@servelan@newsie.social‘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/
@cdarwin@c.imFour wealthy nations
—the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia
—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade,
according to new data published by Oil Change Internationalon Monday, the first day of the Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany.
Oil Change's analysis,
titled Planet Wreckers,
notes that if those four Global North nations stopped their planned new oil and gas extraction,
32 billion tons of carb…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMusk rips media over hypocrisy over Booker gesture (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/media/5328855-musk-accuses-legacy-media-hypocrisy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p116#a250602p116
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineNetanyahu, on the other hand, after the many hospital strikes in Gaza, is allowed to thrive. The hypocrisy crisis prevails.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/202
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldGood to see at least someone's calling legislators out for their hypocrisy.
#Texas #religion #FirstAmendment
@crell@phpc.socialHypocrisy is baked into the system.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAh, our democratic ally, Erdoğan, loved (and generously compensated) by the EU for keeping the Brown people away from our borders.
EU: we’re leading the world with our single market for hypocrisy.
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsRight-wing (people's) hypocrisy
Isn't it interesting how someone first criticizes someone (I didn't listen to their conversation enough to know who was it about) using Polish insults for left-wing people, adding "nothing is sacred to them", and then buys a ticket to a train that's financed from the budget, and on top of that benefits from discount for disabled people and their guardians (both being left-wing inventions).
@outer@mas.to"We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The...conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced." -Frederick Douglas
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?"
#Indigenous ,
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWoman 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
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineIt's the hypocrisy crisis again. #hyporisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/republicans-canada-wildfire-…
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialOn Starmer
tl;dr: hypocrisy and expediency
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/keir-starmer-labour-party-human-rights-mixed-record-international-law
@crell@phpc.socialDoublespeak, hypocrisy, and shameless lying are requirements to be a Republican these days.
#uspol #GOP #TrumpFascist
@cdarwin@c.imOn June 13, military veterans and their families and supporters protested in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC,
-- demanding that taxpayer dollars for Donald Trump’s ill-fated military parade and his decision to send troops to Los Angeles should be used instead for housing, healthcare, food, and taking care of veterans.
Around 60 demonstrators were arrested by Capitol police
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineReform or hypocrisy? From the Guardian:
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialA 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
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJan. 6 riot victims, Democrats see hypocrisy in Trump's response to L.A. protests (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-officers-los-angeles-protests/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p157#a250609p157
@Treppenwitz@sfba.social| When you're that rich or adjacent to it, the rules bend. Climate guilt is something for the rest of us. For them, "awareness" is enough — even if it means standing on a yacht with champagne while Venice floods below.
| This isn’t just hypocrisy — it’s obedience. Participation in these rituals of excess is a display of loyalty to the system that sustains them. The same energy as the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, calling Trump “daddy.”
