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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 🇬🇧, 🇨🇿 & 🇩🇪.
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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/

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Může existovat veřejnoprávní sociální síť? Musí. Můj komentář v Deníku N.

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„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...

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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...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Hello #Bluesky We are the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University. Follow us for news about our research and educational activities! #AcademicSky #eXit

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

C.S. Lewis' advice on writing. I am a big believer in point (3): always write with your ears!

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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

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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.”

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"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...

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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...

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The Guardian view on politicians using business logic: public services aren’t startups | Editorial

submitted 74 days ago • 7 comments

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...

submitted 80 days ago • 7 comments

Celá debata o ČT a ČRo je úplně vedle. Krach tradičních médií ve prospěch influencerů radikálně snižuje informovanost neelit. Potřebovali bychom se bavit, jak to radikálně posílená veřejnoprávní média mohou pomoct zvrátit, ne psát memoranda, co všechno nesmí dělat a umetat cestu fašismu.

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

Bahenský: “Potřebujeme dobré úředníky. Na jednu stranu říkáme, že je tady velká hrozba, cizí stát se snaží penetrovat náš systém. A protiopatření stojí na lidech, kterým nabízíme 28 600 Kč hrubého.“ Hezky řečeno, zároveň smutné...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

From the start of its tenure, the Czech government has been losing voters left and right. Support for Ukraine and independence from Russian gas was the last thing that bought them support from the educated urban voters - until it wasn't. www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/20...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

We’re hiring ➡️ tenure track health and sustainability, deadline January 10,2025 ‼️join us in Vienna. We’re young, were international and we do a lot of research on timely social issues tinyurl.com/TThealthvienna

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Seznam Zprávy dělaly velký článek o Generaci Z a ptaly se, co o ní vím já. Nevím toho moc, ale něco málo si můžete přečíst tady: www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domac...

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Happy to be back. With some good news ecpr.eu/news/news/de... so thankful 😌

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