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[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

#ThailandOnly Parasites get exposed again...

[Bangkok Post @BangkokPostNews]

Thailand’s monkhood faces a crisis as a massive sex scandal erupts involving high-ranking monks and a woman known as Sika Golf. Damning video clips reveal intimate relationships, corruption, and hypocrisy among revered clergy. With 15 temples implicated and more evidence emerging, the scandal threatens public trust in Buddhism’s moral foundations.

Get audio, full story, or discuss more in the link in the 1st comment.

#BangkokPost #Thailand #monk

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

@alessionaval I don't like electric cars, but during my stay there, had the occasion of testing an electric car with internal combustion engine providing the electric energy. A really smart idea, but pity it did not evolve out of Japan.

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

Not to mention most of the electorate of Trump in the center of the US watch... the weather channel on loop!

[Brad Panovich @wxbrad]

This will literally bankrupt the U.S. If you ever wondered why NOAA/NWS is in the department of commerce, I have some news for you. Every single $ of our economy is impacted by the weather. Agriculture, Energy, Travel, Logistics, Defense, logistics of every major company, etc I could go on but you get the idea. Seems like this will quickly get reversed, we can hope.

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

#UkraineWar A lot of posts (among which of @realDonaldTrump ) denouncing the forceful recruitment of conscripts in Ukraine. Everybody seems to have conveniently forgotten the previous US administration demanded just that: https://t.co/nU2Hx0uCdO

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

@alessionaval That shows how low France has fallen.

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

@alessionaval The paroxysm of bad tate erected to popular culture symbols.

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

#SouthChinaSea

[Ray Powell @GordianKnotRay]

🚨/🇨🇳#China is sending a huge force to blockade Scarborough Shoal ahead of the Atin Ito civilian convoy setting sail from the 🇵🇭#Philippines Tuesday. By this time tomorrow at least 4 coast guard & 26 large maritime militia ships on blockade (not counting "dark" vessels) [🧵1/x]

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

#SouthChinaSea

[Alessio Patalano @alessionaval]

What should Australia be doing about the South China Sea? | Lowy Institute https://t.co/jql9cIRhfu

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

#SouthChinaSea

[Collin Koh 🇸🇬🇺🇦 @CollinSLKoh]

This reported Australia-Japan-Philippine-U.S. naval exercise in the SCS would be the first ever. https://t.co/msGJFCs2zl

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

#SouthChinaSea

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

@karmanomad Actually, the foundation of the USA was an act of rebellion against their Government (Britain at the time). So, this explains that…

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

@alessionaval Un buon Natale di tutto cuore, Alessio!

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

#SouthChinaSea

[SCS_Disputes @SCS_Disputes]

🇨🇳🇺🇸: It is 🇺🇸 that must change.
🇨🇳🇦🇺: It is 🇦🇺 that must change.
🇨🇳🇮🇳: It is 🇮🇳 that must change.
…
🇨🇳🇵🇭: It is 🇵🇭 that must change.

As for 🇨🇳, it is ‘Not an inch’ less. As always.

Pax Sinica aka ‘New Era’

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

#China never stops stealing.

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

🚨 ByteDance (creator of TikTok) has been secretly using OpenAI's tech to create a ChatGPT competitor in China codenamed 'Project Seed'.

The company has now been banned from OpenAI, as details continue to unravel.

Here's what we know so far:

- ByteDance's LLM in development under the name 'Project Seed' used the OpenAI API during nearly every phase of development

- Project Seed was kicked off inside ByteDance ~ 1 year ago and has become a high-priority, secretive initiative

- Most of the team behind Project Seed is located in China, but there are members from the US too.

- The act is a direct violation of OpenAI's terms of service, which has now caused a suspension of ByteDance's dev account

- A person familiar with the matter said that ByteDance wants "to make sure everything is legal, but they really just don’t want to get caught." (whoops, too late)

It's absolutely wild to see a company of this size try to pull something like this off.

Will be covering this story in depth as details continue to unravel in my newsletter (link in bio).

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

The Weaklings Biden doing huge damage.

[Lara Seligman @laraseligman]

New tonight: An hours-long firefight involving U.S. commercial vessels in the Red Sea this weekend has left some U.S. officials frustrated by what they see as the Biden administration’s deliberate downplaying of a major threat to American forces. https://t.co/nmsKIGQSSy

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

@karmanomad Read further before reposting:

[Nate Anderson @NateHindenburg]

@kenklippenstein Debunked already.

"Huge errors in US study about TASE short sellers"

Tel Aviv stock exchange showed the authors multiplied the results x100 because they didn't know the market was quoted in agorot (pennies) rather than shekels (dollars).

https://t.co/TfCS4jwUeF

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

#ThailandOnly And there we go, we have a winner for the stupidest idea of the century.

[Richard Barrow @RichardBarrow]

😱😱😱 OMG #Thailand

"Starting from next year, we will not splash water only for three days but the whole month," Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Pheu Thai Party leader said.

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

#Israel_under_attack And nobody finds it shocking that Hamas kidnapped and held hostages small children.

[Michael A. Horowitz @michaelh992]

The 13 #Israeli hostages released

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

@alessionaval @MickNicholson9 Or a new high, depends on how you read it. China is master in slowly boiling the frog.

[Free Mind @FreeMindHK]

#China destroying its “soft power” with brutality (but Labour in Australia is only keen to appease it).

[Alessio Patalano @alessionaval]

This is remarkably on brand and terribly unprofessional, let alone a most confrontational act. In the global order at sea there is no room for actors still anchored to outdated ideas in which might is right - how you behave matters.