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Pavel Pospech

@pavelp.bsky.social
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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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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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!
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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Můj komentář o umělé inteligenci v Deníku N (nemám odkaz na odemknutý článek, ale na přání můžu zaslat fulltext). denikn.cz/1982208/umel...
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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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/02/2026
Infantino and Coventry backing Russia’s return shows sport’s soft power is in rotten hands | Emma John
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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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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This is madness. www.forbes.com/sites/guneyy...
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Moltbook AI Social Network: 1.4 Million Agents Build A Digital Society
A new platform, Moltbook, claims to host 1.4 million AI agents in a closed society. Discover why this 'hive mind' signals a dangerous reversal in human cognitive skills.
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Jan Charvát @janch.czesky.online · 31/10/2025
"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...
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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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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The US administration is a cancer. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Landmark global shipping deal abandoned under US threats
President Trump intervened in the talks calling the deal a "green scam".
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 30/09/2025
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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...
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How Social Media Shortens Your Life
It's engineered to speed up your time
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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Oida. www.der-postillon.com/2025/06/bezo...
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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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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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...
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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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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Zločinci se mohou spolčit, nikoliv však spřátelit." (Goya)
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Data centers are the new sacrifice zones
Today, more than 90 percent of residents living in Boxtown’s ZIP code are Black, with a median household income of $36,000, according to the Census Bureau. It’s also home to more than 17 industrial facilities — some of which share an industrial park with xAI — that release enough toxic pollution to require registration with EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory.

“I can’t breathe at home, it smells like gas outside,” Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines last Friday. “How come I can’t breathe at home and y’all get to breathe at home?”
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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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...
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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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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 29/03/2025
This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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The Imperialism Has no Clothes
JD Vance in Greenland
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Zuzana Zilincikova @zilincikova.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
📢 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...
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Job opportunities
2 PhD Vacancies “Partnership Trajectories and Intergenerational Relations”
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International Tax Observatory @taxobservatory.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"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...
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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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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"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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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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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Může existovat veřejnoprávní sociální síť? Musí. Můj komentář v Deníku N.
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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
„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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„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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Ján Simkanič @simindr.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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...
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Historik Snyder: Jistěže je to puč
Komentář Timothy Snydera: Když si nevšimnete toho, co bije do očí, přijdete o stát.
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Department of Sociology (FSS MUNI) @soc-muni.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Hello #Bluesky We are the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University. Follow us for news about our research and educational activities! #AcademicSky #eXit
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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
C.S. Lewis' advice on writing. I am a big believer in point (3): always write with your ears!
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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/01/2025
AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it? | Arwa Mahdawi
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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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Émile Durkheim @durkheimsays.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
“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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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"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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Our Product is Permission
The new subscriber writing post is coming on Monday morning.
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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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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‘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 @theguardian.com · 11/12/2024
The Guardian view on politicians using business logic: public services aren’t startups | Editorial
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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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Moment.at @moment.at · 06/12/2024
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...
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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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David Antoš 🇪🇺 @davidantos.cz · 04/12/2024
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.
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Michal Sirový @michalsirovy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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...
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#9 Vojtěch Bahenský
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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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...
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Czechs Return to Russian Gas as Cost of Alternatives Bites
Europe has spent the past two years trying to free itself from dependence on Russian energy, but more expensive alternatives are prompting some landlocked countries to go back to their old source.
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Anna Durnova @evrop-anka.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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
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Tenure-Track Professor in the field of Health and Sustainability
Tenure-Track Professor in the field of Health and Sustainability
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Pavel Pospech @pavelp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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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„Absolutně se nechápeme.“ Jak dvacátníci mění Česko - Seznam Zprávy
Sněhové vločky, závislí na technologiích nebo zhýčkaní. Mladí lidé dostávají spoustu nálepek. Co o nich ale říkají data? A v čem se oni sami vnímají jinak oproti starším generacím? Seznamte se s gener...
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Anna Durnova @evrop-anka.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Happy to be back. With some good news ecpr.eu/news/news/de... so thankful 😌
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Anna Durnová wins the 2024 Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize in European Political Sociology
European Consortium for Political Research
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