Pavel Pospech
@pavelp.bsky.social
Sociologist, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Yale CCS Faculty Fellow. I work in cultural sociology, rural sociology, social change, some theory, and some more. Father of 2. Vienna, Austria. Posting in 🇬🇧, 🇨🇿 & 🇩🇪.
OUT NOW: Alienation, Authenticity, and Populism in Rural Areas, our newest volume from Routledge, edited by myself, Elisabete Figueiredo and Eirik Magnus Fuglestad. We have collected and edited the most interesting research from Europe and beyond on rural peripheries and populism. Check it out!
Můj komentář o umělé inteligenci v Deníku N (nemám odkaz na odemknutý článek, ale na přání můžu zaslat fulltext). denikn.cz/1982208/umel...
Umělá inteligence není příběh o technologii, nýbrž o penězích
Komentář Pavla Pospěcha: Do rozvoje AI je v současné době vloženo tolik peněz, že společnosti, které tyto peníze investovaly – a jde o nejbohatší a nejvlivnější firmy na světě – zkrátka nepřipustí jin...
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Infantino and Coventry backing Russia’s return shows sport’s soft power is in rotten hands | Emma John
Infantino and Coventry backing Russia’s return shows sport’s soft power is in rotten hands | Emma John
The actions of Fifa’s fawning president as well as the Olympics leader’s coded call for ‘neutral ground’ underscores the hollowness of the global bodies’ values
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"Three Bulgarian men are on trial this week for alleged involvement in vandalizing the city’s Holocaust Memorial, an act of vandalism that French intelligence services link to a campaign by Russia to destabilize France and other Western societies." apnews.com/article/fran...
A French trial examines Holocaust Memorial graffiti believed linked to Russia
Three Bulgarian men are on trial in Paris accused of involvement in spray-painting red hands around the Paris Holocaust memorial.
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
This is a very interesting read, and far more than just an average anti-tech rant (not like there's anything wrong with anti-tech rants, we need more of those, too). www.gurwinder.blog/p/how-social...
How Social Media Shortens Your Life
It's engineered to speed up your time
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When we talk about "real life" in rural areas, what does the word "real" actually mean? Check out our chapter in this great new volume edited by @estherpeeren.bsky.social and Tjalling Valdés Olmos! brill.com/display/titl... @soc-muni.bsky.social
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Oida. www.der-postillon.com/2025/06/bezo...
Frau trennt Joghurtbecher in Karton und Plastik, während 95 Privatjets zur Hochzeit von Jeff Bezos in Venedig landen
Magdeburg (dpo) - Eine Frau hat heute in Magdeburg sorgfältig ihren leeren Joghurtbecher in Karton und Plastik getrennt und in den entsprechenden Müll
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Nebývalé. Takže ono je možné na systémové problémy hledat systémová řešení? Měl by přijít nějaký český mluvka a vysvětlit těm Dánům, že tohle je socialismus, a že v online světě si má poradit každý sám. www.idnes.cz/zpravy/zahra...
Autorská práva sám na sebe? V Dánsku už brzy realita, země vytáhla do boje s deepfake
Dánská vláda jako první na světě přišla s rázným řešením, jak se bránit přílivu deepfake videí, která zneužívají identity skutečných lidí. Pokud příslušná legislativa projde parlamentním hlasováním, b...
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"Zločinci se mohou spolčit, nikoliv však spřátelit." (Goya)
Data centers are the new sacrifice zones
Ariel Wittenberg@arielwittenberg.bsky.social · last yr.NEW from me: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma. www.eenews.net/articles/elo...
An interesting take on the monotone of the story structure. Some interesting points (franchises as a destruction of stories) and some clichés, too (the story is patriarchal), but a great read overall! aeon.co/essays/why-d...
Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays
The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
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This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Imperialism Has no Clothes
JD Vance in Greenland
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📢 PhD Opportunity at Masaryk University! 🎓 We seek 2 PhD students for the PRINS project on partnership trajectories & intergenerational relations. Apply by 31.03.2025! More info here: soc.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/jo...
Job opportunities
2 PhD Vacancies “Partnership Trajectories and Intergenerational Relations”
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"The most effective countermeasure is simple: tariffs for oligarchs. Countries should tie market access for foreign multinationals and billionaires to fair taxation," says @gabrielzucman.bsky.social in his latest op-ed. 👉 Read more: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/o...
America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel | by Gabriel Zucman - Project Syndicate
Gabriel Zucman proposes that countries targeted by US tariffs retaliate with taxes on Elon Musk and his peers.
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"Take his pet president, who cosplays as a business genius but who has succeeded in life largely by discovering that, first, if you are rich and white and repeat a lie long enough then people believe it and it no longer matters if it is true or not" Treat yourself here: www.the-reframe.com/the/
The Worst and the Dimmest
It's not a coincidence that we're being led by the least qualified monsters available; it's a deliberate strategy. Facing the Worst - a series about directional alignment.
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Může existovat veřejnoprávní sociální síť? Musí. Můj komentář v Deníku N.
Deník N@denikn.cz · last yr.Komentář Pavla Pospěcha: „Prostor pro férovou, otevřenou politickou diskuzi bez manipulací nevzniká sám o sobě a oligarchické síťové platformy jasně ukazují, že nám jej neposkytnou.“
„Lež není názorem, byť ji pachatel subjektivně vnímá jako pravdu“ To je docela zásadní soudní výrok, ne? Bez ohledu na tenhle konkrétní případ - tohle je docela rázný řez do "postfaktické doby": ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/domac...
„Lež není názor“. Soud vysvětlil, proč zrušil osvobození učitelky hájící ruské zločiny
Nejvyšší soud (NS) v prosinci zrušil zprošťující verdikt nad učitelkou Martinou Bednářovou. Teď zveřejnil obsáhlé odůvodnění, v němž uvádí, v čem podle něj soudy nižší instance chybovaly, když pedagož...
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Tak schválně, jaký tady bude mít text Timothyho Snydera dosah v češtině, když se Muskovi na Twitteru nelíbil anglicky. Jistěže je to puč: denikn.cz/1647061/hist...
Historik Snyder: Jistěže je to puč
Komentář Timothy Snydera: Když si nevšimnete toho, co bije do očí, přijdete o stát.
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C.S. Lewis' advice on writing. I am a big believer in point (3): always write with your ears!
A new paper out! Stela Houserová & myself were exploring the attractiveness of rural artist residencies. We found out it's all about freedom, but what does freedom mean? Big questions and some answers here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kPbd2eyKF... #sociology #rurality #arts
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AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it? | Arwa Mahdawi
AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it? | Arwa Mahdawi
Low-quality ‘slop’ generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end? How do you do, fellow humans? My name is Arwa and I am a…
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“Nothing is more false than the antimony that people have often wished to establish between the authority of rules and the freedom of the individual. Liberty (by which we mean a just liberty, one for which society is duty bound to enforce respect) is itself the product of a set of rules.”
"People want to live their whole lives in emotional sweatpants". Freddie DeBoer's glorious rant about a "permission-granting culture" and, about everything that is wrong with everything these days. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/our-produc...
Our Product is Permission
The new subscriber writing post is coming on Monday morning.
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Thank you for your warning, scientists. You did check our track record of heeding scientific warnings about unprecedented risks, right? www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research
Experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could put humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections
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The Guardian view on politicians using business logic: public services aren’t startups | Editorial
The Guardian view on politicians using business logic: public services aren’t startups | Editorial
When an insecure government borrows credibility from business leaders, a lot can go wrong A new government, anxious over economic policy and fretful about its polling, invites business leaders to whip Whitehall into shape. That was Rachel Reeves,…
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Die KTM-Pleite liegt nicht an den Lohnnebenkosten und war auch nicht einfach nur Pech. @leonido.bsky.social klärt auf. www.moment.at/story/ktm-pl...
Warum ist KTM pleite? Die wichtigsten Gründe & Faktoren einfach erklärt
KTM-Pleite: Ein einstiger "Vorzeigebetrieb" aus Österreich ist plötzlich insolvent. Was sind die wichtigsten Gründe und Faktoren dafür?
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