Chris Amico

chrisamico shared this story . President Donald Trump and other conservatives have accused artificial intelligence chatbots of being politically biased against them — and an executive order he signed that said they must be “neutral, nonpartisan tools”... More →

chrisamico shared this story from Tom MacWright Micro. I went on a run this morning and got the idea to write this, but Nolen and Robin and Robin again have written other, maybe better versions of it. Still, I have some recent experience and feelings... More →

President Donald Trump's UFC fight on the White House's South Lawn requires a monumental effort from more than seven federal agencies, hundreds of staff working onsite daily and about $60 million. More →

How The UFC Took Over And Divided A Nation More →

A national system tracks serious bus crashes so regulators can keep roads safe. But the process fails to identify most of fatal collisions for Transdev, a major transit company, WBUR and ProPublica found. More →

Clover rode a rising trend of health-conscious dining into a rapid expansion. But as interest in meat alternatives faded in recent years, the company was unable to maintain its lofty vision. More →

Nothing on the internet lasts forever. But Disney’s 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight is its own story. More →

chrisamico shared this story . AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTXi Jinping spent 13 years building a military to rival that of the United States. But the stronger the Chinese forces grew, the less he trusted the generals he had handpicked to run... More →

Even if the Strait of Hormuz reopened today, oil would still take more than a month to reach consumers. The economic shock from the Iran war could take far longer to ease. More →

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As winters get shorter, climate change impacts are causing profound changes to everything from skiing and ice fishing to drinking water and disease. More →

chrisamico shared this story from Information is Beautiful. Every year(ish), since 2009, I’ve been gathering and visualising billions from news headlines and reports. These gargantuan numbers often make little sense unless put in context and... More →

Twenty-five years of satellite imagery reveal that the Antel data center in Pando generates a heat island visible from space. Eleven kilometers away, Google is building another center several times bigger. More →

chrisamico shared this story . Barring “one last run” when he gets bored of family life and gym ownership, it looks as though Cub Swanson has hung up his gloves for good. While he never achieved a world title, Swanson’s longevity has been astounding,... More →

chrisamico shared this story from Derek Willis. I began collecting congressional press releases more than a dozen years ago for the reasons I usually start collecting anything: I was interested in them and there wasn’t a freely-available dataset I... More →

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 →