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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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It's the foundation of Bentham's "panopticon," a prison where prisoners can never tell if they're being watched, which is meant to induce a continuous performance of virtue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
2026-10-05T19:07:41.268Z