Sam Dean 🦅

Formerly @latimes, now writing a book on defense tech and editing @buffetmagazine

[Emily Gould @EmilyGouldNYmag]

I'd like to know a lot more about what happened here. https://t.co/bs8Tp4kroq

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

NEW —

The extraordinary story of how Mark Zuckerberg wheeled and dealed to get Meta’s board of directors to protect him from California’s wealth tax.

With @elitanjourno

https://t.co/ZYnxhazGDo

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

NEW — Top White House adviser and Airbnb cofounder @jgebbia just donated $8 million in support of California's voter ID ballot measure, per new filing.

[Michael Orthofer @MAOrthofer]

William T. Vollmann reacting the way all authors should when their editor tells them their work needs some pruning. https://t.co/rmHuaX2Bi7

[Frank Shyong @frankshyong]

Scenes from a month of reporting on celery. Proud to be semi viral as an indie journo w a story on Japanese celery growing wild in Venice Beach in the end times of the attention economy. descendants of original families and wild celery spottings in the comments

[Sam Dean 🦅 @SamAugustDean]

Don't see a dollar sign in this announcement — very curious to see how much the DoW is planning on adding to the ~$100 mil the CIA puts into In-Q-Tel every year.

[Sam Dean 🦅 @SamAugustDean]

The Pentagon has been trying to create its own In-Q-Tel for the past decade through all the innovation units, blank-werx, and application labs (and In-Q-Tel already feeds into Pentagon intelligence agencies).

Guess they could have just...used In-Q-Tel?

[Department of War CTO @DoWCTO]

https://t.co/mCMxWDc30y

[Nate @TornadoNate]

growing corn for ethanol is actually completely bananagrams crazy

[Barratt Dewey @barratt_dewey]

Confirming my scoop last week (linked below): @neros_tech snags $100M order for 14,000 drones + payloads after balling out in the Drone Dominance Program’s Gauntlet 2.

@soren_ma and @OHichwa are dominating drone dominance

[Rozina Ali @rozina_ali]

Appreciate this wonderful review of "Seasons of Fury" in New York Times, by Spencer Ackerman

https://t.co/IIkGDcM2Cw

[Sam Dean 🦅 @SamAugustDean]

@NicoSGonzalez I get a good amount of home/car insurance, random snack foods, and makeup ads (plus this one anti-seizure med, over and over) — the trick is to only watch Murder She Wrote and live in rural New England.

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

"A company-run store in Fresno sells a Big Mac for $5.69, but another company-run restaurant two miles away sells the same sandwich for $6.89, a 21% premium."

The upshot of AI-based pricing is that there's now a ton of direct evidence that pricing power exists in very small geographic markets.

[Buffet Magazine @BuffetMagazine]

Corn Chowder. End of summer. Broth like light itself.

[Buffet Magazine @BuffetMagazine]

J. Lee of @Emily_Sundberg's Feed Me fame presents Chicago's Eighth Wonder: Crispy Pad See Ew

[Buffet Magazine @BuffetMagazine]

Shoutout to @GustavoArellano for connecting us with Matt!

Read it here:
https://t.co/UUA35344el

[Buffet Magazine @BuffetMagazine]

After taking a sweet dive into the family life of Phoenix Bakery in L.A.'s Chinatown, our baking correspondent Matt Azuma developed his own recipe for sweet and flaky Lou Po Beng (winter melon pastries), made with a lard-laminated double dough.

[Buffet Magazine @BuffetMagazine]

How does a neighborhood go from zero bakeries to four bakeries in the span of a few years? How much power can a neighborhood association really have?? How beautiful can a brownstone-lined block be on a crisp autumn day???

@cal_hitchcock reports from Brooklyn

[Buffet Magazine @BuffetMagazine]

A disaster. Invite friends over! Live a little! We have so many things you can cook them (thread)

[Kyle Chayka @chaykak]

Buffet magazine reports out why there are suddenly so many fancy bakeries in Brooklyn Heights https://t.co/Z2tcwYk4vm

[Sam Dean 🦅 @SamAugustDean]

@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n I think you have to disclose when you’re doing spon con for Cabot