Chinese Communists send inspection teams for the 'Land Bridge' dream
Hello Thailand fans in Bangkok and around the world.
You are looking at Fishwrap for Tuesday, the Day After Memorial Day of 2024.
THAILAND 'JUSTICE' POLITICS ANALYSIS
Who will become Thai Prime Minister if the Constitutional Court removes current PM Srettha?
You're looking at her.
That said, it's definitely not a Done Deal and... and... and it's Thailand so one must not forget the undeclared candidate, i.e. Royal Thai Army.
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/politics/40038306
THAILAND DRUGS MARIJUANA
Short, quick-read brief on the current plans of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin to re-outlaw marijuana.
Headline: Thailand's PM wants to outlaw cannabis, 2 years after it was decriminalised
Srettha and government also are looking at the law which allows everyong in Thailand to carry one -- but only one -- meth pill without arrest.
Khao Sod (Fresh News) https://shorturl.at/JgwXr
Chinese groups from Kunming (Yunnan) and Chengdu (Szechuan) visited the remote South of Thailand on Sunday to take a close, in-person look at just what's up with the Land Bridge project touted by Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin.
One Communist Party group travelled to each end of Srettha's dream -- the town of Ranong and beach resort at Chumphon.
[Khao Sod, Fresh News] https://shorturl.at/3T1wa
PHOTO shows present-day Ranong on the Burmese border, where no actual land-bridge construction is under way.
'SPORTS' SOCCER ISAN
Gitcher free BBQ pork (Moo Krata) right here in Khon Kaen city.
Manchester United fans only! You must be wearning a Man-U jersey.
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2024/05/26/250-man-utd-fans-enjoy-free-bbq-in-khon-kaen-after-fa-cup-win/
MORE CLEAR AIR TURBULENCE
At least six (6) passengers and six (6) cabin crew were injured when Qatar Airways Doha-to-Dublin Flight QR017flew into an air pocket and CATV.
The Airbus did not crash or divert. All pilots were wearing safety harnesses and are fine, although underwear checks are under way.
Or, as the Qatar Airways PR staff put it
The flight landed safely in Dublin, but a small number of passengers and crew sustained minor injuries in flight and are now receiving medical attention.
CNN reports exclusively that a person claiming to be a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Reading admits that all this CATV that's going on and wounding innocent people on long-haul flights is because of Global Warming.
https://www.aol.com/12-people-injured-during-turbulence-131734240.html
It turns out, writes Dr. Paul Carter in a missive to Fishwrap, that Exxon-Mobil scientists nailed the Climate Change thingy almost half a century ago. Read all about that:
TECHNOLOGY
17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training (Tom's Hardware)
From dangerous medical advice to extremist disinformation
ACHTUNG! IMPORTANT! This is not clickbait, it's a thorough fisking of Google AI Overviews by the site's senior editor, who knows what he's talking about and knows just how seriously, horrendously, even fatally bad is this Google product.
Oopsie, almost forgot: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/cringe-worth-google-ai-overviews
Fishwrap recommends: ditch Google search, there excellent alternatives. For example,
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite is 10% slower than Apple's M2 on single-threaded benchmarks - but twice as fast on multi-threaded tests. (Tom's Hardware)
The X Elite has twelve full-size cores, while the base model M2 has four full-size and four low-power cores, so that tracks.
Financial technology startup Synapse, which provided banking services to around 100 other financial technology startups with around 10 million total customers, est mort. (Tech Crunch)
Synapse filed for Chapter 11 protection last month to sort out its financial situation without impacting customers, but that failed when the buyer it had lined up walked away. That left no alternative but liquidation.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/25/with-a16z-backed-synapses-collapse-baas-fintech-is-a-mess-and-10-million-consumers-could-be-hurt/
Here's your government health plan (if you're a Limey)
Britain's NHS covered up infected blood donations that led to 3000 deaths over the course of twenty years. (UPI)
There's a lot of that going around.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/05/20/cover-up-tainted-blood-scandal-nhs/6031716217388/
Recycled concrete can be used in place of lime in steel production. (New Atlas)
And as a bonus, the concrete - crushed and with the sand and gravel removed - is heated by the process to the point that it reverts to cement, ready to be reused.
https://newatlas.com/materials/concrete-steel-recycle-cambridge-zero-carbon-cement/
Beyond Cool SPACE
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images of galaxies being born at the cosmic dawn. New Atlas)
This is the first time this has ever been witnessed by astronomers, confirming models for galaxy formation.
HEADLINE DU JOUR
Chief Justice Gets a Warning; The Truth About Colonoscopy
U.S. Senators of the Democratic Party have targeted Justice Sam Alito for committing The Most Horrible Sin of writing the (majority decision) in the anti-abortion case known as Dobbs.
Epoch: https://shorturl.at/ZsPgx
USA HOLIDAYS
The United States marked Memorial Day on Monday.
Just Sayin':
The youngest Vietnam War veterans are just shy of 70.
Of course, 58,276 of those who served will never age.
Another reason why any decent government would ban cricket. https://twitter.com/HongKongJacko/status/1794577289604464969
