“There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term ‘conservatism’ can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country’s future.” — Noam #Chomsky
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/08/conservatism-conserves-nothing
Piers Morgan vs Noam Chomsky(video)..#Chomsky..#PiersMorgan https://youtu.be/TQ-Crh3rdQA
"Jeffrey #Epstein helped move $270,000 for renowned linguist Noam #Chomsky and also paid $150,000 to Bard College president Leon #Botstein, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
According to the newspaper, and also confirmed by Chomsky and Botstein, the late sex offender and financier had financial dealings with the two academics and had met with them multiple times."
#ArrestPutin #oligarchs #sexAbuse #predators
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/17/jeffrey-epstein-noam-chomsky-bard-college-president
#epstein #Chomsky #botstein #arrestputin #oligarchs #sexabuse #predators
Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For
The subset of artificial intelligence known as Large Language Models can't tell us anything about human language learning, but it excels at misleading the uninformed.
Just to clarify terminology, the term “machine” here means program, basically a theory written in a notation that can be executed by a computer–and an unusual kind of theory in interesting ways that we can put aside here.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/noam-chomsky-on-chatgpt
NOAM CHOMSKY ON RIGHTWING NATIONALISM
Chomsky points out that this isn’t simply an American, Citing the rising popularity of rightwing ethno-nationalists
Nigel Farage in the UK and Marine LePen in France to the AFD Party in Germany, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Viktor Orban in Hungary, and religious nationalists in Israel, Chomsky recognizes that while each nation has its own unique flavor of rightwing nationalism rising extremism is happening all over the world
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/its-the-class-war-stupid-an-evening-with-noam-chomsky/
Chomsky:
'Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.'
'Propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.'..#Chomsky..#Empire..#propaganda..
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/caricaturing-noam-chomsky
By my scorecard, (counting the trilateral attack by three machine learning experts as a single joint tag team round) the score overall is Chomsky 4, Challengers 0.
Just like old times.
#nyt #Chomsky #llm #ai #chatgpt #garymarcus
Noam #Chomsky: “I’ve Never Called It ‘Apartheid’ Because It’s Worse Than #apartheid
Noam #Chomsky: “We’re on the Road to a Form of Neofascism”
The ground is well prepared for #neofascism to fill the void left by #Class_War wrought by neoliberalism, says Chomsky.
#Chomsky #neofascism #Class_War
I admin 3500 or so members of #Ukraine #Resistance Support Alliance (URSA) on Facebook.
We oppose #Chomsky who is pimping accomodation with #Putin. But I try not to be a hardass about it. #powercorrupts
and when I have
power I try
not to
abuse.
#ukraine #resistance #Chomsky #putin #powercorrupts