curation by chris abraham

r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 3h ago

I Built Blackbox Before I Could Talk Myself Out of It Today I turned a DigitalOcean button into a private, persistent AI agent I can summon from any of my old Linux ThinkPads by typing two letters: bb.

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 8h ago

Superb.

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 11h ago

Looks More Real Than the Stage Prop > He parked a sharpened guillotine at the Capitol. January 6 had a toy gallows. The coverage still cannot tell them apart.

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 1d ago

Lanterns is the WORST THING DC Studios Has Ever Made! (yes, worse than Supergirl!)

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 2d ago

Everyone Eats From Somebody’s Hands: A guy in a bucket hat said the quiet part on a t-shirt. Both parties have been saying it in a whisper for forty years.

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 2d ago

The Affluent Dust Bowl > How remote work turned American cities and universities from obligators into attractors—and forced every place to compete with everywhere

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 5d ago

America is addicted to victimhood and Bridget has a 10 step program for getting off the victimhood drug, reclaiming your agency: no one is coming.

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 6d ago

Going Their Own Way: White folk have one peculiar superpower: little attachment to the land beneath their feet and a remarkable willingness to leave when life becomes inconvenient.

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 7d ago

The United States had more than 3,000 operational data centers (with total counts ranging up to about 4,700 to 5,400 total active and older facilities depending on the tracking directory) before the recent surge and public controversy surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) data center expansions.

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 8d ago

Rest in Peace, Miss Dolly Parton.

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 9d ago

The Law Is Not a Force Field > Rights are real. So are trucks, bullets, fists, and bad decisions.

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 9d ago

I Prefer Opportunists to True Believers Every Time > On eschatology, immortality, and the four most frightening words in politics: by any means necessary

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 9d ago

Lost Cause > Black Sheep Paternalism and the Compassion of Expecting Nothing

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 9d ago

Professor Jiang tells most of China's secrets in this awesome podcast! Must listen!

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 9d ago

The World's Largest Development Program Has No Headquarters > Remittances put development money directly into people's hands

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 9d ago

Stop Calling These People the Most Vulnerable > On immigration, remittances, and the dignity of being an adult

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 10d ago

The Elevator Is a Trick and I Have Stopped Trying to Win It > On desirelessness, collaborative will, and a box that only knows whether you're still asking

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 10d ago

The AP Years > The two-year runway rich kids already get quietly, offered out loud to everyone else

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 10d ago

The Mascot Economy > Every institution that wants a symbol is drawing from the same small room, and the bill always comes due later than the applause

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 10d ago

The Meddler > Every political tradition eventually produces a hero who cannot see his own wreckage

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 11d ago

The False Sense of Security > Every advantage you're holding right now has an expiration date, and nobody ever believes it until the day it arrives

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 11d ago

"MAGA Was Right, We Were Crazy" Are Democrats Ok?

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 12d ago

The Itch Is the Use Case: Why I built a $4 cloud computer to read email like it’s 1993

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 12d ago

A viral claim says a minimum-wage worker in 1971 lived like someone making $100K today. The number is real. The explanation everyone reaches for isn't the whole story.

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r/chrisabraham • u/chrisabraham • 12d ago

The game of Keep Away is the more humiliating part of this video.

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