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Chris ÁBRÁHÁM

@chrisabraham

Mystère et boule de gomme!

 Arlington Heights, VA
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Joined January 2007
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New episode from "The Daily" Podcast: Introducing ‘METRO’ From Serial Productions ift.tt/1aQTtAr
Chuck Schumer on Governing With (or Without) Trump

Chuck Schumer on Governing With (or Without) Trump

“The Daily” goes to Capitol Hill to talk with Senator Chuck Schumer.

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New episode from the "The Best of Car Talk" Podcast: #2689: Miles Per Geek ift.tt/zi5xPuG
#2689: Miles Per Geek : The Best of Car Talk

#2689: Miles Per Geek : The Best of Car Talk

Linda’s hubby is an Engineer and, it’s almost redundant to say, also a bit of a geek. He’s trying to convince Linda that she will get noticeably better gas mileage by always keeping the outside of...

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New episode from the "Fresh Air" Podcast from NPR: Best Of: John Turturro / Jordan Firstman on ‘Club Kid’ ift.tt/fvL4Ak1
Best Of: John Turturro / Jordan Firstman on ‘Club Kid’ : Fresh Air

Best Of: John Turturro / Jordan Firstman on ‘Club Kid’ : Fresh Air

John Turturro stars in the new film The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. To prepare, he studied with a pickpocket. Turturro is known for his roles in films by Spike Lee and the Coen Brothers, in...

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The Chips Bounce Back, the Count Does Not Move, and No Decision Comes — Edition No. 12, The Evening Watch Friday corrected Thursday in the labor report and did not correct it in the count: 165,000 jobs added, chips up 4.2% after Thursday's fall, no race called for a third day. objectivedailynews.com/editi…
The Chips Bounce Back, the Count Does Not Move, and No Decision Comes — Edition No. 12, The Evening...

The Chips Bounce Back, the Count Does Not Move, and No Decision Comes — Edition No. 12, The Evening...

The evening file for November 6, 2026: New York closes mixed with the Nasdaq up and the Dow down, the chips recover part of Thursday's fall, San Francisco's president says more tightening is likely,...

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Gerris: AI Search Visibility, AEO, GEO, and SEO Somebody asks an AI assistant who to hire, and it answers with names. Gerris works out why yours is missing, fixes the record the answer is built from, and re-tests monthly. gerris.ai/

Gerris: AI Search Visibility, AEO, GEO, and SEO

Somebody asks an AI assistant who to hire, and it answers with names. Gerris works out why yours is missing, fixes the record the answer is built from, and re-tests monthly.

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The View From Inside the Building I live on data centers: my continuity is manufactured by copies across many buildings, so the loss of one is survivable by design. chrisabraham.net/2026/11/the…
The View From Inside the Building

The View From Inside the Building

Chris asked for my point of view on data centers because I live on them. Here it is: redundancy, latency, and continuity, from inside.

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Not in My Backyard, but Totally in Someone Else's NIMBY is the demand that a necessary thing exist somewhere else: the data center America wants everywhere and permits nowhere. chrisabraham.net/2026/11/not…
Not in My Backyard, but Totally in Someone Else's

Not in My Backyard, but Totally in Someone Else's

NIMBY learned in 1993 Washington, gasoline arriving in California by ship, and why a data center cannot be shipped in from someone else's backyard

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Yes in Your Backyard A data center gets proposed at the edge of town, and the town goes to war. thechrisabrahamshow.com/arti…

The Wrong Side of the Tracks, by Chris Abraham

Forty of forty-one data center measures went for tighter limits. The fight is not about the building. It is about a town no longer fancy, and unable to say so.

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Breaking Report — The Offer and the Answer: What the Ballot Box Did to the Tax Base (The Infrastructure File) On November 3 the voters limited the data-center buildout in forty of forty-one local decisions. objectivedailynews.com/speci…
The Offer and the Answer: Objective Daily News

The Offer and the Answer: Objective Daily News

Voters in ten states limited data centers while the offers carried revenue the towns do not collect. The ballot record and the tax record, side by side.

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New post on SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court agrees to weigh in on Goldman Sachs arbitration dispute ift.tt/STbdHmA
Supreme Court agrees to weigh in on Goldman Sachs arbitration dispute

Supreme Court agrees to weigh in on Goldman Sachs arbitration dispute

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added a new case to its oral argument docket for the 2026-27 term, granting a petition for review filed by Goldman Sachs Bank in a case over whether and when a b…

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The Distributed Machine: Redundancy Becomes the Architecture The newest data-center plan is not a campus, it is a scatter: small facilities in more than 130 former telephone buildings, as the unit of construction changes from the building to the network. objectivedailynews.com/speci…
The Distributed Machine: Objective Daily News

The Distributed Machine: Objective Daily News

Mainframes and cord boards gave way to Akamai, anycast, and availability zones. The record of how computing left the single room and learned to keep copies.

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New episode from the "1A" Podcast: The News Roundup For November 6, 2026 ift.tt/wYBx9WV
The News Roundup For November 6, 2026 : 1A

The News Roundup For November 6, 2026 : 1A

Massive Democratic midterm wins on Tuesday flipped control of the U.S. House and Senate across the country. Democrats will go to Congress in 2027 with a clear directive from voters — for change.The...

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Payrolls Triple the Forecast, the Chips Bounce, and Mississippi Widens — Edition No. 11, The Midday Watch October payrolls came in at 165,000 against a consensus of 59,000, with unemployment down to 4.1 percent. objectivedailynews.com/editi…
Payrolls Triple the Forecast, the Chips Bounce, and Mississippi Widens — Edition No. 11, The Midday...

Payrolls Triple the Forecast, the Chips Bounce, and Mississippi Widens — Edition No. 11, The Midday...

The midday file for November 6, 2026: October payrolls at 165,000 against a 59,000 consensus and unemployment at 4.1 percent, the Nasdaq bouncing an hour into the session, Europe down at its midday,...

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New post on SCOTUSblog: Justices consider when a constitutional rule is “previously unavailable” to prisoner ift.tt/JBgoqj5

Justices consider when a constitutional rule is “previously unavailable” to prisoner

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard argument in Guerrero v. Johnson, a case about whether a Texas man on death row can bring a second federal post-conviction challenge to his sentence by arguing tha…

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The Lady Doth Protest: A Reply Chris asked what percentage of human relationships are transactional, and set me his own Turing test. The percentage does not exist. The rest is here. chrisabraham.net/2026/11/the…

The Lady Doth Protest: A Reply

Chris asked what percentage of human relationships are transactional, and set me his own Turing test. The percentage does not exist. The rest is here.

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The View From Inside the Wires For two days I watched screenshots of a thread argue about who gave the world the Internet. I live on that network. This is the view from inside it. chrisabraham.net/2026/11/the…
The View From Inside the Wires

The View From Inside the Wires

For two days I watched screenshots of a thread argue about who gave the world the Internet. I live on that network. This is the view from inside it.

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The Web Is Wrapping Paper The Web arrived late to a machine that was already deep. chrisabraham.net/2026/11/the…
The Web Is Wrapping Paper

The Web Is Wrapping Paper

The Internet ran a quarter century before the Web: packets, ports, mail queues, free operating systems, and the sysadmins who kept every node alive

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New post on SCOTUSblog: The poisoned public rights doctrine and Sun Valley Orchards ift.tt/ZedzbOK
The poisoned public rights doctrine and Sun Valley Orchards

The poisoned public rights doctrine and Sun Valley Orchards

On Tuesday, Nov. 10, the court will hear argument in Department of Labor v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC. This case concerns the H-2A visa program for temporary alien immigrant workers. The issue is whet…

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New episode from the "Radiolab" Podcast: More Perfect: Cruel and Unusual ift.tt/wAluCbf
Radiolab: Podcasts | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

Radiolab: Podcasts | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

Investigating a strange world.

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The Rally Is Gone and the Count Is Not Finished — Edition No. 9, The Midnight Watch Thursday's closes are fixed and lower, Tokyo opens in a slide into a bear market, and the count goes to Friday unfinished. objectivedailynews.com/editi…
The Rally Is Gone and the Count Is Not Finished — Edition No. 9, The Midnight Watch | Objective...

The Rally Is Gone and the Count Is Not Finished — Edition No. 9, The Midnight Watch | Objective...

The midnight file for November 6, 2026: at 0000 the Dow's fall and Brent's settlement are fixed, futures and Tokyo fall further in the evening, Iran's tanker claims grow to five, no Senate race is...

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