Hacker News with Generative AI: Myanmar

BBC Verify: What satellite images reveal about Myanmar's quake (bbc.com)
The military government in Myanmar has said at least 2,000 people were killed in the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit last Friday.
The Tectonics Behind the Myanmar Quake (nautil.us)
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday afternoon local time near the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay. The quake caused extensive damage across Myanmar and also toppled a skyscraper under construction in Bangkok, Thailand, more than 600 miles away. After the quake, the Myanmar military junta declared a state of emergency in six regions and confirmed more than 100 people killed and many hundreds injured, while Thai officials reported at least seven deaths and scores of people missing.
Forced to scam others worldwide, now held in detention on the Myanmar border (apnews.com)
In former scam compounds across southeastern Myanmar thousands of freed workers are stuck in limbo. Rescued from their previous lives as cyber scammers, many are now waiting to be repatriated.
Myanmar scam centres: Thousands who have been freed are now stuck in camps (bbc.com)
"I swear to God I need help," said the man quietly on the other end of the line.
China repatriates from Thailand 1k online scam workers rescued from Myanmar (apnews.com)
An airlift carrying more than 1,000 Chinese nationals who had worked at online scam centers in eastern Myanmar began Thursday, after the rescued workers were taken across the border to Thailand and put on chartered flights to China.
Thailand to Cut Power to Myanmar Scam Hubs (bangkoklocal.info)
Thailand will cut electricity, oil supplies, and internet services to five locations in Myanmar at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, citing security concerns over suspected Chinese-operated call center scams.
Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams (bbc.co.uk)
The tall, shiny buildings which rise out of the cornfields on the Myanmar side of the Moei river are a sight so jarring you find yourself blinking to be sure you haven't imagined it.
Thailand cuts power and internet to areas of Myanmar to disrupt scam gangs (bitdefender.com)
The government of Thailand has cut the power supply to areas near its border with Myanmar that are known to host brutal scam compounds.
Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location (dot.studio)
Under Whose Command, a new platform for command chain analysis in Myanmar, is the culmination of a year–long collaboration between DOT • STUDIO (our agency) and Tony Wilson and Tom Longley at Security Force Monitor (SFM) — an NGO situated at the Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School.
The Script Creator (aeon.co)
In July 2019, I visited Siang Sawn, a small village in Chin State, western Myanmar.
VPN ban is strangling communication in Myanmar (irrawaddy.com)