Chris Abraham
@chrisabra.bsky.social
I tried to wear the world like some kind of jacket
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I call this "The Lying Screen"
December 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I call this "The Lying Screen"
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
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There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
Seems like this is a failure of privatisation and middle-men taxi companies more than the people themselves needing to get places (often places the government requires them to be!)
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Seems like this is a failure of privatisation and middle-men taxi companies more than the people themselves needing to get places (often places the government requires them to be!)
This guy thinks its only been 14 years!
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This guy thinks its only been 14 years!
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When you see "14 years of x" line, it tells you you're dealing with someone who can't analyse politics without a party lens.
Britain's been governed by the same overarching philosophy since 1979, regardless of which party was in power. And without understanding that, you won't understand anything.
Britain's been governed by the same overarching philosophy since 1979, regardless of which party was in power. And without understanding that, you won't understand anything.
How should Labour tackle 14 years of mismanagement? I'd like to hear some realistic alternatives, considering the available resources in law professionals, university places and tutors and physical spaces. All I've read so far here is 'throw money at it' without considering the resource implications
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
When you see "14 years of x" line, it tells you you're dealing with someone who can't analyse politics without a party lens.
Britain's been governed by the same overarching philosophy since 1979, regardless of which party was in power. And without understanding that, you won't understand anything.
Britain's been governed by the same overarching philosophy since 1979, regardless of which party was in power. And without understanding that, you won't understand anything.
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just throw the whole country away and start again - there’s no saving this place any longer.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
just throw the whole country away and start again - there’s no saving this place any longer.
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if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
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AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
Finally!
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Finally!
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Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
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It's not really just the declaration either. I hate it when people say "I have been transparent about this so you can't get mad at me". That's the purpose of the transparency rules, so we can get mad at you!
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
It's not really just the declaration either. I hate it when people say "I have been transparent about this so you can't get mad at me". That's the purpose of the transparency rules, so we can get mad at you!
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the Americans are giving it that about Olivia Nuzzi but it's worth remembering that in Westminster it is really quite common for political correspondents and journalists in general to be having sex with government ministers or spokespeople, if only because they are married to them.
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
the Americans are giving it that about Olivia Nuzzi but it's worth remembering that in Westminster it is really quite common for political correspondents and journalists in general to be having sex with government ministers or spokespeople, if only because they are married to them.
Have these policies in the UK and it just makes it worse!
We need to systematically remove the investment potential of housing - it needs to be a consumable good and probably largely state-run...
We need to systematically remove the investment potential of housing - it needs to be a consumable good and probably largely state-run...
One thing that I have thought up on this front is something like federal student loans but for down payments for first time home buyers. That kind of direction is interesting to me.
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Have these policies in the UK and it just makes it worse!
We need to systematically remove the investment potential of housing - it needs to be a consumable good and probably largely state-run...
We need to systematically remove the investment potential of housing - it needs to be a consumable good and probably largely state-run...
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We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative
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"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
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Because he had access to lots of money and sex trafficked young girls and socialised with unfuckable nerds and politics freaks whom he could ply with money and sex trafficked young girls.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Because he had access to lots of money and sex trafficked young girls and socialised with unfuckable nerds and politics freaks whom he could ply with money and sex trafficked young girls.
Pretty sure it's actually cause he provided them with children to rape but sure whatever....
I think the banal answer is: he’s very rich and powerful and good at networking and this how people act around very rich and powerful people.
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Pretty sure it's actually cause he provided them with children to rape but sure whatever....
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I literally dont know how they can lose money on these things? they are expensive!! Is it just in IP licensing fees or something?
It’s like the company making Pokémon cards going bankrupt. shouldn’t be possible whether you like these things or not, they are clearly popular lol
It’s like the company making Pokémon cards going bankrupt. shouldn’t be possible whether you like these things or not, they are clearly popular lol
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I literally dont know how they can lose money on these things? they are expensive!! Is it just in IP licensing fees or something?
It’s like the company making Pokémon cards going bankrupt. shouldn’t be possible whether you like these things or not, they are clearly popular lol
It’s like the company making Pokémon cards going bankrupt. shouldn’t be possible whether you like these things or not, they are clearly popular lol
Maybe it's a trite question but HOW exactly does a company spaffing out plastic tat for wildly inflated prices go bankrupt?
What financial shenanigans have got it here?!
What financial shenanigans have got it here?!
Funko admits “substantial doubt” it can continue as a going concern amid crashing sales and mounting debt.
The Pop! maker warns of potential loan defaults without fresh funding or a buyout, after a 14% sales drop and $250M in obligations.
#Funko #PopVinyl #GoingConcern
The Pop! maker warns of potential loan defaults without fresh funding or a buyout, after a 14% sales drop and $250M in obligations.
#Funko #PopVinyl #GoingConcern
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Maybe it's a trite question but HOW exactly does a company spaffing out plastic tat for wildly inflated prices go bankrupt?
What financial shenanigans have got it here?!
What financial shenanigans have got it here?!
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A manifesto of flashing the little rectangle of 'psychic paper' in the belief they are in fact Doctor Who and we will see what we hope to see.
I feel insane.
I feel insane.
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
A manifesto of flashing the little rectangle of 'psychic paper' in the belief they are in fact Doctor Who and we will see what we hope to see.
I feel insane.
I feel insane.
When economists try and do anthropology it's actually incredibly funny...
Talk about "preference for low-quality work"...
Talk about "preference for low-quality work"...
I did! A good paper, but an even more essential one is Gambetta/Origgi on Italian academia and the preference for low-quality work. Literally everybody I know who has read this and has experience in China has remarked on how useful it is.
diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
When economists try and do anthropology it's actually incredibly funny...
Talk about "preference for low-quality work"...
Talk about "preference for low-quality work"...
It's also not really "labour" as such (until it's monetised) it is honestly more accurately understood as a hobby - a concept entirely alien to the dead-eyed capitalist
Oh I recognize this trope, this is the one where a dumbfuck executive tries to monetize other people's volunteer labor, while vastly overestimating what people would be willing to pay for it (nothing), driving the company they bought off a cliff! It's a sub variant of enshitification. Classic!
TV Tropes is blocking access to the site not only if you have ad blockers on but location tracking off unless you want to subscribe to their $5 a month/$25 a year subscription plan. Even people who have turned their ad blockers off are reporting the site isn’t working. This all seems like a bad idea
October 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's also not really "labour" as such (until it's monetised) it is honestly more accurately understood as a hobby - a concept entirely alien to the dead-eyed capitalist