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Sean Scott

@oraclesean.com

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Your database is down because you didn't listen to me. I put databases in containers so I can cook, buy knives, run & give dogs the life they deserve. He/him. Backup≠Recovery. Dogs>People. Trans Rights=Human Rights.

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 3h

I'm old enough to remember the outrage for Janet Reno's handling of the Fabian Gonzalez situation and the Waco raid. And before that, the repercussions of Ruby Ridge.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 23h

All Cybertrucks Are Bad

A photo of a Cybertruck on a conference show floor. It's painted with black and white police livery. The trim along the running boards has red and blue police lights. The door reads "ORACLE PuBLIC SAFETY".

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4d

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4d

What you're getting from an LLM is a statistical approximation of what the answer would be to a statistical approximation of the question.

This is why prompt engineering is fake. The prompt (and any input data) is just a suggestion - and helps fool you into thinking that your question was answered.

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

The opposite of Midwest dudes wearing a parka and shorts because "my legs don't get cold."

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

Harvard MBAs, in touch with the heartland, tapping into America's love of wholesome potato crate racing. (Coming soon to ESPN)

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

Ah yes, potatoes are famously shipped in crates, and why we have hilarious potato crate races at county fairs across the heartland.

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 4d

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fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

In about a year I look forward to reporting that consumers believe Lays chips are made of wood.

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

Q: Why doesn't Texas drift into the Gulf of Mexico?
A: Because Oklahoma sucks.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

Actually, the government doesn't want you to know that eating ice cream causes weight LOSS. I can prove this using the science of PHYSICS.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

AliExpress Bradley Cooper

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

Gullibility is a core characteristic of his base.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

Gullibility is a core characteristic of his base.

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

"I'm shocked that the Rolex i bought for $200 from a street vendor in Brooklyn wasn't genuine."

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 4d

They're the same picture dot jpeg

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 5d

Looking good, Billy Ray.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
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Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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Oracle AskTOM @oracleasktom.bsky.social · 9d

Next week. Oracle experts will be online for AskTOM Office Hours. Mark your calendar. 14 October at 18:00 UTC https://asktom.oracle.com/ords/r/tech/catalog/session-landing-page?p2_event_id=76267793468776999163283912702454061678

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 9d

See also "Those the law protects but does not bind; those it binds but does not protect."

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 9d

Ridley Scott at his finest: www.imdb.com/title/tt0075...

The Duellists (1977) ⭐ 7.4 | Drama, War

1h 40m | PG

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

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Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 10d

"Women are too emotional"

Sean Scott @oraclesean.com · 11d

Breaking: Snowflakes in Chicago despite 86° heat.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 11d

Just confirmed I'm one of the author victims of the blood sucking company Anthropic that stole my book to train it's LLM. I filed a claim and it felt really good. If you're an author who may have been victimized, you can find out here:

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...

Submit a Claim

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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