The week of Monday 20 to Sunday 26 April 2026 brought drama to Campsie when a car crashed into a local business and caught fire, but I was also quite tired for a lot of it.
On Tuesday afternoon I noted that I could hear a lot of sirens. I soon discovered that just a few blocks away a car had crashed into Hera Hair and caught fire, which then set fire to the whole building. Remarkably, no one suffered any serious injuries.
I should give a quick update on the crowdfunder I launched eleven weeks ago, The 9pm Stilgherrian’s Dramatic Decamp to Campsie. It has hit a plateau at 66% of the way to the third target, and I’m making a little progress on The Great Unboxening, but I do need to speed things up. More will be said on this in the coming days.
There’s still no progress in finding The Lost Module.
Articles
- The Weekly Cybers #114. Rental tech company slapped for collecting too much data, Palantir publishes a controversial manifesto, Anthropic’s AI-powered hacking tool Mythos is itself hacked, and much more.
Videos
- The Great Unboxening | 02, livestreamed on Tuesday night. It was all about the first batch of books for sale, and especially six special books, and in total only three books have been sold so far. Please do check out the lists and make an offer!
Podcasts, Photos, 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 — like the one coming up on Tuesday night.
Some Interesting Links
Just a few today. It’s a long weekend.
- Spartacus Olsson from TimeGhost TV discusses Why Europeans think US gun laws are bonkers! — although he does so very quickly in an information-packed script with many big words, so you may need to slow him down.
- Are you a dog or are you a rat? Takashi Wakasugi explains.
- This week’s suggested follow: From Kuala Lumpur, illustrator Amos Tan makes some gorgeous pictures of machines of the land, sky, sea, and space.
The Week Ahead
Monday is an extra public holiday here in NSW because Anzac Day was on Saturday. Despite that, I will be catching up on some administrivia and, perhaps, some client work, and there’s also a SEKRIT MISSION left over from Sunday.
RESCHEDULED: On Tuesday Thursday night there will be another livestream in The Great Unboxening, this time focusing on the first crate of vinyl records and whatever else I can get into a spreadsheet by then. This livestream will start earlier than the previous two, at 8pm AEST.
The rest of the week is about trying to find some more work, or at least some revenue, and then The Weekly Cybers newsletter will appear as usual on Friday afternoon.
On Sunday evening I’m going to see He Huang’s TEMU Joke Factory.
Further Ahead
- CSIRO Conversations: Quantum for Every Business, online, 5 May 2026. Yeah, I guess I should hear what the actual scientists reckon we can do with this quantum stuff.
- Takashi Wakasugi’s Wabi-Sabi Comedy, Sydney, 16 May 2026. I saw Takashi’s work-in-progress show back in December, so it’ll be interesting to see how it all comes together.
[Photo: Hera Hair in Campsie following the car crash and subsequent fire on 21 April 2026.]