Good Monday morning (almost), it's our final work week before the four-day weekend we deserve. Everything below here is actual news, put out by actual news people who care for you so much.
Typhoon Danas in the East China Sea. Storm appears likely to hit East-central China. Heavy rains from Thailand to Taiwan. Matichon Online (in Thai)
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover. -- Bill Gates, Microsoft,Inc.
Cambodia has consistently breached the 2000 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU43) with Thailand, -- Royal Thai Army Major General Nutt Sriin, deputy commander, Second Army Region, likely coup d'etatleader.
TRADE and TARIFFS Thailand still eligible to be one of Trump's Biggest Losers. The current U.S. president said he's sending letters today to the leaders of a dozen countries that aren't negotiating in good faith. They include Japan and India, but not Thailand -- not yet. Fascinating Facts 1: ASEAN has no plan, no policy on the issue.
WEALTH HEALTH HI-SO Billionaire from Buri Ram selected as world's most stylish. That would be Lalisa "Lisa" Manobal, Blackpink fave and darling of The New York Times.
As Bangkok's online Nation quickly noted, almost no Asians were on the list, but Lisa is. LaLisa has captured attention with her magnetic presence on stage, on screen, and even on the red carpet.
OPINION ANALYSIS If you thought that the Thai manner of legalising marijuana sales was dumb, you obviously haven't watched the country's attempt to cancel that policy. Thailand's Public Health Ministry has ruled that you need a medical prescription to buy weed. The pro-pot Network for Writing Thailand's Cannabis Future says it's a plot to retyurn marijuana to status as a narcotic.
Monday Morning Joke The movie Aliens, starring Sigourney Weaver. A female soldier is working out in a gym. She's very fit and looks great. A guy walks up to her and says, 'Are you ever mistaken for a man?" She replies, "No ... how about you?" [h/t gs]
Britain will bake. Heat bomb explodes. London swelters. Phew! What a ScorcherIt's a bit on the warm side in the U.K. The best way to handle extreme heat is probably to do as little as possible, something I have just about got the hang of in Bangkok.
The English are more comfortable with rain. England is not called "The Land of Rain Stopped Play" for nothing. Paddington's particular favourite is, "It's bucketing down".
My husband, the famous novelist Max Cossack, has almost zero tolerance for any snack food or general food item which is NOT “original.” He is also a big devotee of “original thought” in his writing, most recently boldly declaring that the Hamlet character so admired by virtually all previous critics was, in fact, a “twerp.”) ... In different realms we have now had several generations that proved to be inferior incarnations.
Two Bitcoin wallets have woken upfrom a 14 year nap. (MarketWatch) When they were last used in 2011 they were worth a total of $15,600. They just became active again, now valued at more than two billion dollars.
Beeg cat means beeg error. (arXiv) (pdf) Adding useless cat facts when posing questions to so-called "reasoning" AIs instantly triples the error rate.
AMD's Zen 6 CPUs could be really fast and have lots of cache. (Hot Hardware) Some of the rumours seem solid.
" Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable." ...
"I'll buy that for a dollar."
In the world of the unbacked-up, the backed-up is King.