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I am not sure his death is confirmed though. Apparently he had a new stroke.



He suffered a massive stroke last June, unfortunately

https://www.medialens.org/2024/a-message-about-noam-chomsky-...

https://tucson.com/news/local/noam-chomsky-hospitalized-afte...

A new one since last week? Link?


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That one (as I am seeing it now) cites the Jacobin article as a source, but the Jacobin article itself is fuzzy on sourcing.


According to Steven Pinker (who has blocked me on Twitter), Chomsky is alive. https://x.com/sapinker/statu/sapinker/status/180316457011212...

I was too lazy to log out but could see this much from Google search. Pinker said, (28 minutes ago): "Reports today of Noam Chomsky's death (in Jacobin and New Statesman, since taken down) were greatly exaggerated. I have confirmation from..."


New Statesman has an obituary now too, so it seems pretty certain that he has died.


Yes the articles were taken down very shortly


It’s been taken down!


https://archive.ph/P35WA Archived link from the statesmen.


They deleted it


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It’s possible that they made a mistake. I just think it’s unlikely that they’d have published it without confirmation.


All articles have been removed. Except Jacobin.


Fair enough. I’m surprised NS were that sloppy, but apologies for contributing to the misinformation.


https://archive.ph/P35WA

Archived link from the statesmen.


maybe misinformation IG




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