I don’t care about any of that, I’m sure Chomsky’s takes suck as well, but my point is that he sucks and you’re trying to minimise what he actually did with a half-baked analogue.

If you really want my opinion on what he said in the original comment then sure, I think it’s misguided in the age of the internet where the overton window covers all sorts of extreme views to suggest censorship is a pervasive issue. It wouldn’t surprise me if the story of this journalist getting fired got far wider coverage than any of the pieces that got her fired. Even in the quote it’s dubious because Chomsky is apparently sitting right next to the person he implies wouldn’t be there if he had Chomsky’s beliefs.

But again, I don’t want to waste time debating the articulations of a faux-dissident loser like Chomsky because he’s just a mouthpiece for common truisms you can find around ever corner being peddled by people who don’t have the same reputation of being an asshat. Like, I’m sure those people would also be brainrotted populist freaks, but at least I wouldn’t be dunking on them for being pedo defenders.

He exchanged emails in 2019, advising Epstein on how to rebuild his reputation and lementing how hysterical people are about abuse of women.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9ykjlyv50o

This is after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor as part of his plea deal to avoid going to trial where the prosecution had identified 36 victims between the ages of 14 and 17.

So I guess Chomsky’s well honed epistemology wasn’t able to detect a pattern here, or his moral clarity is worth spit. I’m fine with either because I think he’s correct about 70% of the time, and a populist grifter for the rest.

It isn’t just that he “knew” a sex trafficker, it’s that he tried to help a sex trafficker white-wash his reputation for sex trafficking. It’s not guilt by association, it’s guilt by his specific actions.

Isn’t that the guy who was giving Epstein advice on dealing with his reputation as a sex offender?

Winning hearts isn’t the only goal, it’s a kind of larger movement driven by slogans that gains enough cultural momentum to subsume new members. The comments like that are just a kind of virtue signal to bolster the existing converts until new ones happen to fall into it. Like if you see enough half-truths everywhere you look without looking into the claim you’ll start to believe it to some extent.

The propaganda is more effective when it’s everywhere

A) upload all of that to virustotal.com

B-Y) use a free alternative

Z) stick it in a VM, or wipe your entire system clean before and after using it.

Ah, entropy

Check the log

I was just about to comment on the page name glitch effect being pretty cool. Did you use some off the shelf solution for that or make it yourself?

I’m guessing he’s alluding to a bunch of asserts, data sanitization, and granular error reporting. But yea, who knows.

I have no idea what it’s asking. Think I’ll pass on whatever this is.

So you’re saying I should vibe code some programming languages, compilers, and libraries