ben wolfson
@bwolfson10.bsky.social
Oracle Tech PR. probably reading. Arsenal. physical media enthusiast. bird watcher. cinephile. F1. views my own.
Now I'm picturing what 18K Baja Blasts would look like.
August 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Now I'm picturing what 18K Baja Blasts would look like.
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I made a small contribution to our appreciation of the late, great Gene Hackman's 20 essential film roles:
Gene Hackman: 20 Essential Movies
From 'The French Connection' to 'The Royal Tenenbaums' — these films represented one of the greatest American actors of all time at his finest.
www.rollingstone.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I made a small contribution to our appreciation of the late, great Gene Hackman's 20 essential film roles:
"Through you, I’ve learned what it means to be loved without judgment, just pure acceptance. You have forever transformed all of art, be it film or music or painting or cartoons or giving the weather report — all of it became a space for dreaming."
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Laura Dern's letter to David Lynch: You wove L.A. into our dreams
The Oscar-winning actor reflects on a lifetime of work with the filmmaker, with whom she collaborated on "Blue Velvet," "Wild at Heart" and "Inland Empire."
www.latimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Through you, I’ve learned what it means to be loved without judgment, just pure acceptance. You have forever transformed all of art, be it film or music or painting or cartoons or giving the weather report — all of it became a space for dreaming."
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Physical media is alive and well.
honestly one of the best television shows in the last decade
Christopher Walken gets 'Severance' DVDs sent to him because he doesn't 'have the equipment' to stream it
Christopher Walken keeps it old school. The 'Severance' actor says he watches episodes of the hit Apple TV+ via DVDs because he doesn't 'have the equipment' to stream it.
ew.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Physical media is alive and well.
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Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹
January 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹
the mr. jackpots cameo >
January 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
the mr. jackpots cameo >
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A great story about a CEO hacker, a presidential pardon, and rare tropical fish. #infosec #hacking www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Citizen Wade: The secret and remarkable life of a legendary hacker who received a rare presidential pardon | Semafor
Hacker Chris Wade reveals his collaboration with the US government, and the unlikely story of his presidential pardon.
www.semafor.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
A great story about a CEO hacker, a presidential pardon, and rare tropical fish. #infosec #hacking www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Statham's new collaboration with David Ayer where he just plays a different kind of blue collar worker and then an incident causes him to go beast mode...absolute cinema
Me watching Jason Statham star in the same kind of action film he’s made for years
January 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Statham's new collaboration with David Ayer where he just plays a different kind of blue collar worker and then an incident causes him to go beast mode...absolute cinema
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Is Exadata X11M the Gold Standard for Oracle Database Workloads?
Oracle's Exadata X11M: Enhanced Performance, Efficiency, and Flexibility for AI, Analytics, and OLTP
Read the full report 👇
hyperframeresearch.com/2025/01/08/i...
Oracle's Exadata X11M: Enhanced Performance, Efficiency, and Flexibility for AI, Analytics, and OLTP
Read the full report 👇
hyperframeresearch.com/2025/01/08/i...
Is Exadata X11M the Gold Standard for Oracle Database Workloads?
Oracle has launched Exadata X11M, the latest generation of its Exadata…
hyperframeresearch.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Is Exadata X11M the Gold Standard for Oracle Database Workloads?
Oracle's Exadata X11M: Enhanced Performance, Efficiency, and Flexibility for AI, Analytics, and OLTP
Read the full report 👇
hyperframeresearch.com/2025/01/08/i...
Oracle's Exadata X11M: Enhanced Performance, Efficiency, and Flexibility for AI, Analytics, and OLTP
Read the full report 👇
hyperframeresearch.com/2025/01/08/i...
Underestimating HTML is a mistake. HTML is the most significant computing language, programming or otherwise, ever developed.
www.wired.com/story/html-i...
www.wired.com/story/html-i...
HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me
In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.
www.wired.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Underestimating HTML is a mistake. HTML is the most significant computing language, programming or otherwise, ever developed.
www.wired.com/story/html-i...
www.wired.com/story/html-i...
I would never expect IEEE Spectrum to write about Chuck E. Cheese, but this is a nice obituary on its animatronics band: spectrum.ieee.org/chuck-e-chee...
Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronics Band Bows Out
By the end of this year, Chuck E. Cheese will retire the animatronics at all but 5 locations. Yes, the curtain is closing on Mr. Munch and his Make Believe Band. It took almost 50 years, but video scr...
spectrum.ieee.org
December 9, 2024 at 9:10 PM
I would never expect IEEE Spectrum to write about Chuck E. Cheese, but this is a nice obituary on its animatronics band: spectrum.ieee.org/chuck-e-chee...
Marmalade sandwiches >>>
December 2, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Marmalade sandwiches >>>
Greg Pavlik, EVP, AI & Data Management Services joined TechTarget's Targeting AI podcast to chat about Oracle's GenAI strategy, including its partnerships with foundation model providers and working with them to fine-tune models for enterprise use cases.
targetingai.podbean.com/e/oracle-gen...
targetingai.podbean.com/e/oracle-gen...
Oracle generative AI approach based on Cohere, Meta models | Targeting AI
When generative AI became the next big thing in tech, enterprise software giant Oracle bet heavily on a startup to provide it with foundation and large language models rather than scramble to develop ...
targetingai.podbean.com
November 27, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Greg Pavlik, EVP, AI & Data Management Services joined TechTarget's Targeting AI podcast to chat about Oracle's GenAI strategy, including its partnerships with foundation model providers and working with them to fine-tune models for enterprise use cases.
targetingai.podbean.com/e/oracle-gen...
targetingai.podbean.com/e/oracle-gen...
Unreal lede to this @wired.com piece: "James and Rose, the bizarre AI bots who were recently installed as news broadcasters at local Hawaii paper The Garden Island, have been terminated.
wired.com/story/the-ai...
wired.com/story/the-ai...
The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired
A local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved.
wired.com
November 26, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Unreal lede to this @wired.com piece: "James and Rose, the bizarre AI bots who were recently installed as news broadcasters at local Hawaii paper The Garden Island, have been terminated.
wired.com/story/the-ai...
wired.com/story/the-ai...
"The biggest change taking shape in software jobs may be not that A.I. replaces software engineers, but that it makes it more difficult to become one."
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/b...
Do Coding Boot Camps Make Sense in an A.I. World?
Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do? Keep learning, until further notice.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:53 PM
"The biggest change taking shape in software jobs may be not that A.I. replaces software engineers, but that it makes it more difficult to become one."
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/b...
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"As the physical world becomes more alienating, we build ourselves benign parallel universes to burrow into"
here's my new @newyorker.com essay, on digital coziness: a soft, pastel-colored, fuzzy, blobby, anthropomorphic aesthetic that's taking over technology, from cozy video games to sci-fi TV shows to Digimon-like AI companion devices www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
The Fantasy of Cozy Tech
From the “cozy gaming” trend to a new generation of A.I. companions, our devices are trying to swath us in a digital and physical cocoon.
www.newyorker.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:52 AM
"As the physical world becomes more alienating, we build ourselves benign parallel universes to burrow into"
nothing better than pibbles in raincoats
November 21, 2024 at 11:56 PM
nothing better than pibbles in raincoats
Kambiz Aghili spoke with theCUBE while at #ignite to discuss the Oracle Database@Azure expansion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-LU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-LU...
Kambiz Aghili, Oracle | Microsoft Ignite 2024 Unpacked
YouTube video by SiliconANGLE theCUBE
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Kambiz Aghili spoke with theCUBE while at #ignite to discuss the Oracle Database@Azure expansion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-LU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-LU...
Sudha Raghavan joined theCUBE while at #kubecon to discuss Oracle's work with the CNCF and GenAI's role in open source.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPM...
Sudha Raghavan, Oracle | KubeCon NA 2024
YouTube video by SiliconANGLE theCUBE
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Sudha Raghavan joined theCUBE while at #kubecon to discuss Oracle's work with the CNCF and GenAI's role in open source.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPM...