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3 weeks ago | 
meetthefuture.substack.com | Kevin Cirilli
📵 SUMMER VACATION PLANS: UNPLUG TO UPGRADE: Offline is in. At Mexico’s Grand Velas Resorts, a “Detox Concierge” takes your phone on arrival. In Italy, Eremito offers candlelit, no-wifi monastery vibes. This White Lotus but unplugged…—> THE TREND: DIGITAL DETOX GOES LUXURY. According to Hilton’s 2025 report, 27% of travelers say they’ll cut back on social media this summer. Plum Guide searches for tech-free escapes? Up 17%.
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3 weeks ago | 
meetthefuture.substack.com | Kevin Cirilli
🌌 PEDRO PASCAL TAKES YOU TO THE STARS: Pedro Pascal is now your cosmic guide. Encounters in the Milky Way, the brand-new space show at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium, opens June 9 — and it’s narrated by none other than Pedro Pascal. —> 🎧 THE EXPERIENCE: For 20 breathtaking minutes, you’ll drift through dazzling starfields, spinning planets, and colliding galaxies. The seat-rumbling visuals are powered by data from NASA’s James Webb Telescope and ESA’s Gaia mission.
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3 weeks ago | 
meetthefuture.substack.com | Kevin Cirilli
đ LILLY AT I RICCHI: DC LUNCHEON SPOTLIGHTS PAY EQUITY PUSH: Washingtonâs historic i Ricchi restaurant played host to a high-powered luncheon this week celebrating LILLY, the new film portraying Lilly Ledbetterâs fight for equal pay â and reigniting the national conversation around gender wage gaps. The event, co-hosted by Christianne Ricchi and Gwen K.
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3 weeks ago | 
meetthefuture.substack.com | Kevin Cirilli
🪙 CRYPTO CLEARED FOR 401(K) PLANS: The Trump administration just tore up Biden-era rules that urged caution on crypto in retirement accounts—opening the door for bitcoin, meme coins, and NFTs in your 401(k). —> 🧾 WHAT CHANGED: The Labor Department rescinded 2022 guidance that warned employers to use “extreme care” before offering crypto. The new stance? Neutral. Employers can now offer digital assets—if they decide it’s prudent.
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3 weeks ago | 
meetthefuture.substack.com | Kevin Cirilli
🧬 AI BREAKTHROUGH COULD SAVE MEN’S LIVES FROM PROSTATE CANCER: A new AI test is changing the game in prostate cancer treatment — helping doctors know who should get a powerful drug that can nearly cut the risk of death in half. 👁️🗨️ WHAT THE AI SEES: The AI scans tumor images and finds hidden clues — stuff doctors can’t see on their own. It spots a biomarker that tells whether a man is likely to respond to the drug abiraterone. If the marker’s there, the drug works really well.
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3 weeks ago | 
meetthefuture.substack.com | Kevin Cirilli
ūüĆĆ SEVERE SUN STORM LIGHTS UP D.C. SKY‚ÄĒAND WARNS US TO WATCH THE SUN: A rare G4 geomagnetic storm (we explain‚Ķ keep reading‚Ķ) hit Earth Sunday‚ÄĒsending auroras as far south as Alabama and sparking new attention in D.C. and beyond about the stakes of space weather. ‚ÄĒ> ‚ėÄÔłŹ WHAT JUST HAPPENED: A coronal mass ejection (CME) ‚ÄĒ a giant burst of plasma and magnetic field from the sun ‚ÄĒ slammed into Earth‚Äôs magnetosphere early June 1. The result?
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1 month ago | 
meetthefuture.substack.com | Kevin Cirilli
š° TRUMP PRESSES POWELLāBUT THE FED WONāT BUDGE: Fed Chair Jerome Powell met with President Trump Thursday at the White Houseāhis first sit-down since Trumpās return to office. The message? Monetary policy wonāt be political. ā> š¦ THE MEETING: Powell discussed the economy but refused to talk rate expectations. Instead, he stressed the Fed's decisions will rely only on incoming dataānot political pressure.
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1 month ago | 
meetthefuture.substack.com | Kevin Cirilli
🚜 CALIFORNIA FARMERS FIGHT FOR ROBOT RIGHTS — FARM-BOTS BANNED. Driverless tractors are transforming farms in 20+ states — but not in California, where outdated laws still ban autonomous ag tech, even though the state helped invent it. —> ⚖️ THE BLOCK: Under a 1970s-era regulation, farming equipment must have a human “stationed” at the controls. That language never anticipated today’s driver-optional, AI-powered machinery. The result?
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1 month ago | 
meetthefuture.substack.com | Kevin Cirilli
💪 THE SCIENCE OF SUPER-AGERS: What do Harvard and the New York Post have in common today? They’re studying SUPER AGERS — people over 80 with the memory of someone 30 years younger. It’s not all genes or luck. The secret? Lifestyle. —> 🧠 BRAIN POWER THAT DEFIES AGE: Super-agers’ brains shrink slower than average. They have bigger memory centers and stronger mental agility—even when dementia markers are present. —> 💃 MOVE OR LOSE IT: The #1 thing tied to better aging? Exercise.
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1 month ago | 
meetthefuture.substack.com | Kevin Cirilli
We had the chance to sit down with author Laurence Leamer over lunch at Café Milano—hosted by Franco Nuschese and Hollywood on the Potomac—and talk not just about his brilliant new book Warhol’s Muses, but about what it means now. About how Andy Warhol wasn’t just painting soup cans—he was building the prototype for the algorithm. Because Warhol didn’t just make art. He made content. He made fame. He turned people into product—packaged, polished, and left behind.