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#neutrality — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #neutrality, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Welcome to the Internet Archive #Switzerland, where they valiantly attempt to preserve "collective knowledge" while Switzerland remains neutral in yet another global endeavor. 📚🇨🇭 With their groundbreaking project of #archiving #AI, they aim to achieve "universal access to all knowledge" — because clearly, we didn't have enough data clutter already. 😂🔍
    internetarchive.ch/ #InternetArchive #Neutrality #Knowledge #Preservation #UniversalAccess #HackerNews #ngated

  2. The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
    -- Dante

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Dante #Crisis #Hell #Neutrality

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

  3. RE: mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/1

    "I learned, from veteran colleagues, what I consider to be the two principles of #journalism. The first is that #objectivity is not the same as #neutrality"

  4. The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
    -- Dante

    #Wisdom #Quotes #Dante #Crisis #Hell #Neutrality

    #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

  5. A quotation from Orwell

    When one thinks of the cruelty, squalor, and futility of war — and in this particular case of the intrigues, the persecutions, the lies and the misunderstandings — there is always the temptation to say: “One side is as bad as the other. I am neutral.” In practice, however, one cannot be neutral, and there is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 5, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80883/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bothsides #falseequivalence #neutrality #sides #war

  6. Is It Time To Redraw Our Maps? / ‘Free The Map’
    (From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands)
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    theguardian.com/books/2025/dec <-- shared media article
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    doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019. <--shared paper
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    freethemap.org/ <-- shared ‘Free The Map’ page, where “Prof. Henk van Houtum makes a compelling case for a new cartography…”
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    [this post should not be considered an endorsement of any particular viewpoint or book/product]
    #cartography #cartopolitics #geography #visualisation #humanimpacts #mapping #mapmaking #GIS #spatial #interpretation #history #borders #internationalborders #jigsawpuzzlemaps #neutrality #objectivity #mappingrevolution #uncertainty #subjectivity #multiplicity

  7. #Speech Is Only Free for the #Privileged: The Moral Mechanics of #Neutrality

    34 Pages Posted: 1 Dec 2025
    Candice Mason Kulbeth

    This Article argues that the integrity of the #FirstAmendment's promise of free expression depends less on the right to speak than on the discipline to translate speech into neutral, verifiable judgment.

    papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

  8. #Speech Is Only Free for the #Privileged: The Moral Mechanics of #Neutrality

    34 Pages Posted: 1 Dec 2025
    Candice Mason Kulbeth

    This Article argues that the integrity of the #FirstAmendment's promise of free expression depends less on the right to speak than on the discipline to translate speech into neutral, verifiable judgment.

    papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

  9. A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

    If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1863-05-27) to Gen. John M. Schofield

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/9373…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #extremism #factions #middleoftheroad #moderation #neutrality #partisanship #bias #fairness #praise

  10. 75% of #Irishpeople support #Irishneutrality.

    #CatherineConnolly's clear support for undiluted #neutrality was a big factor in her landslide victory in the #Aras25 presidential election.

    Ireland's centrist media runs a propaganda barrage against neutrality. This is a rare case of 3 Irish academics being allowed in The #IrishTimes to make a pro-neutrality case: Patrick Bresnihan, Niamh Ní Bhriain, and Rory Rowan. #TheIrishTimes #iepol

    irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/11 / archive.is/ucgNK

  11. People voted Yes *on that basis* to changing our Constitution. Now we are told this solemn commitment can be ditched by the Oireachtas alone. Trust us, they say, while breaking faith with us. #TripleLock #Neutrality #Ireland #Bunreacht #TrustButVerify

  12. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

    I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
    Column (1943-08-13), “My Day”

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/27…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bystander #disinterest #evil #injustice #karma #neutrality #passivity #standingby #uninvolvement #wrongdoing #complicity #acquiescence

  13. Talk is cheap. Details in the execution will be the testing ground.

    Trump Admin's AI action plan claims to support the notion that AI should be founded with freedom of speech and expression in mind, but then says things like "AI procured by the Federal government objectively reflects truth rather than social engineering agendas.” Who defines "truth"?

    In a companion EO the administration details it's true intentions by listing potential violations for AI models related to "ideological agendas" in areas such as diversity, calling out racial bias, or valuing gender equality.

    It appears that the administration's desire to prohibit top-down ideological bias in AI systems - is in fact a concrete example of pushing top-down ideological biases. wired.com/story/trump-ai-order #AI #AIactionplan #USGov #AISupremacy #LLMs #FreeSpeech #neutrality

  14. Being #neutral has been placed on this pedestal as peak maturity when #neutrality only even benefits the #oppressor.

    Being neutral has never helped the #victim. You just end up being a #coward watching #harmful shit play out.

    t.me/tonhochannel/4954

  15. We need the #USMilitaryOutOfShannon.

    All the propaganda and rhetoric now reminds me of 2003 in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq. We should have nothing to do with these imperialist warmongers.

    We will need a mass movement on the streets to defend Irish neutrality!

    #Neutrality #IrishNeutrality #HandsOffIran

  16. A quotation from Elie Wiesel

    I swore to never be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim; silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

    Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) Romanian-American novelist, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate.
    Speech (1986-12-10), Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wiesel-elie/8029/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #enabling #neutrality #oppressed #oppression #silence #speakout #suffering #takesides #target #torment #victim

  17. Until Jan 20, US civil servants worked acc/to a different moral code. Federal workers were under instructions to respect the rule of #law, venerate the #Constitution, maintain political #neutrality, & uphold lawful policy changes whether they come from Republican or Democratic admins. They were supposed to measure #objective #reality—evidence of pollution, for example—& respond accordingly. Not all of them were good administrators or moral people, but damage that any one …could do was limited….

  18. "The only #Neutrality that #Aaron supported was #NetNeutrality, prioritizing those who use the Internet over those that build & serve it, a priority of constituencies strongly aligned with the #W3C's official #WebEthicalPrinciples."

    RE: fed.brid.gy/r/https://tantek.c

  19. 📖 The book "Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe, 1945–2023" includes three chapters authored by IHC historians:

    Irene Flunser Pimentel on refugees in Portugal; Helena Pinto Janeiro on #WWII memorials; and Pedro Aires Oliveira analyses Portuguese neutrality as featured on recent films.

    👉 routledge.com/Memories-of-the-

    @histodons

    #Histodons #HistoricalMemory #SecondWorldWar #Refugees #Neutrality #FilmStudies #NewBook #PoliticalHistory #HistóriaPolítica #Portugal #SegundaGuerraMundial

  20. Through a political desire for unity, ‘we are documenting the transformation of the very meaning given to the principle of #laïcité, the interpretation of which has undergone a notorious shift: whereas yesterday it allowed the pluralist expression of beliefs, today it requires religious neutrality’.

    Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez in "L'École et la République - La nouvelle laïcité scolaire" (2023)

    #unitary #normalization #normation #normal #normativity #school #secularism #neutrality #education #HennetteVauchez #hijab #bioPolitics #bioPower #islamophobia #racism #raceMaking #systemicRacism #France

  21. 'My normative lesson is, “Heed Marginalized People.” Fundamentally and foundationally. And, like, don’t include them necessarily in your training data, but include them in the questions that you ask at the outset, and who you think to ask about what you ought to do.
    […]
    So to ask that question, “Who have we not thought about; whose harms, whose needs, whose voice has been, perhaps speaking, but unheeded, for a very long time? And how do we ensure that the things that they have called out as potential sites of failure, don’t go unremarked, don’t go unaddressed.'

    Dr. Damien P. Williams, @Wolven afutureworththinkingabout.com/ #ableism #algorithms #bias #biotech #ethics #disability #facialRecognition #feminisms #Google #homophobia #machineLearning #misogyny #neurodiversity #phenomenology #racism #science #neutrality #sexism #cognition #surveillance #dataDon @ethics @dataGovernance @data #historyOfScience

  22. Today was an "Opinion" from the #CJEU:
    "According to Advocate General Collins, a public body may, under certain conditions, prohibit its employees from wearing any visible sign of political, religious or philosophical belief in their workplace."

    curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do #secularism #neutrality #workplace #administrative #discrimination #islamophobia