Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.

And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.

Musk is everything he hated.

"This magic ring is the secret to everything" "Why" "It binds the other rings" "What do they do" "Grant power" "What sort of power" "Power to rule" "Be more specific" "...." "If I'm in a fight, can I use them" "Well, they make some short people invisible" "Just invisible?" "No! also hurt and sad"

I remain convinced that AI is fundamentally a labor-punishing technology, not a labor-replacing one; the point is to force existing workers to accept lower wages & worse conditions because of the threat of a replacement that’s not practically possible at scale

Someone once described the libertarian as like a house cat: wholly convinced of her own fierce independence while being entirely dependent on a system she neither understands nor appreciates.