Bangkok City Hall corruption is alive and well
This month's Bad-luck Friday the 13th is on Thursday.
The drummer has named his twin daughters: Anna 1, Anna 2.
Chatuchak Weekend Market aka JJ in northern Bangkok next to the nuclear facility
At 0430 on Tuesday, fire burnt the Sri Samrat section to the ground and killed dozens... well probably hundreds of puppies, kittens, fighting cocks, tropical fish and the like.
 It's heartbreaking. Now we see adorable pets as victims. I don’t even want to look at the dogs that died because they were trapped in cages.
 Chadchart Sittipunt, governor, Bangkok
Firemen fought the blaze under control in about an hour. As usual, they believe the fire was caused by a short circuit.
The fire began at a corner shop where the owner sells rare dogs -- and leaves electrical fans running all night for the animals.
Khao Sod (Fresh News) https://shorturl.at/Sn8uU
Shocking News: There is corruption at Bangkok City Hall
The anti-graft battle of Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt's is passively bureaucratic and, at best, reactive.
In 2022 he told voters at the first election 'allowed' by military dictators that he would not just fight corruption at City Hall; he would uproot it.
But he has appointed a committee to 'investigate' the obvious fraud and grift in the purchase of gym equipment that has been discovered and publicised by others on how the public's money has been purchased:
 103.2 Million-with-an-"M"
 treadmills at 759,000 baht each
 exercise bikes at 484,000 baht apiece And so on and so on and so forth.
NOTE: BMA is Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, i.e. Bangkok City Hall.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2808670/
ISRAEL HOSTAGES
 Pedantry du Jour
I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills.
How many hundr...(oops) thousands will re-watch Taken with their kids' abacus in hand for the unique chance to bust/confirm this?
Also
How many of them will note correctly that the exact number of people killed while shooting-and-showing Taken is...
... as of this morning...
zero? https://t.ly/-2fgU
Because as Alfred Hitchcock said to Kim Novak that day, "It's a movie, Kim."
Which raises a question to the addled: How many people did Alfred Hitchcock kill?
GLOBAL WARMING
Adam Minter of Bloomberg Opinion is now completely confident that an 'Insect Apocalypse' has reached Texas* and is headed to your neighbourhood.
PHOTO (above) Asian Tiger mosquitoes under study at the Zagreb-based teaching institute in Croatia.
The Texas drought and the 'sticky icky goo' of Dallas  occurs as the state experiences rising temperatures under the influence of climate change, is just one example. Elsewhere, surging populations of plant-eating insects are disrupting farms and the food supply chain, causing problems far more serious than sticky windshields.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2622713/
Related in the Overall Global Warming propaganda
by Kavi Chongkittavorn, veteran journalist on regional affairs
Thais must join Global Peace Summit
PHOTO shows Thai forces on their way to South Sudan for a UN peacekeeping mission at Christmas, 2018.
This weekend, Thailand will join 100-plus countries at the Burgenstock Resort in Switzerland for the upcoming Global Peace Summit. Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines have confirmed their participation. East Timor, which is expected to become a full Asean member in the future, is also participating.
Deputy Foreign Minister Russ Jalichandra will represent Thailand
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2808740/
TECHNOLOGY
GLOBAL WARMING GRIFTING FACEBOOK
Quel Surprise! Facebook is censoring climate dissent again. (powerlineblog)
Roger Pielke, Jr of the University of Colorado, who science Substack, The Honest Broker, is essential reading.
 _Pielke is a centrist-liberal Democrat, believes climate change is a genuine future risk, and supports a carbon tax and other measures to fight it.
 So turn up the censorship, Zuckie. Make stupid claims to (try to) justify.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/06/facebook-censoring-climate-dissent-again.php
The essay that causes Markie-Mark (and Priscilla?) to lose sleep:
The word "bot" is increasingly used as an insult by deranged leftists on social media. (New Scientist) (archive site)
We've never been sure whether it's just being adopted as a slur or if the people using it are so stupid that they think a Perl script just argued them into the ground.
Or most likely both.
https://archive.is/Nv7Yp
Perl 5.40.0 is out. (Perldoc)
Yay.
https://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta
The New York Times' source code was stolen using an exposed GitHub token. (Bleeping Computer)
Yay.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-york-times-source-code-stolen-using-exposed-github-token/
Department of Rent Seeking: American ISPs are asking the FCC to tax Big Tech - no, the other Big Tech, not them - and give the money to ISPs to fund their private islands in the Caribbean. (Ars Technica)
This is so blatant that one is almost lured into admiration of the artistry.
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference is on now. Here are the biggest announcements. (The Verge)
* AI bullshit, especially
* A password app Oopsie Yet Another password app
* Bringing the UI up to parity with Android 4 from 2011
https://www.theverge.com/24171190/apple-wwdc-2024-biggest-announcements
The biggest findings in the Google Search leak. (The Verge)
To nobody's great surprise, Google lied.
OPINION
Savage editorial of the week, from The New Neo
Biden's betrayal: "But for Michigan?"
Biden has betrayed Israel, the Jews, the U.S., the West, and Congress to win the presidency (he thinks) by winning the votes of the Muslims in Michigan who would dearly love to see Israel and the Jews destroyed, and the US and the West in their current forms as well.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2024/05/09/bidens-betrayal-but-for-michigan/
Even Newsweek has published an opinion piece claiming that Joe's refusal to arm Israel at this point is impeachable
Interesting and Possibly Worth Researching
The United States' Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) has an immensely higher kill rate of civilians than Israel. Uugely.
USA POLITICS PORNOGRAPHY
A very very American story by a very American writer.
Stormy Daniels: The Rosa Parks of Porn Stars
By Ann Coulter
Stormy Daniels is the stripper and porn star who tried to extort Donald Trump when he was running for president in 2016, threatening to tell the tabloids they'd had sex, a claim he denies.