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As we approach a future yet to be and muse upon visions we hope to see, the present grants us time to now reflect. Of things that came and passed away, and time that winds from day to day, we find ourselves in quite a subjective state. When peering through the veil of times unknown and dreaming of what futures we might have known, in an instant, our minds attain infinities unbound. These visions swiftly fade like morning dew and leave us yearning for what may be true, while future dreams bring past pains into view. Though we may waver in uncertain light, may wisdom guide us through that stormy might to find the peace that rests beneath its blight. No boundary crossed nor loss endured can keep our hearts' wisdom long obscured. Its truth remains, forever now assured.

🚨Breaking: A complete guide to building your own CNC router from scratch -- frame, wiring, electronics, software, and all 3D-printed parts included. It's called DIY CNC Machine. And it's not a kit. It's a full build guide with every step documented -- hundreds of photos, a complete bill of materials with part numbers and images, STL files for every 3D-printed component, Fusion 360 CAD files, and software setup from Arduino to G-code sender. Here's what the build covers: → Main frame -- aluminium extrusion profiles, threaded rods, MGN12H linear rails → Y, X, and Z axes -- geared stepper motors, HTD5M belt drives, acme rod for Z-axis → Carriage and vertical slider -- 3D-printed, riding on MGN12H rail blocks → Full electrical wiring -- power supply, CNC shield, stepper drivers, end-stops with VRef tuning → Arduino Uno running GRBL -- open source CNC firmware → Wasteboard and dust shoe -- including an updated design added post-build → Complete bill of materials -- every single part with item numbers, images, and a Google Sheets spreadsheet Here's the wildest part: This was featured #2 on Hacker News, covered by Hackaday's blog and podcast, and picked up by Arduino's official blog -- all from one person documenting their actual build with nothing left out. The 3D-printed parts, CAD files, slicer config, and BOM are all in the repo. Free to build. 1.7K GitHub stars. 124 forks. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

Remember, remember, the 5th of November vibes.

A 19-year-old drops out of school in Paris, teaches himself to code on an Apple II, builds X-rated chat rooms, and makes his first million before he can legally drink. Then he hacks the French president's phone. To prove a point about weak security. He gets arrested. Spends a month in jail. Most people's story ends there. His starts. He founds Iliad in 1999 and launches a telecom brand called Free. The name is the strategy. He prices unlimited mobile at €19.99/month when every French carrier was charging €45+. The entire industry collapses into a price war overnight. French consumers save an estimated €10 billion over the next five years. Three legacy carriers post the worst quarterly results in their history. Today Iliad has 52 million subscribers across France, Italy, and Poland. €10 billion in annual revenue. €2.25 billion in operating free cash flow last year, up 23% year over year. Niel took it private because he got tired of quarterly earnings calls constraining his ability to start wars in new markets. While building a telecom empire, he also bought Le Monde (France's paper of record), co-owns the rights to "My Way" by Sinatra, founded 42 (a tuition-free coding school with zero teachers that accepts anyone regardless of credentials), built Station F (the world's largest startup campus in a converted Paris freight depot), seed-funded Mistral AI, invested €100 million in Kyutai alongside Eric Schmidt, and bought a Parisian palace from a Qatari prince for $227 million. His partner is Delphine Arnault. The CEO of Dior. The daughter of Bernard Arnault, the richest person in Europe. He sits on the board of KKR. Yesterday he launched Free Max. Unlimited 5G data in 135+ countries for €19.99/month. Same playbook he's been running for 25 years: walk into a market where carriers charge $15/day for roaming, price it at 66 cents, and watch every competitor scramble. Xavier Niel is worth $14.2 billion and the only CEO in telecom who responds to customer death threats by showing up to the parking lot.

At first, I couldn't fucking believe this was a real article. So I had to look it up... and it's real. This is some deranged, evil nonsense, man... no amount of ideological spin turns a sexual assault into some noble "assimilation tool". This is just morally bankrupt. Then they use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to dress up sexual assault as some quirky "cultural misunderstanding"... Fucking disgusting. Anything "quasi" = not consensual = sexual assault... no such thing as a "kinda raped" category that magically fixes racism. 🤡

It took 11 years defending himself over one story. This is what they do to people who hold them accountable. Nobody is held accountable because the people who have the power to do so are afraid of the retaliation. But David is different. His love of truth was greater than his regard for himself.

🚨 HUGE NEWS: Following IMMENSE pressure from President Trump and patriots across the country, an appeals court in Colorado has THROWN OUT Tina Peters’ sentence Per the court, the 9-year sentence VIOLATED her 1st Amendment rights. This is a HUGE step towards freeing Tina Peters She will now be resentenced to a much lower term — possibly even time served — which would secure her immediate release. KEEP FIGHTING! 🇺🇸

You can just go back 30 years and find footage of open-borders Democrats saying stuff like, "Birthright citizenship is stupid," but apparently now it's fascism and a threat to the Republic to believe those things.

Borders are imaginary lines on a map, until you give birth past a certain one, and then US citizens are forced to fund cradle to grave healthcare, housing, schooling, and food

Libs will look you straight in the eye and tell you this guy is not evil, just oppressed. It is YOU who is evil if you suggest otherwise.

Birthright citizenship means the children of illegal aliens can vote to tax your children and seize their inheritance.

If you want to see exactly why Trump’s order is a goddamn necessity, look at the clown show that just unfolded in Pima County, Arizona. A woman moves from Arizona to Texas. Does everything right. Tries multiple times to get yanked off the permanent mail-in ballot list. Doesn’t work. She digs into the system anyway… and finds a ballot already requested in her name...even though she doesn’t live there anymore and had been screaming to get removed. Even better? The request popped up the EXACT SAME DAY her change of address hit the system. Not weeks later. Not some “clerical error.” Same. F*cking. Day. Then it gets straight-up insulting. Officials swear “the ballot wasn’t actually voted”… …yet they also admit it triggered a signature verification flag. Wait...what the hell? If it was never filled out, whose signature are you “verifying”? If it came back, who returned it? Who signed it? This is ONE voter. One ballot. In ONE county. Now scale that sloppy, shady circus across hundreds of thousands of registrations, outdated voter rolls, and fully automated mail-in pipelines. This isn’t “election confidence.” This is a system deliberately left wide open for exploitation...and when they get caught with their pants down, nobody can even spit out a coherent lie about what actually happened. The machine isn’t broken, cheaters. It’s working exactly as designed for the people who feast on the slop. (article below)

You know they do that because SCOTUS said Obamacare was not a tax but also a tax and that DACA was legal by EO but not rescindable and they saw Obergefell and Bostock and also how little Masterpiece Cake Shop did to stop Colorado's tyranny? And then they lived through 4 years of Biden creating de facto permanent legal status for millions of migrants while also letting anyone else in anywhere for the sheer lols? You understand this, right? SCOTUS said you can't discriminate on the basis of race against Whites and Asians and all the Democrats immediately said we are most definitely going to keep doing that, and no legal conservative said that was wrong. And SCOTUS said Biden could not forgive student loans and Biden immediately held a press conference saying here are some more ways we will illegally "forgive" student loans. And oh, by the way, the people very clearly voted in favor of Prop 187 and Prop 8 and yet the courts were like, Haha Elections Don't Matter. And the people very clearly voted for Trump and yet the Star Wars judges said you still need unanimous permission from the judiciary to do anything unless it's creating mass entropy. Rule of law keeps going one way and one way only. So that is why they are the way they are.

Ripple just received a BBB credit rating for its new prime brokerage business (Ripple Prime) from Kroll Bond Rating Agency. In simple terms... Ripple now owns a regulated Wall Street style trading and clearing firm that handles things like derivatives, repos, and institutional financing. It’s registered with regulators like the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and is connected to major markets like CME Group. The rating agency basically said: > The business is growing fast > Ripple injected about $500M to build it > Ripple itself has ~$5B cash + 40B XRP backing the ecosystem > Profits are expected to improve as the platform expands In summary, Ripple is quietly building real financial infrastructure for institutions, not just a crypto company. Brokerage. Clearing. Treasury. Liquidity. The bridge between traditional finance and blockchain is getting built piece by piece. It's happening.

Blacks explaining the law be like: “Imagine if you’re stealing a wallet”

Germany's largest open-pit mine sits on more than 1 billion tonnes of extractable lignite. But starting in 2030, Rhine water will flood the pit, creating a 360-metre-deep lake. It's not a coincidence that the state's environmental ministry where the mine is located (Nordrhein-Westfalen) is led by the Green party. The same political class that dynamited functioning nuclear cooling towers is now drowning a billion tonnes of domestic fuel under a recreational lake. Once the pit fills, the coal beneath becomes permanently inaccessible. No future government can reverse a 360-metre column of water. The decision to flood Hambach is the deliberate, irreversible destruction of a strategic reserve, executed by politicians who price energy security at zero.

There are some cases where volatility is a huge problem and so a stablecoin is a better choice than a cryptocurrency. Similarly there are some cases where a regulated asset with a trusted counterparty is a benefit. But cryptocurrencies have three big advantages over stablecoins. 1) A stablecoin can only be stable with respect to one currency and a stablecoin denominated in the fiat you need it to be stable relative to may not exist with the qualities you want. Applications that involve multiple jurisdictions with different native fiats don't benefit as much from the stability. 2) A stablecoin can be frozen or clawed back by its issuer. Ripple, for example, can't refuse a US court order. And the US courts may decide that other things matter more than you do even if you've done nothing wrong. For example, if some country asserts that you've supported terrorism and claims secret evidence, is a US court going to protect you even if you claim that your only support for terrorism was in the form of speech criticizing that government's human rights record? Do we expect AI agents to defend themselves in courts? Do you want to have to? 3) For most cryptocurrencies most of the time, the upside is worth more than the downside. So if you don't need stability, you might prefer a cryptocurrency over a stablecoin for many applications. If I had to lock up some money in an escrow for a year, I might well prefer XRP or BTC to USD because I know USD isn't going up.

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Justice Sam Alito just sounded the alarm that unlimited birthright citizenship means a Chinese, Iranian or Russian foreigner can have a child in America, and that US citizen owes MILITARY ALLEGIANCE to a foreign adversary "They have the duty of military service. It seems that makes them subject to a FOREIGN POWER!" 🔥 Gosh he is so good. "Not subject to any foreign power is pretty straightforward. So let me give you these examples. A boy is born here to an Iranian father who has entered the country illegally." "That boy is automatically an Iranian national at birth and he has a duty to provide military service to the Iranian government, is he not subject to any foreign power?" "What I said about a boy born to an Iranian father is true of children born here to parents who were nationals of other countries. It's true to a child who's born here to Russian parents." The framers of 14A did not intend for this!

Yeah they said subject to the jurisdiction thereof in an amendment and then people decided to ignore that part. We said an income tax was okay via an amendment and suddenly we have capital gains and payroll taxes. We also said no poll taxes to vote and suddenly people took that to mean you can’t ask for identification even if that’s free. Suddenly expending calories became a poll tax. And Star Wars judges said Heck Yeah. Oh and by the way, we said the right to bear arms shall not be infringed and y’all infringed it to kingdom come. We said we get the free exercise of religion but suddenly there’s an LGBT exception to that. And by the way squared, everyone told us that we can use propositions to express the will of the people in the states and then we did through Prop 187 and Prop 8 and then Star Trek judges said, “Not so fast. You don’t have the universal consent of every member of the judiciary” and decided representative democracy isn’t in the Constitution but gender identity and the inalienable rights of foreigners to get welfare paid by Americans is. And Democrats were like, “Actually, I hate when Democracy is Democratic.”

And then there is this. Ripple Treasury and XRP now connected DIRECTLY to SWIFT.✅ "Global bank connectivity and hosting options for SWIFT’s Alliance Lite2 platform. We have also partnered to offer SWIFTRef data for IBAN and ABA lookups directly from within Ripple Treasury’s workflow." "...accurately and securely communicate with their banks through any possible channel such as SWIFT, EBICS, SFTP, APIs or any alternative network."