Formerly @latimes, now writing a book on defense tech and editing @buffetmagazine
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INSIDE THE BILLIONAIRE BUNKER.
The inside story of how Silicon Valley raised $333 million to try and beat the California wealth tax.
Sergey Brin, John Doerr and Patrick Collison turned a billionaire club into political ad machine.
Featuring confidential memos and internal docs. With @eringriffith.
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Believe it or not, I am aware of the fact that most people won't read a 16,000 word article about an actual blood-and-bullets war over water in the Rio Grande.
So we made a 30-minute film. The filmmakers at TM Studios did an incredible job:
youtube.com/watch?v=PBaMGnxt…
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A few months ago, TikTok started showing me videos (which I'd always watch) of people taking apart old appliances, or stripping wires, & collecting copper to sell
I wrote about the big players in this world, how much they earn online + off, & why their videos resonate. See reply
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I'd like to know a lot more about what happened here. publishersweekly.com/pw/by-t…
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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
nytimes.com/2026/10/21/techn…
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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.
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William T. Vollmann reacting the way all authors should when their editor tells them their work needs some pruning. sacbee.com/news/local/articl…
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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
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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
Neros has officially received a $100 million order for 14,000 drones and explosive payloads from the @DeptofWar for our performance in Drone Dominance Gauntlet II.
We’ve also received a second bonus order for an additional 800 drones tied to Gauntlet I, reallocated from other competitors who couldn’t meet the production deadline for their orders.
Gauntlet II orders are split between Archer AI, our flagship autonomy-enabled 10” drone, and Archer 5”, a smaller variant built for close quarters battle scenarios including urban and indoor settings.
We’re proud to be the only manufacturer to have placed top three in both Gauntlet II mission sets, and are already fulfilling this next tranche of orders.
Onward to Gauntlet III.
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Appreciate this wonderful review of "Seasons of Fury" in New York Times, by Spencer Ackerman
nytimes.com/2026/09/30/books…
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"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.
McDonald’s is using artificial intelligence to help set menu prices across the US and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost profit but risks alienating customers and attracting antitrust scrutiny reut.rs/4hw4YRI
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J. Lee of @Emily_Sundberg's Feed Me fame presents Chicago's Eighth Wonder: Crispy Pad See Ew
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Shoutout to @GustavoArellano for connecting us with Matt!
Read it here:
buffetmagazine.net/lou-po-be…
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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.
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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
