Weekly Wrap 738: Three podcasts recorded, nil posted, and what cold weather we’ve been having

My week of Monday 15 to Sunday 21 July 2024 was both busy and not busy. I recorded three of the five special-guest episodes for The 9pm Edict winter series, but during the cold and windy winter weather I was fighting some sort of infection and needed so much sleep.

Articles

  • The Weekly Cybers #27. MediSecure hack affects 12.9 million Australians but now the money has run out, and a range of smaller stories fill out a relatively quiet week.

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Podcasts, Media Appearances, Photos, Videos, Corporate Largesse

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New batch of ketamine must’ve arrived, because all this is deranged even by Elon Musk’s standards.

In other news:

The Week Ahead

Given that I was still sleeping for much of today, I won’t be too bold about scheduling the coming week. There’s podcasts to be edited and client work to be done, but I’ll get to it as the mood takes me. All the deadlines in the system are ones I’ve set myself.

The first podcast to appear will be the one with Scottish author and social researcher David F Porteous.

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On Thursday I’ll try to catch the webinar Is Australia prepared to defeat information warfare? from the Social Cyber Institute. I wrote a little about the background to this idea in last week’s The Weekly Cybers.

And on Sunday Saturday I’m heading down to Sydney, probably Penrith, for various purposes. Let’s see how I go.

Further Ahead

  • Opening of Sydney Metro Chatswood-Central-Sydenham, 4 August 2024. I was originally going to leave exploring the new Metro line to another day but I have been persuaded to join friends on a Metro-based pub crawl on its very first day of operation.
  • TechLeaders 2024, Hunter Valley, 10–12 August 2024.
  • The Sydney Dialogue, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Sydney and online, 2–3 September 2024 (TBC).
  • Queensland expedition, flying to Cairns on 13 October 2024, taking the Spirit of Queensland train down to Brisbane on 16 October and overnight, then visiting the Gold Coast on 20 October before flying back to Sydney on 21 October. I’m still fleshing out the details but there’s bound to be opportunities to catch up for drinks and such.
  • Australian Internet Governance Forum (auIGF) 2024, formerly known as NetThing, Melbourne and online, 28–29 October 2024 (TBC).

[Photo: A male grey butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus) sitting in an old man banksia (Banksia serrata) just outside my front door, waiting for some food to arrive. Photographed on 6 July 2024. This particular bird has known me for a few years now and often flies close to my face to attract my attention.]