Kind wild how the whole tech industry is just people who did and didn’t get The Lord of The Rings
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@danirabbit At long last, we have created One Ring to Rule Them All from the classic fantasy novel Don't Create One Ring to Rule Them All
@danirabbit Remember, they’re the same guys who argue we don’t need English/literature/communication classes because STEM subjects are more important.
@danirabbit @jwz starting to suspect that the reason I have had to largely withdraw from it is that I did, I *did* understand the lord of the rings. the books, even, not just the movies!
@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!
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Or that were just evil.
@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.
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@griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com @danirabbit@mastodon.online no no, I'm sure Sauron being the dread lord of a place that sounds suspiciously like the Latin word for "death", who allies with people who perform genetic experiments on elves to corrupt and create monsters, is uh... ...
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@aud look if you’re gonna be a Luddite about it you’re gonna get left behind
@danirabbit community and friendship or all-seeing-eye, hmmmm what should we choose lol
@Ashedryden “we must join with him, Gandalf. It would be wise” type shit
@danirabbit @Ashedryden gandalf if you don’t join him you’re just gonna get left behind. ethics aside, sauron is here to stay
“Oh but I’d use the ring to protect Gondor”. Sure bud.
@danirabbit now I need a t-shirt with a drawing of the one ring with the inscription in English and Russian “Make America Great Again”
@danirabbit “I can’t believe they would steal, and then destroy that poor guy’s ring! And kill all of his employees he sent to get it back from them!”
@danirabbit One DARPA contract to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.
Oh they totally would. And then once finished they'll move their military to Mordor because of the incredible forges and its unmatched defences. And since all these Orcs are without a leader they might as well provide some. Might need to crack a few skulls to get the message across but there's gotta be some redeemable Orcs there. Oh, and there's this perfectly good black fortress we could use now that Sauron has been defeated, etc...
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Get away from that palantir!
@danirabbit This VC funding is a gift!
@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
@fieldswork Lotta Saruman’s in our midst
@danirabbit @fieldswork they wish they were sarumans, they are almost all wormtongues
@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.
