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Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD AI chips, the first known case of AMD chips used as debt collateral (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amd-backstop-300-million-…

AMD to Backstop $300 Million Crusoe Loan, Following Nvidia Playbook
Chipmaker AMD is pursuing the same growth-driving strategy that has boosted sales at rival Nvidia: lending its financial support to upstart cloud providers buying its chips. AMD will effectively guarantee a $300 million loan for data center and cloud startup Crusoe to purchase AMD’s AI chips and ...

This is "interesting" - In a civil trial in which Elon M. is the defendant they are having difficulty finding enough unbiased jurors to empanel a jury:
Well, that's one way to evade liability: become so hated that there aren't enough people who don't hate your guts to form a jury.
"Musk’s Twitter Trial Gets Jurors Who Can Set Aside Feelings"

Musk’s Twitter Trial Gets Jurors Who Can Set Aside Feelings
Nine jurors, claiming they can be fair and impartial to Elon Musk and his controversial purchase of Twitter in 2022, were seated in San Francisco federal court Thursday, whittled down from a pool of 93.

It should be easy to see how state escalation across the US (especially MLPS) is a strong indicator of a failing counter-insurgency effort.
Force escalations in other areas are, likewise, a strong counter-indicator of success. Given that Trump only know how to escalate, you can assess for yourself the direction of the next few years.

"Fleet of ‘Flying Ferries’ Will Provide Zero-Emission, Silent EV Boats for Travelers Along Norway’s Busy Coast"
#Norway #Boats

Fleet of ‘Flying Ferries’ Will Provide Zero-Emission, Silent EV Boats for Commuters and Tourists Along Norway’s Coast
Tourists and commuters along Norway’s coast will soon travel aboard “flying” electric ferries—quietly whizzing above the water from Candela.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116434197606361201
There are now nine nuclear powers.
Even three is infinitely more complicated than two.
The agreements,
the norms between countries,
are all falling apart.
Weapons are getting crazier.

Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K satellites as part of its proposed orbital AI data center system "Project Sunrise" (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/blu…

Estefany Rodríguez Flórez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias, is released on $10K bond from ICE custody following her arrest on March 4 during a traffic stop (Jonathan Mattise/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/reporter-ice-ar…

ICE releases Tennessee Spanish-language reporter on bond
A reporter for a Spanish-language news outlet in Tennessee who contends she was wrongly held in a detention center for more than two weeks has been released. Her attorneys say she was released Thursday after paying a bond recently allowed by a judge. Estefany Rodríguez Flórez was in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after her arrest on March 4 during a traffic stop. She's a reporter for Nashville Noticias who has done stories critical of ICE. She was held in jail in Etowah Coun…

Hoe de verkiezingen beinvloed worden door miljonairs met hun al dan niet illegale maar in ieder geval veel te grote giften. Mooi uitzoekwerk!
https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-terwijl-wij…

Opinie: Terwijl wij braaf stemden, stelden miljonairs hun belangen zeker in gemeenteraden
Als we willen voorkomen dat deze kleine minderheid van superrijken onze politieke koers bepaalt, moet de drempel voor partijgiften flink omlaag en moet de controle veel strenger worden.

#BloodInTheMachine is also an excellent book, btw. https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

The small town of Festus, Missouri
— a community made up of just under 14,000 people
— has become a focal point over the growing backlash against
AI data centers entering communities across the country.
Following the approval of a $6 billion data center project,
voters removed four of the eight members of the Festus city council,
as well as started a petition to remove the remaining city council members and the mayor, reports Politico.

Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts
A lawsuit is also seeking to undo the project's approval.