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I see a Tolkien name on a tech company, I assume the founders deeply misunderstood Tolkien and probably are pretty gross. I haven't been wrong yet.

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Armin is pretty well-known in the tech space. He has contributed a ton to open source and generally seems like a fairly principled person. I think this may be the first case where you turn out to be wrong :)

Here's hoping!

He's not, he made Flask/Click/Jinja/lots of other open source projects.

(That said, he possibly is the first person to break this pattern, yes...)

https://x.com/mitsuhiko/status/2041855748481695774

I see someone accusing someone else of misunderstanding an author who disavowed any allegorical meaning of his novels and said that their only purpose was to create the kind of world that made the language he invented seem real ...

Good thing my project is not a company, then: <https://www.recompile.se/mandos>

> First things first: I think you should read Mario’s post.

And from that:

> Despite its Tolkien-inspired name, Earendil is not a tech company with fascist tendencies. Quite the opposite. They are basically well-meaning hippies in my book, who think software, and specifically AI, should serve humans, not the other way around.

So, somewhat hopeful? I'm not sure I can take any more of this grossness.

I know nothing about Earendil and this is not meant to take away from them, but half of Alexander Karp's (Palantir CEO) book was "We are basically well-meaning hippies in my book, who think software, and specifically AI, should serve humans, not the other way around."

Right. And now he brags about being part of an automated kill chain and being proud that he kills his enemies.

Words carry no weight in a world where every person in power weaponizes lying.

Fair.

Why should we cede Tolkien to those villians?

The right wing completely misunderstands Tolkien and/or is deliberately co-opting it in an attempt to gaslight the world about their nature/motives.

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