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Benjamin Stephen @ Vox 1 place · today 14:00 EDT

What would J.R.R. Tolkien think of Palantir?

Peter Thiel and Alex Karp’s Palantir Technologies is one of the most powerful and mysterious tech companies in Silicon Valley. Its namesake is also one of the most powerful and mysterious magical objects in the lore of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy series The Lord of the Rings. The palantiri of The Lord of the Rings […]

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