Chris Amico

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:… More →

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From theaters to galleries, arts coverage reveals what communities value and how people connect across a city. On Local News Day, we tend to talk about accountability reporting, city hall coverage, and the steady, essential work of keeping the public... More →

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Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling. More →

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... More →

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... More →

These lunar resources could be valuable to us on Earth and in space. More →

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 … More →

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 … More →

The autism spectrum is big, vibrant and complicated, a new graphic of 39 traits shows More →

Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team. More →

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... More →

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... More →

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? More →

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… More →

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&#… More →

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. More →

What impact does it have on us — citizens and immigrants alike — to be constantly looking over our shoulders in terror? More →

Writing about AI, geo, culture, media, data, and the ways they interact. More →

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 … More →