Laudatio

Today I saw a thread on Hacker News 🔗 discussing an article about the company Palantir. This comment 🔗 caught my attention:

I read the article. It sounds like a Laudatio to amorality for a S&P500 behemoth whose goal is to enable other companies to purge human from their workflow, pardon… to digitalize the business.

According to lsd.law 🔗, a “laudatio” is:

a type of testimony given in ancient Roman courts to speak about a person’s good behavior and honesty. It’s like when people speak nicely about someone in a modern trial to show that they are a good person. The plural form of laudatio is laudationes.

It sounds to me that if you’re in need of a laudatio, you’re not having a good day.