Austin Null

2.23.26 💍 The Null’s ♾️ 📸: (dc.empathy on IG)

They keep finding out.

💢 Regional death toll after 32 days of U.S.–Israeli war on Iran: 🔸 Iran: 3,492 killed, including at least 1,574 civilians and at least 236 children, according to HRANA, a U.S.-based and funded group. 🔸 Israel: 19 killed in rocket attacks, according to Magen David Adom; Israeli military says 10 soldiers also killed invading Lebanon. 🔸 Lebanon: 1,268 killed and 3,750 wounded, and 125 children and 52 healthcare workers killed, according to the Health Ministry. 🔸 Gulf states: At least 24 killed, including 11 in the UAE and 7 in Kuwait; Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain reported 2 deaths each. 🔸 United States: 13 U.S. service members killed.

Empires don’t announce their end. They stretch too far, spend too much, and wake up irrelevant. That’s exactly what’s happening to the United States.

Absolute bombshell. Russian Chechen combat units officially declare they will deploy to Iran to fight alongside Iranian forces if the US launches a ground invasion. They are openly framing it as a holy Jihad against American power. The conflict is expanding globally.

TMZ hunting down members of Congress like the paparazzi is probably the healthiest dose of transparency Washington has seen in decades.

People who think exploiting sweatshop workers is fine because it’s overseas and it’s a lifestyle they’re accustomed to.

If TMZ goes all in on covering politicians - which would be brilliant business move - folks just dont realize the paradigm shift of political coverage where all the normies are now on the Harvey payroll to snitch out their elected overlords for social media glory & entertainment

Tom Holland says The Odyssey has “the best script I’ve ever read.” I looked into what actors actually give up to be in a Nolan film. Robert Downey Jr.’s last Marvel paycheck was $75 million. For Oppenheimer, he took $4 million. A 95% pay cut. Matt Damon and Emily Blunt took the same $4 million each, when they normally charge between $10 and $20 million. Variety reported they did it “for the privilege of working with Nolan.” Holland’s Odyssey salary hasn’t been disclosed. But the precedent is well documented. On Oppenheimer, every major name in the cast accepted well below their market rate. Nolan films run on this trade: lower upfront pay for the chance to be in a movie that wins Oscars and crosses a billion dollars. While these actors take discounts, Nolan has the richest director deal in Hollywood. He gets a percentage of every ticket sold from the very first one, not after the studio breaks even. On Oppenheimer, a movie that cost $100 million to make and brought in $976 million, Nolan personally walked away with close to $100 million. Roughly the same as the entire budget. Only Spielberg, Cameron, and Peter Jackson have ever gotten deals like that. The Odyssey is that whole machine turned up. $250 million budget, his most expensive movie ever, and the first one ever shot 100% on IMAX film cameras. They burned through 2 million feet of film in 91 days using custom cameras that IMAX built specifically for Nolan. Last July, IMAX put opening weekend tickets on sale a full year before the movie comes out. 95% sold in under an hour from just 26 theaters worldwide. Tickets that cost $25 were reselling on eBay that night for $300 to $500. Nolan locked up every IMAX screen on the planet from July 17 to August 14, a full month where no other movie gets shown. Oppenheimer made $190 million from IMAX screens alone. The Odyssey trailer pulled 121 million views in 24 hours. Nolan’s career total is above $6 billion, with his average film returning more than 4x its budget. When Holland calls this the best script he has ever read, I believe him. But Nolan built a system where the biggest names in the industry will work for less just to say they were part of it.

As the private credit market, absolutely implodes, today, the Department of labor announced that they have found a way to grant immunity to these fund managers so that they can lose all of your 401(k), and you can’t do a thing about it. I’m so sick of being right! Thanks @ShannonJoyRadio apple.news/A0pDiKO6OTImnO…

Wembanyama on his relationship with Castle: “We’ve had the chance to spend lots of minutes on the court together and he understand me very well.. It’s just the beginning, I hope to spend 15 years as his teammate so hopefully we see thousands of lobs.” 🖤🤍 #GoSpursGo #PorVida

chi no wonder she was giggling as her stranger things castmates were crying

Your alarm goes off at 6 AM. There's an email from "Oracle Leadership." You've never gotten a message from that sender before. It says your job is gone, today is your last day, and severance details will arrive by DocuSign. By the time you finish reading, your company laptop is already locked. This happened to up to 30,000 Oracle employees this morning. Oracle reported $17.2 billion in revenue last quarter, its best in 15 years. And it still fired nearly 1 in 5 of its people. The stock went up 6% today. Oracle owes over $108 billion. The company signed a $156 billion deal to build AI data centers over five years, mostly for OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT). That requires buying roughly 3 million specialized computer chips. Two years ago, Oracle spent $6.9 billion a year on this kind of construction. This year it's $50 billion. The 30,000 people who got that email are funding the gap. Investment bank TD Cowen estimates the layoffs will free up $8 to $10 billion in cash flow, money going straight into chips and construction. Oracle filed a $2.1 billion restructuring plan with regulators in March, and nearly $1 billion had already been spent before the emails went out. Lenders are getting nervous. The cost to insure Oracle's debt against default has spiked to levels last seen during the 2009 financial crisis. Barclays downgraded Oracle's debt in November, warning the company is one step from "junk" status, the point where lenders consider you a serious default risk. Some banks have stopped lending to Oracle for these projects altogether. The gamble gets worse. CNBC reported on March 9 that OpenAI, Oracle's biggest customer for all of this, is already looking at newer, faster chips from Nvidia. Oracle ordered the current generation and spent billions building out a massive Texas facility. OpenAI may not fully expand into it. The chips improve faster than the buildings go up. Larry Ellison, Oracle's founder, owns 41% of the company. In September 2025, Oracle's stock hit $346, and Ellison briefly became the richest person alive at $393 billion. Today, the stock sits around $146. His fortune has dropped to roughly $201 billion in six months. Oracle is spending borrowed money to build data centers that could be outdated before they're finished, for a customer already shopping for newer equipment. 30,000 people woke up to a 6 AM email because that's what it costs to fund a $156 billion bet when your lenders are running out of patience.

Oracle Layoffs - The EMAIL. The job cuts will affect somewhere around 20,000 and 30,000 - which is about roughly 18% of their global workforce. This has been clearly evident since early-mid Feb as I have been alerting.

I wish folks would stop saying he got waived because of homophobic comments. Dude was out there hounding teammates about their religious beliefs and questioning reporters about committing sins and fornicating. No one wants that around any workplace.

PR war won. Bombs away ASAP please, @Iran 🙂‍↔️🤞🏻

Iran has decided to target Palantir. They are really trying to win that PR war.

BREAKING: At tonight’s NYC-DSA electoral forum, @AOC committed to voting against “any spending on arms for Israel, including so-called defensive capabilities.”

This is why guillotines existed at one point btw 🙂‍↔️😂

BREAKING: Oracle laid off 20,000-30,000 employees this morning with a single 6 am email.

This is disrespectful af to Wemby 😭😂