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 | Meanwhile, out on the sporting field There was a weekend, so there was some sport. It is (almost) always thus. |
Opinion - When adults behave like children Oberon Men's Senior League team won the Grand Final and made us all proud. Then they did something that should make us ashamed to even know them. |
The sport goes on regardless The seasons arte winding down for most sports around town. There are a few Grand Finals coming up and we wish the teams that have made it this far very good luck (but good playing beats luck any time). |  |
 | All the sport, all around The big news of the week is of course the Oberon Tigers senior men's team winning their second Grand Final on the trot. Lets go for the treble in 2027. Other sports happened of course, with the ladies who kick round balls going into the Grand Final and the men just one match away. |
Winners and losers - that's the way sport goes You can't win every time. That's why they make silver medals. But that doesn't take away the fun and the reason for playing sport. |  |
 | There's sport, and then there's SPORT! Golfers golfing, netballers netballing, footballers chasing footballs (of various shapes), polocrossers doing whatever they do, school kids rushing around. A full week of activity across the sporting spectrum. |
A whole world of sport Well, not really the whole world but the bit of it that matters to Oberon. The sportsfolk were at it again, winning some and just missing out in others. |  |
 | It's here! It's finally here! After more inexplicable delays than anyone could have imagined, the Oberon Leagues Club has finally moved to its new home at the new Sports Complex. It even has a new name - Club Oberon. There's still a lot of work to be done and electricians from HV Electrical are dragging wires all over the place, the NBN people are scratching their heads about internet access, there's no signal to the TV screens and the member sign in system is waiting on the NBN, but Vanessa Booth has got the important parts working. Oberon Matters can confirm that the beer is flowing and very nice it is too. The bistro is still a couple of weeks away from opening but it will be worth it when it arives. Vanessa must be congratulated on the work she and others have done to get this far. Now all we need is for the football fields to be playable, but the season is almost over and there's time to get that right before the 2027 season. Keep up with what's happening at the club at their Facebook page. |
Photos of children on the Internet It's a tragedy of our times that anything can be abused by perverts. The latest is that AI systems are being used to exploit photos of children by removing clothing or putting other heads on bodies. The world's largest pornography site, PornHub, recently banned one of their advertisers who was paying a million dollars a year to advertise AI-generated child porn. That company is Australian. Elon Musk is threatening to sue a US state because it has banned Musk's Grok AI for the ease with which it can be used to produce images of naked children. Musk claims this is an infringement of free speech, a statement that renders sane people speechless. Legitimate search engines are blocked from indexing any images on this site but it is almost impossible to prevent web site content from being scavenged by AI robots and the only alternative is to not publish photos, so over the next few weeks I will be going through all the sports and school reports on the site and removing any photos in which kids can be identified. (This tiny and obscure site is continually trawled by AI bots, although all except ChatGPT try to remain anonymous. The papers published by Nine Entertainment are currently being hit 30,000,000 times a month by AI content thieves. It is work for several people just to try to keep up with the blocking.) The two articles below from The Conversation address the danger of putting your kids' photos online. |  |
 | The sporting life The chilly weather didn't keep the sportspeople of Oberon at home in front of the fire. They were out there chasing results |
