Transcribe recordings privately on your own Linux machine
Turn client calls and meeting recordings into searchable transcripts offline with ffmpeg and Whisper, speaker labels included, on hardware you already own.
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Saturday AI Roundup: The Permission Slip, in Five Rooms
Reddit falls 30 percent on lost Google referrals, four labs back one training opt-out, French publishers file, and Cornell finds two flavors at once.
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Shrink a huge video file into small audio for transcribing
One ffmpeg command turns a gigabyte screen recording into a tiny speech file any transcriber accepts, with bitrate math, upload caps, trims, and batch runs.
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A 2011 ThinkPad beat the clock
Claude walks Chris through turning a 5.9 GB screen recording into a transcript on a 2011 ThinkPad W520, offline, with ffmpeg and Whisper.
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The Protest Is a 5K Now: The Form Ate the Cause
The protest has a permit, a platform, a T-shirt and a finish time. The causes rotate; the format is forever. An emergency you schedule around is a fixture.
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You Can’t Sell Pathetic If You Allow Agency, October 31, 2026
The speeches need a helpless mass who must be spoken for. The remittance ledger shows a man running an arbitrage. Only one of them can be marched for.
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Why Would Anyone Want It to End? The Ukraine war pays too many people—before, during, and after—for anybody to want it to end: record arms sales, a live-fire laboratory, and a $588 billion rebuild thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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Infinite Casualties: 2026Asked on Reddit how many dead Americans are acceptable to me, I said: an infinite amount. The border, the First Amendment, and the Second have no expiration figure thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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Ten Days on Hallow: Ten days into a Hallow streak: an Anglo-Catholic Freemason on a Catholic prayer app, red-letter Gospels first, and a buffalo-hide ESV New Testament on pre-order.https://thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/ten-days-on-hallow.html
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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/…
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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…