We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@cstross I'd also point out the Memory Hole, but with LLMs issuing bans of 1984, that's just way too fucking on the nose.

[guenterhack@mastodon.social]

@cstross I'd rebaptize the Strait of Hormuz to Strait of Trump. ("Trump is clogged again") What's a "Hormuz", anyway?

[joat@mastodon.scot]

@cstross *after* he's in jail. No forgetting what he did this time.

Edit: typo

[nikkileah@mendeddrum.org]

@cstross if you're hearing that name, the Zone has been flooded with shit.

I'd like to opt out of the Zone.

[drewtowler@mas.to]

@cstross No, we really don't. We have to learn from all this.

[nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange]

@drewtowler @cstross I'm afraid I agree on this, we can never forget this. But now while we're boiling in the soup I do understand M. Morris' feeling.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@cstross it’s gonna be hard, with his minted coins and his signature of currency bills. But I sister has a mortal fear of being erased

[tjbutt58@infosec.exchange]

@cstross It was done in New Zealand with the person who committed the massacres at mosques there a few years ago. I think now only mentioned by name in court papers

[jupiter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cstross Do we, though.
I think that makes it easier to avoid learning from history...

[aspragg@ohai.social]

@cstross Considering which politician from the last 50 years would make the most liberal and gleeful use of this custom, and in which directions they'd aim it, IMHO we probably don't want to do that.