alt Hacker NewsFunny you mention Wikipedia
You said it was “named after a pedophile”, that is wrong
>>The word panopticon derives from the Greek word for "all seeing" – panoptes.
The concept was invented by Jeremy Bentham, who died before Foucault was born.
Interesting that you named your HN account after a famous homophobe.
>Interesting that you named your HN account after a famous homophobe.
that guy is no longer with the project and does brave now iirc
(it's super interesting to us that two different people took such a wild leap btw)