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Roblox says it is on track to pay out $1B to creators in 2025, as it revamps its rewards program to encourage creators to bring more players onto the platform (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/691308/roblo

Roblox wants to better reward creators for bringing players back
Roblox is introducing two new systems that are designed to reward creators for engagement and bringing new and lapsed users onto the platform.

Roblox says it is on track to pay out $1B to creators in 2025, as it revamps its rewards program to encourage creators to bring more players onto the platform (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/691308/roblo

Roblox wants to better reward creators for bringing players back
Roblox is introducing two new systems that are designed to reward creators for engagement and bringing new and lapsed users onto the platform.

House Democrats needle the GOP over Jan. 6 with replica plaques (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/23/congress/democrats-replica-jan-6-plaques-00418859
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p112#a250623p112

Cowboys offensive lineman Brock Hoffman reveals late-night workout routine https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-ol-brock-hoffman-reveals-late-night-workout-routine

Reflecting Human Values in XAI: Emotional and Reflective Benefits in Creativity Support Tools
Samuel Rhys Cox, Helena B{\o}jer Djern{\ae}s, Niels van Berkel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17116

Reflecting Human Values in XAI: Emotional and Reflective Benefits in Creativity Support Tools
In this workshop paper, we discuss the potential for measures of user-centric benefits (such as emotional well-being) that could be explored when evaluating explainable AI (XAI) systems within the arts. As a background to this, we draw from our recent review of creativity support tool (CST) evaluations, that found a paucity of studies evaluating CSTs for user-centric measures that benefit the user themselves. Specifically, we discuss measures of: (1) developing intrinsic abilities, (2) emotiona…

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Sheltering in a Bunker, Iran’s Supreme Leader Names Potential Successors
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes,
he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain.
Ayatollah Khamenei, 86, is aware that either Israel or the United States could try to assassinate him,
an end he would view as martyrdom, the officials said.
Given the possibility…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Planning for His Possible Assassination, Picks Successors
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes, he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain.

lesmis: Les Misérables coappearances
The network of scene coappearances of characters in Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables". Edge weights denote the number of such occurrences.
This network has 77 nodes and 254 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/lesmis

How Walmart, seeking to compete with e-commerce rivals like Amazon, built a multibillion-dollar HQ in Bentonville, aiming to attract workers and woo shoppers (Kevin Draper/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/business/walmart-rebrand-hea…

Walmart Tries to Shed a Stodgy Vibe to Battle Digital-Native Rivals
The retailing giant is spending billions to attract workers to a new headquarters and woo shoppers with drone delivery and a broader range of items (like Louis Vuitton handbags).

AMC Theatres, facing financial pressure, reverses course and joins its rivals in adding regular ads to its pre-movie lineup, in a worrying trend for studios (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Get Ready for More Commercials in Movie Theaters
Industry leader AMC Theatres is reversing course and joining its rivals on July 1 in adding regular ads to its pre-movie lineup in a worrisome trend for studios.