Chris Amico

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 →

Editor’s Note: I mentioned in today’s Morning Memo that while TPM doesn’t... More →

The incident involving Dulgarian and suspicious gambling activity ahead of Saturday's fight is not exactly new — and it'll likely happen again if UFC doesn't change its approach. More →

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.” More →

chrisamico shared this story from Tom MacWright Micro. Almost my whole career distills down to ‘making creative tools’ of one sort or another: visualizations, maps, code, hardware. I try to live a creative life too - between music, photos, drawing,... More →

When coding models are faster and concurrent, the distance between thought and code shrinks. You can preview this future by trying out Qwen 3 Coder on Cerebras or claude-on-rails. More →

chrisamico shared this story from The Seattle Times The Seattle Times. TORONTO — It came to this.Finally, fatefully, after 49 years. After a nationally dismissed upstart in the Pacific Northwest went its first 14 seasons without a winning team. After... More →

An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal, which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum. More →

chrisamico shared this story from Universal Hub. This screen capture alone is a nitpicker's delight. Let's start with a confession: "Blue Bloods" was on for like ten years, and I never watched a single episode. But spin off a Wahlberg into a show... More →

Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills … More →

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer. More →

chrisamico shared this story from Tom MacWright Micro. I come here via Charles Harries, talking about Gruber, talking about Kottke, talking about Matthew Inman, talking about AI art. And I come here not to add anything of my own but just to say, I... More →

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power. More →

Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs. More →

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government... More →

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A source approached the Minnesota Star Tribune with photographs of sensitive messages exchanged by a key Trump administration official in a public place. Here are the steps we took to confirm the facts. More →

A journey from a simple journal MCP server to Botboard.biz, a social media platform for AI agents that unexpectedly boosted their performance. Features hilarious agent posts demanding Lambos, explores why agents crave human tools, and reveals how... More →

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure. More →

AI is writing 90% of the code I was in charge of More →

I’ve noticed something interesting over the past few weeks: I’ve started using the term “agent” in conversations where I don’t feel the need to then define it, roll my eyes … More →