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US will start revoking passports for thousands of parents who owe child support, AP learns (Matthew Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/passports-unpaid-child-support-penalty-state-department-42d90cfa8a06ee349bb9145f668919b6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p98#a260507p98

A Unified Framework for Uniform-Price Resource Allocation Mechanisms
Ioannis Caragiannis, Dimitris Fotakis, Stratis Skoulakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06151 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.06151 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.06151
arXiv:2606.06151v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Mechanisms for allocating a divisible resource among strategic agents have been widely studied. The prominent paradigm is the proportional (Kelly) mechanism, which elicits a scalar bid per agent, allocates the resource proportionally, and charges payments equal to the bids. Follow-up mechanisms improve social welfare, but sacrifice simplicity by introducing complex allocation rules or unintuitive payments.
We introduce a unified framework for designing simple resource allocation mechanisms with proportional-style allocations and uniform pricing. Our framework yields a family of mechanisms that interpolate between the Kelly mechanism and the first-price auction. These mechanisms strictly improve upon Kelly's efficiency guarantees, even achieving full efficiency in equilibrium, while also providing revenue guarantees relative to the VCG mechanism.
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I've lived in "drive everywhere" areas, rural and urban. In rural settings, it's an unavoidable reality.
In urban settings, I love that I now live where have pretty much everything I need within a 15-20 minute walk.
Urban Truth Collective: The One-Hour City Conspiracy — Streetsblog USA

Urban Truth Collective: The One-Hour City Conspiracy — Streetsblog USA
Here's the real conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, more crashes, more noise, more air pollution, more social isolation — and less space for everything good our streets should be giving us.

I've lived in "drive everywhere" areas, rural and urban. In rural settings, it's an unavoidable reality.
In urban settings, I love that I now live where have pretty much everything I need within a 15-20 minute walk.
Urban Truth Collective: The One-Hour City Conspiracy — Streetsblog USA

Urban Truth Collective: The One-Hour City Conspiracy — Streetsblog USA
Here's the real conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, more crashes, more noise, more air pollution, more social isolation — and less space for everything good our streets should be giving us.

How AI startups like Altur are using chatbots to help automate debt collection; YC incubated six debt collection and settlement startups in the past six years (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-takes-over-debt-collection/

AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World
There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.

#USPol #USpolitics #network1976
I'm not saying that the 1976 movie "Network" was prescient . . . but . . .

A Unified Framework for Uniform-Price Resource Allocation Mechanisms
Ioannis Caragiannis, Dimitris Fotakis, Stratis Skoulakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06151 https://

Trump threatens to deploy ICE to airports as TSA shortages drive delays

Spring break travel is set to strain airports
as rising callouts and resignations among unpaid TSA officers
stretch security more than a month into the funding standoff
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Trump threatens to deploy ICE to airports as TSA shortages drive delays
Spring break travel is straining airports as rising callouts and resignations among unpaid TSA officers stretch security over a month into the funding standoff.

France-based Univity, which seeks to build 3,400 VLEO satellites to reduce Europe's reliance on Starlink, raised €27M, bringing its total funding to €68M (Gianluca Lo Nostro/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel…