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Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 00:27:49 JST Charlie Stross

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116311624371729823
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
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  Damnatio memoriae (Classical Latin pronunciation: [damˈnaːti.oː mɛˈmɔri.ae̯]) is a modern Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory" or "damnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts. There are and have been many routes to damnatio memoriae including the destruction of depictions, the removal of names from inscriptions and documents, and even large-scale rewritings of history. Etymology Although the term damnatio memoriae is Latin, the phrase was not used by the ancient Romans, and first appeared in a thesis written in Germany in 1689 by Christoph Schreiter and Johann Heinrich Gerlach. The thesis was titled Dissertationem juridicam de damnatione memoriae, praescitu superiorum, in florentissima Philurea (lit. "A Legal Dissertation on the Damnation of Memory, Foreknown by Superiors, in the Most Flourishing Philurea")...
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  It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day. There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day. I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop. I would like it to be over before I die, please.

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