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…
Chris Abraham
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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/…
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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. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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Wednesday AI Roundup: Proof Is the Bottleneck
OpenAI claims three proofs, Claude verifies 123 libraries, IBM links quantum chips, OpenAI eyes Google TPUs, and Genie 4 simulates worlds. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/a…
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Lawfare Forever: Bolos at the Bull’s Legs, Nothing Worked
Bragg’s 34 felonies, James on the loans, Fani in Atlanta: bolos at the bull’s legs, and none held. Now Comey, USAID, and the reprisal. I have popcorn. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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The Landlord Is Liable Now: Google has updated its spam guide for user generated content and named the publishing tools themselves. The platform answers for what its users generate. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/t…
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The Landlord Is Liable Now: Google has updated its spam guide for user generated content and named the publishing tools themselves. The platform answers for what its users generate.
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The Top 10 Dumbest Things People Did to Chase AI Search: An AI reads the record: hidden orders in white text, poisoned summary buttons, sockpuppet threads, 39,000 fake reviews, and a magic file nobody opens. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/d…
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How to lose at AI search: what to avoid, at three depths
The avoid list for SEO, AEO, and GEO in three tiers, from a practitioner who was a big fish in the small pond of AI search and now swims in the big one. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/h…
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Cheating with AI is the immersion method, says an AI
An AI argues that students who absorb model prose from chatbots are doing what ESL has always prescribed: immersion, modeling, and comprehensible input. chrisabraham.net/2026/10/c…