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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D.

@badfutures.com
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Founder and Futurist @ refuturing, Bourbon Enthusiast, Recovering Political Theorist, Former Musician, Kentuckian, Hi-Tech Low-Life. Have you ever jacked in? Have you wiretripped?

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 3h
Stop Fucking Putting Cameras in Everything Challenge 2026: Impossible www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
Time for this classic again.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 28/09/2026
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Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor with RPG
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 28/09/2026
I am still angry Zaslav screwed us out of that 5th season of Westworld. It deserved a chance to finish. Also, people who say Seasons 3 & 4 weren't very good are Incredibly Wrong. I will die on that hill.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 28/09/2026
Drop some ROBOTS 🤖🖤
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Dolores Abernathy: I've Evolved Into Something New
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 28/09/2026
Cocktail for sure.
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Cocktail Tom Cruise
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 28/09/2026
Instagram has broken a lot of people's brains, hasn't it?
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 28/09/2026
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Desenchufar Ana
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 28/09/2026
Sarah Conner is *absolutely* the hero we need right now.
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Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor with RPG
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 26/09/2026
Squirrel Girl, motherfuckers!
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Good Night Squirrel Girl & Autumn Butterflies
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 26/09/2026
Robert Eggers is gonna do Romeo and Juliet after Werwulf, omg www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Robert Eggers Tackling ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Adaptation as Focus Wins Bidding War (Exclusive)
Where art thou? Here art thou: The feature project will be the filmmaker's next after his upcoming 'Werwulf.'
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 26/09/2026
Kind of interesting that Lovable is marketing themselves as an engine of tech debt, but here we are. thenextweb.com/news/lovable...
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'Now you can have an agent navigate it': Lovable's CTO on security
Lovable co-founder Fabian Hedin said revenue has reached $600m and two-thirds of the Fortune 500 use Lovable, often after staff found it themselves.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 26/09/2026
Look, I'm not here to defend Ed Zitron (though I appreciate his work), but this so-called rebuttal really amounts to tone policing and a lot of "nuh-uh!" response. danluu.com/zitron/
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Ed Zitron's AI prediction track record
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 26/09/2026
There is not a day that goes by now where I don't think Heatmap has lost its goddamn mind. heatmap.news/ideas/energy...
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The Energy Trust Gap Is Crashing Our Grid
Third Way’s head of climate and energy argues that both sides have lost voters’ trust, with serious consequences for our infrastructure.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 26/09/2026
I guess we finally found the Pope who's gonna give us the Orange Catholic Bible. thenextweb.com/news/pope-le...
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Pope Leo at UNESCO: machines get called ‘intelligent’ while people get discarded
At UNESCO, Pope Leo XIV argued AI can correlate data but cannot answer what life means, and warned we now judge people by efficiency.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 26/09/2026
Higher ed is the most poorly understood, poorly reported on institution in American society. Most of the people writing about it for the mainstream media actively hate it and the people who work in it, and make absolutely no attempt to understand it.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 26/09/2026
Am I the only one who came away from Andor convinced Saw Was Right and the Mothma/Organa faction were a bunch of posh, betraying assholes who got lucky with the farm boy, the trucker and his dog?
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 25/09/2026
[image of saw gerrera]

People who become right wing because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 26/09/2026
I think I lost a pool tournament to that guy once.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 25/09/2026
Well, if NFTs, Metaverse real estate, and crypto didn't pay off for these kids, I'm *sure* AI will.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 25/09/2026
So I'm making pint glasses now... robsheridan.threadless.com/accessories/...
Photo of a pint glass I designed which says, in the appropriate font styling, "YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A BEER." Obviously, in this economy, of course you would.
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Post-1945 Fiction and/or Narrative of the United States - Office of the Dean of the Faculty - Reed C...
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 25/09/2026
I refuse to engage with this obvious bullshit.
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Mad Max: Fury Road - That's Bait
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 25/09/2026
a culture where highbrow ppl are obsessed with tony soprano and lowerbrow ppl are obsessed with being walter white is in retrospect BEGGING for a strongman
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 24/09/2026
Mamdani: (sighs, looks over at top legal advisor) Are you *absolutely* sure we can’t arrest this asshole? Really, Tom?!?
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 24/09/2026
This is your reminder that 1) in The Handmaid's Tale the Commanders all hang out at the sex clubs and 2) one of the defining characteristics of Fascism is Hypersexualization and extreme focus on traditional gender identities. #MadonnaWhore www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In its push to subordinate women, the American right is embracing raunch
Conservatives long promoted a politics of sexual prohibition. Now such morals have been shed in favor of male domination
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 24/09/2026
Make Affordable, Damn Fine Diner Coffee Great Again
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Kyle MacLachlan's Coffee in Twin Peaks
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is solarpunk art
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this entire presidency in one image
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 23/09/2026
Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and say it’s gonna be a good November for Democrats in Texas.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 23/09/2026
“I’m not X, I’m a Doctor!”: On the Hyperspecialization of Starfleet Medicine Since Stardate 1312.4 What's your fake Star Trek academic paper?
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 22/09/2026
"Aluminum, it tastes like fear" is a lyric that's stuck with me for 30 years. This album deserves far, far more love than it gets.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 22/09/2026
Coming to CBS this Fall...Dr. Oz: Insurance Detective.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 22/09/2026
Honestly I'm surprised he didn't rename it American Intelligence.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 22/09/2026
Is it wrong that I heard this in Shatner's voice while I read it?
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 21/09/2026
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Futurama: Good News, Everyone!
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 21/09/2026
Jesus Christ, people read Holy Fire and took aaaalllllllll the wrong lessons from it, didn't they? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Talking to Animals Is AI’s Next Ethical Minefield
AI could transform our understanding of other species. It also risks giving humans powerful new ways to manipulate, exploit and harm them.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 21/09/2026
How much you want to bet we’re gonna be finding mass graves before this is all over…?
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 21/09/2026
The Weight: an otherwise perfect film with obscenely great cinematography ruined by an unnecessary final scene with a terrible needle-drop.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 21/09/2026
This is a dance off. If you see this, post a dance!
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Chandler Bing's Iconic Dance on Friends
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
honestly laughing so hard. we're doomed. but we'll be able to laugh at his fails a lot as we swirl the bowl
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 21/09/2026
Nothing quite like handing off the final deliverable to the Client after months of heads-down work.
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Robert Downey Jr. Says 'Phew'
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 21/09/2026
These are the motherfuckers the New York Times has dredged up to tell us "what we should do about AI"? Oh NYT, don't ever change. You're just as ridiculous as always.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 19/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVs...
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Rebecca Black - Friday
YouTube video by rebecca
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 19/09/2026
Usually you have the World War *after* the depression, but hell, why not.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 19/09/2026
“Why sure, I *would* download a car.” #talklikeapirateday
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 19/09/2026
“It’s not the hope that kills you; it’s the *knowing* it’s the hope that kills you that kills you.”
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Gary Oldman Eats with Chopsticks in Slow Horses
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 19/09/2026
Watching Jack Ryan: Ghost War and holy shit is this a bad script.
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John Krasinski as Jack Ryan: Deep in Thought
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 19/09/2026
Am I wrong for desperately wanting a Muppet Labs tattoo right now?
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