• alberttcone@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    I think that’s a Thiel thing. Tolkein was was one of his obsessions growing up. It doesn’t surprise me that he saw a plot device intended to be a warning as a really cool idea…

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      6 hours ago

      After listening to some of the Behind the Bastards on Thiel’s Antichrist obsession, his names for things are more understandable. Not by being sensible, by his demonstrated tendency to read things and take interpretations from them that make no sense to anyone else.

      So yeah I’m sure he’s got some nutso bananas reinterpretation of what a Palantir is, etc.

      He seems unwell, truly.