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   Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 01:46:46 JST Matthew Loxton

   So
   Humanoid robots, eh?
   This is about people with money wanting to own slaves, right?

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 01:47:33 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @mloxton

     That's what it has always been about...

     "...contrary to popular opinion, #KarelČapek, the author of the play R.U.R., is not the inventor of the word #robot. The word, derived from the #Czech noun 👉“#robota”, meaning “forced labour”👈, is an accomplishment of #Capek’s older brother, the cubist painter and writer #JosefČapek."

     https://www.roboticsacademy.com.au/who-invented-the-word-robot-and-what-does-it-mean/

     In any event, the day of reckoning will come: 😉

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112664784479143874

     ( I, Robot and The Matrix also not being unlikely.)