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Wow I checked this out some guys I follow (who post multiple times a day) and they literally haven’t posted anything in over 24 Hrs. They broke the website. This can’t be understated

Stop it, I can only take so much good news in one post.

... in the middle of the pacific ocean in shark infested waters in the middle of a hurricane.

God it will be really funny if oracle and then TikTok just completely implode in a few years from all this

Some media/soc media will fail. But as long as 99% of media become Right Wing, these ppl may be happy. Right now well over 50% is. Media are not their main businesses. If they lose $, it's still an investment in the party of tax cuts 4 the rich, deregulation etc. upine.medium.com/the-vast-rea...

It’s shocking how bad Americans are at making money

Your lips to Cthulhu’s ears. Or psychic tentacle things. Whatever.

inshallah

As someone who's had to admin both Oracle applications and databases in the past, I'm thrilled to be on Oracle deathwatch.

Is there a down side? I'm not seeing a down side.

I honestly believe that it's going to turn out like when Yahoo bought Tumblr. It won't be long before they're BEGGING someone to buy it from them.

On a bright note, we'll get our Hawaiian island back during the bankruptcy sale.

bsky.app/profile/upin...

I mean I have some theories but I'm hoping someone comes along with actual analysis lol

And with RW oligarchs controlling US media, they could stay in power a long time, well past the Trump administration. They are playing a long game here. We can't be naive about this. This is not a business (as usual) play. This is a RW oligarchy play. They are looking to take over for good. /2

Why cares when you can just call the big guy for a bailout. purchase half a billion in trumpcoin, and poof! problem solved.

TikTok is going to be run into the ground at a speed that would make NewsCorp's ownership of Myspace look like child's play

Can’t they just keep the Bytedance TikTok algorithm and staff?

I assume people who have enjoyed what tik tok has been feeding them for years will notice and stop enjoying it when they just get the dumbest pro-trump nonsense all the time.

Leisure Suit Larry as the boa that finally kills itself choking on an alligator, taking down CBS in the process, is really too delicious a prospect

Maybe Bari Weiss can do some investigative journalism about the issue for a 60 mins piece? 😂😂😂

Ed, are there any estimates of what % of Ellison's wealth is Oracle stock and what % is stock he already sold and banked the cash or invested? Would love nothing more than for Ellison's net worth to implode - just trying to figure out how much cash/$ liquid securities portfolio cushion he has.

The thing that amazes me is that Oracle’s core business is extremely profitable and all of the debt is new and because they convinced themselves that they couldn’t maintain market dominance without ai their customers don’t want

You hate to see it

Great questions. Those are lease obligations for data center capacity it is building for OpenAI, and "how much revenue" is entirely based on whether OpenAI, a company that likely lost $10-$20bn in the most recent quarter, can afford to pay them $300bn over 5 years. bsky.app/profile/swif...

guess we'll see if too big to fail is still real

And I am here for it. I hope it hurts so much it kills him, and his kid has to file for bankruptcy.

And they're gutting TikTok today, so this will be fun.

If this ends with Netflix buying Paramount Skydance for pennies on the dollar when the Ellisons are scrambling for liquidity, I’m going to laugh for a month.

And Larry can't even carry a sink

What are the lease obligations? And what revenue will they generate? How do you owe that much to lease some kind of thing and not own it?

Hmm I wonder why Warner Brothers didn't want to sell to them. Weird

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Another trump like business man

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy

“Never interrupt your opponent when he is in the middle of making a mistake.”

🤞

Time to get out the popcorn...

Oh no, punishment for the ultra-wealthy! Tax them. Using all that wealth to fuck up my day every fucking day means they have too much god damned money. Tax churches, too. And crypto. Tax that bullshit. FUCK

That would be so funny and satisfying to see $ORCL go bankrupt

I’m wondering if Bytedance’s plan is to let this go belly up and buy it back even cheaper down the line

I’m sure that like Elon they kinda just assumed there was a department of wokeness they could cut and it would fix everything including their cost structure

It's kind of hard to out stupid Elon on these things. He's in debt to the Saudis for buying Twitter and now he's hidden that debt in xAI, something with even less chance of being able to pay it back.

Ellison hasnt 'run' Oracle in a long time. This is result of a weak Board and less gifted executive team. When the 6 car pile up happens will be hard not to gawk.

Wait, he's doing it *worse* than Elon??

But is that even true? The direct losses on propaganda for Trump via tiktok will likely be made up and more by favorable regulatory treatment, corrupt government contracts, and insider deals brokered by Trump and those around him.

Tell him to start a gofundme if he needs cash

Seriously, I've had to block so many advertisers, which is something I only very rarely done before now.

Come on, Ed! It'll be the next X - The next Everything Site!

But don't you see it's not about the money? It's about building a propaganda machine that immediately loses over half its users and then folds due to lack of money

Let them cook (themselves)

Good.

🙏

Ever checked out the free tier of oracle cloud— kinda bonkers what they’re giving away to get a single customer who will drop them in a hot second if forced to pay. Buying paramount & backstopping a way overbid WB&discovery offer too. Idk how many unprofitable things they can buy b4 they go under

Inshallah

bsky.app/profile/paul...

takin his shot now for sure

One only hopes

With Tiktok losing money like this, that says "investors" in it aren't in it for the money. So they must be after something else. One does have to wonder what *they* think they've bought. And why...

Losing billions of dollars seems to be one of the few things tech companies excel at lately

Fascinating. Thank you for sharing this.

inshallah brother.

If they succeed in their Technofudealism goals, they will make the lost money up from people's pensions and then some... That is the goal afterall...

If you’re still on that thing…. Good luck lol

Couldn’t happen to a worse package of corporate ghouls.

TikTok U.S. version will die quickly - - faster than X under Musk. But that seems to be the point.

Looks like it only works with apps. I see no way to access it from a web browser. Not installing any social media apps on my phone.

I hope it all implodes for him

We will have to see if they are ham handed enough to just kill the whole thing. people don't mind being brain washed gently, They HATE IT when its in there faces.

Hoping that this means I’ll be able to buy the Sun intellectual property at their bankruptcy auction for pennies on the million.

They must have extensive lessons learned documentation from their multi-year struggle to chase away Sun customers. Breaking docs.sun.com was obvious in hindsight but it took them a year or two to come up with that idea.

The new TOS is going to kill the app. The whole point of why it was adopted was because the creator program paid well. Now they own all your videos. This will kill the influencer economy. Khaby Lame sold at the right moment.

Not to mention Trump and his goons collecting on their debts and skewing everyone’s feeds to support his propaganda aims.