Between this and having to actually deal with the product (as a non-DBA), Oracle’s really on my shitlist
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and there’s also things like this:
As of February 2016, Ellison had given $4 million overall to… Conservative Solutions PAC supporting Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential bid.
In 2020, Ellison allowed former president Donald Trump to have a fundraiser at his Rancho Mirage estate
In January 2022, Ellison donated $15 million to the Opportunity Matters Fund super PAC associated with Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)
Ellison participated in a conference call days after the 2020 presidential election that focused on strategies for challenging the legitimacy of the vote. Other participants on the call included Fox News host Sean Hannity, senator Lindsey Graham, Trump personal attorney Jay Sekulow and James Bopp, an attorney for True the Vote.
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To quote a guy I knew who used to work at Oracle: “Never make the mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.”
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Judges hate this one annoying trick.
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The comments in that article introduced me to the Nitter mirror: swap “twitter.com” with “nitter.net” in the url, and you can now read twitter threads without logging into twitter. And without adding to Twitter’s usage count. Noice.
e.g. this brilliant Xitter thread on the subject of the lawsuit.
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the cnn article mentioned in the comments has some interesting bits:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/21/tech/elon-musk-texas-lawsuit-media-matters/index.html
X’s case was assigned to District Judge Mark Pittman, a Donald Trump appointee who was previously at the center of some of the nation’s biggest legal battles, including over gun rights and President Joe Biden’s blocked student loan forgiveness plan… All three of the lawyers … have backgrounds with the Texas AG’s office or Solicitor General’s office.
… immediately following Musk’s lawsuit on Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a fraud investigation into Media Matters. And Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey posted on X that his office was doing the same
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Ken Paxton should be in jail.
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