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John Autry<p>On this day in 1878 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ThomasEdison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasEdison</span></a></p>
Noah Simon 🎻<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThomasEdison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasEdison</span></a>, whose birthday is today, invented or refined many things, including the phonograph, light bulb, motion pictures and even concrete. But did you know that <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Edison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Edison</span></a> also invented the word, "hello?" OK, the word already existed, but it was one of several variants used to shout to another person at a distance, such as "hoy hoy," "ahoy" and "hullo." When <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Bell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bell</span></a> invented the telephone, people didn't know how to initiate a conversation. Bell himself suggested "ahoy" because after all...</p>
Cory Doctorow<p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/15yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15yrsago</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ThomasEdison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasEdison</span></a>’s price-fixing <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/EULA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EULA</span></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090125121517/http://www.alchemysite.com/blog/2009/01/eula-end-user-license-agreement-edison.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2009012512</span><span class="invisible">1517/http://www.alchemysite.com/blog/2009/01/eula-end-user-license-agreement-edison.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/10yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>10yrsago</span></a> Why fiction works <a href="https://locusmag.com/2014/01/cory-doctorow-cheap-writing-tricks/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">locusmag.com/2014/01/cory-doct</span><span class="invisible">orow-cheap-writing-tricks/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/10yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>10yrsago</span></a> Holding mirrors up to police lines at <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Euromaidan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Euromaidan</span></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140113120206/http://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/mirror-action-in-memory-of-nov-30-334467.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2014011312</span><span class="invisible">0206/http://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/mirror-action-in-memory-of-nov-30-334467.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>5yrsago</span></a> China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing “1984” on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/why-1984-and-animal-farm-arent-banned-china/580156/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/</span><span class="invisible">2019/01/why-1984-and-animal-farm-arent-banned-china/580156/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>5yrsago</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/HannuRajaniemi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HannuRajaniemi</span></a>’s Summerland: a midcentury spy thriller, with the afterlife <a href="https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/13/hannu-rajaniemis-summerland-a-midcentury-spy-thriller-with-the-afterlife/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">memex.craphound.com/2019/01/13</span><span class="invisible">/hannu-rajaniemis-summerland-a-midcentury-spy-thriller-with-the-afterlife/</span></a></p><p>6/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p>Now, many companies have been run by malignant narcissists who lied compulsively - think of <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ThomasEdison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasEdison</span></a>, archnemesis of <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/NikolaTesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NikolaTesla</span></a> himself. The difference here isn't merely that Musk is a deeply unfit monster of a human being - but rather, that DRM allows him to defraud his customers behind a state-enforced opaque veil. </p><p>25/</p>
Bean 🇺🇲🇻🇪<p>AC or DC?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UnsolvedQuestionsFromThe90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnsolvedQuestionsFromThe90s</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HashtagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HashtagGames</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NikolaTesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NikolaTesla</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThomasEdison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasEdison</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/1890s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1890s</span></a></p>