It's great when dystopic defense contractors take names from the things I love! Palmer Luckey started one called Anduril, and I just can't tell you how much I love these fucking shits co-opting Tolkien's words in their endeavors to profit on oppression and murder.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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Tolkien estate usually doesn't like their words used in random stuff. Sometimes I think they're bordering on control freaks, but in that particular case, yeah, nuking that shit and forcing them to change their name wouldn't seem unreasonable to me.
If they're not aware of it, maybe someone should tip them.
Unless you do it yourself right now, no one will.
Government officials testing the AI:
Will there be a mass protest?
Calculating...
The government will fall and all members will be exiled within 7 years unless following policies are implemented: policies.doc
How about we ignore those policies. Give me a list of the trouble makers so we can start them
Calculating...
The list of most likely suspects can be found here: suspects.doc
Calculating...
Mass protests will now erupt in 3 years and ask members of government executed.
Hmmm. And if we just mislead them so they won't go after us?
Calculating..
Due to massive misinformation, foreign parties can co-opt this system, causing civil war in 8 years and splitting up of the country, with parts de facto ruled by foreign entities. See map.doc
Calculating...
Wealth redistribution recommended. See policies.doc
"Palantir customer service? Yes, I think your doohickey is broken."
Palantir is Theil owned. It's is never, ever going to recommend wealth redistribution.
Musk and Thiel sticking their tiny rat dicks in our government again.
It's also really annoying that they've taken names from LotR (e.g. Palantir, Narya), a story about fighting the ultimate authoritarian evil.
Yeah, I don't think they quite understand the material lol
Fuck Palantir, that Wannabe Sauron Peter Thiel needs to fuck off of Middle Earth.
Welp, reality just turned somehow worse than wargames somehow.
Oh, I'm sure this'll end well.
/s
great advertisement for linux
How?
On one hand, it’s great to see non tech people get into Linux.
On the other, it’s strange to see people who evangelize Linux not really know what they’re talking about when it comes to technology.
Palantir will only be available on Microsoft government servers that usually run Linux, the news does not say it will be on Windows.