@cstross @Leszek_Karlik I thought that too, but then I saw Altman now shipping at scale, an almost literal Eye of Sauron in the form of his eye scanning crypto Orb. https://www.wired.com/story/worldcoin-sam-altman-orb/

Perhaps Thiel is necromancing this from the shadows, but recent footage of interviews with him, facial bone structure increasingly pronounced, his skin visibly coated in some kind of slimy residue, leaves me thinking he’s more gollum.