Liam Shorte 🇮🇪🇦🇺

It's interesting how 24 hour news media and modern social media have changed our ability to watch news events as they happen. Tonight, in Canberra, I'm watching the unfolding US and Israeli attacks on #Iran, and the on-going Iranian retaliation. I have @CNN and @SkyNewsAust both streaming live on my PC. I have multiple Twitter @X feeds updating with the latest news. I have other social media monitoring in the background. I have CNN, Sky and BBC news websites up. I'm monitoring air traffic on @flightradar24 and shipping on @MarineTraffic - all spread across two 49" Ultrawide displays. And tomorrow, I'll see how I can incorporate AI into this system. I think back 35 years, once again, in Canberra, to Operation Desert Storm and Desert Sabre - the invasion of Kuwait and attack on Saddam's Iraq in 1991. I remember sitting in my living room and the only news source I had was CNN which was then being aired on one of the Australian commercial TV channels. That's it... no social media, no real time info on websites... websites didn't really exist then. Back to monitoring this rapidly unfolding war in 2026.