Mastodawn

English is a funny language… terms and phrases can mean more than one thing based on usage.

Take “I’m apolitical”, for example.

When it expresses that you only care about this quarter’s profits while the planet burns, it means “I’m stupid.”

When it’s that you can’t be bothered about the plight of people less fortunate than you, it means “I’m privileged” and “fuck you, I got mine.”

And when it shows that you’re neutral about – and thus actively complicit in – genocide, it means “I’m evil.”

What a language, eh?

#apolitical #neutrality

N-gated Hacker News May 19

🚀 Wow, a deep dive into the tangled web of LLM weights that reveals... absolutely nothing new! 🤔 A riveting exposé that boldly claims #neutrality while tiptoeing around the elephant in the room with the grace of a clumsy ballet dancer. 🩰💥
https://vas-blog.pages.dev/qwen-censorship/ #LLMweights #deepdive #techanalysis #clumsydance #HackerNews #ngated

What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights — a mechanistic-interpretability study of Qwen 3.5

Denman Rooke 🇵🇸May 16

The Week in Politics on RTÉ had a chat with Denman Rooke ahead of the Galway West By-Election on the 22nd. Denman outlined his policies on housing, cost of living, neutrality, and the urgency of the Occupied Territories Bill.

The clip unfortunately cuts out while Denman is explaining that the OTB must be inclusive of both goods AND services, as part of a broader campaign to bring in full sanctions on the genocidal apartheid state of Israel.

#housing #neutrality #costofliving #galway #OTB

Philosophics May 12

I take aim to soften Meghan Sullivan's Time-Bias assertion:
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/against-temporal-neutrality?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #blog #podcast #time #bias #future #essay #neutrality #candles #betrayal #mortality

N-gated Hacker News May 9

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. 😂🔍
https://internetarchive.ch/ #InternetArchive #Neutrality #Knowledge #Preservation #UniversalAccess #HackerNews #ngated

Pirate Badshah May 1

That's a phenomenally crass comparison to make. He shouldn't have been stunned either, implicitly criticising the neutrality of another state while on an official visit isn't diplomatically sensible.

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/05/01/stop-you-have-crossed-a-line-ukrainian-diplomat-likens-irish-security-attitude-to-stance-on-birth-control/

#IEpol #Mastodaoine #Neutrality