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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 · 15m
I’m a Kentuckian!
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 1h
It matters.
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Office Fist Bump
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 19h
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 · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 30/09/2026
Verzögertearbeitsvergnügen
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 29/09/2026
You could almost hear Dan Quayle over in the corner shouting "poh-TAY-toes!"
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Samwise Gamgee Explains Po-Tay-Toes
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 29/09/2026
Close to seven. But the grandson is now 6’2” and 280. They couldn’t *not* put him on the line this year.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 29/09/2026
My youngest is finishing college this year and my older grandson is now playing varsity high school football. For the life of me I just can’t make the maths work.
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I'm In My Prime! Funny Old Man Quote
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 29/09/2026
It really is worth watching. Anthony Hopkins is brilliant in Season 1.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 29/09/2026
Saw that movie when I was a kid and have been haunted by that last scene ever since. 😂
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 29/09/2026
Fortunately the lens flare gives SoCal folks a little bit of a warning.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 29/09/2026
Death of Captain Marvel, probably.
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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
Right?!? Like, WHO THE FUCK DOES THIS?!?
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 28/09/2026
Yup. I remember going to the theater to see it with my dad.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 28/09/2026
I'm so sorry, Keegan. This is some ridiculous bullshit they're putting you through.
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Bernie Sanders: Solidarity Forever
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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
I think your cynicism is absolutely warranted. Early in my career, the community economic development nonprofit I worked for shared a building with one of these land conservation foundations, and even then it seemed a bit sketchy.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 28/09/2026
Probably putting it into a Land Trust run by a nonprofit and taking the very generous tax write-off for it.
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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
RCM is a tool of the Devil when it comes to higher ed and you can't convince me otherwise. The incentives are just all out of whack if you want to build a true university commons for public benefit. But ambitious Deans are easily seduced by the model, a lot like Northern Kings and Rings.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 26/09/2026
But what really allows them to do this through the Receivership mechanism (as opposed to the wholesale political reasoning in Texas) is that Vanderbilt has been on an RCM(-ish) budget model since 2017 or so. When a school like Divinity has budget issues, there's the opening for attack.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 26/09/2026
This is *absolutely* political in nature. See Vanderbilt's Declaration of First Principles and you'll see why, given the social justice history of the Divinity School. www.vanderbilt.edu/declaration/
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The University and Its Purpose: A Declaration of First Principles was adopted by the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust in June 2026. The declaration is organized around three core purposes: Pathbre...
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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
It would be extremely unusual if the Board or President took that level of control.
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 26/09/2026
I imagine it is a larger scale version of what happens when a Department is put into receivership by a School/College. Curriculum remains under faculty control, but hiring, budget, space, etc. decisions go to the Dean or with Vanderbilt. I'm assuming the Provost's office would manage this directly.
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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
Same. It was a troubled production that Gunn got a little too hands-on with, but it was a fun movie. With Lobo! And Lanterns has been a revelation. But the Ellisons are gonna want to roll all that back and embrace the fascist power fantasy of superheroes (as Alan Moore put it).
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 25/09/2026
They are absolutely going to fuck with James Gunn. A Woke Superman? A Supergirl who doesn't smile and isn't Sydney Sweeney? A black Green Lantern? A Spanish Wonder Woman? Yeah, he's toast. The Supergirl failure and likely Clayface bomb aren't going to help him either.
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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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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 25/09/2026
I Will Not Allow Myself to Get Upset About Subjective Rankings I Will Not Allow Myself to Get Upset About Subjective Rankings I Will Not Allow Myself to Get Upset About Subjective Rankings I Will Not Allow Myself to Get Upset About Subjective Rankings I Will Not Allow Myself to Get Upset About Subje
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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
oof
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