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Analysis | After 47 years on the political beat for The Post, it’s transition time
Aug 05, 2025 | www.washingtonpost.com
About two months ago, my wife was out for a walk and stopped to talk with a man working in his yard. When he realized that she and I were married, he said:…
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I Decompiled the White House's New App
Apr 07, 2026 | blog.thereallo.dev
chrisamico shared this story from Thereallo's Blog | RSS Feed. The White House released an app on the App Store and Google Play. They posted a blog about it. "Unparalleled access to the Trump Administration."It took a few minutes to pull the APKs with...
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Don't be a slop cannon
Apr 06, 2026 | strugglestreet.substack.com
chrisamico shared this story from https://transcendloneliness.substack.com/. I wrote this because I made this mistake myself.The other day, I was attempting to burn through my remaining Claude Code session limit before it reset. I was feeling...
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Why We Chose to Go Back to the Moon
Apr 05, 2026 | www.nytimes.com
These lunar resources could be valuable to us on Earth and in space.
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The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering
Apr 04, 2026 | Simon Willison’s Weblog
The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …
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Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty
Mar 29, 2026 | Simon Willison’s Weblog
The big news this morning: Astral to join OpenAI (on the Astral blog) and OpenAI to acquire Astral (the OpenAI announcement). Astral are the company behind uv, ruff, and ty—three …
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What 39 traits reveal about the autism spectrum
Mar 28, 2026 | Scientific American
The autism spectrum is big, vibrant and complicated, a new graphic of 39 traits shows
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Astral to join OpenAI
Mar 19, 2026 | astral.sh
Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.
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A sanctioned UFC match requires a permit, unless it’s at the White House
Mar 17, 2026 | www.washingtonpost.com
chrisamico shared this story . The Ultimate Fighting Championship, the promoter of mixed martial arts competition, has staged two marquee events in Washington over the past 15 years, in both cases procuring permits from the D.C. government to hold the...
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Jazzband - News - Sunsetting Jazzband
Mar 15, 2026 | jazzband.co
chrisamico shared this story from Jazzband News Feed. TL;DR Jazzband is sunsetting. New signups are disabled. Project leads will be contacted before PyCon US 2026 to coordinate transfers. The wind-down plan has the timeline, the retrospective has the...
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Finishing School: The Moby-Dick Club
Mar 08, 2026 | The New Yorker
This year marks the hundred-and-seventy-fifth anniversary, or demisemiseptcentennial, of “Moby-Dick,” originally published in 1851. (Saving you the math.) Is it O.K. to have a “Moby-Dick” T-shirt for every day of the week?
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Local doesn’t scale: How community publishers can survive and thrive in the AI era
Mar 07, 2026 | Media Nation
Folks who work at finding solutions to the local news crisis are understandably frustrated at what a difficult, frustrating slog it can be. Earlier this week, Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro, the former e…
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The Mass. public records law needs some teeth. Will 2026 be the year that it happens?
Mar 05, 2026 | Media Nation
Massachusetts has long been notorious for being one of the least progressive states with regard to government transparency. The state’s public records law is alone in exempting the governor&#…
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I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.
Feb 23, 2026 | THE LOCAL STACK
I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.
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My child’s circus school is bracing for ICE. This is the toll of authoritarianism. - The Boston Globe
Feb 21, 2026 | BostonGlobe.com
What impact does it have on us — citizens and immigrants alike — to be constantly looking over our shoulders in terror?
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The Rise of Spec Driven Development
Feb 19, 2026 | Drew Breunig
Writing about AI, geo, culture, media, data, and the ways they interact.
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Deep Blue
Feb 18, 2026 | Simon Willison’s Weblog
We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many …
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How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
Feb 17, 2026 | Simon Willison’s Weblog
This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanation of the term cognitive debt I've seen so far. Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction recently, instead communicates the notion that …
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ICE grabs somebody right out of their car in Roslindale Square
Feb 07, 2026 | www.universalhub.com
chrisamico shared this story from Roslindale: This is my neighborhood. This morning, on Corinth Street outside Family Dollar. They grabbed the driver, left the car in the middle of the street with the keys still in. Josh Muncey, who owns a real-estate...
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‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
Feb 06, 2026 | www.wsj.com
Four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake…
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