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This should be a pretty quick one all in all. I just wanted to explain how I have structured the site, and how I write these updates. For informational purposes and hopefully inspiring others to take the dive into just posting things.

>I am tortured in new and exciting ways by the latest developments in technology. Today, as a part of Google I/O, Google announced the "Universal Cart" and another push towards "agentic shopping", this time with backing from a large variety of retail partners. In this piece, I'll explore how shopping is another front of the culture war, AI continues to gild shit, and these developments push us towards new and awful futures.

CEO of Suno Mikey Shulmanwent on Training Data hosted by Sonya Huang, the podcasting arm of Sequoia Capital (which manages $56B in assets), to talk about how everyone can make music now thanks to their incredible product. I'll discuss in this article how Silicon Valley doesn't understand music or artistic creation, and how framing music in this way destroys any actual novelty or joy. Sorry for the length.