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Gray Media and E.W. Scripps agree to swap TV stations across five mid-size and small markets, an even exchange of comparable assets with no cash involved (Mark K. Miller/TVNewsCheck)
https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/gray-media-a…

Gray Media And Scripps Agree To Swap Some Stations
Gray will acquire Scripps’ WSYM Lansing, Mich., and KATC (ABC) in Lafayette, La., while Scripps will acquire Gray’s KKTV (CBS) in Colorado Springs and KMVT and KSVT-LD in Twin Falls, Idaho. No cash will change hands.

from my link log —
Making sense of atomic acquire-release semantics.
https://davekilian.com/acquire-release.html
saved 2025-06-08 ht…

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Agar Agar:
🎵 The Visit
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https://agar--agar.bandcamp.com/track/the-visit-ela-minus-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1LWxX1SxYGnq5391Ag5Ohf

Most GOP staffers agree Medicaid cuts will fuck them in 2026 - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/07/07/most-gop-staffers-agree-medicaid-cuts-will-fuck-them-in-2026/

Microsoft says clients of its Azure cloud platform may experience increased latency after multiple international cables in the Red Sea were cut (Susanne Barton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-06/mic…

The "kill cloud" at work.
https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-8200-intelligence-surveillance-cloud-azure/

Efficient Scaling for LLM-based ASR
Bingshen Mu, Yiwen Shao, Kun Wei, Dong Yu, Lei Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04096 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04096

Efficient Scaling for LLM-based ASR
Large language model (LLM)-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) achieves strong performance but often incurs high computational costs. This work investigates how to obtain the best LLM-ASR performance efficiently. Through comprehensive and controlled experiments, we find that pretraining the speech encoder before integrating it with the LLM leads to significantly better scaling efficiency than the standard practice of joint post-training of LLM-ASR. Based on this insight, we propose a new m…

Geselligkeit im #Alter
https://www.spektrum.de/news/super-ager-was-das-gehirn-geistig-topfitter-senioren-auszeichnet/2281525

Was das Gehirn geistig topfitter Senioren auszeichnet
Mit über 80 so kognitiv leistungsfähig wie 50-Jährige? Seit 25 Jahren untersuchen Forschende solche beneidenswerten Menschen und ziehen interessante Schlüsse daraus.

SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for up to $8.5B in cash and up to $8.5B in stock, resolving an FCC inquiry into EchoStar (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-…

France's Capgemini plans to acquire US-listed IT outsourcing company WNS for $3.3B in cash, seeking to boost its agentic AI services; WNS serves 600 clients (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07…

Capgemini to Buy WNS for $3.3 Billion to Boost ‘Agentic’ AI
France’s Capgemini SE plans to acquire IT outsourcing company WNS Holdings Ltd. for $3.3 billion in cash, beating rival suitors to a deal aimed at expanding its AI operations.