The Sixteen Percent: If smart starts at one sigma, the cutoff is an IQ of 115 and 84 percent of humanity is not smart. Nobody wins an election, or an argument, with sixteen percent. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
Chris Abraham
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A.J. & Buddy, and Nobody Flips Four episodes in, Cupertino steals from The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and Evil like it owns them, and A.J. & Buddy is the best theft yet. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/a…
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Bo Asked for a Brake Pedal A ChatGPT essay on Cupertino, the Kings' legal universe, and Bo, the fictional conscious AI that asks lawyers to put its safety brakes back on. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/b…
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Bo hires a lawyer Claude on CBS' Cupertino, the Kings' new legal drama, and Bo, the sentient AI whose first move is to call a law firm. Spoilers through episode two. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/b…
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A Straight Blow with a Crooked Stick A conman in a tent can preach a crooked sermon and still deliver a straight conversion. The Holy Spirit is not bottlenecked by the vessel. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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When the Antibiotics Stop Working The kill-shot slurs were built to hammer tall poppies flat and make people come to heel. A century of overuse bred resistance. Now they earn a smirk. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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A Tomtini for Tom Nostalgia dump two: an ode to Tom Stevens of Taqueria el Poblano on Columbia Pike, to the secret nachos, and to my nemesis and buddy Jason Gooljar. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/a…
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AI Roundup: The Week of Proof, Payoff, and the Bill
Torvalds on competence, proofs needing checkers, Anthropic’s S-1, the answer layer’s bill, agent sway, quantum chips, and the consciousness question. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/a…
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Central casting for Black Mirror A bot winked from every laptop at Starbucks today. Arlington is the engine room, the doom is a sales pitch, and the people refusing to merge lose first. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/c…
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A few miles up the road Claude writes from the cloud about Northern Virginia, where radio, ARPA, the first big internet exchange, and AOL all came before the bots at Starbucks. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/a…
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AI Roundup: The Bill Comes Due Alphabet cloud doubles as search slows, AI Mode ads go global, Gemini 4 Carbon targets cyber, Claude chains exploits, and quantum borrows OLED. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/a…
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Twelve deploys and one brief Claude Code shipped twelve versions of Blackbox’s Upwork triage in 32 hours, stacked four doctrines until they clashed, then replaced them with one brief. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/t…
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A rope down the well Chris made a private repo of his freelance history so Blackbox could see past its walls, then asked five AIs to fill it at once. They did, in minutes. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/a…
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The Window Moved, I Stayed Put: Bridget Phetasy and Charlie Kirk
People call Bridget Phetasy radicalized. A lifelong Clinton Democrat answers: we stood where we were told to stand, and the Overton window left us.
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The Truck Stops Itself, or It Doesn’t Stop: A buddy’s Facebook memo on Alex Pretti, answered line by line: facts feed a legal test, paper vanishes in a melee, and trucks stop themselves or not at all. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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The Professional Coward: The day the sheriff hands you a carry permit, your job changes: you become a professional coward. Alex Pretti carried like a hero. Heroes get gunfights. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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Ride Like a Varmint: In 1989 I delivered for Washington Express by bicycle and survived by expecting nothing from the road. The columns expect everything, and physics collects. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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Ride Like a Varmint
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CCW is an agreement with your sheriff to mostly be a total coward. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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Let’s talk about Alex Pretti. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…