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Stefan Roch

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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Even if you only watched movie versions of his books (which is the case for me, I only started reading Satantango a while ago) you really get the sense of his contemporary relevance: depicting, how easily order and humanity can collectively break down, but despite that, individual dignity can remain
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The Nobel Price for literature goes to “the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse”. How fitting. But a great choice none the less. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
Hungarian novelist celebrated for dystopian, melancholic novels that ‘reaffirm the power of art’
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
#Wethepeople is a fascinating process started in the US last month. Citizens from every congressional district will express and develop their ideas on fundamental democratic topics with help of GenAI and reflect on ideas of others. Looking forward to first results. wethepeople-250.org
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We The People
We The People invites Americans from across the nation into conversation, to voice their opinions on America’s founding ideals and today's challenges, in their own words.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Anton Pelinka und Claus Offe. Ein trauriger Tag für die Politik- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
❤️🍞 youtube.com/watch?v=k315...
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Bernd #lastweektonight
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Brilliant podcast by David Runciman and @cchwalisz.bsky.social asking all the right questions on deliberation, random selection and citizen assemblies. Best enjoyed in combination with @oliverescobar.bsky.social insightful paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
... But I think neither citizens do or will regard CA participants as their representatives, nor do CA participants regard themselves that way (they are representatives of their own life only). Thus, CAs (particularly in the age of social media) are not the answer to our democratic trust crisis.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
...installment, which is brilliant. But the exit polls also indicate that the assembly barely affected people's decisions (www.rte.ie/documents/ne... p.105). I belief randomly selected CAs can be a brilliant participation tool to source input from a diverse crowd, leading to better policies ...
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Great episode! David asking all the right questions and Claudia answering highly competently. Though, I'd be a bit more cautious on the prospect of CAs. We often use the Irish citizens assembly as a best practice, and Claudia rightly mentions that 2/3 of Irish citizens were aware of the 2018 ...
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We are going to have to live here with each other In Germany as in the US, this is one foundational idea that: - needs consensus in our democracy (we can argue/fight about most of the rest) - is currently under heavy attack, - is were democratic renewal starts.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Absolut, ich glaube auch, dass Schultze gets the Blues wie kaum ein anderer Film zeigte, wie Aufbruch und Neugier auch in Teilen der Tristesse der Nachwendezeit möglich war. Mit Horst Krause geht eine Identifikationsfigur für einen Osten, der normal ist, wie jede andere Region in Deutschland.
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Katrin Göring-Eckardt @goering-eckardt.de · 08/09/2025
Die Figuren des Horst Krause sind etwa so sehr Teil meiner inneren Heimat wie für andere Ostdeutsche Ute Freudenberg oder für Westdeutsche Asterix. Das hat vor allem mit einem einzigen Film zu tun: „Schultze gets the blues“. (1/2)
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Fernsehen: "Polizeiruf"-Schauspieler Horst Krause gestorben
Der durch seine Rolle als Fernseh-Dorfpolizist bekannte Schauspieler Horst Krause ist tot. Er starb im Alter von 83 Jahren.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Großer Film, und eine große Identifikationsfigur des Ostens, ohne jemals stereotypischer „Ossi“ zu sein. RIP Horst Krause.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Danke für den Post lieber Christian, der Film hat mich auch bewegt da er toll zeigt wie in Teilen der Tristesse manche Regionen der Nachwendezeit so etwas wie Aufbruch und Neugier möglich war. Die Rolle von Horst Krause als Identifikationsfigur wird glaube ich stark unterschätzt.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Ja! ähnlich @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Buch #abundance. "Vielleicht liegt der Weg, mehr Menschen zu erreichen, darin, (...) zu zeigen, dass Dinge möglich sind, an die sie selbst nicht geglaubt hätten. (...) Rechtsextreme können nur zerstören, die Aufgabe der Linken ist es, Dinge zu erfinden"
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Highly recommended in that regard: www.theguardian.com/books/2016/j...
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The Noise of Time review – Julian Barnes’s masterpiece
Shostakovich’s battle with his conscience is explored in a magnificent fictionalised retelling of the composer’s life under Stalin
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
50 years after his death, Shostakovich reminds us that in authoritarian regimes, resistance & conformity often intertwine. Politics may be painted black & white, but people live and create in shades of grey. He was a genius whose art was shaped by his own ambiguities. youtu.be/c1j5IOZmh6g?...
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Shostakovich / F. Noack : Waltz No.2 | F. Noack, piano
YouTube video by Florian Noack
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
„The statistical fixation of the early 21st century that’s made so many bad predictions and fathered so many puzzling defeats must be abandoned. We are not in an era of small calculations but of great movements.“
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Lessons from Hungary for the US: „(To the) nation’s great (…) institutions: The illusion that you are smarter than the strongman, that you’ll outmaneuver him with silent cleverness, is just that — an illusion. Now, more than ever, your principled leadership matters.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A highly thought-provoking article, thanks for that @oliverescobar.bsky.social ! "Democratic innovations are conflated with deliberative democracy in policy and civil society discourses, media coverage, and even scholarly accounts (...). (This) reduces the actual diversity of the field."
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Aweful.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 07/07/2025
Designing social media to improve public dialogue is possible. Better yet, platforms like Pol.is and Rappler Communities are already operational. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/soci...
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Social media can support or undermine democracy — it comes down to how it’s designed
Platform design is a silent pilot steering human behavior.
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 15/04/2025
Bowling Green, Kentucky, is home to 75,000 residents who recently wrapped up an experiment in using AI for democracy: Can an online polling platform, powered by machine learning, capture what residents want to see happen in their city?
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A small US city experiments with AI to find out what residents want
Residents of Bowling Green, Kentucky, used machine learning to shape civic debate. The real test is whether the government acts on the results.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 02/07/2025
Bluesky's near-consensus that AI doesn't work and won't be a technology that has major knock-on effects on society is…not grounded in reality. No mater how loudly and repetitively people say it.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🌈💪💪🏻💪🏽💪🏿🌈
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Quite disenchanting, but highly informative and rich forecasting report on the future of AI: ai-2027.com To all deliberative democrats around here, it is a particular pun that the authors have given their vision of the ultimate global AI doomsday machine the name "Consensus-1".
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AI 2027
A research-backed AI scenario forecast.
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Danke lieber Ilko-Sascha für diesen bewegenden Nachruf. Wem jetzt und in Zukunft die liberale Demokratie in Deutschland am Herzen liegt, sollte Gerd Poppe nicht nur ein Begriff, sondern Inspiration sein.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
indeed!
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Thanks, looking forward to continue the conversation!
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I want that sticker! Hope to meet up at Decidim fest this year!
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
(...), does it really make sense to conceptualize this as common alignment, consensus; or would it rather be better to conceptualize it as common acceptance, compromise. When I observe about any public debate these, I have the feeling the concept of consensus wont get you very far.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Thanks Alex, that totally makes sense. I am just wondering, when you talk about "Democracy is difference", it means difference of preferences, right? When the idea is that we want to engage with those differences in a meaningful way trough Pol.Is, (...)
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Explanation: with consensus, all involved both accept a decision and are happy with it, because individual & collective preferences align. In compromise, all involved may not be happy with a decision, but accept it because they see what they prefer individually may not be collective preference.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Question to #Pol.Is community. When analysing Pol.Is discussions, we seek group-informed consensus. But is consensus really the right term nowadays? Shouldn't we seek scope for compromise in societal debates rather than consensus? @colinmegill.com @patcon.bsky.social @societyspeaks.bsky.social, etc
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The kind of news we need right now. Thanks @jagodamarinic.com for sharing in your podcast! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘I’m still dancing’: Derbyshire woman has 105th birthday rave at care home
Hilda Jackson and fellow residents partied with strobe lights, glowsticks and drum’n’bass from festival-headliner
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Francesca Bria @francescabria.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The #EuroStack Report is out! It is about building a European alternative, to empower citizens, workers, industries to reclaim control of their digital future. Read the report! www.euro-stack.info @bertelsmannst.bsky.social @ucl-iipp.bsky.social @ceps.eu @stiftungmercator.bsky.social
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EuroStack
Building a european alternative for technological sovereignty
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The art of the deal. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’
Satirical petition from Denmark, which owns Greenland, racks up 200,000 signatures as Trump eyes Arctic island
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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Der Vorsitzende des Sachverständigenrates für Migration und Integration (SVR) Winfried Kluth
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Zum 80. Jahrestag der Befreiung von Auschwitz sei der so klare wie zutiefst erschütternde „Roman eines Schicksahllosen“ von Imre Kertesz empfohlen. Wer dieses Buch gelesen hat, den lässt es nicht mehr los. Man muss es gerade deswegen gelesen haben. Hier nun als Hörbuch: www.mdr.de/kultur/radio...
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Imre Kertész: Roman eines Schicksallosen | Lesung mit Imre Kertész und Ulrich Matthes | MDR.DE
Ein 15-Jähriger gerät in die Vernichtungsmaschinerie von Auschwitz und Buchenwald. Imre Kertész schreibt erschütternd und konsequent aus der Sicht seines unwissenden Ich-Erzählers, verzichtet dabei au...
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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Es war abzusehen, dass die AfD die CDU bei der nächsten Gelegenheit umklammern und nicht mehr loslassen wird, um die demokratische Mitte zu zerreißen. Nicht abzusehen war, dass die CDU-Führung ihr diese Möglichkeit so schnell und so großzügig einräumt.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
As the CDU tries to preserve the illusion of a closed, pre-migrant, Germany (that never was) it seemingly manages to shatter an open, liberal, rational, European Germany that still is and if worse comes to worst may just have been. A watershed moment yes, but unfortunately in line with the Zeitgeist
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"Hungary is a living example of how vulnerable democratic institutions actually are and how easy it is for ill-intentioned leaders to exercise control over citizens. And that’s on steroids when they control all of the media ecosystem." Good NYT interview with US Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman👇
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‘The Interview’: Ambassador David Pressman Is Alarmed by What He Has Seen (Gift Article)
Ambassador David Pressman talks about his contentious relationship with Viktor Orban’s administration and why what happens in Hungary matters.
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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! To kick off our 🚨 NEW SERIES!! 🚨 on revolutionary ideas past, present & future David talks to 2 regular PPF contributors – philosopher @leaypi.bsky.social and scientist @adamrutherford.bsky.social – about what makes an idea truly revolutionary. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Very thoughtful and important read on how from a democracy perspective, disinformation may be less of a problem on social media platforms in comparison to malformed publics online.
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The study by my colleagues @felice.bsky.social : www.reframetech.de/en/2024/01/2...
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Bridge-building instead of polarization: how algorithms can improve digital discourse - reframe[Tech]
The debates in social networks are increasingly characterized by polarization and fragmentation. A significant role in this phenomenon is played by the recommendation algorithms of major online platfo...
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Interesting move by Meta. Studies as my colleague’s @felice.bsky.social show community notes type tools can be effective in bottom-up participatory moderation. Yet EU will likely insist on centralized top-down moderation. Will be interesting to see this play out. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content
Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! The second David Fincher film in our series is The Social Network (2010), the Aaron Sorkin-scripted take on how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and the price paid by everyone else. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Our great political films series reaches the 21st century with Paul Thomas Anderson’s unforgettable There Will Be Blood (2007), starring Daniel Day-Lewis in one of the all-time great screen performances. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Nice long read on a citizen assembly experiment in Oregon 👇
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