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nixCraft 🐧9h ago

Oracle laid off between 20,000 and 30,000 employees Tuesday and it started with a 6 AM email. Employees across the US, India, Canada, and Mexico woke up on 31 March to termination emails from “Oracle Leadership” with no prior warning. TD Cowen estimates the cuts will affect 18% of Oracle’s 162,000-person workforce and free up $8-10 billion to fund AI infrastructure https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-layoffs-march-2026

Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 employees to pay for AI data centres

Employees across the US, India, Canada, and Mexico woke up on 31 March to termination emails from “Oracle Leadership” with no prior warning. TD Cowen estimates the cuts will affect 18% of Oracle’s 162,000-person workforce and free up $8-10 billion to fund AI infrastructure. Oracle has not confirmed the total number. Oracle began executing what […]

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in case if don't know Oracle is building AI for governments world wild. Larry Ellison said "citizens will be on their best behavior". “We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.” https://fortune.com/2025/09/28/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-oracle-tiktok-deal-social-media/

Larry Ellison once predicted ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media

“Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on,” Ellison said last year.

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@nixCraft He can prove it by showing us his records. If he can monitor us, we must monitor him. That's the only way to do any of this in a fair and consensual manner is if he's the first to embrace total surveillance and monitoring.

a.k.a. low-profile 9h ago

@gooba42 @nixCraft I'm not buying the 'if they, then we' argument in this case. It's just plain, they don't - period.

@Nead @nixCraft We don't have to take the next step and go ahead with the rollout but it should be a 100% nonstarter any time this crap is proposed by somebody who isn't already 100% transparent themselves.

He goes first, then we decide. If he doesn't go first, we default to "no way, quit asking".

gonzoart13 9h ago

@nixCraft a well behaved citizen, isn’t a citizen at all, but an order follower, and orders should never be followed.

gonzoart13 9h ago

@nixCraft ok yes I’m an anarchist….

@nixCraft I despised Oracle the moment they bought Sun with the force of a neutron star and that hate did not get any less or any less valid, Ellison is an absolute shit stain on humanity's ass, not to mention being the biggest patent troll to walk the earth, hope Oracle burns down when the bubble bursts.

GoatsLive 8h ago

@nixCraft 1984 was not written as an instruction manual, but a warning!

@nixCraft Larry Ellison is a shitbag, always has been. There's a reason every open source project run by Sun microsystems was forked immediately on the news of being bought by Oracle. I wish a pox on him and his bloodline.

@nixCraft Oh F...

I really need to learn how to use qemu. VirtualBox is the only thing left for me to fully divest.

Ivan Tsenov 🇧🇬 🇺🇦7h ago

@nixCraft These...things, should be stripped of their citizenships and sent to an island to eat themselves.

HoracioDos 7h ago

AI could certainly make dictatorial states more "efficient," even lending a veneer of viability to planned economies. But AI, in itself, is just another tool; the inflection point is always the intent behind its use. Humanity has endured violent cycles of change before. This is why it’s always healthy to revisit Frédéric Bastiat and his "Petition of the Candle Makers."

Break the ICE 🇺🇦 🇵🇸7h ago

This will include the Jeffery Epstein class of the world?

Tomáš F.6h ago

@nixCraft We just killed the Chat Control in the EU parliament. Now this shit?! What is this, North Korea míxed with 1984? I don't think so!!!

@nixCraft goddamnit 1984 WASNT SUPPOSED TO BE A GUIDE!