezinfo.html

New article alert! 🚨 "Fractured Pluralism: The Prospects of Political Liberalism in the Age of Vibes" is out now in Etica & Politica. Co-authored with Matej Cíbik, we argue that contemporary #politicaltheory might need an update to its understanding of social disagreement. 🧵

Who is really “running” the European Parliament right now? On the margins of the geopolitical changes, the shifts in the EU are also accelerating. In my newest EU-Analytics, I dug into all final votes from December 2025 – and the shift of power to the centre-right & far right is accelerating:

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

On the other hand, it is a win for white nationalists when @nytimes.com cravenly launders white nationalist tropes and injects them into the broader discourse in easily digestible form

The fascist right will never drop its anti-Ukraine stance, because they want to see Russian aggression succeed. But can the smaller yet quite vocal anti-anti-Russia left—Chomsky, Quincy Institute, Lula, etc—finally admit that blaming the war on the US and “they won’t even negotiate” were misguided?

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

Pravda a láska musí zvíťaziť nad lžou a nenávisťou. Týmto vítame portál Marker na našom zozname nedôveryhodných webov. #konspiratorisk #markersk #marker #protipropagande

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.

🗳 J͢e͢d͢n͢o͢u͢ ͢f͢r͢a͢š͢k͢a͢,͢ ͢p͢o͢d͢r͢u͢h͢é͢ ͢t͢r͢a͢g͢é͢d͢i͢e͢ kapital-noviny.sk/jednou-frask... @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.

Odteraz ma oslovujte len "slowakische Politologe"! Môj minulotýždňový text pre Kapitál o zmene ústavy teraz vyšiel v nemeckom preklade na JÁDU magazíne. www.goethe.de/prj/jad/de/g...

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 : )

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

Som si ešte znovu zhrnul uhorkovú kauzu open.substack.com/pub/pavolhar...

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...

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

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.

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

*reading a student thesis - 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...