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The Hunter Luepke hype train is coming off the rails https://insidethestar.com/the-hunter-luepke-hype-train-is-coming-off-the-rails

Velocity, a stablecoin treasury and settlement platform, raised a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, bringing its total funding to around $50M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/408242/dragon

Dragonfly, FirstMark lead $38 million Series A for stablecoin startup Velocity with support from Coinbase, Ripple and more
The startup enables corporate users to use stablecoins while connecting to traditional banking rails and compliance systems.

“Can you reassure our NATO allies and make it clear to Putin that if a NATO ally is attacked and Article 5 is invoked, that we will defend them?”
“The United States is still in the NATO alliance,” he said, before adding that “NATO needs significant changes” and that Trump “is very disappointed in NATO.”
'You Won't Let Me Answer!': Rubio Thought He Had an Easy Way Out — Then a Congresswoman Blew Up Every Spin Attempt and Sent the Exchange Off the Rails
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/06/09/rubio-thought-he-had-an-easy-way-out-then-a-congresswoman-blew-up-every-spin-attempt-and-sent-the-exchange-off-the-rails/

Seeing houses and cars set on fire and people terrorized directly instigated by the guy that DHH said makes “beautiful” things happen.
If you’re a Rubyist, tell the Rails Core team what you think about them being collaborators and enablers for this.
Fucking disgusting.

from my link log —
A history of parsers of the Ruby programming language.
https://railsatscale.com/2024-04-16-prism-in-2024/
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Prism in 2024
In Ruby 3.3.0, a new standard library was added to CRuby called Prism. Prism is a parser for the Ruby language, exposed as both a C library (optionally usable by CRuby) and a Ruby library (usable as a Ruby gem). The Prism project represents many person-years worth of effort, and is the result of a collaboration between Shopify, CRuby core contributors, other Ruby implementation authors, and Ruby tooling developers.

Equipment repair time! Digilent ADP3450 I've had for a long time and recently stopped working.
It draws 0.6 mA from the 19V input with the power switch off and 1.1 mA with it on. So it's clearly not even attempting to boot.
All of the power rails I've poked at measure zero volts so whatever failed is pretty far up the chain.
I'm going to try to video the debug process and see how it turns out.

Nexstar appeals a district court judge's injunction blocking its Tegna acquisition while an antitrust lawsuit proceeds and calls the injunction "overbroad" (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/nexstar-reactions-tegna-merger-i…

Nexstar Rails Against $6.2B Tegna Merger Injunction: Calls Out DirecTV & State AGs “Cynical Attempt To Advance Their Own Commercial & Political Interests”
Months after a federal judge put a freeze on Nexstar & Tegna's $6.2B merger, the local TV giant trashed State AGs & DirecTV in a hardcore court filing

This morning I have mostly been truing the sawmill bed. The ground had obviously shifted a bit over winter, and it was no longer cutting perfectly true.
It's now cutting much better, although I am going to need to get my blades sharpened.
#TheJoyOfCrofting

Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/3…

Coinbase makes a major play for India’s booming $3 billion crypto market with local currency launch
Coinbase announces INR rails to make the platform fully accessible to Indian retail traders.

Judge rails against ICE for 'open defiance' of court orders
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/systemic-pattern-of-noncompliance-judge-rails-against-ices-open-defiance-of-numerous-court-orders-in-cases-where-immigrants-were-illegally-detained/