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Justin Sun-linked BiT Global dismisses with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase for delisting wBTC; the delisting followed Coinbase launching rival cbBTC (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/07…

Coinbase, BiT Global End Legal Fight Over WBTC Delisting
BiT Global agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against Coinbase, with each party covering its own legal expenses.

Delegation with Costly Inspection
Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, Piotr Krysta, Mohammad Mahdavi, Suho Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07162 https://

Delegation with Costly Inspection
We study the problem of delegated choice with inspection cost (DCIC), which is a variant of the delegated choice problem by Kleinberg and Kleinberg (EC'18) as well as an extension of the Pandora's box problem with nonobligatory inspection (PNOI) by Doval (JET'18). In our model, an agent may strategically misreport the proposed element's utility, unlike the standard delegated choice problem which assumes that the agent truthfully reports the utility for the proposed alternative. Thus, the princi…

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Burial Four Tet:
🎵 Moth
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https://isthiscash.bandcamp.com/track/burial-four-tet-cash-deluged-moth-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6zil6cE61Yo8fKkw9yxpz5

Gosh I would love to make the things I create more expressive and delightful, while being instantly familiar...

For those who never had a Mac who are put off by / bemused by / disdainful of all the praise for Bill Atkinson’s work:
Don’t think of this as admiration for Apple and Apple history. Think of it as admiration for a more humane view of computing:
one where software’s job is to bring delight and foster creativity,
one where our devices are not hermetically sealed gifts from the tech gods with which we make a Faustian bargain, but rather a bucket of art supplies for us to play with, reshape, make our own. https://mastodon.social/@arroz/114643547519909731

Southern Baptist delegates at national meeting overwhelmingly call for banning same-sex marriage (Peter Smith/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/southern-baptists-meeting-sexual-abuse-jennifer-lyell-8ebb5246978918f46d243d6ce2d9f4a5
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p8#a250611p8

USC professor Allison Marsh writes this delightful short article for IEEE Spectrum about Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's British counterparts in Cambridge and how, in their case, a document (the Lighthill Report) precipitated cuts in British AI research funding in ways similar to how funding was temporarily cut in the U.S. following MIT's publishing of Minsky and Papert's "Perceptrons" in 1969.
"Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI"

Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Its creator lost a power struggle that led to an AI winter in the 1970s

Broadband Low-loss Unidirectional Reflection On-chip with Asymmetric Dielectric Metasurface
Heijun Jeong, Zeki Hayran, Yuan Liu, Yahui Xiao, Hwaseob Lee, Zi Wang, Jonathan Klamkin, Francesco Monticone, Tingyi Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06872

Broadband Low-loss Unidirectional Reflection On-chip with Asymmetric Dielectric Metasurface
Metasurface has emerged as a powerful platform for controlling light at subwavelength thickness, enabling new functionalities for imaging, polarization manipulation, and angular momentum conversion within a flat surface. We explored an integrated asymmetric metasurface simultaneously achieving broadband, low loss forward power transmission, and significant back reflection sup-pression in multi-mode waveguides. The tapering along the direction of light propagation leads to low loss and space-eff…

The White House Is Delighted With Events in Los Angeles (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-national-guard-los-angeles-hegseth/683104/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p6#a250611p6