Thai prime minister promises more help for the flagging economy
Florida Panthers, Come On Down!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
Matthew Tkachuk and the Panthers celebrate
Edmonton Oilers turn magically into The Almost Not Quite Stanley Cup team.
SUNRISE: After twice rising from the dead this year, the Oilers let history slip through their outstretched fingers.
Oilers and everyone in Edmonton struggle to process the result.
"Obviously it wasn't meant to be," said Leon Draisaitl, his face showing the emotion after the most painful loss of his career.
https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/edmonton-oilers-run-at-stanley-cup-history-dies-with-game-7-defeat
HUMAN RIGHTS
Julian Assange Walks
He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the U.K.
Assange agreed to plead guilty to violating the United States Espionage Act, in exchange for release from prison.
After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.
Report and VIDEO https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1805390138945528183
Fishwrap's Department Of It's Not Over 'Til It's Over notes
Assange is expected to resume his conspiracy campaign of The Politics of Money Laundering In South Asia.
Question du Jour: Will Biden pardon him?
OPED OPINION
Editorial in the Bangkok Post newspaper urges the government to
Ease the foreign tax burden
Effective immediately, the Revenue Department mandates that all foreign income is subject to Thai tax, irrespective of its remittance place or time.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2816415/
Meanwhile, in actual Thailand...
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has new ideas to stimulate the economy
'They are secret until next week,' Srettha said
 A big announcement on short-term, medium-term and long-term measures will be made on June 24 or 25. Wait and see if they are good news or bad...
PHOTO: Prime minister with several Pheu Thai Party political colleagues.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2815420/
PM Srettha has been at loggerheads with the independent Bank of Thailand over interest rates and inflation targets.
The BoT held its key interest rate steady at 2.5 percent following a review earlier this month. The next rate review ison August 21.
A statement from the bank, without attribution, repeated yet again
 Interest rates and the inflation target are currently both at appropriate levels.
SOUTH CHINA SEA WARFARE
It might not happen, but that's a poor way to bet.
The Upcoming Naval Battle in the South China Sea.
ARTICLE with VIDEO
 The challenges that China will face if it wants to blockade or invade Taiwan.
 Buckle up.
ANALYSIS: The above is a gripping discussion about how an invasion of Taiwan will probably develop. (Fishwrap recommends Read To The End)
Fishwrap does not (yet) have the full facts and we will not attribute this to aliens.
But it's clear that it is definitely aliens.
A Huge Imbalance of Energy Has Been Detected on Saturn.
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-huge-imbalance-of-energy-has-been-detected-on-saturn
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC REVIVAL
New highly-transmissible Covid strain will elude vaccines: expert
The case numbers of new KP.2 Covid strain rose marginally from one week earlier  - -
It will be more infectious, and vaccines will be hard-pressed to keep up with its mutations. Which is to say that vaccines won't battle this newest form of Covid-19.
2,881 Covid-19 inpatients in the past week compared with 2,762 in the previous week, June 2 to 8.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2811760/
by Kavi Chongkittavorn, veteran journalist on regional affairs
Thailand recharges Myanmar policy
New Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa now states, publicly, that Thailand's 'first priority' is to maintain stability and peace along the Thai-Myanmar border. And also: Thailand and ASEAN colleagues will continue to search for a solution.
 Thailand (he said) must shoulder thousands of displaced Myanmar people who have fled conflict across the border.
But Thailand has no rational policy on how to deal with this.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2812910/
TINY but SIGNIFICANT factlets:
The number of Myanmar buyers of Thai condominiums has grown rapidly in the past two years to the point where they have overtaken Russians and are now second to Chinese buyers.
NOTE: As of press time, readers have ratio'd Kavi's comment by 1-to-31.
CORRECTION GLOBAL WARMING
The extreme heat of Saudi Arabia has killed hundreds, not 14 Jordanians as previously reported.
Fishwrap regrets the error.
Curious fact: Most of the recorded heatstroke deaths were Egyptian illegal aliens who sneaked into Saudi Arabia by using fake visas produced by a fake-document mill in Cairo.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2814065/
Newton's thunder bird finally has a face. (Natural History Museum)
The Australian bird -- seven feet tall and weighing more than two hundred kilos - - was first discovered as partial fossil remains in 1896, with a complete skull found in 1913. But that skull was so distorted that it was hard to identify precisely what kind of bird it was.
Now much better-preserved examples have been found.
It's a goose.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/june/face-ancient-australian-giga-goose-revealed-after-fossil-skull-found.html
TECHNOLOGY
True Story. In a recent AI study, 270 humans failed the Meta-Turing test. (Live Science)
They judged ChatGPT to be human.
https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/gpt-4-has-passed-the-turing-test-researchers-claim
The Meta previously known as Facebook has scrubbed plans to train AI on data from European users. (Tech Crunch)
In response to questions, Meta shrugged and simply said "Europe".
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/14/meta-pauses-plans-to-train-ai-using-european-users-data-bowing-to-regulatory-pressure/
A single modern AI GPU can use 3.7MWh of power per year. (Tom's Hardware)
420W. That's about 420W continuously.
So... Yes. We bet it can.
https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/a-single-modern-ai-gpu-consumes-up-to-37-mwh-of-power-per-year-gpus-sold-last-year-alone-consume-more-power-than-13-million-households
It was necessary to destroy the franchise in order to save it. (spectator}
 What They’ve Done to Star Wars, They’re Trying to Do to America.
https://spectator.org/what-theyve-done-to-star-wars-theyre-trying-to-do-to-america/
Malaysians queue all night for their first Apple store. (bangkokpost)
Why?
VIDEO https://www.bangkokpost.com/video/world/2816129/
GLOBAL WARMING
There seems to be a lot of this going around, not just in Thailand
Car Makers Slash EV Production, Chinese EVs Stranded at Thai Ports... à¸à¹ˆà¸²à¸™à¸‚่าวต้นฉบับได้ที่ : Khao Sod (Fresh News) https://shorturl.at/VqOJ3
GLOBAL WARMINGÂ
EV Bubble Deflates
What's Next for EVs as Market Turns Unsteady?
The Face of SiamPossibly Probably the dumbest story about Thailand ever shown on Mass Media.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/video/thailand/2813831/
https://x.com/DPRK_News/status/963066915307454466
