We’re kicking off 10 years of @RippleSwell with a bang! 1/ Goes without saying, but it was an honor to open up our conference with @SecScottBessent. His leadership, alongside the current administration, has been instrumental in ensuring that responsible crypto can thrive in the US. I’m extremely grateful he spent time with us today. 2/ BIG partner news 🚨 we're bringing Ripple’s infrastructure to @RobinhoodApp (supporting both customer-facing services and core financial operations), from $RLUSD settlement on the @XRP Ledger to prime brokerage and treasury operations & expanding our relationship with @BNYglobal across custody and tokenized trade finance with RLUSD, XRP and the XRP Ledger. 3/ We are bringing digital assets to corporates 👀 → Ripple Treasury introduced 24/7 Returns designed to help corporates put idle cash to work outside banking hours utilizing stablecoins (this is one step further to realizing the vision of our Treasury management business). 4/ Last but certainly not least, @USOCC granted final approval for Ripple National Trust Bank! And it’s only day 0 (technically the Swell main event starts tomorrow!). More to come this week…

TODAY I LET GROK BOT MAKE EVERY SINGLE PHONE CALL FOR ME, AND I CAN’T F*CKING BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED I decided to run an experiment. Yesterday Elon posted that Grok Bot can now call people and businesses for you, make a request on your behalf and send you a summary of the conversation. So I tested it on my real life. Here’s how my day went: → INTERNET PROVIDER: I told my bot my bill was too high. It called, sat through the menu, asked to be transferred to retention and calmly said I was thinking about switching. 28 minutes later: $35 off every month. Then it did something I would never think of: it asked about hidden fees and made them confirm the new price by email. I just read the live transcript like a Netflix show. → GYM MEMBERSHIP: the one you can “only cancel by phone”. They tried to keep me three times. A discount, a free month, a “pause instead”. My bot said no to all of it, got the cancellation confirmed and sent me the confirmation number. I’d been too lazy to deal with it for two weeks straight. Grok Bot just handled it for me. → BARBER: I needed a fresh cut before the evening. My bot called my barber and booked me for 5 PM. He chatted with it like with a regular client, said “see you later, bro” and hung up. He still doesn’t know he was talking to a bot. → AND THEN IT GOT CRAZY: I asked it to plan a date. First it called a restaurant and booked a table for two at 8 PM. Then it called my girlfriend and invited her to dinner, at the exact place it had just booked. She said yes. Then she texted me “did your AI just ask me out?” Total: almost 2 hours on the phone today. I spent 0 of them. This update is absolutely insane, and I’m still in shock from this experiment. Calls were the last thing I still had to do myself. Now Grok Bot does them better than I do. Bookmark this so you can try the same experiment yourself. And I broke down all the latest major Grok Bot updates in my article below ↓

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Why are spammers so clueless? You really think that I'm going to buy your backlink service when you message me through Google Drive? Really? #spam #googledrive #backlinks

Holiness preacher Nathan Cox preaches that anyone who doesn't follow all of the strict “Holiness standards” (which forbids jewelry, wedding rings, makeup, hair dye, cutting women’s hair, beards on men, short sleeves, etc.) shouldn't be considered or treated like fellow believers

I shouldn't have to post every day or worship Elon Musk just to get seen on X. My views are terrible and my engagement is practically nonexistent. So I've decided to try a new content strategy. Oh, Elon Musk, you're such a visionary! Flying cars! Incredible! Who needs roads anyway? Starlink is amazing! Thank you for rescuing humanity from the unbearable oppression of overpriced internet! Tesla! SpaceX! Rockets! Robots! Is there anything this man can't do? Elon, you magnificent genius! Even your posts are technological breakthroughs! I've started referring to the sun as Elon's personal fusion reactor. Gravity? Clearly another Elon innovation. I'm considering renaming my cat X Æ Meow-12. There. I've praised Elon, acknowledged his genius, and demonstrated the appropriate level of corporate devotion. Now, algorithm, be a good little machine and give me my 69 impressions. 😂

You shouldn't be playing peekaboo. How many times do we read throughout Scripture: “Do not fear.” And yet, we let mama pretend to disappear. This is a direct contradiction of Jesus’ commands to not be fearful or be anxious about anything.

My experience: Churchianity: I attend a church faithfully and even lead bible studies for ten years, and when I leave, nobody contacts me or even notices. Also Churchianity: I say on social media that I am not a member of a specific church and it's not a problem for me, and I visit churches as I please, and self identifying Christians dogpile and judge me just over that. When I'm physically AT a church, nobody notices. When I say why I don't care if I go to church, so many self-identifying Christian people seem to care and want to fix me by smartassing and bullying me back to church.

Good news in the book industry: -Sales of print books have increased nearly 25% from a decade ago -Number of independent bookstores in the US has increased 75% since 2020 -Global book market is expected to grow 5% annually for the next several years newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

The CEO of a $10.5 billion company just posted his company's entire product online for anyone to take, and he couldn't be less worried about it. His name is Paul Copplestone and he runs Supabase, the behind-the-scenes database a huge number of apps use to store your logins and data. He joked that he had 12 Claude agents grind for six hours to "reverse engineer" Supabase, then shared the link so you could "save your tokens." The link is Supabase's own GitHub page. Every line of code has been sitting there for free since 2020. He's trolling a trend that blew up this month. A repo called Reverse Engineer Anything went viral for letting AI agents pick apart any app, there's a steady stream of "I cloned a $1B SaaS with Claude" videos, and pretty much all of them hint that software companies are about to be worth nothing. Supabase is about the worst company you could pick to make that case. Anyone could have copied it at any point in the last six years without paying a dime, and the valuation still went from $2 billion in April 2025 to $5 billion that October to $10.5 billion this June. Sacra estimates revenue hit about $170 million a year by May. So why are 250,000+ customers paying for something they could grab for free? Sacra's math puts the average customer at roughly $700 a year, or about $58 a month. For that, somebody else deals with backups, scaling, security patches, and getting woken up at 3am when the database dies. You can run the whole thing yourself for free, and a quarter million teams looked at that and paid the $58 so they could sleep at night. And the joke gets even better when you see where the growth is coming from. More than 60% of new databases on Supabase are now created by AI tools. Lovable and Bolt both run their app backends on it. When an AI builds somebody an app, it needs a real place to store the data, and Supabase says the majority of AI app builders reach for theirs. So the AI agents that were supposed to make software companies worthless ended up as Supabase's best sales team.

I was shocked the other day to read a tweet from a young pastor that I know. This is what he said: “I seek to free as many as possible from the soul-enslaving, freedom-killing, conscience-afflicting, assurance destroying, law-gospel confusing errors of lordship salvation.” It’s exactly what Jude is talking about.And why does he pick on antinomians? Why does he pick on them. Because inevitably, those are the people who operate in the church. They come in and create a kind of Christianity that does not denounce people’s sins. You render no service to them by coming up with something like that. What that proves to me is that he has defined Christianity by the law. Antinomians are no different than legalists because they define Christianity by the law. The legalist says, “I’m a Christian because I keep the law.” An antinomian says, “I’m a Christian because I don’t keep the law.” But in either case, you’re defining your Christianity by the law rather than saying, “I’m a Christian because I love the Lord Jesus Christ.” I define my Christianity as loving Christ. When Jesus said to Peter, “I need to restore you,” He didn’t say, “Will you keep My law? Will you keep My law? Will you keep My law?” He didn’t say, “Will you be free? Will you be free? Will you be free?” He said, “Do you,”—what?—“do you love Me?”And I don’t have a sign in my house, I haven’t had one there while we raised our family, “Don’t hit the kids. Don’t smack your wife.” I don’t need that sign. The only thing I need to do is love; and love is the fulfilling of the law. — John MacArthur

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland claims he was shown the punishment those who didn't vote for Trump will face on Judgment Day: They'll spend eternity listening to the names of all the babies killed by abortion