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Block Communications enters into an agreement to sell its entire portfolio of TV stations to Gray Media for $80M; the deal is expected to close in Q4 2025 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/gray-media-acquiring-block-communications-tv-st…

Block Communications sells TV stations to Gray Media
Block Communications has entered into an agreement to sell its entire portfolio of television stations to Gray Media, the companies announced on Friday.

Какво е Creative Commons? - Петър Тушков
https://petertoushkov.eu/paper-books/kakvo-e-creative-commons

Какво е Creative Commons? - Петър Тушков
Наскоро публикувах моя български превод на „Приключенията на Алиса в Страната на чудесата“ под условията на договора Криейтив Комънс и имам усещането, че може би трябва да поговорим какво означават тези две думи.

⛓️‍💥 Broken Tokens? Your Language Model can Secretly Handle Non-Canonical Tokenizations
#ai #llm

Broken Tokens? Your Language Model can Secretly Handle Non-Canonical Tokenizations
Modern tokenizers employ deterministic algorithms to map text into a single "canonical" token sequence, yet the same string can be encoded as many non-canonical tokenizations using the tokenizer vocabulary. In this work, we investigate the robustness of LMs to text encoded with non-canonical tokenizations entirely unseen during training. Surprisingly, when evaluated across 20 benchmarks, we find that instruction-tuned models retain up to 93.4% of their original performance when given a randomly…

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface aided Integrated-Navigation-and-Communication in Urban Canyons: A Satellite Selection Approach
Tianwei Hou, Da Guan, Xin Sun, Anna Li, Wenqiang Yi, Yuanwei Liu, Arumugam Nallanathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01766

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface aided Integrated-Navigation-and-Communication in Urban Canyons: A Satellite Selection Approach
This study investigates the application of a simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided medium-Earth-orbit (MEO) satellite network for providing both global positioning services and communication services in the urban canyons, where the direct satellite-user links are obstructed. Superposition coding (SC) and successive interference cancellation (SIC) techniques are utilized for the integrated navigation and communication (INAC) networks, and th…

Examining the Social Communication and Community Engagement of Autistic Adults through an Asynchronous Focus Group
Blade Frisch, Betts Peters, Keith Vertanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00202

Examining the Social Communication and Community Engagement of Autistic Adults through an Asynchronous Focus Group
Purpose: Little research has explored the communication needs of autistic adults and how their needs differ from those of other disabled populations. Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) can support these communication needs, but more guidance is needed on how to design AAC to support this population. Materials and Methods: We conducted an online, asynchronous, text-based focus group with five autistic adults to explore their social communication and community engagement and how A…

The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program.
During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,”
adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out
https://news.bloombe…

IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming
The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

Smithsonian will again include Trump in impeachment exhibit in 'coming weeks' (Nnamdi Egwuonwu/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/smithsonian-will-include-trump-impeachment-exhibit-coming-weeks-rcna222690
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p57#a250802p57

this *sounds* like SFMTA agreed to painting full 20-foot red curbs at every intersection, rather than the mere 10 feet at stop-controlled intersections that has been traffic engineer Ricardo Olea's policy. if so, good! parent organizing worked!
https://www.k…

SFMTA Coming Up Short on Daylighting SF’s Red Curbs, Parents Say
San Francisco’s transit agency says it will change its daylighting policy to ensure compliance with a California traffic safety law intended to protect pedestrians and cyclists.

Welp, looks like I'll need to file a bill to require that if the state is going to assert copyright over its historical markers, it's gotta be under a copyleft license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:Historical_markers_in_New_Hampshire
(that is, assuming something can't be worked out independently without one...)

Biden, in Rare Remarks Since Presidency, Warns His Accomplishments Are Coming Undone (Lindsay Ellis/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-in-rare-remarks-since-presidency-warns-his-accomplishments-are-coming-undone-18c58c50
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p135#a250702p135