“Intent is in the composer, interpretation is in the conductor, rendering is in the instrumentalist, perception is in the listener, sound is in the notes, and rhythm is in the intervals. Music is the harmonious relationship between them all. Relationship is beauty.”

Whether or not OpenAI technically used ScarJo’s voice data for training “Sky” is missing the point. Imitating her likeness / brand without consent is illegal and unethical. See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v.….

Running an X account is now a more important job than running media relations. I don’t think companies have realized this. Many still treat social media manager as a junior role, underpay for it, and settle for someone too juvenile or too boomer (in vibes, not age). Double the

The AI Short Video market is wild. Most players are less than 2y old. I wonder how much more upside there is left. My guess: A LOT. Giants are moving as fast as they can into the space. Newcomers are crushing. Some publicly went from $0 to $$M in ARR in a few months:

I've been fascinated by public listening spaces and hi-fi bars lately. I wanted to make it easier to find them when I'm in new cities, so my recent weekend project has been a directory of them: listeningspaces.net

Vote counting is NOT done yet in SF. We likely will have some races undecided this week, but here are 7 takeaways so far. 1) Hard to imagine a scenario where Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 is not Mayor of San Francisco. If true, @AaronPeskin is no longer in government! sfelections.org/results/202411…

annual NYE post

Drone shot over the Palisades from Kit Karzen

Don't forget to call your mom 😊 - catching up with founders Nishi Kaza and Austin Chen as they get ready to pitch at Demo Day next week

can someone in the “delete IP” camp make a case for how we would still have good * video games * movies * tv shows * music * podcasts * creators * books * news * fashion without IP?

What's the risk of using copyrighted music in organic brand content? Today, Atlantic and Warner sued Crumbl for infringement for including unlicensed music in IG and TikTok posts. If music is part of your brand's (or its influencers') social strategy, read this👇

cubic (cubic) is Cursor for code review. An AI-native platform that helps teams like Cal.com, n8n, and the Linux Foundation ship code 28% faster. Congrats on the launch, @NeuralPaul and Allis Yao! ycombinator.com/launches/NYz-c…

Third Chair (Third Chair) is building agents for in-house legal teams. The world's biggest media & entertainment companies use Third Chair to monitor IP infringements, collect evidence, and recover millions of dollars in damages at scale. Congrats on the launch, Yoav Zimmerman &

Look ma, I’m on TV Yoav Zimmerman

underrated trend. influencers have managers, why can’t high value tech employees?

been trying Howie lately and i'm impressed. extremely bullish on email as an interface!

We pivoted. Den is now a multiplayer AI agent builder. Thread below.