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NY Times columnist who wrote ‘count me out’ Epstein story last month featured in latest Epstein photo dump

‘Mr. Brooks had no contact with him before or after this single attendance at a widely-attended dinner,’ the New York Times said in a statement on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Democrats release new Epstein photos ahead of DoJ transparency deadline

Images, undated and uncaptioned, include lines from Lolita written on woman’s body and show Bill Gates and Noam Chomsky

The Guardian - US

Jeffrey Epstein dreamt up bizarre series starring Johnny Depp, Courtney Love – and even Stephen Fry

The disgraced financier had an idea for an interview series called ‘Strange Bedfellows’, but none of the stars he fantasised about featuring seem to be aware of its existence

The Independent UK

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Epstein Files Revelation: Noam Chomsky Allegedly in 'Regular Contact' With Jeffrey — Even Receiving Money

As Donald Trump signed the bill approving the release of Epstein files, new documents revealed Noam Chomsky's close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

International Business Times UK

Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal

The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal

The Guardian - US

Books of the Month: What to read this September, from Arundhati Roy’s searing memoir to Ian McEwan’s sci-fi outing

BOOKS OF THE MONTH: Martin Chilton shares his September reading highlights

The Independent UK

Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published

New York Times reports on letters by Ehud Barak, Woody Allen and others written for Epstein’s 63rd birthday

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A neuroscientist explains why it’s impossible for AI to ‘understand’ language

As meaning-makers, we use spoken or signed language to understand our experiences in the world around us. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT (using large language models) call into question the very notion of how to define “meaning.”

The Conversation

Why AI can’t take over creative writing

In 1948, the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon, proposed modelling language in terms of the probability of the next word in a sentence given the previous words. These types of probabilistic language models were largely derided, most famously by linguist Noam Chomsky: “The notion of ‘probability of a sentence’…

The Conversation

Israeli police raid Palestinian bookshop in East Jerusalem twice in a month

Books about Banksy and by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé were removed, and one of the owners detained

The Guardian - UK

Advice to Keir Starmer: stop the fawning over Trump. Then help plan for a better world without him

We need a ‘coalition of the willing’ capable of bringing together those in Europe and the global south. Britain should facilitate that, says former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell

The Guardian - UK

Noam Chomsky at 96: The linguist, educator, philosopher and public thinker has had a massive intellectual and moral influence

Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and respected intellectuals, will be 96 years old on Dec. 7, 2024. For more than half a century, multitudes of people have read his works in a variety of languages, and many people have relied on his commentaries and interviews for insights…

The Conversation

Donald Trump vs. the intellectuals

Noam Chomsky warned us about this 57 years ago: In a time of great danger, we need experts to speak out

Salon

Journalists Are Becoming Cogs in the Outrage Machine

As the industry decays, social media has become a go-to place for tips and quotes. That’s a problem

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Online manipulation expert Renée DiResta: ‘Conspiracy theories shape our politics in extremely mainstream ways’

The former research manager of Stanford Internet Observatory talks about her new book exploring propaganda in the digital age – and how she came to be known as ‘CIA Renée’…

The Conversation

40 years after his death Michel Foucault’s philosophy still speaks to a world saturated with social media

Forty years after his death in Paris on June 25, 1984, many of Michel Foucault’s once radical ideas now seem self-evident. Even critics like Noam Chomsky, who derided Foucault’s moral theories as “incoherent”, find themselves in a world wallpapered with Foucauldian terms like “discourse”, “power-knowledge”, “biopower”, and “governmentality”.

Salon

The hypocrisy of AI doomerism

Wannabe Cassandras warning of AI's potential for human extinction are some of the biggest champions of the industry

The National (Scotland)

'It is false': Wife of Noam Chomsky says reports of linguist's death are untrue

NOAM Chomsky’s wife says reports that the famed linguist and activist had died are untrue.

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Evening Standard

Noam Chomsky's wife says reports of 95-year-old activist's death are false

Chomsky is seen by many as a global symbol of protest and independence

International Business Times

Noam Chomsky Discharged From Sao Paolo Hospital

American intellectual, linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky was discharged from a hospital in Sao Paolo Tuesday, the facility said, and would continue an undisclosed treatment at home.

The Independent UK

Noam Chomsky’s wife debunks ‘false’ reports of famed linguist’s death

Noam Chomsky’s wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, says reports that the famed linguist and activist had died are untrue

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Exploring The Top 10 Political Thinkers Of The 21St Century

Explore the works of renowned intellectuals like Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, and Thomas Piketty across diverse fields.

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