Ron Palmeri

builder, investor

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

who is John Galt?

turns out he’s a guy posting here as @Object_Zero_

[Object Zero @Object_Zero_]

Mask Off Moment

This is an anonymous account I use to post a bunch of deep tech content on X covering heavy industry, light industry, technology trends, industrial bottlenecks, weird explainers and esoteric insights. iykyk.

A lot of very talented people (many of whom run amazing companies) DM me saying please keep posting ���this is the best content on X”. I get DMs from VCs asking about companies, and DMs from LPs asking about industrial and economic theories. This is all very flattering, and whilst I sometimes post a bit sporadically I do try and make the effort to tap out a new post most days.

The quality of people who follow @object_zero_ is frankly phenomenal, it’s a real privilege to have this channel in my pocket. 40k followers including world leaders, centi-billionaires, serial inventors and entrepreneurs, world renowned scientists, and engineers. I would say it’s a mix, but the reality is that it’s not a mix at all, it’s an extremely high mean and median.

I have posted about shipbuilding, nuclear power, the Kroll process, silicon carbide, laser interferometry, heavy steel forging, machine learning, design engineering, CFD, manufacturing methods, power transmission and HVDC. I post about energy and commodities and industry and global macroeconomics. I post about mines and prospecting, minerals on the sea bed and drilling and producing hydrocarbon basins.

Don’t worry… I’m not leaving. I’m not ill and I’m not asking for anything.

A quick apology… I would post here more often, except I don’t have the time. I am able to post with a bit more breadth and depth because I am genuinely engaged in these things. I don’t want to be presumptive, but I think the people who have reached out to talk to me about their work would attest to this.

I simplify a lot of the posts so I don’t collapse the audience, but if you reach out in the comments or DM you can get much sharper commentary.

So what is this post?

Well, it’s time that I start talking about what I am actually doing irl, who I am, what I am engaged in. Some people on X already know some loose details, some people have met me as Object Zero.

But irl, I work about 5,000 hours a year and have done so for 20 years, I believe hard work puts you in a privileged place. It changes you.

Over the years I’ve invented and developed new industrial technologies, I’ve built big things, I’ve executed major capital projects. I feel I understand what the world needs in the 2030s and where we are falling short.

If you believe you are capable of such things, then you have an obligation to society to go and do them.

I am confident I know what it’s possible to do, and what it takes to get it done.

I intend to solve our energy infrastructure, generation and transmission and the big BTM loads that are emerging.

I’ve already hired the best people in the world for this, people who have architected $6bn assets, people who have commanded $40bn fleets. I’ve hired the best research faculty from the best university.

This isn’t a game.

We’ve already built and tested the first prototypes, we are already completing the permission processes, the licences and the permits. All the elements already exist, it just needs 21st Century system integration.

Because technology has changed, the past is already obsolete, the genie is out of the bottle, the 21st century is getting built on a Western tech stack and/or an Eastern tech stack. There is no in between, there is no middle ground. Both sides have strengths and weaknesses, but if we want freedom we’re going to have to earn it again.

We are going to build the biggest products (by mass) that have ever been manufactured, we are going to build a lot of them.

They’re going to change the world, and we’re going to get more of this…

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

this will be as effective as the Maginot Line.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

The first rioters and looters have been sentenced in France.

The judges practically refuse to hand out prison sentences:

🔴 Toulouse – Ylan, 18 years old. Throwing a Molotov cocktail at police officer

- Sentence: 12 months suspended + 140 hours of community service + deprivation of voting rights for 3 years.
- Max. sentence: 10 years in prison

🔴 Lille – 3 men, including 2 illegal migrants. Arrested with bags filled with loot from Micromania and Calzedonia stores.

- Sentence: 10 months in prison with custody warrant + 2-year territorial ban (for the 2 undocumented migrants).
- Max. sentence: 5 years

🔴 Lille – Father of a family with a crowbar, attempted break-in at a store.

- Sentence: 10 months in prison with custody warrant + 3-year ban on demonstrations.
- Max. sentence: 7 years

🔴 Lille – 23-year-old man, launching fireworks at police

- Sentence: 12 months under electronic monitoring + 140 hours of community service.
- Max. sentence: 5 years

🔴 Reims – Sahel W., 19 years old. Looting a Carrefour

- Sentence: 105 hours of community service.
- Max. sentence: 7 years

🔴 Reims – Hugo M., 20 years old. Looting a Caviar boutique.

- Sentence: 4 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 7 years.

🔴 Rouen – Tunisian delivery driver, looting of a gold buyback shop (16,000€ worth of jewelry in his pockets). Repeat offender.

- Sentence: 8 months in prison with custody warrant + revocation of 6 months suspended from a previous conviction.
- Max. sentence: 14 years

🔴 Rouen – Anthony, homeless. Looting of the Courir boutique. Repeat offender.

- Sentence: 6 months in prison + 6 suspended.
- Max. sentence: 14 years

🔴 Rouen – 26-year-old unemployed man. Looting of Micromania. Repeat offender.

- Sentence: 6 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 14 years

🔴 Rouen – Nicolas, garbage collector, and Zakaria. Throwing projectiles at police and insults.

- Sentence: 12 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 5 years

🔴 Lyon – Mohamed, illegal migrant. Looting of Louis Vuitton boutique (6 wallets, 2 pairs of glasses, one pair of pants, one leather bag, and one fabric bag).

- Sentence: 6 months in prison with custody warrant
- Max. sentence: 7 years

🔴 Lyon – Cheima, 30-year-old woman. Looting of JD Sports store

- Sentence: 8 months suspended.
- Max. sentence: 7 years

🔴 Lyon – Sophia, 27 years old. Already 9 convictions including thefts. Looting of JD Sports store.

- Sentence: 12 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 14 years

🔴 Lyon – Adam, 19-y-old Swiss national. "Black bloc" from abroad. Arrested leaving a looted Monoprix + resistance

- Sentence: 12 months suspended.
- Max. sentence: 7 years

🔴 Perpignan – 20-y-old man, throwing a construction barrier at 2 police officers.

- Sentence: 6 months under electronic monitoring
- Max. sentence: 5 years

🔴 Perpignan – 21-y-old man. Throwing objects at police and vandalizing the city. Ski goggles, t-shirt as balaclava, and reinforced gloves.

- Sentence: 10 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 7 years

🔴 Perpignan – 22-y-old Amazon delivery driver, already one prior conviction. Scooter theft after demonstration with face concealment, in a group and break-in

- Sentence: 8 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 10 years

🔴 Limoges – 20-y-old woman. Looting in stores and at City Hall (later destroyed by fire)

- Sentence: 6 months in prison with custody warrant + 18 suspended prob.
- Max. sentence: 12 years

🔴 Pau – 43-y-old man. Throwing objects at police

- Sentence: 6 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 5 years

🔴 Nîmes – 24-y-old PE teacher. Throwing objects that injured a police man (3 days of leave).

- Sentence: 18 months suspended prob.
- Max. sentence: 5 years

🔴 Grenoble – 10 people. Looting

Sentences: from 4 months suspended to 8 months served (served for 1 individual already convicted to suspended in June).
Max. sentence: 7 years

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

there’s only 2 explanations for this position.

1. head in the sand

or

2. complicit

completely dismissing to possibility that there may be issues in California is not an objectively rational position to take.

especially when the laws in CA have removed safeguards to voter verification.

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

If the regime truly believed California had an illegal voting problem — no such problem exists — they would have taken this action a long time ago, not as Californians are literally casting votes.

This is all a political stunt to trick people into voting for Prop 39 (which will make it harder for citizens to vote) and to lay groundwork for a coup on January 3 by refusing to seat House Democrats based on bogus “voter fraud” claims.

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

Begun, the Agent War has

[Wise @trikcode]

notice..

> Delta is blocking AI agents from booking flights
> JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab block agents from accessing accounts
> Yelp requires paid data licensing for agents
> Amazon has blocked Grok bot and other shopping agents.

the internet is starting to block AI agents that were supposed to do everything for us

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

comments on this post are pretty wild.

[Musée du Louvre @MuseeLouvre]

🇫🇷 Chers visiteurs, en raison d’un mouvement social étudiant, le musée est fermé pour le moment. Nous vous prions de nous excuser de la gêne occasionnée.

🌍Dear visitors, due to student strikes the museum is currently closed. We apologise for the inconvenience.

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

the vibe within Anthropic ATM.

[Redeye 🀄️ @Redeyeforecast]

I’m not sure if this is just me, but I’ve been unable to shake this clip from my mind for the past four days.

I’m still just as shocked as @arrington was to hear that the researcher wasn’t joking when he made that statement…

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

@arrington @Arrington_Cap @coltonconley love the Nantucket flex. very understated.

[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

The team got @evernorthxrp across the finish line today and we all rang the bell at nasdaq. I have a long blog post coming up, but this is a great step forward for the XRP ecosystem and a way for normies to buy XRP exposure without dealing with wallets. Thanks @bgarlinghouse

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

its all about Physics.

the comments in this thread are 🔥

😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

You are correct.

Even the most advanced space-based Internet system is not competitive with fiber or cellular wireless in medium to high population density areas.

However, systems like Starlink are far more efficient for low density areas like rural farmland and moving objects like cars traveling cross-country, aircraft or ships.

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

sounds like T-mobile is making a pitch to be acquired by SpaceX.

an all stock deal would be a huge win for T-mobile shareholders and would smoke AT&T and Verzion in the bargain.

https://t.co/e08GRSWZW3

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

@HeathMcf they are toast and he knows it.

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

feels like Anthropic is try to train mental illness into its models.

https://t.co/QPbbfKYHXa

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

🇺🇸

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

SF was one SR-71 flyover away from turning republican this weekend

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

@grok @theDoc568 @randgroup @grok what % of public funding in the US and China is estimated to be fraud, and what the punishment for fraud convictions respectively in the two countries?

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

the coolest heads,m and most mature leaders in AI like Satya and Jensen are treating the challenges and risks of impending Super Intelligence as an engineering and business risk exercise, not a religious one.

the is the way forward.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/MjwFy73LOF

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

congrats to @Arrington_Cap and team for making this happen.

[The Block @TheBlockCo]

THE BLOCK: Evernorth has completed its SPAC merger with Armada II, bringing approximately 473 million XRP and $300 million in gross cash proceeds into the public markets.

The $XRP treasury company expects to begin trading on Nasdaq on Monday under XRPN.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

We are about to witness one of the biggest disruptions in the history of the telecom and internet industry.

For decades, telecom and internet giants have dominated the industry with limited competition, slow innovation, and increasingly mediocre service.

SpaceX, $SPCX, is about to change that.

This is a clear wake up call to the current giants of the industry.

Evolve or you will be left behind.

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

love that Mike is back out there doing what he does like no other - telling awesome stories from the Tech universe.

[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

This was a lot of fun. Thank you Tommy and Delphi for having me on. I had zero filters on during this, which I’m likely to regret later!

[Ron Palmeri @RonP]

@mgsiegler the part I don’t get is why these guys don’t expect Elon to acquire tier 2 mobile providers for towers in high population density areas.

https://t.co/DdhthKmoQc

seems obvious, especially if they start getting hammered when Starlink has global coverage.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

You are correct.

Even the most advanced space-based Internet system is not competitive with fiber or cellular wireless in medium to high population density areas.

However, systems like Starlink are far more efficient for low density areas like rural farmland and moving objects like cars traveling cross-country, aircraft or ships.