openai – Stilgherrian

19 July 202620 July 2026

The 9pm Half-time Bingo Card Update 2026 with Snarky Platypus

Photograph of an old-fashioned bingo card from Milton Bradley Company against a background of wooden bingo stamps stained with red ink, and in the top right corner an inset showing a platypus. — *Main image by* Rudonni *via Pixabay. Foreground bingo card originally by Milton Bradley Company,* photo by Abby Hendrickson under under a CC-BY 2.0 Generic *license. Platypus inset photo by Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.*

Back at the start of the year, my good friend Snarky Platypus and I created a bingo card for 2026. A set of 25 things that might happen. Well, we’re half-way through the year, so let’s see how we went.

13 February 202612 February 2026

The 9pm S-Bend of Technology with David Gerard

A balding clean-shaven white man in spectacles, probably Gen X, looking disdainfully at the camera. Itâ€™s David Gerard! — David Gerard watches patiently as he waits for the AI bubble to burst. (Photo: Pauline Martindale )

As the summer series continues we’re joined once more by David Gerard for a suitably cynical look at what’s happening in and around the AI bubble. Bros, do not send hate mail, but we do not believe your claims.

05 October 202412 February 2026

The 9pm AI Just Doesn’t Work with David Gerard (#NotAllAI)

David Gerard is ready for the AI revolution, except it won’t happen. (Photo: Pauline Martindale )

The spring series of the Edict kicks off properly with our first special guest and it’s David Gerard, co-editor of the newsletter Pivot to AI. So guess what we talk about.

17 March 202422 March 2024

Weekly Wrap 720: Wrapping up a podcast series, performing some geekery, and remembering a random cruise ship

This week, Monday 11 to Sunday 17 March 2024, I wrapped up my summer series of podcasts and dealt with a chunk of geekery for a couple of clients. That left no time for any proper photography, apart from more damn birds and other critters, and you’ve seen enough of them lately. That’s why you’re looking at a ship from 2018. Exciting.

10 March 202417 March 2024

Weekly Wrap 719: The Realm of the Big Green Insect and other legends

There wasn’t much remarkable about my week of Monday 4 to Sunday 10 March 2024. I edited a podcast. I recorded another one. I spent an afternoon doing social things. And I was introduced to a big green insect.

03 March 202417 March 2024

Weekly Wrap 718: Four years since the plague, the wine of nostalgia, and rearranged podcasts

On a white linen tablecloth sits a stemless glass of red wine bearing the crest of the Parliament of Victoria. In the background, out if focus, you can make out the form of a woman in a green top. On either side of the wine glass is a small tripod bearing an audio recorder.

My week of Monday 26 February to Sunday 3 March 2024 saw more podcast action even though I was dealing with some annoying blergh. So I’m showing you a photo of a wine glass from four years ago, just before everything was locked down.