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EU envoys reportedly agree on 18th package of Russia sanctions after Slovakia lifts veto: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/eu-envoys-reportedly-agree-on.html

SFMTA board is hearing Mayor Lurie’s mass displacement plan to banish working-poor, mostly Latino families living in RVs from the city.
Here’s the “refuge permit” designed as window dressing to make liberals feel ok about this. Notice to get one, you have to “agree to accept offer of… interim… housing,” ie agree to be displaced a little later anyway. 💩
#sfpol

Steelers, T.J. Watt agree to terms on record three-year, $123 million extension https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-t-j-watt-agree-to-terms-on-record-three-year-123-million-extension

Raiders agree to terms with rookie 2nd-round pick before camp begins https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-agree-to-terms-with-rookie-2nd-round-pick-before-camp-begins-3397822/

Unifying Streaming and Non-streaming Zipformer-based ASR
Bidisha Sharma, Karthik Pandia Durai, Shankar Venkatesan, Jeena J Prakash, Shashi Kumar, Malolan Chetlur, Andreas Stolcke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14434

Unifying Streaming and Non-streaming Zipformer-based ASR
There has been increasing interest in unifying streaming and non-streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) models to reduce development, training, and deployment costs. We present a unified framework that trains a single end-to-end ASR model for both streaming and non-streaming applications, leveraging future context information. We propose to use dynamic right-context through the chunked attention masking in the training of zipformer-based ASR models. We demonstrate that using right-context…

BuzzFeed brackets are 100% accurate and do not lie. And only 5% agree with me? Go home 😂

Sources: Steelers make Watt highest-paid non-QB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45764664/steelers-tj-watt-agree-3-year-123m-extension

Steelers, T.J. Watt agree to contract extension that makes him highest-paid non QB in NFL history, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler…

Raiders Finally Agree to Terms With Second-Round Pick Right Before Training Camp https://athlonsports.com/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-finally-agree-to-terms-with-second-round-pick-right-before-training-camp

Ravens, cornerback Jaire Alexander agree to deal https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6427434/2025/06/18/jaire-alexander-signs-ravens/