HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@mloxton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mloxton</span></a></span> </p><p>That's what it has always been about...</p><p>"...contrary to popular opinion, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Karel%C4%8Capek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KarelČapek</span></a>, the author of the play R.U.R., is not the inventor of the word <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/robot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robot</span></a>. The word, derived from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Czech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Czech</span></a> noun 👉“<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/robota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robota</span></a>”, meaning “forced labour”👈, is an accomplishment of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capek</span></a>’s older brother, the cubist painter and writer <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Josef%C4%8Capek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JosefČapek</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://www.roboticsacademy.com.au/who-invented-the-word-robot-and-what-does-it-mean/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">roboticsacademy.com.au/who-inv</span><span class="invisible">ented-the-word-robot-and-what-does-it-mean/</span></a></p><p>In any event, the day of reckoning will come: 😉</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112664784479143874" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1126</span><span class="invisible">64784479143874</span></a></p><p>( I, Robot and The Matrix also not being unlikely.)</p>