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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chrisamico shared this story . AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTImage“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.”— Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston“My son... More →

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming the city it is today. More →

Yukon Gold potatoes are getting harder to find. Here's why growers are moving away from them and which yellow varieties are taking their place. More →

A Case Study in the Historical Importance of Incompetence More →

The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and… More →

chrisamico shared this story from https://transcendloneliness.substack.com/. I became an Angeleno years ago but am not a Dodgers fan. Being a Dodgers fan would be spiritually wrong. Early in life, as a native Missourian, the furies reached through the... More →

chrisamico shared this story from Tom MacWright. It’s the end of 2025, which means that I’m closing in on three years at Val Town. I haven’t written much about the company or what it’s really been like. The real story of companies is usually told well... More →

chrisamico shared this story . AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Athlete Trolling His Way Through Jiu-Jitsu’s Culture WarsBrazilian jiu-jitsu has been increasingly embraced by right-wing influencers. Craig Jones is an unlikely... More →

PromptArmor demonstrate a concerning prompt injection chain in Google's new Antigravity IDE: In this attack chain, we illustrate that a poisoned web source (an integration guide) can manipulate Gemini into … More →

In a word: Gobsmacked. More →

My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury. More →

“Hopefully, when I let them know the cost, they will not want to do it," an official wrote in an email. More →

Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today More →

Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist. More →

Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.” More →

They're like riding a bike: easy, and you don't get it until you try. More →

chrisamico shared this story from Massively Parallel Procrastination. "It's not this — it's that." AI writing is a scourge on the internet. Often it just hurts to read. I do not enjoy using AI to write anything "as me" or anything where I am trying to... More →

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers. More →

A group of U.S. data scientists has published a list of federal datasets that have been altered or removed since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. More →