Thai prime minister Srettha gets a warning
Hel-l-l-0H all! Here's the text of the Fishwrap Early edition for the first Sunday of March 2024.
THAILAND POLITICS ANALYSIS
Prime Minister Srettha should beware
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin (photo) has declared he intends to serve out his four-year term in office.
 However, observers were quick to remind him that what happens in life isn't always predictable.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2751593/
Effective immediately, tolls on Bangkok-area expressways have gone up.
The Expressway Authority of Thailand (EXAT) announced earlier this month that the fee for 4-wheel vehicles on the Chalong Rat Expressway will increase by 5 baht to 45 baht.
https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40036015
THAILAND ECONOMY INVESTMENT
Thailand searches out top tech firms
Thai civil servants from the ministry of digital economy and society (DES) got a free trip to Spain, where they toured the booths of 'world-class technology companies' at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 in Barcelona.
They made pitches to the booth operators to invest in Thailand.
DES Minister Prasert Chantararuangthong joined the show tour, but had to break off in order to attend a special briefing by Huawei Technology.
USA CANADA OBAMA FIVE_EYES
This seems like a big thing.
Under Obama, the CIA suborned Canada's Security Intelligence Service
and the top intelligence agencies of New Zealand, Britain and Australia.
 The U.S. intelligence community of the Obama administration sought the assistance of the 'Five Eyes' intelligence alliance to surveil Donald Trump's associates before the 2016 election.
 This bombshell, reported by a team of independent journalists, exposes a dark chapter in American political history, where foreign intelligence services were reportedly mobilized against a presidential candidate.
 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/28/obamas_cia_asked_foreign_intel_agencies_to_spy_on_trump_campaign_150565.html
At that closed-door meeting the minister pitched the high value of investment in Thailand, opportunities in national government and communication networks, Thailand's cloud first project, big data and its AI platform.
Huawei already has major investments in Thailand for technology testing. The company is in virtual control of the entire province of Si Racha and most of the "aggie college," Kasetsart University.
https://www.nationthailand.com/business/tech/40036016
Hamas terrorists have reported that seven of the hostages they abducted in October have been killed.
But they swear they didn't do it -- it was those Jewish Israelis!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68450736
How could you possibly be surprised? Once you instantiate Rule 34, well, there you are.
 Man Running AI-Powered Porn Site Horrified by What Users Are Asking For.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/man-ai-powered-porn-site-horrified
 I hope they don't actually want to see the things they're typing in.
 -- Longtime (i.e. before Internet) pron vendor Stevie "Lightspeed" Jones
 This [AI] technology will catch on, and it will get abusive before it gets helpful.
 -- Heather Knox, director of adult performer management services, Elevated X
TECHNOLOGY
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is furious after his company's Gemini AI spat out unexplainable pictures of racially diverse Nazis. (futurism.com)
(English translation: Google Gemini screwed up)
Larf of the Dayis where Pichai claimed, "That's completely unacceptable and we got it wrong," and ordered some of his human boffins to get it right. Even though Google Gemini AI did the exact 'diversity' that it was programmed to do.
https://futurism.com/google-ceo-gemini-scandal
 Gun-Free School Zones and Shootings Statistic (ammo.com) (2024 Updated).
There have been 2,646 school shooting incidents in the U.S. since 1966. Of those, 2,205 (94 percent) occurred after the 1990 School Zone Safety Act.
 Despite mounting gun control laws on the Federal and state level, school-related shootings continue to rise -- 2023 being the highest year yet, with 388 school shootings in only six months.
https://shorturl.at/ovxJ3
TRUTH: HP has announced that after years of neglect its printers are now overpriced, unreliable, insecure garbage that nobody in their right mind would buy. (Ars Technica)
They want you to rent them instead.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/
Well, yeah, there's a reason these animals are calledKillerWhales.
In less than two minutes, an Orca hunted, found, attacked... and ate a great white shark, just off the coast of South Africa.
Well, to be accurate, it swam away with the shark's liver in its mouth.
And there's (brief) VIDEO.https://shorturl.at/dqKNQ
