Ben Werdmuller
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I lead technology at ProPublica and write speculative fiction. This is a personal account. Every day, I write about tech, democracy, and society at https://werd.io. More […]
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@maximum_mew Yes. This misuse of language as redirection is very common - for example, we talk about "internment camps" run by Japanese forces in WWII or by ourselves later on, but they were all very much concentration camps.
February 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
@maximum_mew Yes. This misuse of language as redirection is very common - for example, we talk about "internment camps" run by Japanese forces in WWII or by ourselves later on, but they were all very much concentration camps.