My week of Monday 23 to Sunday 29 June 2025 saw the start of a semi-holiday which will eventually total six nights in my home town of Adelaide. I won’t go into the details now, because this is being posted four days late. Rather, I’ll post a few images and some commentary on the coming weekend, and later there will be a podcast. But hey it’s Adelaide, so there’s obviously plenty of good food and wine.
Articles
- The Weekly Cybers #74. It’s YouTube versus the eSafety Commissioner in the social media age restrictions debate, the ACCC completes its mammoth inquiry into digital platforms, and NSW police reckon they’ve caught the Western Sydney University hacker. Yeah, I said I wouldn’t do one this week, but then I did, because these are solid stories.
You can read my previous writing at Authory, where you can also subscribe to an email compilation of any new stories each Sunday morning.
Podcasts, Photos, Videos, Media Appearances, Corporate Largesse
None of these. You can subscribe to my YouTube channel to be notified when new videos appear and when livestreams are scheduled.
Muskwatch
I’ve limited this to just a few stories from the actual week covered by this Weekly Wrap, because we’re already very late.
- Elon Musk reignites criticism of Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ as Republicans narrowly pass vote,
- In the sky over Iran, Elon Musk and Starlink step into geopolitics – not for the first time.
- ‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered.
- And from CNN, “Elon Musk isn’t happy with his AI chatbot. Experts worry he’s trying to make Grok 4 in his image“.
Some Interesting Links
I’ll skip this for now because we’re already very late.
The Week Ahead
The week begins in Adelaide, as my expedition with Snarky Platypus continues. Yes, I’m writing this as if it’s still Sunday evening even though it’s now Thursday.
On Monday we head to the McLaren Vale winemaking district, with lunch at the Coriole Vineyard, and potentially a SEKRIT mission.
On Tuesday we’re heading down to Victor Harbor, a town very familiar to me from my childhood, although I can’t even remember the last time I might have been there. Given South Australia’s terrible regional transport options, that’ll wipe out the whole day.
We fly back to Sydney on Wednesday afternoon, and I’ll get that train back to the Blue Mountains that night — but as I post this in the future I can tell that this will not have been about to happen.
Somewhere in there we’ll be recording a few more segments for The 9pm Edict and the special guest is me, Stilgherrian. Snarky Platypus is interviewing me about South Australia, my life, my thoughts, and more as we walk around Adelaide and nearby locations. This episode will take a little more editing than usual, so it’ll probably appear in late July or early August. However I can already say that we’ve recorded some interesting bits and I think you’ll like the result.
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The Weekly Cybers returns on Friday, and then the weekend is unplanned. I suspect I’ll be exhausted.
Further Ahead
- The 9pm Edict podcast recording with Sam Roggeveen, director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute and author of The Echidna Strategy, an alternative view of Australia’s defence needs, 9 July 2025. Read this review to get the flavour. If you’re a supporter with TRIGGER WORDS or a CONVERSATION TOPIC for this episode, please get them to me by 8pm AEST on Tuesday 8 July. No need to mention AUKUS because we’ll definitely be talking about that.
- Another Untitled Music Podcast episode 1 recording, 12 July 2025, with the completed episode to be posted a few days later.
- Another Untitled Music Podcast episode 2 recording, 26 July 2025, with the completed episode to be posted a few days later.
- TechLeaders 2025, Hunter Valley, 16–18 August 2025.
- Sam Campbell: Window Sucker, Sydney, 31 October 2025.
[Photo: An Adelaide Metro 3000 class DMU arrives at Port Adelaide station on 26 June 2025. This colour scheme indicates that it’s been converted to diesel-hybrid as part of a refurbishment.]