finally got bad enough that it needs fixing, and today i could use a fiddly project to occupy my brain
sadly i forgot that this design has the components mounted on the bottom of the PCB which means desoldering all the switches, so ten minutes was a very unrealistic estimate
Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration
Also:
House Oversight Democrats have published a Web3 is Going Great-style “Trump Family Digital Grift” counter.
This goes with their recent staff report, “Professionalized Corruption: How Donald Trump is abusing power and accepting digital kickbacks from foreign and criminal interests to cash in on the presidency like never before”.
The report cites some of my writing on Trump’s USD1 stablecoin.
Great background on why Coinbase sank the crypto bill they’d just spent months lobbying for, and the fundamental conflict between the banking lobby and the crypto lobby when it comes to stablecoin interest.
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he's focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
how magnanimous of him
“We’ve got a chance to do a new draft and hopefully get back into a markup in a few weeks,” [Coinbase CEO Brian] Armstrong said.
If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a co-ed cheerleading squad.
You’re sitting in your living room trying to make a few bucks by guessing the date Israel will next strike Lebanon. Meanwhile, someone with inside knowledge of that date is planning to use it to take your money. Meanwhile, the prediction markets are taking a cut of the transaction and using it to buy lobbyists to keep oversight down, brand partnerships to make them look legitimate, and advertising to keep you gambling. Meanwhile, someone in Lebanon is sitting in their apartment hoping their building doesn’t explode.