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Eldritch kcarruthers
Eldritch kcarruthers
@kcar.me
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 🦘 https://katecarruthers.com/
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Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference in Brexit: diplomat’ who launched ‘Conservative Friends of Russia’ group now identified as Russian intelligence officer involved in a European disinformation campaign bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/the…
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One of the many incredible things Pedro shared was how Meta's AI bot within WhatsApp refused users' asks to make a poster for Lula but granted it for Flavio and when asked to make mock poster for, say, a dog they added Flavio's electoral number - as in vote for #22. In Brazil, vote is by #.
Tomorrow 10am PT/1pm ET/2pm Brasilia Pedro Telles of D-Hub and Fundação Getulio Vargas will tell us what went down & what's next in Brazil's elections. Join @mikepod.bsky.social and me for Substack live (moved from our typical Wednesday.) www.weekendreading.net/s/wer-live
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Likely confirmed by OSINT: Yemen's Houthis say they hit Saudi Ras Tanura oil refinery with missile www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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I've been following a coach who's teaching Dem candidates—from Zohran Mamdani to Abdul El-Sayed—how to talk about crime. If you hate all the fearmongering ads that come every election season, I recommend checking out these alternatives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too
Republican congressional candidate Brent Taylor asks voters to forgive past sexual advances as "youthful indiscretions."
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Apple hit by ‘Crackgate’ outcry over iPhone Duo screen problems ft.trib.al/PwrUtyv
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From Senior Reporter @anitawadhwani.bsky.social: Tennessee is rejecting applications for driver’s licenses from immigrants authorized by the government to work and live in the United States, a shift in policy that could strip thousands of longtime license-holders of the ability to legally drive.
lol Putin obvs hasn’t read Bombing to Win yet 🤣: Putin hopes hardship will force Ukrainians to sue for peace – polling suggests it won’t work #Russia #Ukraine theconversation.com/putin-hopes-ha…
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#UkrainianView It started with rubber tires in Maidan, Ukraine. It proceeds with rubber plants in russia. russia should not have tried to install puppet presidents since 2004. It should have stopped attacking Ukrainian independence. We might all live normally. War was russian choice.
🏭 Fire Point: Why is Ukraine attacking rubber plants, and what is the use of fuel for Iskanders? In recent days, FP-1 drones have hit three Russian rubber industry enterprises at once: Voronezhsintezkauchuk, Omskkauchuk, and Togliattikauchuk.
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Who would have guessed that Russia would abuse a humanitarian truce? How many people are going to disappear in Russian filtration camps?
People from Oleshky who wish to return to Ukrainian-controlled territory will first be taken to Crimea or Russia, according to FT sources‼️ At this point, we can only brace ourselves for a massive Russian propaganda campaign, legitimized on the international stage by Newsmax's presence.
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So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...
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The Rockbridge Network is a “donor organization to finance right-wing news stories, voter turnout operations & election polls...” It was co-founded by JD Vance & Chris Buskirk & is reportedly backed by Thiel & Mercer who … www.reuters.com/world/us/tec... .. previously backed Vance’s senate race. 1/
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“A judicial investigation has been launched in Brazil against [Flavio] Bolsonaro for possible foreign financing of his campaign and manipulation of social media algorithms. Flavio still hasn't shown up.” 1/ x.com/biondinicesa...
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“Brazil probes foreign financing, including group [the Rockbridge Network] linked to Vance,” Peter Thiel, and Chris Buskirk 10/27/26 … 1/ share.google/AYBFyqwGiylo...
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With apologies to all my English friends, I think we should just set fire to England and push it out into the Atlantic till it sinks. I'm sorry, but we've tried everything else.
If you thought the Conversion Practices Bill is already bad thanks to all the loopholes and allowances it provides, then don’t worry - it’s about to get worse. The Government are hearing “evidence” from anti-trans campaigners Helen Joyce, Dennis Kavanagh and the LGB Alliance this week.
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Very few people win the Fields Medal since it is awarded only every four years. But there is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_... Ignorant, racist, asshole.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ Mossad Officials Opposed Netanyahu's Push for Pre-Election Iran Operation Backed by Spy Agency Chief By Michael Hauser Tov 🧵 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Are you curious about graduate studies in ocean science or engineering? Find out if the #MIT_WHOI Joint Program is right for you at our virtual info session October 28! 🧑🏽🎓👩🏻🔬🤖 📲Get the details and register:mit.whoi.edu/admissions/info-sessions
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ME IN MY TEENS/20s STUDYING AT MELBOURNE UNI IN THE 1990s: Oh man look at that, they have actual Assyrian wall reliefs on display here! that's so cool! ME IN MY LATE 40s VISITING MELBOURNE UNI IN THE 2020s: how did those Assyrian wall reliefs come to be in Melbourne goose_puffer_jacket_meme.jpg
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Following alleged airstrikes against Islamic State by Jordan, a diplomatic crisis has completely blown up between two states tonight. Jordanian airstrikes were heavy handed, likely killing many Syrian civilians even if jihadists were the target.
And, here we go. Jordan has just announced airstrikes against a jihadi group in Daraa (!), southern Syria. Earlier, the state denied links to outside organizations, it seems Amman by evening changed that view. There is only one group they could be targeting there.
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Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...
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‼️ Russia: “Kazakhstan has imposed sanctions against buyers of cars from Russia.” LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/26/v...
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“If every piece of software is a door, AI makes it exceptionally easy to turn turn the knobs of every door to see if it’s unlocked ... Not only are some of the locks easy to pick, in some cases the door is wide open or there’s a giant hole in the wall.”
wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...
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SKYNET MUST NOT BECOME AMERICAN - KEEP IT IN THE UK AT AIRBUS AND DON'T TRUST LOCKHEED apple.news/ACrGsia85TUu...
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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.