The UK's FCA plans to lift its ban on offering crypto exchange traded notes to retail investors "to support UK growth and competitiveness" (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/06/uk…
This week’s edition of my @… newsletter shines a light on the impact of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple computing eras—leading right up to today.
We’ve arrived at a moment where loose coupling principles are cool (and super useful) again.
Naturally, there are some live demo nuggets in the post to help bring it all to life:
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sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 188508 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
Midplane based 3D single pass unbiased segment-to-segment contact interaction using penalty method
Indrajeet Sahu, Nik Petrinic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04841
Découvrez l'histoire poignante de 4 générations de victimes et de plus d'une centaine d'enfants sur https://chardonsbleus.org/contexte-4-generations-de-victimes-une-centaine-denfants-okc/ 💔
Good Morning #Canada
Today is "taking a break from packing up the house and going golfing day." Did you know there are over 2,200 golf facilities in Canada, with 90% of those being public. That means golf remains accessible and it's becoming less expensive to get started with lower cost starter sets and growth in the used club marketplace. Here are the top 50 public and private courses as ranked by Canadian PGA members.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Golf
https://golftalkcanada.com/pga-of-canada-top-100/
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Storgårds conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony
John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no 4, after Hans Abrahamsen’s delicate Horn Concerto, and music by Sibelius and Schumann.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cp7j
sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi