I used Grok Imagine to bring the four American Freedoms to life. 🇺🇸 Speech • Religion • Assembly • Press I animated the sculpted scenes on my vintage 1976 sterling silver American Freedom Box to make this video. 👇Learn more about the box below...

My internet saga continues… After almost a week of dealing with this mess, I’m now basically just waiting for more technicians to show up and work on the lines outside. The good news is that I don’t have to sit around waiting for them inside the house, because apparently the next steps are all outside line work. They’ll be checking things, testing signals, tracing the issue, and hopefully figuring out whatever is causing my internet to keep disappearing. The bad news is… I still don’t have reliable internet. And for whatever reason, it seems to be the worst at night, when I completely lose signal. During the day, it's strong when I wake up, then it gets worse throughout the day... and by evening it's off and on with really low signal and at night it’s gone. Which is especially annoying because night is when I usually get a lot of my creative work done. To make it even more fun, I’ve already burned through all the high-speed data on my phone. Technically, I still have “unlimited” data, but now I’m at the point where using more hotspot data starts costing me $10 per gig. And let me tell you, $10 per gig adds up really fast when you’re trying to upload videos, use AI tools, check messages, participate in Spaces, or do basically anything normal online. On top of that, the 5G service at my house isn’t even that great, so it’s not like my phone is some amazing backup solution. It works just well enough to tease me into thinking I can get something done, then it slows down, glitches, fails to load, or becomes completely unreliable. So yeah, this whole thing just sucks. Slow internet is almost worse than no internet because it tricks you into trying. You sit there thinking, “Okay, maybe it’s working now,” and then five minutes later you’re staring at a frozen upload, a failed page, a broken app, or a spinning loading wheel. At least with no internet, you can fully accept defeat and go do something else. But this half-working, half-broken nonsense? Torture. Hopefully the outside line work finally fixes whatever is going on, because this has been one of the most annoying tech problems I’ve dealt with in a long time.

This sterling silver box was made when America turned 200. Now we’re about to celebrate 250!! 🇺🇸🎆 This is the American Freedom Box by the Franklin Mint, issued in 1976 for America’s Bicentennial. It represents the Four Freedoms: • Freedom of Speech • Freedom of Religion • Freedom Assembly • Freedom of the Press Freedom Boxes were once presented to distinguished visitors during official welcoming ceremonies in America’s early years. The Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge revived that tradition by commissioning the Franklin Mint to create this piece for the Bicentennial. The box is crafted in sterling silver, sculptured in high relief, with an American Eagle on the cover and detailed scenes around the sides representing those four freedoms. In just a few weeks, the United States will celebrate its 250th anniversary. Pretty amazing to hold something made for the 200th while looking ahead to the 250th.

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Birthday Blackout

We got another Birthday Blackout!! Thank you so much for hanging out and celebrating my birthday today @Bic_Revelation And thank you for the gift!!

Jo got a Birthday Blackout in my Birthday Space Thank you Jo!!!!

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Dear 𝕏, For my birthday... please fix this... thanks 𝕏!

The struggle is real. 3 days down... 4 days until my appointment... 0 data left on my cell... 3 hours until my Birthday! 🎉