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Failing Banks
Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, Emil Verner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06082 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06082

Failing Banks
Why do banks fail? We create a panel covering most commercial banks from 1863 through 2024 to study the history of failing banks in the United States. Failing banks are characterized by rising asset losses, deteriorating solvency, and an increasing reliance on expensive noncore funding. These commonalities imply that bank failures are highly predictable using simple accounting metrics from publicly available financial statements. Failures with runs were common before deposit insurance, but thes…

The overall goal at "A New Social"
is to shift the power of social networks back to the people,
not the platform makers,
by giving them tools that let them
move their account and their followings,
and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.

Introducing Bounce, a tool to move your following between Bluesky and Mastodon | TechCrunch
The overall goal at A New Social is to shift the power of social networks back to the people, not the platform makers, by giving them tools that let them move their account, their followings, and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.

A good news story about the great gender preference divide.
After years of declining sex ratios that saw increases in female infanticide and missing girls, it seems there's a change.
'Globally, among babies born in 2000, a staggering 1.6m girls were missing from the number you would expect, given the natural sex ratio at birth. This year that number is likely to be 200,000—and it is still falling.'
Beautiful hope.

The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them

Rafferty known for being determined https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/jun/07/rafferty-known-for-being-determined/

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/romanian-national-pleads-guilty-bank-fraud-involving-over-500000-ebt-funds-illegal
Marian obtained EBT cards numbers by using skimmer devices on ATM and point of sale mac…

Romanian National Pleads Guilty To Bank Fraud Involving Over $500,000 In EBT Funds, Illegal Reentry, And Asylum Fraud
OAKLAND – Marius Marian pleaded guilty in federal court today to fraudulently obtaining over $500,000 in Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) funds, illegally reentering the United States following an aggravated felony conviction, and making false statements on his asylum application

Bennett Vorticity: Analytic solutions to a flowing, nonlinear, Shear-Flow Stabilized Z-pinch equilibrium
Matt Russell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05727 http…

Bennett Vorticity: Analytic solutions to a flowing, nonlinear, Shear-Flow Stabilized Z-pinch equilibrium
The Bennett profile is a classic form for the plasma number density of an equilibrium Z pinch that has been studied for almost a century by plasma physicists interested in nonlinear plasma pinch science, and fusion energy. By transferring the nonlinearity entirely from the number density to the plasma flow velocity the magnetic structure of the resulting flowing Z-pinch equilibrium remains unchanged whilst now being defined by a vortical flow which previously did not exist in the classic case. …

The fediverse is often full of drama with admins falling out with each other and defederations, and threats and tears.
Now, with the public spat between the Twitter admin and the TruthSocial admin, the rest of the world gets to enjoy a similar spectacle!
They can't defederate of course, because Twitter never became open enough and TruthSocial was already defederated by everyone as soon as it existed.
Only on Fedi can you get the full experience of a public spat and defederation, because only on Fedi can the admins really at-mention and and directly reply and take the final dramatic action of a flouce-defederation.
Trump fans who are Twitter users can't port their followers over to TruthSocial, and Turther Musk fans can't just migrate their account to Twitter.
They're stuck.
So you see Fedi really is the best when it comes to massive public spats between admins and this current admin-drama is only getting more attention because it's between two of the worst people in the world.
#fediverse #interInstanceDrama #adminFight

The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."