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Happy Christmas! My week of Monday 19 to Sunday 25 December 2022 was productive, with a lovely podcast, a regular blog post, a video livestream, and more. But then it was the Christmas weekend and, well, there’s a photograph of a Bloody Mary on this page. You can join the dots.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 656: It’s Christmas, but not before getting some work done”
In the final weekdays before Christmas, we have a bunch of reports, although we only get to see the ASD’s government cybersecurity posture review. It contains depressing news.
Continue reading “Digital developments from Canberra 19”
The spring series of The 9pm Edict comes to a belated finale with special guest Yun Jiang, the inaugural China Matters Fellow at the Australian Institute of International Affairs. And guess what? We’re discussing news from China.
Continue reading “The 9pm Penny Wong Cardboard Dog Covid Update with Yun Jiang”
As you’ll know from the latest episode of my podcast The 9pm Edict, or from my Weekly Wrap posts, or from following me on Twitter itself, I’ve been paying way too much attention to the chaos which is Elon Musk’s botched management of the social media company.
Continue reading “Talking Elon Musk and Twitter on ABC Radio’s PM”
My week of Monday 12 to Sunday 18 December 2022 was moderately productive, with a podcast and the launch of a new crowdfunding campaign, plus all the usual things. I set up all the things for a busy week next week. And I had a lovely afternoon at the pub.
Continue reading “Weekly Wrap 655: The relative calm before a busy pre-Christmas week”
Once again there‘s so many things happening, but in this episode of The 9pm Edict podcast we simply must talk about Space Karen and his bizarre management style at his new $44 billion plaything, Twitter.
Continue reading “The 9pm Assassination Coordinates”