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NoraCodes 7 hours ago

My kingdom for a way to stop this godforsaken industry from stripping Tolkien's fiction for parts.

nosman 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The bad guys are using Tolkien references. The good guys are probably using Hitchhiker's Guide references...

jkestner 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Let's start naming things after Iain Banks ships.

patapong 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I am in support. In general he was really good with names I thought, they always had an otherwordly flair while being clear to pronounce. Skaffen-Amtiskaw, Anaplian, Elethiomel...

chrisweekly 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes!

"Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality" is one of my favorites.

nozzlegear 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Elon Musk has already had a head start on that idea for over 10 years, unfortunately:

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/81164

rienbdj 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Weird - Iain m Banks would’ve found Musk’s politics abhorrent

akshayshah 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To be fair, the name was a joking response to https://x.com/patrickc/status/2015562569105465347…and then the temporary skunkworks name stuck, as it always does.

bevr1337 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The AI generated illustration and satire of the poem hurt my soul. Tom doesn’t even have pupils! This output is low quality even for AI generated content.

pythonaut_16 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Makes me want to name a project or company Sauron in response.

terpimost 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Eye of Sauron for some Observability tool

dymk 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Palantir

ffsm8 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've worked at a company that had a team call themselves Sauron before

So occasionally I got mails by "some colleague on behalf of Sauron" back then

object-a 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://www.sauron.systems/

threatofrain 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

All the companies you’re thinking of are likely paying the Tolkien estate a very fat fee. This repo will likely have to rename.

NoraCodes 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah. Unfortunately the people running the estate today appear to share ~none of the late Professor's values.

testdelacc1 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do appreciate you quoting Shakespeare.

eclectician 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We can go strip Shakespeare instead.

el_nahual 5 hours ago | parent [-]

(For those who don't get it, "My kingdom for ___" is from Richard III: "my horse, my horse, my kingdom for a horse")

jzelinskie 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm just waiting for them to exhaust LotR and move on to Roverandom

sifar 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, not bombadil. I'll donate mine too. :)

paulnpace 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Bad actors use Tolkien. Good actors use Orwell.

catlover76 6 hours ago | parent [-]

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_doctor_love 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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