Didn’t go there for this one, but many of the groups involved also have Atlas Network ties.

There were enough covert Elon Musk cameos to warrant a separate piece dedicated just to him — esp. on how DOGE reset the narrative around Project 2025 goals in the election’s final months:

Thanks, Adam!

How big is the market for "weird meat"? We'll see.

But Vow's journey is sure to be a fascinating and boundary-busting one.

Thanks to @fastcompany.com and @thefern.org for being great partners on this piece.

thefern.org/2024/12/the-...

It starts with the concession that this wildly new approach to making meat won't be very good at simulating the exact meat we eat today.

What *can* it do well?

Create things that are delicious and meat-like and exciting and strange. And — for now — VERY pricey.

I spent months talking to Vow's CEO George Peppou for this story.

His strategy is completely at odds with the standard alt-protein playbook — which strives for low costs and realist mimicry.

Peppou's willingness to embrace the *unreal* has charted a fascinating path forward for this tech.

Thanks Benjamin!

Finally, an excerpt (with a gorgeous introduction from Kyle McCarthy): electricliterature.com/the-sky-was-...

On why publishing a book is also a goodbye, and the strange emotions that follow:

joefassler.substack.com/p/the-bitter...

Research for the book led me to the obscure history of human attempts at birdlike flight, a lost era of daring, incredibly dangerous experiments. I

It's a saga strewn with broken necks — and tantalizing possibilities.

On flight before the Wrights, for Lit Hub: lithub.com/crash-again-...

thanks, Tamar!!

As I wrote I spent so much time thinking about other novels and stories that examine technology—brave, new, world-changing inventions—as their central subject.

Electric Lit let me write about some of my favorites: electricliterature.com/7-books-abou...

Nicely said Jeff. Yes, that’s the larger point: cultivated meat could be ready now, and we’d still have a lot of the very same problems to solve.

Yes to this! A necessary first step if we want to reduce meat consumption.

What happens beyond 20 or 30 years is uncertain, but the burden of proof is on the companies to show the tech can power a global supply chain. Or even a much smaller scale one. That hasn’t happened yet.