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Michael Bench-Cauldron

@mikebenchcapon.bsky.social

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I have a PhD in philosophy and now I work in a library. He/him. michaelbenchcapon.blogspot.com

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Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · Nov 1

If your post is liked by just one wise person it is as though it had been liked by the whole world

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Sérgio Farias de Souza Filho @sergiosouza.bsky.social · 4m

Mr Mark E. Smith

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 14m

DJs are just jugglers for music

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 2h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 3h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 33m

I hear there is an influx of new people who might need to know who the posters are:

go.bsky.app/VhPhrux

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 20h

Wittgenstein was so real for this

If I were dragged into a fire I would resist and not go willingly; likewise
I would shout: ‘It’s going to burn me!’, not: ‘Maybe it will be quite pleasant!’
(BT 180)

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Jack Klompus 🖕🎃🖕 @klompusjack.myatproto.social · 1h

The entire economy now rests on a porn pivot by a piracy company.

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 1h

"bsky is the scold website" my man just DM me and i'll give you three accounts you can talk shit to and get yourself mass blocked into some peace and quiet

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 3h

Bluesky crashed from everyone joining lol. We're getting everyone on here

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 1h

republicans love to call trayvon martin a thug and then when some vile racism leaks go 'please show some empathy. he's a mere child, a babe, a lamb. it's so unfair to expect a poor 32 year old who works full time in politics to not be racist'

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Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone is either too young or too old to be blameworthy for their racism

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · 1h

the stoic sage cannot be harmed, though, so, keep that in mind

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h

I don't get a ton of FB traffic and can remember only one other post in the last year or so that got shared as much as this article. you may be "unsurprised" as an extremely online person but people seem to be paying attention to this, for whatever that's worth

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah that sounds like something you'd say if we were just agreeing

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Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah certainly less clear where the brackets go in speech

Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 5h

So one might think, but does it really fail for those, or does meaning find a way

Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 5h

So like when you can add <>p or ¬<>p, add ¬<>p

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Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe you could try having a process for expanding G to G* that keeps the model as small as possible

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

Not kidding when I say it appears they were trying to brainstorm what the opposite of "no taxation without representation" would be and this clunky dogshit is the best they could come up with

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 5h

I don't really know what counts as evidence for what in linguistics but I'd have guessed that read working better than eat confirms that it's to introduce optionality/branching

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Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 5h

Oh no

Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 6h

I have heard to you can simplify them a lot with this one weird trick consequently.org/news/2017/wi...

With Gratitude to Raymond Smullyan — consequently.org

consequently.org

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Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 6h

I was only briefly any good at proving completeness theorems

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Dec 25

This was my Sistine Chapel

A copy of Freddie Ayer’s ‘The Central Questions of Philosophy’, featuring the famous cover with him sitting holding a small white dog on his lap. Both Ayer and the dog have googly eyes.

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Michael Bench-Cauldron @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 6h

I think the example with eat is worse than with read, and with eaten it'd be worse still

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