BotW: Vinyl Group’s enslopification; agency extinction and ACMA’s email problem

Welcome to Best of the Week, mostly written in Virgin’s Sydney Lounge as Friday afternoon stretched into Friday night, watching departure times blow out as a storm blows through. Want to find out if I made it home to Tasmania? Read til the end to find out (spoiler alert: First World rant incoming.)

Today: What to make of Vinyl Group’s big AI plan; Mat Baxter’s prediction that holdcos’ extinction-level event is here; and ACMA’s email discipline.

Happy Evaluate Your Life Day for tomorrow. Good plan.

This edition marks the end of an era – after more than four years, it will be Unmade’s last newsletter written on Substack.