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All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.
Which infuriates me as a LotR fan.
and also makes me side eye Chris Tolkien hard, cause he is normally very aggressive in protecting the intellectual property…
Palantirs were prominently used by Sauron to corrupt and manipulate weaker-willed users, so I have to admit it’s a really apropos use of the name.
And Apple is a fruit smh
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Which infuriates me as a LotR fan.
and also makes me side eye Chris Tolkien hard, cause he is normally very aggressive in protecting the intellectual property…
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Palantirs were prominently used by Sauron to corrupt and manipulate weaker-willed users, so I have to admit it’s a really apropos use of the name.