Eldritch kcarruthers
@kcar
Skeets forever! Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat. PhD candidate (AI & innovation). Nothing here is the opinion of my employer. I have always hated emdashes. Team Oxford comma. 💛💙🌻♥️💚🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇦🇺 Aussie 🦘
From Dubai Hotels To Qatar Golf Clubs: Iran Lists Trump's Gulf Assets As 'Legitimate Targets' www.news18.com/world/from-dub…
Robodebt whistleblower was told her royal commission evidence ‘could cost you your job’, court hears www.theguardian.com/australia-news…
This is so cool! Amazing: A Nigerian teen is turning agricultural waste into biodegradable sanitary pads news.mongabay.com/2026/05/a-nige…
When energy geopolitics hits your laptop: Energy shocks from Russia’s diesel export ban and the Strait of Hormuz crisis won’t just lift petrol prices - they’re already reshaping global computing. katecarruthers.com/when-energy-ge…
Israeli Police Arrest Jerusalem's Top Muslim Cleric, Ban Him From al-Aqsa: Israeli police detained the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, after he finished delivering a sermon and leading Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque www.haaretz.com/israel-news/is…
❌✅❌✅✅ ✅✅⬜✅✅ Respectable score but not my best: The Saturday Paper Quiz I got 7/10! staging-app.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2026/07/1…
When is a FTA not a FTA? 🧐 Australia says US trade investigators made findings without evidence www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-1…
Ex-Epoch Times CFO pleads guilty in $67M multinational money laundering scheme apnews.com/article/epoch-…
The $28 Million Mistake That Inspired Estonia's AI “Fuckup Finder” www.wired.com/story/the-28-m…
“Supercomputers, EV platforms and cloud services are no longer peripheral to statecraft; they are the infrastructure through which trade, influence and pressure now flow.” katecarruthers.com/war-politics-a…
A US GOP Senator faced accusations Sunday that he'd lost his grip on reality after he repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that Democrats were responsible for a white supremacist march in Washington D.C. on Independence Day. www.rawstory.com/senator-mike-l…
World Cup 2026: Kylian Mbappe condemns racist posts from Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla www.bbc.com/sport/football…
“Frontier models shouldn’t be your default #ai engine. They should be your escalation path - the place you go when the cheap path can’t safely handle the work.” katecarruthers.com/the-two-layer-…
#ai war is on like donkey Kong: Alibaba to ban employees from using Anthropic's coding tool, source says www.reuters.com/world/china/al…
Someone’s lunch is about to get eaten 🤣: Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic's export ban drags on | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asi…
lol 😂 was filed under “US diplomacy”: [trump regime] US government adds Alibaba, BYD, other Chinese tech champions to military company blacklist www.scmp.com/news/china/dip…
Eek! 🙀 COVID‐19 as a Potential Trigger for Tuberculosis: Insights From a Large‐Scale Japanese Insurance Database Analysis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jg…
Happy 20th anniversary to NCRIS - Australia's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) www.education.gov.au/ncris/resour...
👏 Billions of doses later: Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise - UBC News news.ubc.ca/2026/06/mrna-v…
Uh huh 🤔 From 2025 Govini: US not ready for war, weapons reliant on Chinese suppliers www.idnfinancials.com/news/55580/gov…
“China’s LineShine supercomputer proves you can build exascale infrastructure without US GPUs, but it also exposes how far Australia still has to go on serious national AI compute.” katecarruthers.com/ai-boomers-d...
Albo would be better to block this than kids TBH: Pro-One Nation Facebook groups appear to be run by foreign ‘meme factories’ that monetise content www.theguardian.com/australia-news…
Another entry in the China is winning category: China’s new LineShine HPC runs entirely on conventional computer chips (CPUs), instead of the graphics processors (GPUs), commonly used for AI. It requires about 42.2 megawatts of electricity to operate www.theguardian.com/technology/202…
AI tokens and the ‘tokenpocalypse’: The ‘tokenpocalypse’ isn’t about scary AI bills so much as it is about the absence of sensible AI governance. katecarruthers.com/ai-tokens-an...
Uh oh: A giant warm wave is crossing the Pacific, signaling an El Niño that could alter weather worldwide this year phys.org/news/2026-05... #ClimateCrisis
So I see the MOU thing is going well: Iran walks out of negotiations after Trump's assassination threat to “Blow the shit out of you” www.express.co.uk/news/world/222…
