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Dave Volek<p>Chasing Noam Chomsky is Futile</p><p>His popular book had 36 years to change the world. What happened?</p><p><a href="https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=20&amp;id=255" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tiereddemocraticgovernance.org</span><span class="invisible">/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=20&amp;id=255</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tiereddemocraticgovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiereddemocraticgovernance</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chomsky</span></a></p>
Dianora (Diane Bruce)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@tg9541" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tg9541</span></a></span> I have the Kahneman on my bookshelf. 😀 Ah so you have seen "Institute for Propaganda Analysis" from which the 7 signs of propaganda came from. (Interesting homework, apply the list to commercials/ads you see!) the How much of Plato have you read? Machiavelli (read his far more interesting Discourses)? I found echos of this theme in Plato's Republic where he talks about various types of people etc. There is a thread of elitism all through history. You might enjoy Jacques Ellul *Propaganda* and *Technological Society Ellul was well known. <br>Anything by Jason Stanley. Bernays considered the *father* of propaganda/PR. Which brings us to Ewen *A Social History of Spin* "First throughout the interview, Bernays expressed an unabashedly hierarchical view of society. Repeatedly he maintained that although most people respond to their world instinctively, without thought, there exist an "intelligent few" who have been charged with the responsibility of contemplating and influencing the tide of history." ibid<br>This seems to echo Lippmann's view as well which Dewey was opposed to. Oddly Chomsky thought Dewey was as a bad as Lippmann. "Among those who participated actively and enthusiastically in Wilson's war<br>were the progressive intellectuals, people of the John Dewey circle,..." - Media Control Chomsky</p><p>This should do for now...</p><p><a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chomsky</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Ellul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ellul</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Stanley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stanley</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Dewey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dewey</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Bernays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bernays</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Ewen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ewen</span></a></p>
Dianora (Diane Bruce)<p>Those that own the media control the propaganda. If you have the money you buy up media from TV to newspapers. Then you can select what is shown. Walter Lippmann hinted at this, Ellul also talked about this and Chomsky of course has seen it happen. If you want to start shoving faux news at people and you have the money you own the media. Also make sure any publicly owned media is defunded. Must control the media.</p><p><a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chomsky</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Lippmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lippmann</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Ellul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ellul</span></a></p>
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🕊🌈<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friendica.rogueproject.org/profile/zer0unplanned" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>zer0unplanned</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@wood5y" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wood5y</span></a></span> Yep, dissembling, decoding and deconstructing is hard work I grant you. I try to be careful about signs and signifiers <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chomsky</span></a> . The language of signs. etc..My tatts are very simple flags lol.🇪🇺 🇩🇪 :fediverse:</p>
Gerd_Brodowski<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pal%C3%A4stina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palästina</span></a> : <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/krieg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>krieg</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medien</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hungerkrise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hungerkrise</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chomsky</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/interview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>interview</span></a></p><p>„Der Hunger im Gazastreifen hat ein dramatisches Ausmass angenommen. International steigt der Druck auf die israelische Regierung, etwas gegen diese katastrophalen Zustände zu unternehmen. Wie wird in Israel die Hungersnot wahrgenommen? Das Gespräch mit der freien Journalistin Vera Weidenbach.“</p><p><a href="https://www.srf.ch/audio/echo-der-zeit/im-israelischen-fernsehen-kommt-die-hungersnot-in-gaza-kaum-vor?id=AUDI20250726_RS_0044" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">srf.ch/audio/echo-der-zeit/im-</span><span class="invisible">israelischen-fernsehen-kommt-die-hungersnot-in-gaza-kaum-vor?id=AUDI20250726_RS_0044</span></a></p>
PhloXO<p>Last night, scrolling YouTube, I was shown by my algorithm friend numerous videos of Noam Chomsky. Every single one of these videos was AI generated. Anyone who has ever seen Chomsky knows that his delivery is often flat and his arguments didactic. Anyone who sees these videos will come away thinking that Chomsky is a chirpy art kid dabbling in the social sciences. </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chomsky</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Fakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fakes</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Don" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Don</span></a>'tbefooled</p>

‘There is a way to calibrate reaction. If it’s a crime of somebody else, particularly an enemy, then we’re utterly outraged. If it’s our own crime, either comparable or worse, either it’s suppressed or denied. That works with almost 100 percent precision.’

Noam #Chomsky

Linguist Noam Chomsky is interviewed by Common Dreams writer C.J. Polychroniou on the subject of ChatGPT in this May 2023 piece. Chomsky's stance on LLMs is that as long as we're not able to atomically understand what goes on in the statistical black box that currently is an LLM, linguists won't be able to benefit from being able to see whether it learns language like a human does, or not.

"Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For"

chomsky.info/20230503-2/

#chomsky#nlp#llm
Heute in der Geschichte der #Arbeiterbewegung: 18. Mai 1814: Der russische #Anarchist und Philosoph Michail #Bakunin wurde geboren. In #Paris lernte er in den 1840er Jahren #Marx und #Proudhon kennen, die ihn früh beeinflussten. Später wurde er wegen seiner Ablehnung der russischen Besetzung #Polen​s aus #Frankreich ausgewiesen. 1849 wurde er in #Dresden wegen seiner Beteiligung am #Prag​er #Aufstand von 1848 verhaftet. Die Behörden schickten ihn zurück nach #Russland, wo er inhaftiert und 1857 nach #Sibirien verbannt wurde. Er konnte aber über #Japan fliehen und floh in die USA und dann nach #England.

1868 trat er der Internationalen #Arbeiterassoziation bei und wurde Anführer der schnell wachsenden anarchistischen Fraktion. Er setzte sich für #Föderationen selbstverwalteter Fabriken und Kommunen als Ersatz für den #Staat ein. Dies stand im Gegensatz zu Marx, der dafür eintrat, dass der Staat zur Verwirklichung des #Sozialismus beitragen sollte. 1872 wurde Bakunin aus der #Internationale ausgeschlossen. Bakunin hatte Einfluss auf die #IWW, Noam #Chomsky, Peter #Kropotkin, Herbert #Marcuse, Emma #Goldman und die spanische #CNT und #FAI.

#Anarchismus

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Today in Labor History May 18, 1814: Russian anarchist militant and philosopher Mikhail Bakunin was born. In Paris, in the 1840’s, he met Marx and Proudhon, who were early influences on him. He was later expelled from France for opposing Russia’s occupation of Poland. In 1849, the authorities arrested him in Dresden for participating in the Czech rebellion of 1848. They deported him back to Russia, where the authorities imprisoned him and then exiled him to Siberia in 1857. However, he escaped through Japan and fled to the U.S. and then England.

In 1868, he joined the International Working Men’s Association, leading the rapidly growing anarchist faction. He argued for federations of self-governing workplaces and communes to replace the state. This was in contrast to Marx, who argued for the state to help bring about socialism. In 1872, they expelled Bakunin from the International. Bakunin had an influence on the IWW, Noam Chomsky, Peter Kropotkin, Herbert Marcuse, Emma Goldman, and the Spanish CNT and FAI.