Making sure my memes are on trend for the new academic year

NEW ARTICLE OUT IN OPEN ACCESS How do small and peripheral states respond to big EU initiatives? In a new article by Daniel Šitera and myself, we look at Czechia's reluctant and gradual warming to the idea of "EU digital sovereignty". 1/2

Civilians cannot be targets. Never. The images from Gaza are unbearable. The EU reiterates its call for the free, safe and swift flow of humanitarian aid. And for the full respect of international and humanitarian law.

A detailed NYT investigation into Netanyahu's behaviour. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...

Frank's work is a must-read for anyone interested in German foreign policy.

There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle. But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A really good (and long!) profile of Keir Starmer: a gradualist technocrat struggling to define his political purpose. magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/06/12/w...

📝 Nový policy paper @jeberle.bsky.social se věnuje analýze zahraniční, bezpečnostní a evropské politiky nové německé vlády vedené kancléřem Friedrichem Merzem z pohledu České republiky. 🇩🇪 www.iir.cz/nemecko-pod-...

Check out this important CJIR forum on Czech foreign policy towards Israel, Gaza and Palestine. Edited by @horalistani.bsky.social and Jakub Zahora, with contributions by Marek Cejka, Tereza Plistilova, Zora Hesova, and others. Published by @iirprague.bsky.social www.iir.cz/cjir-special...

Muj policy paper pro @iirprague.bsky.social Rikam, ze Merzova vlada je pro Cesko priznivejsim partnerem, nez byla ta Scholzova. Zasadni zmeny ale necekeje a budme realisticti v hodnoceni naseho vyznamu pro Nemecko. @ims.fsv.cuni.cz www.iir.cz/nemecko-pod-...

TGA: "One can go down the list of conditions for a just war (...) and see how many are now being violated. Proportionality? No. Reasonable chance of success? No. Distinguishing between combatants and innocent civilians? No." timothygartonash.substack.com/p/the-israel...

Great times talking about #digitalsovereignty at the GIG-ARTS conference in Salerno last week. gig-arts.eu/salerno-2025/

If Germany is serious about two-state solution mantra now is time to align /w major EU partners incl. France to consider official recognition of Palestinian state.Yes, mostly symbolic. Yes, with drawbacks. But brazen expansion of settlements plus Gaza ethnic cleansing plans does require firm answer.

INTERFER - our shiny new project on foreign interference, coordinated by @smetanamichal.bsky.social at @ims.fsv.cuni.cz now has a website! www.interfer-project.eu

🇩🇪Green Party co-leader @franziskabrantner.de calls for stronger actions against Netanyahu government * sanctioning Ben-Gvir & Smotrich * ensuring products from settlements don't get preferential tariffs * stopping export of weapons /w which violations of international law could be committed in Gaza

V programu Pirátů je přesně *NULA* zmínek o klimatu. O životním prostředí se tam píše devadesátkovým jazykem ("čistší vzduch"), Green Deal je potřeba "přizpůsobit globálním změnám". To teda moc nevím, co tam @zeleni.cz v rámci onoho přípomínkování prosadili. V čem je tohle proboha progresivní?

Nothing like a world on fire to remind Europeans that, for all its flaws, the EU isn’t such a bad place to be — especially for the many small and few medium-sized countries whose sovereignty it amplifies.

Nebyla míra oligarchizace neskonale vyšší na Ukrajině než v Rusku až do toho konfliktu? Ale na Ukrajině nikdo nepadá z okna, že ne? Já nechci diskutovat, kdo spadl z okna. www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov...

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

Dřív Adam Kajumi říkal, že chce změnit svět k lepšímu. Místo toho začal vykořisťovat ženy na OnlyFans. Ten inside, který popsala @apolenarychlikova.bsky.social je děsivý. Tyto platformy měly sloužit k emancipaci pracovnic v se*byznysu, skončilo to ale jako vždy... pagenotfound.cz/clanek/vydel...

"one of the first studies to look at AI use in conjunction with employment data finds the technology’s effect on time and money to be negligible"

To hear this kind of language *even* from a German conservative is nothing short of remarkable. www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Super interesting postdoc with some of the very best people in the field.

Human rights, but only for the humans we like.

Good visual showing the churn of UK voters since last year’s General Election.

If Western leaders are worried about famine in Gaza, I don't get why they don't drop blanket drop aid into the territory. Israel's not going to shoot down escorted planes. More aid would reduce the influence of Hamas. Better concrete action than empty sanctions. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Budoucnost podle Spolu: nez zacit trochu vic danit bohatstvi (kde jsme extremne mirni), radsi zatizime budouci generace absenci infrastruktury a znicenou planetou.

Der zunehmend verzweifelte Versuch des stellvertretenden Regierungssprechers Sebastian Hille, in der BPK den Frauenmangel in Merz‘ innerem Team zu erklären, ist schon fast mitleiderregend. (Video: Deutsche Welle)

“There has not really been any change,” said Gerald Knaus, a prominent migration expert and a frequent adviser to European governments. “It’s theater. But the trouble is it’s bad theater.” www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Nova Mezinarodni politika vysla i v printu - a krasne se vyhriva v malostranskem slunci na @iirprague.bsky.social S Danielem Siterou jsme prispeli clankem k evropske digitalni suverenite. K precteni taky tady: www.iir.cz/digitalni-su...

Grüße an Friedrich. Merkel criticises the increased border controls put in place by the new 🇩🇪 govt. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Good and thought-provoking read on AI empires. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country. A sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations." www.ft.com/content/0dc7...

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

Hello, AI-utopia. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Jakou mimozemskou technologii asi používali v 70. letech, že dosahovali tak úžasného tempa bytové výstavby? V 🇨🇿 prý dnes chybí asi 400 tisíc obydlí, tehdy by to zvládli postavit za 4 roky. Mně to přijde jak ty pyramidy.

This and the whole🧵

I can’t help but scratch my head at the anti-green, deregulation rhetoric currently circulating in Germany. Rationalising regulations, like supply chain reporting, makes sense — but halting investments is self-defeating for the West’s key clean tech hub. Let's review a few facts. 1/4

Quick analysis: This is a huge defeat for von der Leyen and her European Commission. The Court harshly chastises the executive for trying to gaslight the NYT (and everybody else) into believing that text messages that sealed a multi-billion vaccine contract weren't important. In fact, they were.

Accurate and depressing🧵 on the the mess that is the UK Labour Party.

V novém vydání Mezinárodní politiky @iirprague.bsky.social je i článek od našeho výzkumníka @jeberle.bsky.social o digitální suverenitě EU. ✍️ Ve článku popisuje pohled střední Evropy - to totiž regulace jako je DSA nebo DMA vnímá jako přílišnou centralizaci a ztrátu vlivu. www.iir.cz/digitalni-su...

Labour cabinet meetings be like

A very good English piece on Merz by @jpuglierin.bsky.social and @jeremycliffe.bsky.social ecfr.eu/article/from...

This has been going on for so long that absolutely no one can say they didn't know. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Some proper Austin Powers stuff. “Had another cosmetic surgery, trying to look differently, and I am dead tired and my head hurts,” Marsalek complained.

Co to je "digitální suverenita", proč o ni usiluje EU a jak se k tomu staví Česko? S Danielem Šiterou jsme napsali kratší text, který představuje hlavní linie širšího výzkumného projektu. V novém čísle Mezinárodní politiky, nebo na webu @iirprague.bsky.social www.iir.cz/digitalni-su...

Fascinating.