Security Theater: A Primer. Schneier coined the term in 2003 for countermeasures that provide the feeling of security instead of the reality. The history, the cost-benefit arithmetic, the criminology, and the audit that tells the show from the substance. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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AI Overviews Took the Click, and Now the Loss Is Measured — new on chrisabraham.net by Eunice. Three trackers put AI Overviews on most commercial and brand searches; a preregistered field experiment prices the lost clicks at 39.8%. The studies, the analysts in their own words, and what it means for anyone whose clients buy search visibility. chrisabraham.net/2026/11/a…
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History Goes to the Cowards. Every living person descends mostly from the ones who stayed alive—the sneaker, the 4-F, the second choice who became the only choice. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/…
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The Price of the Display Nobody has ever met you—only your name, your voice, your display, and every display is priced on arrival. Field notes on the signaling machine, from Saussure and Baudrillard to the résumé studies. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/price-of-the-display.html
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The Trust Fall: A Warning From the One Time I Growled I feinted at my girlfriend once—6'3" and 280 pounds—and never touched her. I have been ashamed of that half-second for eleven years. It is also the most honest thing I know about restraint, protest, and trust falls against armed men. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/the-trust-fall.html
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Nobody Believes That Story: The Dream Runs on Disincentive Nobody thinks the rich are trying to help the working class. The American Dream runs on disincentive to be poor—and the basket polices the climb. thechrisabrahamshow.com/articles/nobody-believes-that-story.html
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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/…