cstross,
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Surely I can't be the only person whose first reaction to seeing a company is named "Hugging Face" is to wonder if they sell Alien xenomorphs bloodily bursting out of human abdominal cavities as a service?

I mean, what were the founders THINKING?!?
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112450968041276837

flargh,
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@cstross Andreessen Horowitz and Alphabet financed a business called Soylent.

I fully expect some VC will pay for a business called Torment Nexus in the next five years.

We live in dumbest timeline, Charlie. Irony is dead.

ovid,
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@cstross I've heard they did it because they thought "hugging" sounded friendly and human. They're a French company, so I guesss this was a case of not having heard the "facehugger" reference.

hairyears,
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@cstross

Hmmm... “xenomorphs bloodily bursting out of human abdominal cavities as a service?“

Gotta be a market for it, worse things have made men 11billionaires.

And what if - walk with me here - WHAT IF... A cabal of scaly aliens with sinister dentition and indelicate digestion are just trying to raise capital to support their traditional way of life?

It is, in the truest sense of the word, a humanitarian investment opportunity.

Meyerweb, (edited )
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lpwaterhouse,
@lpwaterhouse@ioc.exchange avatar

@cstross I'm thinking "Grenzverletzung" (German for "Violation of Personal Space")

ngons,
@ngons@mathstodon.xyz avatar

@cstross It is of course the name of this cute emoji 🤗 but I never made the connection until now. I think less of them now...

cstross,
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

@ngons My eyesight isn't sharp enough to see most emojis as anything other than an indistinct yellow blur. QED, they don't have any sight-impaired staff there in senior/early positions. Figures.

ngons,
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@cstross Rings true to me.

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