Pavol Hardoš

Jednou fraška, podruhé tragédie: dva světy českých voleb - Kapitál Do nesledovanějších voleb, tedy voleb do Poslanecké sněmovny, zbývají v Česku už jen dny. Intenzita politizace veřejného a mediálního prostoru vrcholí, sociální sítě explodují. Možná to tak na první p...

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@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.

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Zvrchované barbarstvo - Kapitál Akú kultúrnu zvrchovanosť nám to vlastne vtlačili do ústavy?

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Infographic titled "AI Isn't a Ticket To an A," explaining how chatbots work, what the data show about the prevalence of these technologies and how they're used, what we know about the quality of their output, and what we know about the impact that frequent use of these technologies has on their users and on content creators, low-wage workers, and the environment.

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

Och nie, ovplyvňovali voličov! Premiér Fico sa ešte pred výbuchom tendru na sanitky pokúsil vytvoriť bájku o „zasahovaní do volieb“ a „zahraničnom vplyve“.

Som si ešte znovu zhrnul uhorkovú kauzu

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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...

“But it might work for us” meme format from Arested Development adapted to bombing as US foreign policy tool

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
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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...

The US government says reading Toni Morrison or Maya Angelou is political.

In my terrorism class, I explain how “Great Replacement” is a false conspiracy theory that’s motivated multiple terrorist attacks. Now that America’s leaders push the theory too, teaching that is political.

Should I stop?

Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s Opposition Leader, Loses Seat in Parliament It was a stunning upset for the Conservative Party leader, who was first elected in 2004.

putting a delicious Canadian twist on the old "go woke, go broke" mantra www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆

He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “only the weak will fail!”

tariff plan is going well I see

AI (like crypto) needs to be properly taxed to reflect the environmental and technological costs.

This is 💯% correct (and reading/sharing it on social media is a bit... ironic?)

A chart with a caption that reads "Figure 1 Countries in the Sample Note: Country coverage of study sample equals “yes” when one or more political science departments are located in a country."

No political science in post-communist Europe, except for Czechia and Russia? 🤔❓

Also, they painted Crimea blue.

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The caption—"“yes” when one or more political science departments are located in a country"—does not quite correspond to the selection criteria.

Two maps of the world arranged above each other. The top map, by Pew Research Center, shows the use of the Daylight Saving Time, the bottom one V-Dem's Liberal Democracy Index in 2024.

‘DST—Democracy Saving Time?’ the article practically writes itself. Wouldn't pass peer review in political science journals, but hey, there's other journals, and with higher impact factors to boot.

A reboot of an old joke with @pavolhardos.bsky.social and Miro Oroš.

You might say “But I was only into the Harry Potter lady’s crank bathroom jihad, I didn’t want the Nazi stuff” and that is just too bad, this was not in fact about what *you* wanted. You have been taken for a ride by calculating psychos.

Literally straight out of the book. We've gone way past "it could happen here" and are straight into "it is happening."

Súd v celom rozsahu zamietol žalobu denníka Štandard na projekt Konšpirátori.sk …za zaradenie na zoznam sporných a nedôveryhodných webov. Štandard hovoril o poškodzovaní dobrého mena.O rozhodnutí Mestského súdu Bratislava III informuje Pavol Hardoš z projektu Konšpirátori.sk. Píš...

Dobrá správa na dnes: žaloba denníka Štandard na náš projekt Konspiratori*sk bola zamietnutá.

The only western democracy hell-bent on protecting itself is... Romania?

Gutting the VA and Medicaid to spend those tax dollars on chasing down debunked conspiracy theories. 👍👍

I know this is absurd, but the propaganda works in because of the absurdity rather than in spite of it.

While this quote is about antisemitism, it readily applies to most forms of bigotry.

🧭 🇪🇺 Quadrant size by the combined vote share of all parties in the quadrant as per CHES @chesdata.bsky.social 2024 estimates. Political compass mobiles, with apologies to Alexander Calder.

lol to je tragédka

Prečo sa vláda chce zastavovať pri poznatkoch zo ZŠ len pri biológii? Do ústavy poprosím aj, že skupenstvá poznáme len 3 a že nemožno robiť odmocniny zo záporných čísel…

#ústavaprenezmaturovaných
#dvepohlavia