🚀 SPACEX LAUNCH LIMIT? GONE. The FAA just supercharged Elon Musk’s launch cadence: 25 Starship launches a year from Texas’ Starbase—a 5x increase. Add that to Florida and California expansion plans, and SpaceX is reshaping Earth’s orbital traffic map in real-time.
—> HISTORIC SCALE-UP: ROCKET LAUNCHES GO MAINSTREAM This isn’t just busy—it’s unprecedented. Historically, the U.S. never saw more than a handful of commercial heavy-lift launches annually. Now SpaceX wants over 340 flights per year across multiple pads. That’s not a space program—that’s air traffic for orbit.
—> BUT AT WHAT COST? LOCAL PUSHBACK MOUNTS: Beach closures. Sonic booms. Environmental concerns. Communities near launchpads—especially in Texas and Florida—are sounding alarms. And the pace is only accelerating.
—> SOMETIMES ROCKETS DELAY ROCKETS: Ironically, too many launches can bottleneck the very system they’re fueling. Every Starship test grounds nearby pads, ties up range clearance, and risks delays for commercial payloads. Even satellite customers have quietly grumbled about missed windows due to schedule pileups.
Source: WSJ
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FUTURES
🧠FED WALKS A TIGHTROPE—AGAIN. The Fed meets this week with one guiding principle: do nothing (for now). Markets expect zero movement on rates. Futures say there’s only a 1-in-3 shot of a cut in June. Why? Uncertainty everywhere—from Trump’s tariff shockwaves to mixed economic signals.
—> POWELL’S JOB: SAY NOTHING, MEAN EVERYTHING: Fed Chair Jerome Powell will have to play mind reader and illusionist—offering just enough clarity to calm markets, without committing to anything. There’s no dot plot, no forecast update. Just Powell and a mic.
—> INFLATION, RECESSION, OR BOTH? GDP dipped, hiring held steady, consumer confidence tanked, and inflation expectations hit multi-decade highs. It’s Schrödinger’s economy—booming and busted at the same time.
—> NEXT MOVE? COULD BE SEPTEMBER: Goldman Sachs expects rate cuts in July, September, and October. But Powell’s message is clear: wait for more data—and whatever Trump does next.
Source: CNBC
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🍔🤖 BURGERBOTS MOVE IN. Fast food gets the sci-fi upgrade. A new joint in Silicon Valley now flips patties with zero humans on the line. Two ABB robots assemble $18 burgers in 27 seconds flat—no breaks, no burnout, no hair in your food.
—> AI + QR = INSTANT BURGER: It starts with a meat puck, slapped on a bun, riding a conveyor belt stamped with a QR code. The “Flexpicker” grabs toppings. The “YuMi” finishes the job. Result: perfectly robotic precision. Every. Single. Time.
—> THIS ISN’T A GIMMICK—IT’S A GLIMPSE: California’s $20/hr minimum wage pushed some restaurants to the edge. Now Burgerbots are the test case for a post-human kitchen. Creator Elizabeth Truong says, “In 5 years, most restaurants will have some form of automation.”
—> HUMANS STILL PLATE IT—FOR NOW: Servers still hand you the tray. But let’s be real: automation is coming for the kitchen first. According to the World Economic Forum, 92 million jobs could vanish by 2030—fast food workers near the top of that list.
—> NOT A REPLACEMENT, A “FORCE MULTIPLIER”: ABB says 89% of hospitality managers are open to robots. Why? Robots handle the grind so staff can focus on customer experience. Translation: fewer jobs, but more efficient ones.
Source: NY Post
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ONE MORE THING
🪦 RIP SKYPE (2003–2025) —> DIED OF NEGLECT. BURIED IN TEAMS. Born in Estonia in 2003, Skype changed the world. It let us video chat in pajamas. Whisper sweet nothings over dial-up. Break up long-distance relationships pixel by pixel. It survived eBay, thrived under Microsoft, and then… died quietly while no one was looking.
After 22 years of “Can you hear me now?” and frozen screens mid-cry, Skype passed away on May 6, 2025, of a long battle with irrelevance. Death was confirmed by Microsoft, who wheeled it offstage in favor of Microsoft Teams, the beige conference room of communication apps.
It predeceased its cousins AIM, Napster, Xanga, MSN Messenger, and Google+, and joins them now in the Great Internet Heaven in the Sky.
Cause of death:
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Zoom.
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FaceTime.
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Tech’s inability to let good things live.
Legacy: Skype will be remembered for pioneering video calling before it was cool—and for being completely unprepared when it actually became cool. A visionary… and a tragic cautionary tale.
In lieu of flowers, please mute your mic and observe a moment of buffering.
🕊️ “Skype me.” — No one, since 2018.
Tributes: Yahoo Finance; Fox Business
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Kev
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