Chris Amico

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 →

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 →