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