🍰 BrownDust2 | Lathel’s Birthday Oh, you came to wish me a happy birthday—thank you. Wait, flowers? Did you remember Family Day? Thank you. I was just wondering what to bring for Misha. Would you like to come with me? I think Misha would love that, too. 📢 Don’t forget to shower Lathel with all your birthday wishes~! #BrownDust2# #HappyBirthday# #Lathel#

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "I commend our forces on a successful operation in Samaria in which they destroyed dozens of lathes for weapons manufacturing, seized dozens of weapons, and arrested individuals wanted for involvement in terrorism. ​Our activity to thwart terrorism continues with full force in Judea and Samaria, Gaza, Lebanon, and every place where our enemies attempt to threaten the State of Israel."

NYS & California anti manufacturing (CNC, 3D printer, lathe, etc) legislation is the #1# defining legal/technical freedom issue in this political moment, IMO. even beyond AI control in Ukraine, open source drone designs and home manufacturing has played a critical part in the war effort. grassroots knowledge is currently turning the tides against a literal superpower that is willing to burn money and conscripted lives, in one of the most inspiring triumphs of human perseverance of the 2000s I am no manufacturer of firearms, but the right to make what you want and make your own choices about whether what you build is lawful rather than having it technically imposed on you, is a fundamental human right and the right to run open source software that bypasses local protections of your choice is also your right. this is already enshrined as speech, and there are decades of ideation on it without these inalienable technical rights, there is no society. they are core parts of numerous, disparate protections provided by our Bill of Rights this is before you even consider that policing home manufacturing requires mass surveillance and criminalization of open source software (in which protections can be trivially removed) and even open hardware (which can operate all of this machinery on a plug and play basis) if you cannot make your own stuff, you are at the mercy of those that can. more reliant on capitalism. weaker in a struggle. less decentralized. it is an enormous L to society, and a stain upon a state I am otherwise proud of that this managed to pass any kind of political process, mostly via lobbying and other forms of payola you have to ask yourself, why do these laws target equipment like 3d printers, which are not substitutes for gun mills and cannot produce functional pressure bearing parts? one answer is that it is harder to change federal serialization laws. but this seems to me akin to banning hands, because if there are no hands you cannot fire the gun instead of educating the youth on how to compete on a global scale, reminding New Yorkers how to make things, as a state littered with decaying factories that used to define their country. instead of taking back economic power. we cower in fear of a few un-serialized guns (that are already illegal), in a country where they outnumber people and that will never change I have been a New York resident all my life. I will never put state mandated software on any of my equipment. my printers, my CNC, my drills, nothing. I believe this is my right, to use the software I develop for the hardware I own. I will keep making things using open hardware and software, same as before the bill I believe I am a contributing member of society. but, you can come get me if you disagree, @KathyHochul, you have my address.

If your emails were from royal times 👑 Built a cool cinematic 3D letter inbox in @threejs using Claude Opus 5. Everything you see is pure code, no external assets. Even the leather wax seal was built using LatheGeometry. I honestly didn’t expect AI to pull this off so well. The shaders, noise effects, rods, and especially the royal writing turned out so beautifully. The text specifically feels like it’s soaked into the paper rather than printed on top because it’s composited directly inside the shader. AI made that decision. Really happy with how this turned out. It was such a fun build during some downtime. Vibe coding makes it kind of crazy how quickly you can go from a concept in your head to something that actually feels real, right? Live: Code:

Five-axis precision engraving machine to engrave bronze statues. #cncmachinist# #engineering# #automation# #aerospace# #cncmill# #cnclathe# #cncprogramming# #cncprogrammer# #aerospace# #machineshop# #cncmachinetool# #edm# #additive# #grinding# #grindingmachine# #innovation# #Technology# #lathe#