David Gerardwe named our security company after the loser who lost because of his bad security
rj@davidgerard it’s not like they read the books!
DianeThere's another argument that they didn't understand what they read.
"Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending."
jonathankoren™@arrjay @davidgerard You’re missing the point. Palantir. Andruil. Now Sauron.
It is 100% announcement that these guys are fascists and they want the fascist oligarchs’ money and are aligned with the fascist oligarchs’ worldview.
“You can trust us to kill the plebes when The Event™ happens.”
Jonathan Hendry@jonathankoren @arrjay @davidgerard
"We are the baddies. You can tell by our names."
Rihards Olups@jonathankoren @arrjay @davidgerard «there are probably more disparities between people at the top and bottom of the wealth spectrum»
And of course they go for a solution to keep and increase the disparities :)
Gabriele Svelto@arrjay @davidgerard unclear if they're able to read at all
Dan Sugalski@davidgerard The fact that these choads continue to name their companies after things that are explicitly Evil:tm: in fiction is really telling and the fact that they're not continuously mocked for it just puzzles me.
Chiel | خیل | Хил | Χιλ@wordshaper @davidgerard When you want to signal your aspirations to be part of the authoritarian stack, but Anduril and Palantir are already taken
eclexic@chielk @wordshaper @davidgerard
hmmm...
Assuming my simulations are correct, we have approximately 18-21 months until the patent driven acquisition of a silicon valley ad tech company named for a reference to "The Ludovico Technique" from A Clockwork Orange.
@theeclecticdyslexic @chielk @davidgerard Bold of you to assume that any of the people involved in the US VC world are cultured enough to have read, or even watched, A Clockwork Orange.
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@wordshaper @davidgerard
It's what happens when you go for name recognition without thinking it through. 🤣😂
It's what happens when you go for name recognition without thinking it through. 🤣😂
ꟻꟻAИ ᗡAT 🇨🇦@davidgerard Considering how Sonos has been going, maybe there's not much to worry about. They might deliver the hardware, but nobody will be able to get it to actually work
Thomas Reed@davidgerard @Viss I can see the conversation now…
CEO: We’ll name it Sauron after that giant all-seeing eye thingy!
Engineer: So, we’re naming it after the guy who let two hobbits sneak in his back door and kill him?
CEO: But… eye thingy!
rabbit5959@thomasareed @davidgerard @Viss I'm still trying to figure out if Thiel knows that the palantiri allow the head honcho of evil to spy on whoever has them. Is he unaware or is he just dunking on us??
@rabbit5959 @thomasareed @davidgerard @Viss
Thiel sees himself as the head honcho of evil.
Andy Incarnate (He / Him)@davidgerard This is all sounding very William Gibson.
Henryk Plötz@davidgerard I mean, their target attacker model is intruders who use the doorbell before breaking in.
"Our revolutionary design is a doorbell at the property line that visitors press before they press the doorbell at your door.
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen@davidgerard Don’t forget the part where he added a backdoor in some rings he made.
Aria.DNE [grim]@davidgerard According to this, they just called their company "Stinky man."
rhrgrtThe concept resonated in Bay Area circles, where crime had become a constant topic during and after the pandemic, despite San Francisco Police Department statistics showing property crime and homicide rates declining last year.
I appreciate the article at least sharing this fact early on.
Nicole ParsonsBillionaires like Thiel are always weaponizing the symptoms & the feelz, & never want to address the real causes of crime, home invasions, & theft.
The causes are poverty, hunger, homelessness, bigotry, substance abuse, & desperation.
Billionaires! Pay your effing taxes, & you'd have fewer people trying to kill & steal!
Build a rehab. Build housing. Pay real wages.
That's what taxes could be used for; making everyone safer. Instead of these slipshod "security" frauds.
Joe Bayes@davidgerard The malware that penetrates his system is going to be named "Frodo". Mark my words, I said it first.
Luna Lactea@davidgerard I'm making a security company named "Baggins" & the only product it sells will be a service where I send a few short guys to surveillance company CEOs' houses to beat them up until they promise to stop spying on the client.
bituur esztreym@davidgerard
still waiting for one startup to name itself Gollum, btw..
still waiting for one startup to name itself Gollum, btw..
HTPC NZ@davidgerard guess Palantir was already taken...
Arthur Clemens@davidgerard @jbz It’s a dog wistle meant to be heard.
isolOops! We forgot to mention that our system requires you to build your house into a mountain which has a readily available source of molten lava.
We prefer not to use the term "active volcano"; it makes it hard to get good housekeeping servants.
Sy Hoekstra@davidgerard Oh and he’s also Satan. What’s the problem?
JohnnieMac
SOwOphie ⠬⠆@davidgerard And here I thought a company called Palantir selling a "crime" prevention "AI" called Gotham was kinda stupid...
I don't ever want to hear shit like "omg sowophie.io is such an unprofessional domain to send mail from" again.
D.EJE.D
Every tech startup named after Lord of the Rings (for some reason)
@EduEdu perfect
nyanbinary@EduEdu @davidgerard ...I'd invest into Tom Bombadil Inc.
@davidgerard @nyanbinary Isengard Corp would be a solid eco-friendly enterprise for sure
David Cohen@davidgerard @Nickiquote He looks like an orc cosplaying as a man
Landa 
@davidgerard „but Sauron caused immense suffering before losing and that’s got to count for something“
- that CEO guy probably
- that CEO guy probably