what's a ghost's favourite branch of algebra that uses logical operators such as conjunction (and) denoted as ∧, disjunction (or) denoted as ∨, and negation (not) denoted as ¬? BOO-lean.
November 1, 2026 at 3:57 AM
what's a ghost's favourite branch of algebra that uses logical operators such as conjunction (and) denoted as ∧, disjunction (or) denoted as ∨, and negation (not) denoted as ¬? BOO-lean.
The disjunction between the national and local reactions to this story is in fact quite striking.
October 30, 2026 at 7:08 AM
The disjunction between the national and local reactions to this story is in fact quite striking.
helps to recognise this as an intensification/iteration of earlier (and no less questionable) authorship practices and conventions, particularly around collective authorship where the "writing/responsibility" disjunction became load-bearing during the 20th century
October 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
helps to recognise this as an intensification/iteration of earlier (and no less questionable) authorship practices and conventions, particularly around collective authorship where the "writing/responsibility" disjunction became load-bearing during the 20th century
so you have a disjunction between "if you compile the program into the system, it is no longer capable of statistical learning" (correct), and "anything the system learns is not a precision grammar" (also arguable) and neither is clearly on the "capability / implementability" line.
October 29, 2026 at 2:52 PM
so you have a disjunction between "if you compile the program into the system, it is no longer capable of statistical learning" (correct), and "anything the system learns is not a precision grammar" (also arguable) and neither is clearly on the "capability / implementability" line.
That collective hesitation is a pattern behavioural economists know well, and it is not confined to professional trading desks. Researchers call it the disjunction effect.
November 1, 2026 at 5:40 AM
That collective hesitation is a pattern behavioural economists know well, and it is not confined to professional trading desks. Researchers call it the disjunction effect.
really i just think the oscillations qua oscillation are enjoyable, inhabiting myself in extremity is fun. being able to do that without necessitating disjunction is this odd form of childish maturation, or at least iterative progression
November 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
really i just think the oscillations qua oscillation are enjoyable, inhabiting myself in extremity is fun. being able to do that without necessitating disjunction is this odd form of childish maturation, or at least iterative progression
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | 2023
Edgin: But Stanhard Grimwulf said he gave the helmet to Ven Salafin. That's you, isn't it?
Sven: (scoffs) I'm Sven Salafin. Ven's my brother.
Edgin: (sigh) This is a nightmare.
Edgin: But Stanhard Grimwulf said he gave the helmet to Ven Salafin. That's you, isn't it?
Sven: (scoffs) I'm Sven Salafin. Ven's my brother.
Edgin: (sigh) This is a nightmare.
October 28, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | 2023
Edgin: But Stanhard Grimwulf said he gave the helmet to Ven Salafin. That's you, isn't it?
Sven: (scoffs) I'm Sven Salafin. Ven's my brother.
Edgin: (sigh) This is a nightmare.
Edgin: But Stanhard Grimwulf said he gave the helmet to Ven Salafin. That's you, isn't it?
Sven: (scoffs) I'm Sven Salafin. Ven's my brother.
Edgin: (sigh) This is a nightmare.
He’s basically a transitional president (or as Skowronek puts it, the “Disjunction President”. The last dying breath of the current order who also has aspects of the new one (ex. Hoover, Carter).
October 26, 2026 at 11:30 PM
He’s basically a transitional president (or as Skowronek puts it, the “Disjunction President”. The last dying breath of the current order who also has aspects of the new one (ex. Hoover, Carter).
So, this is where i think the fact that 1 the democratic party has a very engaged activist base that votes in primaries because this is disjunction between the base and some of the electeds that has led to people getting tossed out in primaries
October 25, 2026 at 1:54 AM
So, this is where i think the fact that 1 the democratic party has a very engaged activist base that votes in primaries because this is disjunction between the base and some of the electeds that has led to people getting tossed out in primaries
I’m cackling lol why am I name checking Hane and Remis so much (oops doing it again rn!) and only talkin’ about disjunction 😭
October 22, 2026 at 6:56 PM
I’m cackling lol why am I name checking Hane and Remis so much (oops doing it again rn!) and only talkin’ about disjunction 😭
'[Fisher] coined the term “market Stalinism”, a phrase that neatly captures the bureaucratic prose Watson describes: a leaden, grey language arising from a disjunction between what is being said and what is being done. The lexicon of the modern university arises in the same fashion'. 🔥
I have a long piece at @theconversation.com about AI and the university
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken
AI is a project of the powerful, implemented in the name of an efficiency that has nothing to do with the good, writes Jeff Sparrow.
theconversation.com
October 24, 2026 at 3:47 PM
'[Fisher] coined the term “market Stalinism”, a phrase that neatly captures the bureaucratic prose Watson describes: a leaden, grey language arising from a disjunction between what is being said and what is being done. The lexicon of the modern university arises in the same fashion'. 🔥
Diss: Conjunction, Disjunction, and Scalar Implicatures in British Sign Language
Diss: Conjunction, Disjunction, and Scalar Implicatures in British Sign Language
This project explores conjunction and disjunction in British Sign Language (BSL), and the
effects of linguistic context and language acquisition on the relative strength of exclusivity
inferences from disjunction in BSL (a type of scalar implicature).
Part 1 investigates BSL conjunction and disjunction via an analysis of spontaneous
conversation data from the BSL Corpus, examining manual, non-manual, and asyndetic
articulation. Descriptive findings provide relative frequencies of various
dlvr.it
October 22, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Diss: Conjunction, Disjunction, and Scalar Implicatures in British Sign Language
I'm not sure if this chart is useful in any way, but I thought it would be pretty to make.
October 23, 2026 at 5:23 AM
I'm not sure if this chart is useful in any way, but I thought it would be pretty to make.
Wall of Force
A wall of force creates an invisible wall of pure force. The wall cannot move and is not easily destroyed. A wall of force is immune to dispel magic, although a mage's disjunction can still dispel it. A wall of force can be damaged by spells as normal, except for disintegrate, which
A wall of force creates an invisible wall of pure force. The wall cannot move and is not easily destroyed. A wall of force is immune to dispel magic, although a mage's disjunction can still dispel it. A wall of force can be damaged by spells as normal, except for disintegrate, which
October 23, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Wall of Force
A wall of force creates an invisible wall of pure force. The wall cannot move and is not easily destroyed. A wall of force is immune to dispel magic, although a mage's disjunction can still dispel it. A wall of force can be damaged by spells as normal, except for disintegrate, which
A wall of force creates an invisible wall of pure force. The wall cannot move and is not easily destroyed. A wall of force is immune to dispel magic, although a mage's disjunction can still dispel it. A wall of force can be damaged by spells as normal, except for disintegrate, which
Where did the justification for the initial division come from? That’s the affirmation of a disjunction.
October 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Where did the justification for the initial division come from? That’s the affirmation of a disjunction.
Agreed, it is fallacious. Built on circular reasoning and affirmation of a disjunction. Very divisive when weaponized.
What if there was an ideology/religion whose very central tenets were designed around exploiting that disjunction and working backwards from that dissenting view to gain advantage?
What if there was an ideology/religion whose very central tenets were designed around exploiting that disjunction and working backwards from that dissenting view to gain advantage?
October 19, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Agreed, it is fallacious. Built on circular reasoning and affirmation of a disjunction. Very divisive when weaponized.
What if there was an ideology/religion whose very central tenets were designed around exploiting that disjunction and working backwards from that dissenting view to gain advantage?
What if there was an ideology/religion whose very central tenets were designed around exploiting that disjunction and working backwards from that dissenting view to gain advantage?
I don’t quite understand what you mean by “very central tenets… designed around exploiting that(?) disjunction”. It appears to me this would apply to any monotheistic and most polytheistic religions. Can you give an example of what you mean? Backwards from what and to what?
October 19, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I don’t quite understand what you mean by “very central tenets… designed around exploiting that(?) disjunction”. It appears to me this would apply to any monotheistic and most polytheistic religions. Can you give an example of what you mean? Backwards from what and to what?
Well, because Atenism is built around contrarianism and circular reasoning. An ideology of devil’s advocate where one affirms a disjunction in order to play judge and advocate in discourse.
Once you severe the etymology, you’ve declared an arbitration process and made yourself arbiter. The Judge.
Once you severe the etymology, you’ve declared an arbitration process and made yourself arbiter. The Judge.
October 18, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Well, because Atenism is built around contrarianism and circular reasoning. An ideology of devil’s advocate where one affirms a disjunction in order to play judge and advocate in discourse.
Once you severe the etymology, you’ve declared an arbitration process and made yourself arbiter. The Judge.
Once you severe the etymology, you’ve declared an arbitration process and made yourself arbiter. The Judge.
The disjunction between the undergrad and grad programs (and faculty research) at some of the geo programs that have turned into "Earth and Environment" departments is... interesting.
Often look like they'd fail the "would you take on your own undergrads as grad students" test....
Often look like they'd fail the "would you take on your own undergrads as grad students" test....
October 18, 2026 at 3:14 AM
The disjunction between the undergrad and grad programs (and faculty research) at some of the geo programs that have turned into "Earth and Environment" departments is... interesting.
Often look like they'd fail the "would you take on your own undergrads as grad students" test....
Often look like they'd fail the "would you take on your own undergrads as grad students" test....
"If most high-level theology is written incomprehensibly to the person in the pew, then a real disjunction has opened up between a set of conversations that are happening in the university for the purposes of the egos of the people taking part versus the people who are actually holding the faith."
October 18, 2026 at 10:52 AM
"If most high-level theology is written incomprehensibly to the person in the pew, then a real disjunction has opened up between a set of conversations that are happening in the university for the purposes of the egos of the people taking part versus the people who are actually holding the faith."
Devil’ advocacy is itself a weapon of division but it is only effective in the presence of an argument to counter. It is often used in a form of a question. For instance, “What if…” or “What about…” are opportunistic firing shots In search of potential weaknesses where disjunction can be introduced
October 19, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Devil’ advocacy is itself a weapon of division but it is only effective in the presence of an argument to counter. It is often used in a form of a question. For instance, “What if…” or “What about…” are opportunistic firing shots In search of potential weaknesses where disjunction can be introduced
I’m not sure what you’re arguing here. I said that the etymology is necessary to a word’s meaning. Severing it requires the affirmation of a disjunction.
In the case of Zionism, Zion is the root morpheme of the word Zion.
The surface analysis of Zionism is Zion + -ism. If you remove those…
In the case of Zionism, Zion is the root morpheme of the word Zion.
The surface analysis of Zionism is Zion + -ism. If you remove those…
October 19, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I’m not sure what you’re arguing here. I said that the etymology is necessary to a word’s meaning. Severing it requires the affirmation of a disjunction.
In the case of Zionism, Zion is the root morpheme of the word Zion.
The surface analysis of Zionism is Zion + -ism. If you remove those…
In the case of Zionism, Zion is the root morpheme of the word Zion.
The surface analysis of Zionism is Zion + -ism. If you remove those…
This Week's Maps for Trials (Oct 16-20)
▸ Disjunction
▸ Javelin-4
▸ Eventide Labs
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▸ Disjunction
▸ Javelin-4
▸ Eventide Labs
Full details: kyber3000.com/Trials ↗
October 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
This Week's Maps for Trials (Oct 16-20)
▸ Disjunction
▸ Javelin-4
▸ Eventide Labs
Full details: kyber3000.com/Trials ↗
▸ Disjunction
▸ Javelin-4
▸ Eventide Labs
Full details: kyber3000.com/Trials ↗
(While the Pratchett narrator is fundamentally the frustrated autodidact down the pub which just dies on the screen when you have the disjunction between events and that voice)
October 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
(While the Pratchett narrator is fundamentally the frustrated autodidact down the pub which just dies on the screen when you have the disjunction between events and that voice)
Apparently I write longer sentences than 99% of accounts, which shouldn't really have surprised me given my penchant for complex sentence structures and notorious, one might even go so far as to say unconscionable, overuse (and on occasion misuse) of semicolons wordsky.app/mikebenchcap...
Who writes like Michael Bench-Dracula
@mikebenchcapon.bsky.social uses these words unusually often: supererogatory, civ4, intuitionistic, tractatus, disjunction. See the Bluesky accounts with the most similar vocabulary.
wordsky.app
October 15, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Apparently I write longer sentences than 99% of accounts, which shouldn't really have surprised me given my penchant for complex sentence structures and notorious, one might even go so far as to say unconscionable, overuse (and on occasion misuse) of semicolons wordsky.app/mikebenchcap...