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 | 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 photo 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 |
The sporting continues All the sports. All the time. |  |
 | Chasing things around paddocks Nothing but winners this week, in soccer, league and golf. |
Two good to be true? It has just been announced that the NSW Rally Championship will be returning to Oberon in November, based at the Sports Complex and using Hampton and Jenolan forests. As the Australian Motor Sport Action Group (AMSAG) have a round of their series scheduled for Black Springs two weeks earlier we are facing a likely plethora of forest action. The two series attract different fields of competitors so all we have to do is hope that neither event is cancelled because of weather or some other manifestation of force majeur. |  |
 | A little bit of sport goes a long way Weather cold enough to freeze the balls off a golf green but that didn't stop Oberon's sportspeople from getting out there and having a go. |
Sport. That's what the back page is for. People kicked things. People rode things. People chased little white balls around a paddock. People won things. Just another weekend of sport around Oberon. |  |
 | It's a new record!
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Finally, progress on the relocation of the Leagues Club The saga of the new sports complex in Oberon has been dragging on for far too long, especially about the relocation of the licensed Leagues Club. At last, Oberon Council and the Leagues Club have signed the papers and the club can start moving to its new home. |  |
