weird how every time a "moderate liberal" party cites "electoral realities" for embracing fascist policies they get shit canned
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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
Political liberalism remains vital, but it must adapt to the fractured, intuitive, and 'vibe-based' nature of contemporary social life.
Take our article as an invitation for such adaptation and rethinking.
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Check it out in full #OpenAccess here: sites.units.it/etica/20253/...
But the same goes for #unreasonableness. Contemporary illiberal nativism isn't usually an elaborate ‘creed’; it's often ideologically shallow and opportunistic, latched onto whatever issue finds traction. Treating it as a stable doctrine is a mistake.
This challenges the ‘overlapping consensus’. Rawls saw justice as a ‘module’ that fits into our deeper doctrines. But if most people don't hold a coherent ‘doctrine’ - we might have to rethink consensus as potentially based on stable but unconnected intuitions.
A key shift we analyze is the ‘politicization of the burdens of judgment’. Instead of just disagreeing on values, we now disagree on the evidence itself (climate change, vaccines, even scientific concepts) and question the very motivations of our opponents.
We now live in an ‘Age of Vibes’. Disagreements are increasingly based on intuitive, affective reactions rather than internally consistent belief systems. Digital hyperconnectivity has created ‘refracted publics’ and silos that are often mutually incomprehensible.
John #Rawls built #political #liberalism on the 'fact of pluralism': the idea that we are divided by stable ‘comprehensive doctrines’, like religion or philosophy. But this view might be ‘overly intellectualistic’ for the contemporary world.
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
Som si istý, že z toho nebudú robiť veľkú vedu, jednak už verejne deklarovali, že iniciatívu Konšpirátori•sk nie je možné brať vážne, jednak sa radi oháňajú slobodou slova, tak hádam nám doprajú právo aj na náš názor.
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
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...
