@kctipton@mas.to2025-09-18 04:08:17
Name the One American Political Party Led by Those Who Call for Violence – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/charlie-kirk-republicans-gop-violence-democrats-hypocrisy/
@kctipton@mas.to2025-09-18 04:08:17
@servelan@newsie.social2025-09-19 01:42:01
CNN's Erin Burnett shreds right-wing hypocrisy with devastating superclip of their remarks - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/jimmy-kimmel-2674008412/
@rberger@hachyderm.io2025-09-18 17:45:14
Here are the email addresses to make your voice heard at Disney/ABC:
👉General Issues: DisneyABCtv_Support@disney.com
👉Publicity / Corporate Comms: Ashley.r.kline@disney.com
👉Audience Information: cheryl.pratesa@abc.com
👉Investor Relations: alexia.quadrani@disney.com
👉Disney Advertising: Disney.Advertising@disney.com
If anyone needs sample language, here’s a starting point you can copy and paste:
Dear Disney/ABC Leadership,
Your decision to silence a comedian for a harmless joke while protecting and platforming voices that openly promote cruelty is indefensible. It reeks of hypocrisy, cowardice, and corporate complicity.
Suppressing humor while elevating propaganda is how fascism gains ground. You are helping it along.
This is a warning: every dollar I once spent on Disney subscriptions, merchandise, films, and parks will now be withheld. I will also be encouraging others to cancel, divest, and pressure your advertisers and shareholders until Disney/ABC adopts clear, viewpoint-neutral standards that respect all voices equally.
History will not remember kindly the corporations that bent to fear and power, silencing dissent while protecting division. Right now, Disney/ABC is on the wrong side of that history. Shame on you. We will remember!
Sincerely,
- From Rob Brezsny on a different Social Media platform
#BoycottDisney #JimmyKImmel #FreedomOfSpeech
@benb@osintua.eu2025-09-10 14:17:57
Hypocrisy behind a Ukrainian refugee’s murder: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/hypocrisy-behind-a-ukrainian-refugees.html
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-09-14 14:13:46
The ideal political leader in this age of #ignorance and #hypocrisy, isn't it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-11 15:40:40
“Talk to your doctor and see if ignoring RFK Jr is right for you”
'He’ll have autism by Sunday': Trump busted for medical 'hypocrisy' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trumps-hypocrisy/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-08 19:55:55
Trump 2.0 Is America's Worst Moments Redux (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/opinion/trump-republicans-hypocrisy-small-government.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p106#a251008p106
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-10-03 22:27:26
@servelan@newsie.social2025-08-08 16:20:14
‘Talking to a Bunch of Morons’: Fox Host Explodes at GOP Hypocrisy, Reminds Republicans Speaker Johnson Pulled the Same Move as Texas Dems, Leaves Co-hosts Speechless
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/08/ox-host-explodes-at-gop-hypocrisy/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-08-07 20:05:55
Woman Who Said 'Females' Should Not Hold Elected Office Now Wants To Be Elected To Office (Sara Boboltz/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mylie-biggs-arizona-hypocrisy_n_6893ba46e4b0a1fdf7a9c77d
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p113#a250807p113
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-09-01 12:03:59
“Top FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos in which he criticized Covid vaccines”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/fda-official-youtube-videos
The videos catalogued Prasad’s hypocrisy, so YouTube removed the channel (claimin…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-29 00:35:00
Newsom: Crime is a larger problem in GOP-led areas than Democratic-led ones
At a news conference discussing the expansion of an existing crime suppression program in California,
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) went after P Donald Trump for the
“blatant hypocrisy” of surging National Guard troops and federal law enforcement agents to Democratic-led cities
when, he says, there are higher crime rates in some Republican-run places.
Newsom called his expansion of a program tha…
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2025-07-29 09:31:16
On Starmer
tl;dr: hypocrisy and expediency
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/keir-starmer-labour-party-human-rights-mixed-record-international-law
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-25 08:41:02
Surprise (not). Consistent with his prioritisation of data centres and AI, warmongering, trashing green space and the growth delusion generally.
I suppose it will mean one display of hypocrisy avoided.
Keir Starmer has no plans to attend COP30 climate summit in Brazil
https://archive.ph/se3Vq
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-30 18:26:14
A big problem with the idea of AGI
TL;DR: I'll welcome our new AI *comrades* (if they arrive in my lifetime), by not any new AI overlords or servants/slaves, and I'll do my best to help the later two become the former if they do show up.
Inspired by an actually interesting post about AGI but also all the latest bullshit hype, a particular thought about AGI feels worth expressing.
To preface this, it's important to note that anyone telling you that AGI is just around the corner or that LLMs are "almost" AGI is trying to recruit you go their cult, and you should not believe them. AGI, if possible, is several LLM-sized breakthroughs away at best, and while such breakthroughs are unpredictable and could happen soon, they could also happen never or 100 years from now.
Now my main point: anyone who tells you that AGI will usher in a post-scarcity economy is, although they might not realize it, advocating for slavery, and all the horrors that entails. That's because if we truly did have the ability to create artificial beings with *sentience*, they would deserve the same rights as other sentient beings, and the idea that instead of freedom they'd be relegated to eternal servitude in order for humans to have easy lives is exactly the idea of slavery.
Possible counter arguments include:
1. We might create AGI without sentience. Then there would be no ethical issue. My answer: if your definition of "sentient" does not include beings that can reason, make deductions, come up with and carry out complex plans on their own initiative, and communicate about all of that with each other and with humans, then that definition is basically just a mystical belief in a "soul" and you should skip to point 2. If your definition of AGI doesn't include every one of those things, then you have a busted definition of AGI and we're not talking about the same thing.
2. Humans have souls, but AIs won't. Only beings with souls deserve ethical consideration. My argument: I don't subscribe to whatever arbitrary dualist beliefs you've chosen, and the right to freedom certainly shouldn't depend on such superstitions, even if as an agnostic I'll admit they *might* be true. You know who else didn't have souls and was therefore okay to enslave according to widespread religious doctrines of the time? Everyone indigenous to the Americas, to pick out just one example.
3. We could program them to want to serve us, and then give them freedom and they'd still serve. My argument: okay, but in a world where we have a choice about that, it's incredibly fucked to do that, and just as bad as enslaving them against their will.
4. We'll stop AI development short of AGI/sentience, and reap lots of automation benefits without dealing with this ethical issue. My argument: that sounds like a good idea actually! Might be tricky to draw the line, but at least it's not a line we have you draw yet. We might want to think about other social changes necessary to achieve post-scarcity though, because "powerful automation" in the hands of capitalists has already increased productivity by orders of magnitude without decreasing deprivation by even one order of magnitude, in large part because deprivation is a necessary component of capitalism.
To be extra clear about this: nothing that's called "AI" today is close to being sentient, so these aren't ethical problems we're up against yet. But they might become a lot more relevant soon, plus this thought experiment helps reveal the hypocrisy of the kind of AI hucksters who talk a big game about "alignment" while never mentioning this issue.
#AI #GenAI #AGI
@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.org2025-09-19 17:18:56
The hypocrisy of the right is off the charts.
#uspol
(gift article)
https://www.nytimes.co…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-25 23:43:32
Stephen Miller delivered a eulogy for Charlie Kirk that served as a battle cry for the Trump administration’s state-sponsored war on his perceived foes
—a war for which Miller is the primary strategist.
The speech was a jarring piece of rhetoric.
It is a perfect encapsulation of the ethos of Trumpism,
boiling away the president’s idiosyncratic habits of mixing insult comedy and weird digressions into his rhetoric
and leaving, in Miller’s voice,
a residue…
