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The Public Media Bridge Fund awards $26M across 74 organizations that operate more than 180 public radio and TV stations (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/12/public-media-bridge-fund-announces-initial-round-of-grants/

Public Media Bridge Fund announces initial round of grants
The fund will provide $26 million to 74 public media organizations.

Bridged Clustering for Representation Learning: Semi-Supervised Sparse Bridging
Patrick Peixuan Ye, Chen Shani, Ellen Vitercik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07182 https://

Bridged Clustering for Representation Learning: Semi-Supervised Sparse Bridging
We introduce Bridged Clustering, a semi-supervised framework to learn predictors from any unpaired input $X$ and output $Y$ dataset. Our method first clusters $X$ and $Y$ independently, then learns a sparse, interpretable bridge between clusters using only a few paired examples. At inference, a new input $x$ is assigned to its nearest input cluster, and the centroid of the linked output cluster is returned as the prediction $\hat{y}$. Unlike traditional SSL, Bridged Clustering explicitly levera…

Starmer names British soldier killed during weapons test in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/10/starmer-names-british-soldier-killed.html

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British Birds:
🎵 This Bin
#BritishBirds
https://britishbirds.bandcamp.com/track/this-bin
https://open.spotify.com/track/371efLWwnbXBvRfpy65Q0i

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Bertas (81) Herzenswunsch geht in Erfüllung
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Bertas «Happy Day»: Die 81-jährige darf endlich Hüttenwartin sein
Zum ersten Mal seit dem Tod ihres Mannes kehrt Berta in die Berge zurück und bekommt einen Wunsch erfüllt.

Heavy is the head that bows the crown. Or something…
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876

Top BBC bosses resign after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a Trump speech
The head of the BBC has resigned after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The BBC said that director-general Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness both announced their resignations on Sunday. Britain’s public broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021 before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington. Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut …

Two battery-electric street sweepers equipped with bidirectional charging technology could help to power operations on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in the event of a power outage.
https://www.microgridkn…

With Bidirectional EVs, Solar and Storage, Critical California Bridge Can Stay Open During Outages
The California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS), along with partners, is testing vehicle-to-building technology’s ability to help provide resilience for a critical operations...

Terry Bradshaw Dislikes Cowboys' Deadline Deal: 'I Would Not Have Done That' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/terry-bradshaw-dislikes-cowboys-deadline-deal-i-would-not-have-done-that

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Boards of Canada:
🎵 Roygbiv
#BoardsofCanada
https://lone.bandcamp.com/track/boards-of-canada-roygbiv-covered-by-lone
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Hf2h59YLInKlic7ooWZVd

The UK's Channel 4 names Priya Dogra as CEO, starting March 2026, replacing Alex Mahon, who stepped down after eight years; Dogra currently works for Sky (Nick Vivarelli/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/priya-dogra-chief-exe…

Priya Dogra Appointed Chief Executive of U.K. Broadcaster Channel 4 
Priya Dogra has been appointed chief executive of U.K. public service broadcaster Channel 4