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"His exact words were, 'Please, I don't want to be humiliated for centuries to come'" (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Any further reading on this? I don't know this story.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The invention of Git

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Excellent analogy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wow. One of the comments on that post makes me wonder if it wasn't the historians themselves recording their identity as historians, when in fact they sound more like the royal press pool or even paparazzi; one "historian" only went with the king on a hunt by using a disguise. Kind of like how in a hundred years we will have a bunch of blog posts misidentified as journalism (burn).