@danirabbit And people who thought Snow Crash was goals instead of a cautionary tale.

@danirabbit Gandalf: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin's Bane.

GenAI: Moria is great source of mithril. Let's delve into that!

@danirabbit “Buy my new course ‘How to become a Nazgûl’, and you too can learn how to live forever*! Be one of the first 9 customers and I’ll even throw in this signed ring for free!”

@danirabbit Noo noo, it is fine. We put a lot of guard rails in place to keep the Ring from turning evil. Also, ignore those nine wraiths over there… ahem

@danirabbit Seems to be largely “didn’t”.

@danirabbit There are two types of people in the software world, those who got lotr and those who think they are binary

@danirabbit Wildest part, to me, is that LOTR isn’t *subtle* about who the villain is.

@danirabbit community and friendship or all-seeing-eye, hmmmm what should we choose lol

“Oh but I’d use the ring to protect Gondor”. Sure bud.

@danirabbit i didn’t know that palantir was a LOTR thing until the other day and when i found out i could’ve facepalmed through my skull

@danirabbit Related: slopbros who think the computer in Star Trek is an "AI" (psst: it's not, it's just a command-line with speech-to-text).

Ugh.