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I never thought I’d say this, but I genuinely wonder if Oracle could die! One of the few true bailout targets I’d humor. They’re doing $248bn of lease deals while spending $12bn in capex a quarter, negative cash flow too. Nasty stuff
www.theinformation.com/briefings/or...
www.theinformation.com/briefings/or...
Oracle Strikes $150 Billion of Data Center Leases in November Quarter
Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November, it revealed in securities filing late last week, a sign it is preparing for the cloud d...
www.theinformation.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I never thought I’d say this, but I genuinely wonder if Oracle could die! One of the few true bailout targets I’d humor. They’re doing $248bn of lease deals while spending $12bn in capex a quarter, negative cash flow too. Nasty stuff
www.theinformation.com/briefings/or...
www.theinformation.com/briefings/or...
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Oracle added $148bn of lease agreements to make sure it can provide the compute to OpenAI for a deal that OpenAI cannot afford to pay for. OpenAI is probably like $30bn+ of the $52bn of revenue Oracle is meant to book from its backlog. We’re setting up for an existential threat!
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Oracle added $148bn of lease agreements to make sure it can provide the compute to OpenAI for a deal that OpenAI cannot afford to pay for. OpenAI is probably like $30bn+ of the $52bn of revenue Oracle is meant to book from its backlog. We’re setting up for an existential threat!
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#DonaldTrump BLINDSIDED: US’s #Aluminum Supply VANISHES Overnight — #Canada Redirects Its Entire Flow to Europe in a dramatic shift. Production lines are stalling, automakers are scrambling for alternative suppliers, construction firms are warning of massive cost spikes #inflation #MakeAmericaSmall
December 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
#DonaldTrump BLINDSIDED: US’s #Aluminum Supply VANISHES Overnight — #Canada Redirects Its Entire Flow to Europe in a dramatic shift. Production lines are stalling, automakers are scrambling for alternative suppliers, construction firms are warning of massive cost spikes #inflation #MakeAmericaSmall
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🌌 Auf allsky.dl7ag.de vereine ich meine Allsky-Kamera mit meinem eigenen Satelliten-Empfang. Live-Blick auf den Himmel über Angermünde plus übersichtliche Anzeige der empfangenen Satelliten inkl. Statistiken. Ein Projekt von DL7AG – Funk, Technik & Astronomie.
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TinySky – DL7AG
Die Kamera überwacht den Himmel über Angermünde am Mündesee und liefert rund um die Uhr Eindrücke von Wolken, Sternen, Meteoren und allem, was sonst vorbeizieht.
allsky.dl7ag.de
December 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🌌 Auf allsky.dl7ag.de vereine ich meine Allsky-Kamera mit meinem eigenen Satelliten-Empfang. Live-Blick auf den Himmel über Angermünde plus übersichtliche Anzeige der empfangenen Satelliten inkl. Statistiken. Ein Projekt von DL7AG – Funk, Technik & Astronomie.
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🇭🇺💥Thousands marched to Viktor Orbán’s office in Budapest on Saturday, led by opposition leader Péter Magyar, who called on the PM to resign over multiple child abuse scandals. Protesters carried toys and torches under the banner “Protect the children!”.
🎥Timelapse video posted by Magyar.
🎥Timelapse video posted by Magyar.
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🇭🇺💥Thousands marched to Viktor Orbán’s office in Budapest on Saturday, led by opposition leader Péter Magyar, who called on the PM to resign over multiple child abuse scandals. Protesters carried toys and torches under the banner “Protect the children!”.
🎥Timelapse video posted by Magyar.
🎥Timelapse video posted by Magyar.
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"Das Social-Media-Verbot in Australien führt sogar zu noch mehr Kontrollverlust. Zuvor hatten Regulierungsbehörden klare Ansprechpersonen bei den großen Konzernen. Wenn auch widerspenstig haben sie zunehmend Maßnahmen für mehr Jugendschutz umgesetzt.
netzpolitik.org/2025...
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Social-Media-Bann in Australien startet: Ein dunkler Tag für den Jugendschutz im Netz
Kein TikTok, kein YouTube und kein Instagram für Menschen unter 16 Jahren: Mit dem Social-Media-Bann betritt Australien netzpolitisches Neuland mit weltweiter Signalwirkung. Jugendlichen ist damit kein Stück geholfen. Ein Kommentar.
netzpolitik.org
December 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"Das Social-Media-Verbot in Australien führt sogar zu noch mehr Kontrollverlust. Zuvor hatten Regulierungsbehörden klare Ansprechpersonen bei den großen Konzernen. Wenn auch widerspenstig haben sie zunehmend Maßnahmen für mehr Jugendschutz umgesetzt.
netzpolitik.org/2025...
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"A market correction will shift attention to alternative models. This will in turn create new opportunities for Europe, which has strengths in applied AI and the chance to build the most trusted AI stack in the world." www.ft.com/content/0308...
Europe must be ready when the AI bubble bursts
A market correction will give the EU the chance to offer a trust-based alternative to American tech
www.ft.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"A market correction will shift attention to alternative models. This will in turn create new opportunities for Europe, which has strengths in applied AI and the chance to build the most trusted AI stack in the world." www.ft.com/content/0308...
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Bitte lesen - ein hochpolitischer Beitrag, der uns besser verstehen lässt
Aus den SciLogs: Erfreulicherweise habe ich inzwischen fast täglich Gespräche über die Psychologie der Mimesis – der menschlichen Nachahmung von Zielen. Sie erklärt, warum Menschen andere versklaven, foltern und töten, aber sie auch ehren, ihnen beistehen und sie …
Vom Faustkeil zur Menschenwürde - Die Evolutionspsychologie der Mimesis erklärt
Dr. Michael Blume erklärt die Evolutionspsychologie der Mimesis, die mit Acheuléen-Faustkeilen der Altsteinzeit begonnen habe.
scilogs.spektrum.de
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Bitte lesen - ein hochpolitischer Beitrag, der uns besser verstehen lässt
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Today's p.r. spam award goes to Meltwater. They're not here, only on X and Meta supporting Nazis. But be aware: The lists of journalists they sell are scraped from the Web without consent of data subjects. They're Dutch company but ignore Dutch law and GDPR: hasbrouck.org/about/pitch....
Edward Hasbrouck, "The Practical Nomad"
Edward Hasbrouck, The Practical Nomad
hasbrouck.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Today's p.r. spam award goes to Meltwater. They're not here, only on X and Meta supporting Nazis. But be aware: The lists of journalists they sell are scraped from the Web without consent of data subjects. They're Dutch company but ignore Dutch law and GDPR: hasbrouck.org/about/pitch....
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"3 three potential scenarios for the big OpenAI contract:
1. Oracle reduces its forecasts next yr but is still able to salvage some of the work;
2. OpenAI collapses & the contract goes away
3. “OpenAI achieves super-intelligence, spends $1.4T, none of us have to ever work again, & Oracle is fine.”"
1. Oracle reduces its forecasts next yr but is still able to salvage some of the work;
2. OpenAI collapses & the contract goes away
3. “OpenAI achieves super-intelligence, spends $1.4T, none of us have to ever work again, & Oracle is fine.”"
December 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"3 three potential scenarios for the big OpenAI contract:
1. Oracle reduces its forecasts next yr but is still able to salvage some of the work;
2. OpenAI collapses & the contract goes away
3. “OpenAI achieves super-intelligence, spends $1.4T, none of us have to ever work again, & Oracle is fine.”"
1. Oracle reduces its forecasts next yr but is still able to salvage some of the work;
2. OpenAI collapses & the contract goes away
3. “OpenAI achieves super-intelligence, spends $1.4T, none of us have to ever work again, & Oracle is fine.”"
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💥🪧Huge protest tomorrow outside Viktor Orbán’s office after another week of damning evidence of sexual and physical abuse in child care and youth detention centers. It's Hungary’s own Epstein-style scandal, fueled by wild rumors.
This new related video has already been seen by millions.
This new related video has already been seen by millions.
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
💥🪧Huge protest tomorrow outside Viktor Orbán’s office after another week of damning evidence of sexual and physical abuse in child care and youth detention centers. It's Hungary’s own Epstein-style scandal, fueled by wild rumors.
This new related video has already been seen by millions.
This new related video has already been seen by millions.
Reposted by Erich M.
Larry Ellison has ridden the AI boom back to the center of Silicon Valley. What happens to his $300 billion bet if the bubble bursts?
Oracle’s $300 Billion AI Bet Has Fast Become a Bubble Barometer
Silicon Valley is in the midst of another epic boom, and Larry Ellison has Oracle right at the center of it, for better or worse.
bloom.bg
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Larry Ellison has ridden the AI boom back to the center of Silicon Valley. What happens to his $300 billion bet if the bubble bursts?
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How did Google catch up to ChatGPT so quickly?
Because it has an unfair advantage, @parmy.bsky.social says 🎥
Because it has an unfair advantage, @parmy.bsky.social says 🎥
December 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
How did Google catch up to ChatGPT so quickly?
Because it has an unfair advantage, @parmy.bsky.social says 🎥
Because it has an unfair advantage, @parmy.bsky.social says 🎥
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Was just saying yesterday that even for the internet, even for rule 34, it is alarming how much disney princess ai porn is out there. glad disney has decided this is a technology worth investing in and supporting
www.404media.co/disney-inves...
www.404media.co/disney-inves...
Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand
With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.
www.404media.co
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Was just saying yesterday that even for the internet, even for rule 34, it is alarming how much disney princess ai porn is out there. glad disney has decided this is a technology worth investing in and supporting
www.404media.co/disney-inves...
www.404media.co/disney-inves...
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Super interesting reporting on Palantir‘s efforts to be used in Swiss governmental services and the military. They decided against it, because they worried Palantir was giving information to CIA and NSA and feared a loss of national sovereignty.
www.republik.ch/2025/12/08/w...
www.republik.ch/2025/12/08/w...
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Super interesting reporting on Palantir‘s efforts to be used in Swiss governmental services and the military. They decided against it, because they worried Palantir was giving information to CIA and NSA and feared a loss of national sovereignty.
www.republik.ch/2025/12/08/w...
www.republik.ch/2025/12/08/w...
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Trump has just accelerated Europe’s electric vehicle reckoning - By slowing the #ElectricVehicles transition in the US, #DonaldTrump has just accelerated that future for Europe. Thank you #SleepyDonald www.ft.com/content/b390... via @FT #MakeAmericaSmall #Republicans #ActOnClimate #AfD #EPP #CDU
Trump has just accelerated Europe’s electric vehicle reckoning
As US carmakers gain political cover to delay EV development, Asian companies can expand at greater scale
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Trump has just accelerated Europe’s electric vehicle reckoning - By slowing the #ElectricVehicles transition in the US, #DonaldTrump has just accelerated that future for Europe. Thank you #SleepyDonald www.ft.com/content/b390... via @FT #MakeAmericaSmall #Republicans #ActOnClimate #AfD #EPP #CDU
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In einem Altbau in der Brigittenau: Müll in den Erdgeschosswohnungen, zerbrochene Fenster, einige wenige Bewohner:innen, die sich gegen den Auszug wehren - und nun wird das Haus als renditestarkes Investment um 2,19 Mio. € angeboten. @nazk.bsky.social hat für Zwischenbrücken recherchiert.
Verfall als Geschäftsmodell
In einem Altbau kämpfen Bewohner:innen gegen mutwillig herbeigeführte Verwahrlosung. Gleichzeitig wird das Haus als Betongold angeboten.
www.zwischenbruecken.at
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
In einem Altbau in der Brigittenau: Müll in den Erdgeschosswohnungen, zerbrochene Fenster, einige wenige Bewohner:innen, die sich gegen den Auszug wehren - und nun wird das Haus als renditestarkes Investment um 2,19 Mio. € angeboten. @nazk.bsky.social hat für Zwischenbrücken recherchiert.
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CBP wants all visitors to install and use its smartphone app:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/1...
Data demanded includes all social media accounts; residences, phone numbers, email addresses of you, parents, siblings & children; & biometrics (face, fingerprint, DNA, iris).
Welcome to the World Cup!
papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/1...
Data demanded includes all social media accounts; residences, phone numbers, email addresses of you, parents, siblings & children; & biometrics (face, fingerprint, DNA, iris).
Welcome to the World Cup!
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
CBP wants all visitors to install and use its smartphone app:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/1...
Data demanded includes all social media accounts; residences, phone numbers, email addresses of you, parents, siblings & children; & biometrics (face, fingerprint, DNA, iris).
Welcome to the World Cup!
papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/1...
Data demanded includes all social media accounts; residences, phone numbers, email addresses of you, parents, siblings & children; & biometrics (face, fingerprint, DNA, iris).
Welcome to the World Cup!
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🌜 Good Night, Good People Everywhere! 🌛
VIENNA AT CHRISTMASTIME
Café Dommayer
Alt-Hietzing, 13th District
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#ClassicMono #Monochrome
#Kaffeehaus #WindowsOnWednesday
VIENNA AT CHRISTMASTIME
Café Dommayer
Alt-Hietzing, 13th District
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#ClassicMono #Monochrome
#Kaffeehaus #WindowsOnWednesday
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
🌜 Good Night, Good People Everywhere! 🌛
VIENNA AT CHRISTMASTIME
Café Dommayer
Alt-Hietzing, 13th District
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#ClassicMono #Monochrome
#Kaffeehaus #WindowsOnWednesday
VIENNA AT CHRISTMASTIME
Café Dommayer
Alt-Hietzing, 13th District
Image © Merisi Vienna
#EastCoastKin #Photography
#ClassicMono #Monochrome
#Kaffeehaus #WindowsOnWednesday
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I've integrated Mistral AI models in my little coding agent harness pi and am happy to report that Devstral 2.0 is a good agentic model. Somewhere between Sonnet 4.0 and 4.5. It's also OSS and self-hostable.
Europe is back, baby!
Europe is back, baby!
December 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I've integrated Mistral AI models in my little coding agent harness pi and am happy to report that Devstral 2.0 is a good agentic model. Somewhere between Sonnet 4.0 and 4.5. It's also OSS and self-hostable.
Europe is back, baby!
Europe is back, baby!
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Let's encrypt now serving about a billion of websites and their users with a secure communication. Truly a project that served civilisation well. Happy 10th anniversary!
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates
On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using autom...
letsencrypt.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Let's encrypt now serving about a billion of websites and their users with a secure communication. Truly a project that served civilisation well. Happy 10th anniversary!
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
Krass. Fünf Jahre alte Teslas belegen in einem Survey des Consumer Report den letzten Platz in puncto Zuverlässigkeit unter lauter Verbrennern.
"Tesla is dead last, suffering the particularly harsh indignity of getting beaten by Jeep in the reliability survey."
www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-b...
"Tesla is dead last, suffering the particularly harsh indignity of getting beaten by Jeep in the reliability survey."
www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-b...
Tesla Barely Beats Jeep for Least Reliable Used Car, Owner Survey Says
Consumer Reports' latest used-car reliability leaderboard has some surprises.
www.thedrive.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Krass. Fünf Jahre alte Teslas belegen in einem Survey des Consumer Report den letzten Platz in puncto Zuverlässigkeit unter lauter Verbrennern.
"Tesla is dead last, suffering the particularly harsh indignity of getting beaten by Jeep in the reliability survey."
www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-b...
"Tesla is dead last, suffering the particularly harsh indignity of getting beaten by Jeep in the reliability survey."
www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-b...
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Broke down three separate tweets from Elon Musk showing that his conception of "free speech" is incoherent beyond "I can say what I want, you must shut up."
Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep…
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep…
Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep dive ever could. Let’s start with this one: That’s Elon announcing that: Falsely labeling non-violent people as “fascist” or “Nazi” should be treated as incitement to murder…
www.techdirt.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Broke down three separate tweets from Elon Musk showing that his conception of "free speech" is incoherent beyond "I can say what I want, you must shut up."