Heiko Scherer

Another Oracle outage is messing up US TikTok TikTok US users may notice lag posting content.

hey let's hastily migrate hbo max and discovery to the same oracle-hosted backend that takes five years to start a paramount+ stream and is regularly cracking under the strain of tiktok, this will go great www.theverge.com/tech/888647/...

Erich Vad, TV-Astrologe 🤣🤣🤣

The last time Europe went to bed at peace was four years ago tonight.

Warum versuchen wir eigentlich immer mit schlechten Gesetzen die Pflichten der Plattformen zu übernehmen und den Mist der da passiert zu verschlimmbessern? Ich meine, wenn ich mit meinem Unternehmen Rechte verletze, werden für mich ja auch keine Gesetze geändert, um die Folgen zu mildern?

And he turned out so normal!

I think the diverse, complex structure of EU requires some kind of pressing emergency mode to get things going. And it’s clearly not a matter of skills, but of will. If EU must take responsibility, it will.. now many still hope to hide behind US..

Maybe the best thing eventually is: when US leaves NATO, when EU is forced to protect itself, when we have to get our shit together..

Seen in Los Angeles

(Credit: Zurita Carpio)

There is nobody who celebrates the division in the USA more than Russia and the mullahs in Iran. Their bot networks will fan the flames coming from both sides in order to make it burn higher and hotter.

Does anyone really expect there will be fair midterms and normal change of seats and power in congress and senate?

Und Europa schaut zu..😢

EU Leadership wäre nicht nur sich zu überlegen wie man taktisch clever auf den Unsinn des US Präsidenten reagiert. Sondern wie man in der Ukraine agiert, nicht reagiert und wie man die Ukraine befähigt nicht nur irgendwie durchzuhalten, sondern Russland zurückzudrängen.

There are the good news, the promising facts out there..

Europeans hoping for the mid terms, when Americans can vote and judge this administration! But I know many being concerned about how this president will respond to results he might not like….

New York! Stay safe 🙌❄️☃️

Maybe they should have just thought about their initial announcement a bit longer: a PR stunt, no website, no W on Bluesky or anywhere.. weird way to start sth

Def great to find out they are using ATProtocol! But didn’t they mention it with a single word, but what they did mention: that u need to identify as a real person, creating potential privacy nightmares..

The TACO cycle:

Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.

So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

Following the russian playbook: force divestment of Insta and WhatsApp, find some billionaire friends that control it. In the works die tiktok US and other key media assets..

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

The party line has gone from "women have to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or genAI will be left behind."

Skyreader: A RSS Reader on the AT Protocol Introducing a RSS reader for the AT Protocol where you feeds and article sharing are portable

Oops, I started a new project: Skyreader, an RSS reader on the AT Protocol. Share cool articles like it's 2010 and Google Reader would never die. skyreader.app

www.disnetdev.com/blog/2026-01...

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Carl Jung

Danke, werde ich mal ausprobieren

An AI Addendum Last month, I chose to strip away all the hubris around AI and ask one simple question, one that oddly no one had really bothered to ask; how much revenue is needed to justify the current level of cap...

Great read: pracap.com/an-ai-addend...

An AI Addendum Last month, I chose to strip away all the hubris around AI and ask one simple question, one that oddly no one had really bothered to ask; how much revenue is needed to justify the current level of cap...

Auch gut: pracap.com/an-ai-addend...

„When the dust settles, we’ll probably see a whole lot of books written about the fancy math games that convinced investors that two companies passing $100 billion back and forth were creating $200 billion in value instead of having a net financial impact of $0.“

It's Giving Enron On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving...

the AI story won't end with either a super intelligence enslaving humanity or some "life of abundance"-utopia. it'll end the way these things always end. the bubble will burst. the economy will tank. the tech moguls will golden-parachute onto their super yachts. normies will pick up the pieces.

Great read, thanks for sharing?

The First-Party Data Future: Responsible Data Collection Strategies for News Organizations — News Product Alliance First-party data is strategically valuable because it connects users’ preferences and behaviors to specific user profiles, often anchored to an email address.  That’s powerful – but it also prese...

I wrote a piece about gathering first-party data without breaching reader trust for the News Product Alliance. newsproduct.org/blog/the-fir...