Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸
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Methinks the bubble is popping. Even Jensen is now worried about Scam Altman's circular money scam - that $100b LOI with OpenAI? He backed out. Surprise! Also Oracle just laid off 30k employees. OpenAI is nearly broke and will need another fundraiser. #oracle #openai #altman #scam #ai #circulareconomy #nvidia #jensen
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Methinks the bubble is popping. Even Jensen is now worried about Scam Altman's circular money scam - that $100b LOI with OpenAI? He backed out. Surprise! Also Oracle just laid off 30k employees. OpenAI is nearly broke and will need another fundraiser. #oracle #openai #altman #scam #ai #circulareconomy #nvidia #jensen
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#oracle #nvidia #openAI #bubble #recirculate
It reads as if my child comes sprinting upstairs while I’m still happily asleep in bed, and then starts holding forth about how there’s “really nothing going on downstairs, honestly…”
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Despite Trump’s celebratory claims that TikTok’s U.S. saga is over, the app now faces mounting challenges around growth, competition, governance, user trust and execution that could quickly erode its immense value. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/30/japan/us-tiktok-saga-isnt-over/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #tiktok #oracle #donaldtrump #china #bytedance
Alex Akselrod
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Larry #Ellison, CEO of #Oracle, and giver of many bribes to Dear Leader, purchased #TikTok, and took ownership of the platform this weekend.
Subsequently, leftists, anti-ice, and anti-trump were immediately deplatformed. Some with messages that said they were using forbidden terms, like #Epstein, videos that referenced Renee #Good or Alex #Pretti. Oh also now they want your full demo info and precise location at all times, even when not using the app. Oh, and they want to know if you’re trans, or gay...because gay is the next target after trans.
I’ve never been a user of this particular drug, TikTok that is, but if you are, just know that they are collecting info to give to Pam #Bondi and her masked thugs at the #DHS.
Maybe deleting it is good #infosec.
Boycott billionaires.
Larry #Ellison, CEO of #Oracle, and giver of many bribes to Dear Leader, purchased #TikTok, and took ownership of the platform this weekend.
Subsequently, leftists, anti-ice, and anti-trump were immediately deplatformed. Some with messages that said they were using forbidden terms, like #Epstein, videos that referenced Renee #Good or Alex #Pretti. Oh also now they want your full demo info and precise location at all times, even when not using the app. Oh, and they want to know if you’re trans, or gay...because gay is the next target after trans.
I’ve never been a user of this particular drug, TikTok that is, but if you are, just know that they are collecting info to give to Pam #Bondi and her masked thugs at the #DHS.
Maybe deleting it is good #infosec.
Boycott billionaires.
Angela Antunovic
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Wow…so after #America 🇺🇸 forced #Tiktok to sell the “American side” to #Oracle & friends, TikTok now bans mentioning #Epstein on its platform.
👉🏾 BREAKING: After Trump's allies took over TikTok this week, any mention of "Epstein" in DMs are not permitted. Here's proof. Anyone else is free to try it. https://x.com/krassenstein/status/2015911471507530219?s=61
Yet another reason to have an alternative to centralized social media platforms (like #Peertube, #Loops, or even #WordPress video) on the #Fediverse.
Wow…so after #America 🇺🇸 forced #Tiktok to sell the “American side” to #Oracle & friends, TikTok now bans mentioning #Epstein on its platform.
👉🏾 BREAKING: After Trump's allies took over TikTok this week, any mention of "Epstein" in DMs are not permitted. Here's proof. Anyone else is free to try it. https://x.com/krassenstein/status/2015911471507530219?s=61
Yet another reason to have an alternative to centralized social media platforms (like #Peertube, #Loops, or even #WordPress video) on the #Fediverse.
Em :official_verified:
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From yesterday.
Congratulations. Now all your data goes to Oracle instead of ByteDance. Which is worse? The devil, or the devil?
Wired: TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/ @WIRED #Oracle #TikTok #ByteDance #privacy
From yesterday.
Congratulations. Now all your data goes to Oracle instead of ByteDance. Which is worse? The devil, or the devil?
Wired: TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/ @WIRED #Oracle #TikTok #ByteDance #privacy
⚠️ Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
｢ With few new features and heavy focus on code base cleanup and feature deprecation, it became obvious to many that Oracle had decided to just keep MySQL barely alive, and put all new relevant features (e.g. vector search) into Heatwave, Oracle’s closed-source and cloud-only service for MySQL customers ｣
https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/reasons-to-stop-using-mysql/
David Gerard
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#Oracle stock is now lower than before they touched #OpenAI ... turns out making up numbers and throwing around rumours of "300bn deals" and whatnot with nothing but butterfly farts behind it is bad.
Lawsuit filed. Main plaintiff -- love it -- the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF3BuIcDYjQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/15/bondholders-sue-oracle-over-openai-debt-deals/
#Oracle stock is now lower than before they touched #OpenAI ... turns out making up numbers and throwing around rumours of "300bn deals" and whatnot with nothing but butterfly farts behind it is bad.
Lawsuit filed. Main plaintiff -- love it -- the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF3BuIcDYjQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/15/bondholders-sue-oracle-over-openai-debt-deals/
Is the AI boom a bubble waiting to pop? Here’s what history says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/05/tech/ai-boom-bubble-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #tech #markets #nvidia #alphabet #broadcom #microsoft #amazon #metaplatforms #openai #oracle
Em :official_verified:
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This piece nails it! The "new" TikTok "deal" is simply an exercise in decorative shape shifting for a situation that has basically been in place for 3 years.
This was never about addressing data privacy, propaganda, or national security. It was always about the US grabbing a big chunk of ownership one of the most popular and successful social media apps. The US Congress just made sure that is was Trump sycophants who got the "win". https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok-deal-done-and-its-somehow-the-shittiest-possible-outcome-making-everything-worse/ #TikTok #Oracle #SilverLake #MGX #NationalSecurity #SocialMedia #China #ByteDance #Algorithm #Privacy #DataPrivacy
This piece nails it! The "new" TikTok "deal" is simply an exercise in decorative shape shifting for a situation that has basically been in place for 3 years.
This was never about addressing data privacy, propaganda, or national security. It was always about the US grabbing a big chunk of ownership one of the most popular and successful social media apps. The US Congress just made sure that is was Trump sycophants who got the "win". https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok-deal-done-and-its-somehow-the-shittiest-possible-outcome-making-everything-worse/ #TikTok #Oracle #SilverLake #MGX #NationalSecurity #SocialMedia #China #ByteDance #Algorithm #Privacy #DataPrivacy