They’re still talking about doing it if they can’t raise enough money to make it through the next R&D cycle. The deals with Nvidia and USA’s federal government gets them about half way there.

oh my how the turntables

link is broken:

“You cannot negotiate with authoritarians. You cannot negotiate with fascists. They don’t stop ̶u̶n̶t̶i̶l̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶i̶e̶s̶.”

FTFY.

Fascism requires an “other” to exist. When all the current “others” have been killed, they must invent a new one or perish.

The goalposts are ever shifting, and the in-group forever shrinking.

Its autocannibalism.

This move is being framed as a response to an annual stress test, however it also has the effect of reducing inflation without increasing interest rates, raising Federal taxes, or reducing government spending.

Bankers hate it because it reduces their profits, and in different political climates that has been enough to convince donation-dependent politicians to instead raise taxes or cut funding to necessary government programs that benefit the non-donor economic class.