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

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

Let's start naming things after Iain Banks ships.

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...

Yes!

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

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

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

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

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.

Whoops, bad link formatting: https://x.com/patrickc/status/2015562569105465347

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

The Eye of Sauron for some Observability tool

Palantir

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

https://www.sauron.systems/

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.

I do appreciate you quoting Shakespeare.

Indeed. Why not follow Douglas Adams' example and use obscure place names instead[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff

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

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

We can go strip Shakespeare instead.

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

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

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

Bad actors use Tolkien. Good actors use Orwell.

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