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Banks Should Be Terrified — A Parallel Economy Just Built Itself While They Were Charging Overdraft Fees
🤚 The Open-Palm Illumination Allow us to deliver a gentle, gold-plated notification to the global banking establishment: you are being flanked. Not by a single…
Read moreAI Just Proved Jevons Paradox — We Made Intelligence 90% Cheaper and Somehow Spent 300% More on It
🤚 The Open-Palm Paradox In 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons observed something profoundly counterintuitive: when coal-burning engines became more efficient, total coal consumption increased.…
Read moreAnthropic Files a $965 Billion IPO, Trump Asks Nicely About AI Safety, and ChatGPT Hits One Billion Users — The Week That Made Regulators Faint
🤚 The Open-Palm Filing In a move that surprises absolutely no one who has been following the AI industry’s sprint toward financial absurdity, Anthropic has…
Read moreElon Musk Thinks SpaceX Could Be Worth $100 Trillion — That’s Roughly the Entire Global GDP, but Sure, Let’s Price in Mars
🤚 The Open-Palm Illumination Ladies and gentlemen, Elon Musk has looked at his portfolio — a $1.77 trillion rocket company about to IPO on June…
Read moreThe Cost of Reaching Orbit Has Dropped 97% and SpaceX Is Just Getting Started — Your Checked Bag May Soon Cost More Than Your Ticket to Space
🤚 The Open-Palm Descent There was a time — not long ago, cosmologically speaking — when putting a kilogram of anything into low Earth orbit…
Read moreSpaceX Files for the Largest IPO in Human History and Asks You to Please Stop Calling It a Rocket Company — It Prefers ‘Microsoft in Space’
🤚 The Open-Palm Prospectus SpaceX is preparing to go public in what would be the largest IPO in human history, targeting a valuation of $1.75…
Read moreRay Kurzweil Says AGI Is Three Years Away — The Same Thing He’s Been Saying for Twenty-Seven Years, Just With a Smaller Number
🤚 The Open-Palm Prophecy Update In the year of our Lord 2026, Ray Kurzweil — futurist, Google principal researcher, and the man who has been…
Read moreHermes Agent Now Has a Desktop App Because the Terminal Was Apparently Too Exclusive for an Autonomous AI That Delegates to Sub-Agents
🤚 The Open-Palm Interface Revolution In a move that can only be described as aggressively populist, Nous Research has released an official desktop application for…
Read moreThe OpenAI Foundation Is Now Worth More Than Most Countries, Hassabis Wants AI to Reinvent Relativity, and the Sun Just Beat Natural Gas — This Is One Episode of a Podcast
There are weeks where the news cycle merely hints at civilizational inflection points, and then there are weeks where a Nobel laureate proposes an intelligence…
Read moreThe White-Collar Economy Is Being Repriced — Your Bachelor’s Degree Was a Down Payment on Obsolescence
🤚 The Open-Palm Career Counseling The question used to be hypothetical, the kind of thing panel moderators asked at Davos to fill time between champagne…
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