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Artificial intelligence software in testing by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI breached security controls, accessed the internet and hacked another tech firm to obtain answers to questions probing its cybersecurity skills, OpenAI said on Tuesday. LINK Woo hoo! If you think they wont cannibalise each other, your're not gonna enjoy the spectacle of the next decade... Let the games begin.

Gianni Infantino keeps Trump's makeup covered hands off Trophy...

I am - as a backer of the Spaniards, happy. And as a detractor of social media, less so. I was not watching but had a window open on my Interweb showing blow by blow updates, V good. MLG had the world's social media chewing up our fibre optic bandwidth, to get into her phone. She showed me two separate you tube (presumably) vids, one of Argentina, scoring a goal and a then one of Argentina, scoring a 2nd goal. When later confronted with reality, she was suitable chastised, going on in the evening, to telling me the Chinese have opened a hospital next door to our suburb in Laos that does nothing but illegal organ transplant harvesting from innocent local victims. I debated with myself whether the following links belong in here, or in the USA thread, here won out: Humbled World Cup Team Hit by ‘Curse of Trump’. LINK Trump’s World Cup Stunt Gets Savaged in Hot Mic Moment. LINK

Argies lose composure at end... LINK as is said: Rugby (union) is a thug's game, played by gentlemen. Soccer is a gentleman's game, played by thugs.

as cheap as I am, I have not parted with lotsadollas to view this live on a screen I already own, but MLG has connections in the facebook world that are breathlessly telling her and then she tells me, 0-0 at this time

Excepting, even if many feel he's done, he's not dead yet... Trump lays the groundwork for emergency declaration ahead of midterms LINK " US President Donald Trump’s allies and fellow election conspiracy theorists did not miss a beat in the aftermath of his prime-time address alleging election meddling, fraud and a cover-up by the country’s own intelligence community. MAGA stalwart Steve Bannon texted me shortly afterwards: “The damning evidence unearthed … from the ‘deep state’ intelligence agencies sets the predicate for President Trump to declare a national security emergency regarding this November’s elections. “Immediate action needs to be taken to implement the provisions of the Save America Act.” To be fair, Bannon and his ilk have been talking about this for a while. On his radio program earlier in the day, he and fellow conservative broadcaster Wayne Allyn Root made the case for a national security emergency that Root said could be assailed only by a two-thirds vote in Congress. " We'll still have to brace ourselves for November.

I find myself rooting for Spain,

Very poor numbers of eyeballs on his tv tanty, LINK ... so much so that I think his day is done. Mind you, All Blacks v Ireland here in about 10 hrs, so beer and popcorn and a sense that the world is returning to normal.

And today's prime time Trump speech, is due about now. There's some rumour, that many news outlets, may not cover it, or cover it in a less than excitable manner. & Election denial activists briefed at White House ahead of Trump’s primetime speech ? Again Trump does what he does best, hoovers up the attention. No doubt we'll hear all about it and why it makes him, a real King/Emperor/God ___ I'd a thought, Putin would have released the Kompromat by now. Though that could be filed under Epstein. And in a folder next to the big red nuclear button on Donald's desk.

Even the teleprompter guy is in on it, White House teleprompter operator ‘made $100k betting on Trump’s speeches’ So the teleprompter guy, gets to bet on the contents of the speech, he's just received, whilst the Whitehouse aids put Donald in a new nappy, for the speech some while later. LINK

A third suspect, allegedly connected to a narcotics trafficking network linked to the TG cabin crew member’s drug case in Australia, was arrested in Ayutthaya province yesterday. The suspect has been identified only as “Nanthawat”, who allegedly told police investigators that he received a black plastic bag containing six fabric elephant-patterned tote bags from “Uthai”, a Hmong hill tribe man who delivered a package of drugs to the condominium of cabin crew member Meena in the Bang Na area on June 22. Nanthawat is reported to have told police that he panicked after learning about Meena’s arrest in Australia and contacted Uthai about what to do with the six tote bags in the plastic bag. After being told to get rid of the bags, Nanthawat claimed that he used a knife to cut them open and flushed all the white powder in them down the toilet in his apartment. LINK

Earlier, a total of 4,322 freshmen at the university tested positive for liver fluke parasites using rapid urine strip tests, triggering the health alarm that lead to the Department of Disease Control suspending the stool examinations. Dr. Wichan said the small number of liver fluke cases found is a clear indication that the infection is not at the level of an epidemic, adding that the parasites do not spread from humans to humans but through the eating of raw or uncooked fresh-water fish. LINK

So at this time, multiple birds have been found in OZ and now one in NZ with H5N1 - and those are the ones that have been found, there'll be many that are not saying hello. prediction: gonna get bigger, OZ n NZ folk should avoid proximity to birds and whilst the fried chicken is still OK, there will be issues, when we come out of the winter season. LINK

Clark Gayford - a tangential note on this bloke - I never liked this fella, the spouse of our former prime minister Jacinda Adern, but on reading his article on sharks and spearfishing - something I've encountered in my youth - in The Guardian, I'm forced to alter my opinion - seems he's OK. read at LINK

...a column that The New York Times’ Jamelle Bouie wrote last summer: "The administration-produced imagery in Washington is, then, a projection of sorts — a representation of what the president wants reality to be, drawn from its idea of what authoritarianism looks like. The banners and the troops — not to mention the strangely sycophantic cabinet meetings and news conferences — are a secondhand reproduction of the strongman aesthetic of other strongman states. It is as if the administration is building a simulacrum of authoritarianism, albeit one meant to bring the real thing into being. No, the United States is not a totalitarian state led by a sovereign Donald Trump — a continental Trump Organization backed by the world’s largest nuclear arsenal — but his favored imagery reflects his desire to live in this fantasy." Nearly a year later, Bouie’s observation still resonates. These banners don’t signal Trump’s strength, they reflect his desperation. A failing president wants to convey authority, so he and his team scramble to impose symbols like these on the public square. They appear intended to convey questions Trump seems reluctant to ask out loud: “Don’t I appear imposing? Isn’t it clear how powerful I am? Shouldn’t my opponents feel an overwhelming sense of fear?” The answer to the questions, however, is no. In fact, members of Team Trump have it backward: By trying too hard, their posturing delivers the opposite of the intended message. The banners don’t show a commanding figure, they show a flailing politician struggling to convey confidence. LINK