[NoraCodes]

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

[nosman]

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

[jkestner]

Let's start naming things after Iain Banks ships.

[patapong]

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...

[chrisweekly]

Yes!

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

[nozzlegear]

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

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

[rienbdj]

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

[akshayshah]

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.

[akshayshah]

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

[pythonaut_16]

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

[terpimost]

The Eye of Sauron for some Observability tool

[dymk]

Palantir

[ffsm8]

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

[object-a]

https://www.sauron.systems/

[bevr1337]

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.

[testdelacc1]

I do appreciate you quoting Shakespeare.

[magicalhippo]

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

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

[threatofrain]

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

[NoraCodes]

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

[eclectician]

We can go strip Shakespeare instead.

[el_nahual]

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

[jzelinskie]

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

[sifar]

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

[paulnpace]

Bad actors use Tolkien. Good actors use Orwell.