The icon for Palantir is even designed to look like a seeing stone on a pedestal.
Since Tolkien coined the term his estate should sue. It's tarnishing LotR.
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It's always a race between evil and stupid with these guys.
Yah, just a tad on the nose.
How the hell have the Tolkien estate not sued them into oblivion is beyond me. They are not known for their light touch either.
And somehow Peter Thiel says the Antichrist is someone else and not him. Fucking ketamine-brained billionaire losers.
Can someone explain the joke? I don't remember what that thing from Lord of the Rings is
a seeing stone, allowing one to gaze at basically anything at anytime.
however you'll never know who is watching with you and how they might influence you.
Yeah, you might use it to spy on your enemies to great advantage, but your mind is basically wide open for the Dark Lord's data harvesting.
You know, the name is perfect! Why it has any customers at all is the mystery that shames the concept of human intelligence.
It's called the Spying Testicle.
I hate how many terrible military industrial complex companies are out there trying to ruin Lord of the rings names.
Palantir, Anduril
Then there's valar ventures (a Thiel private equity firm), mithril capital and mythril capital
The way this BS pretends to speak my language by giving itself nerdy names adds insult to injury, really.
As far as I know those are all this asshole's ideas too. He's got some hedge fund called Lembas or something too, among others.
I'm surprised he hasn't just renamed himself Sauron at this point. (While talking ahout saving the world through his wealth and power, of course.)
Typical villain arc: Some self-absorbed billionaire with a main character complex decides they like a cultural touchstone, completely misses the point ot it, and ruins it for everyone else for their own profit.
Palantir should be renamed to Eye of Sauron and Peter Thiel should be called Sauron.