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I blogged about the history of the public-service broadcasting institution ARD in Germany and how I finally got access to TV program data to answer my reoccuring question of when the news program is on tonight in the spirit of "Public Money, Public Good".
https://johl.io/blog/o-news-program-wh…

OpenAI details why "emergent misalignment", where training on wrong answers in one area can lead to misalignment in others, happens and how it can be mitigated (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/open

OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different 'personas' | TechCrunch
OpenAI researchers say they've discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned "personas," according to new research published

The #AI Future Belongs to Those Who Zoom Out https://aboard.com/the-ai-future-belongs-to-those-who-zoom-out/

"But West Virginia’s new law is unusual. Boasting the “least restrictive regulatory environment in the nation,” it prohibits local officials from having any input into where off-grid data centers go. This provision appears to be a nationwide first and is angering mayors and commissioners statewide."
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How you don't want to spend your Saturday: figuring out how many regressions #LLVM developers managed to sneak in just before the 21.x branching, and then bisecting them.
The answer: 2 serious regressions breaking libclc build and install, 2 test regressions in clang and compiler-rt respectively (the former quickly reverted on main, for the second time, but nobody thought of backporting), and 1 assertion failure in experimental backend.
Now I really hope I'll manage a clean run for 21.1.0-rc1 with the biggest zero-day LLVM patchset in the history of #Gentoo.
LLVM downstream maintenance is a nightmare.

Did you know, President & CEO of CBS, which just bribed potus by settling a case and canceled Stephen Colbert's show, is named, not making this up, George Cheeks?
Sure they were bullied as a kid, but as CEO, George Cheeks laying down for fascists makes me theoretically ('cause violence is not a good answer) want to clap those cheeks (metaphorically slap him).
Stop returning Paramount & subsidiaries' (like CBS) calls. They wither w/no one to work for them. …

Sen. Dick Durbin reveals that AG Pam Bondi “pressured” roughly 1,000 FBI personnel to sift through tens of thousands of Epstein documents to flag all mentions of Donald Trump
https://dailycast.news/america-demands-answers/

America demands answers - Dailycast Newstalk Radio
Senator Dick Durbin drops a massive bombshell and reveals that Attorney General Pam Bondi “pressured” roughly 1,000 FBI personnel to sift through tens of thousands of Epstein documents to flag all mentions...

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though
ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak,
mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers,
thou has dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams has
moved amid the world's foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust,
and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigat…

I was sent a link for a very weird survey... It asked about Meta, Amazon, Walmart, and also... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
It seemed to be asking if I was a fan of corporations. I am not, and I let them know.
Also, here are two of the questions I had to answer.

Third Biden aide refuses to answer Oversight questions: Comer (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5408464-third-biden-aide-refuses-to-answer-oversight-questions-comer/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p74#a250718p74