Why Silicon Valley's Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed with Hobbits(nytimes.com)
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Why Silicon Valley's Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed with Hobbits
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/books/tolkien-musk-thiel-silicon-valley.html
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why can we have someone obsessed with C. Debussy: Claire de lune from Suite bergamasqu ?
Oh for fuck's sake, this might be the most ridiculous NY Times headline ever, and there's some serious competition for that title.
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Also, Giorgia Meloni and Aleksandr Dugin are mentioned as idolizing simple rural "tradition." Hitler also did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTfbBvIEbfA
Not mentioned in the article: there is a home security system unironically called Sauron: https://www.paraform.com/company/sauron
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