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Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b69f304c-798e-4dc3-9f17-6f7a7c8d3ac0

How stablecoins are entering the financial mainstream
Usage of the digital assets is growing rapidly, but concerns remain about supervision and their impact on other parts of the financial system

If groups of parents can band together when deciding on the right age for a smartphone for their younger children, they will stand a better chance to avoid making decisions based on peer pressure at school.
https://theprivacydad.com/how-parent-c

fascinating episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's #StarTalk on the gut-brain connection: #podcast #health

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/business/ftc-omnicom-interpublic-mer…

FTC May Impose Political Bias Rule on Omnicom and Interpublic Merger
The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing to place ads on platforms for political reasons.

Droplet on a sugar fiber
St\'ephane Dorbolo, Floriane Weyer, Alexandre Delory, Apurav Tembe, Zhao Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09797 https://

Droplet on a sugar fiber
The motion of a water droplet on a single vertical sugar fiber is analyzed. The fiber is positioned vertically, with the droplet placed at its pending end. If the capillary force exceeds the weight of the droplet, the droplet remains suspended at the fiber's extremity. As water dissolves, the fiber eventually breaks. Subsequently, the droplet may fall down carrying a portion of the undissolved fiber or, more interestingly, the droplet may be propelled upwards, remaining attached to the fiber. T…

‘Madleen’ Responds to Mayday for Refugees at Sea
https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/05/madleen-responds-to-mayday-for-refugees-at-sea/

Surface Nematic Quasi-Uniformity
Andrea Pedrini, Epifanio G. Virga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10795 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10795

Surface Nematic Quasi-Uniformity
Line fields on surfaces are a means to describe the nematic order that may pattern them. The least distorted nematic fields are called uniform, but they can only exist on surfaces with negative constant Gaussian curvature. To identify the least distorted nematic fields on a generic surface, we relax the notion of uniformity into that of quasi-uniformity and prove that all such fields are parallel transported (in Levi-Civita's sense) by the geodesics of the surface. Both global and local constru…

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
CLONE 2: Is there anything for us here?
RASHEL: Yes. We're free.
CLONE 2: Can we survive - alone?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/532 B7B5

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Amazon says over 1M people now have access to Alexa , up from "hundreds of thousands" in May, and plans to "make it even more broadly available over the summer" (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684560/amazo

More than a million people now have Alexa Plus
Amazon’s generative AI-powered smart voice assistant launched in March and is slowly reaching more homes.