Post #4074326

2026-07-24 22:22 UTC

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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@joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social 2026-07-24 23:35

@danirabbit@mastodon.online 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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@griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com 2026-07-24 22:35

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

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@fieldswork@wetdry.world 2026-07-24 22:25

@danirabbit@mastodon.online 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

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@thomholwerda@exquisite.social 2026-07-24 22:23

@danirabbit@mastodon.online 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.

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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone 2026-07-24 22:28

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

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