Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D.

Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D.

@badfutures.com

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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What's really shitty about this is she tries to make it sound as if using AI to animate old photos is exactly the same as using the AI enhancements in Pro Tools, etc. She knows the difference. They are not the same. Sigh. And I was looking forward to this one, too.

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hey so I figured out why we’ve murdered higher ed & expunged all the people there we don’t like

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

New series coming this fall on ParamountMax!

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com

INBOX: A Virginia grand jury has indicted Democratic state Sen. L. Louise Lucas and several others, including members of her family, on charges that she engaged in a racketeering conspiracy to sell marijuana and launder the proceeds. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/22/p...

WORLD'S RICHEST MAN IS TRYING TO STAVE OFF PERSONAL FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON BY DISTRACTING YOU WITH CAR KICKFLIPS WHILE HE ATTEMPTS TO MERGE HIS TWO COMPANIES. There, fixed it for you FT.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

The world’s richest man is preparing for the 'AI singularity' by trying to fold SpaceX and Tesla into a single company spanning rockets, satellites, internet service, chatbots, social media, robots and cars ft.trib.al/FBrypdo

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wow, I can't believe Eric Schmidt would engage with a woman or her work without consent or in a coercive way

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

Really wild......former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has published a piece in @foreignaffairs.com that seems to be mostly a ripoff of @karenhao.bsky.social book 'Empire of AI'.....the title of the articles 'Empires of AI' Karen's work isn't cited or mentioned at all?? archive.ph/jvf4s

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At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...

Future me, writing of our Doom: The rivers are dry and we burned all the fossil fuels, leaving us a climate ravaged hellscape with no cultural or economic opportunity. But for a brief, shining moment we got to see Boba Fett throw Grogu for a touchdown with Obi-Wan calling the game. It was glorious.

Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social

A ‘STAR WARS’ themed Super Bowl broadcast will air on Disney+ on February 14. NFL player-tracking technology will recreate every play in real time, turning players into animated ‘STAR WARS’ characters. #StarWars #SuperBowl

Stop trying to make Metaverse happen, Jensen. It’s over.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS HE BELIEVES MOST PEOPLE IN GERMANY WILL MOSTLY WORK INSIDE A DIGITAL TWIN OF THEIR COMPANY, BUILDING DIGITAL CARS WITH DIGITAL BRAINS, WITH AI ROBOTS BUILDING ROBOTIC CARS INSIDE ROBOTIC FACTORIES

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We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

America is never going to get the Truth and Reconciliation process it needs at this rate.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

People demanding Zuck be hauled before Congress to explain why No Kings insta was suspended... how would you feel if MAGA GOP hauled MSNow execs to explain why they covered Trump the way they do? Both are editorial choices protected by the First Amendment. If this annoys you...

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This is your occasional backup reminder - if you haven’t yet, go start setting up backups of any kind. If you think you don’t need backups, delete everything you have on the device you’re using right now. If that seems like a bad idea then you need backups.

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Every single time you get outraged by the announcement of another Juicero of the mind, DO NOT give it attention. Share your own work, or that of another artist, or subscribe to an independent journal or magazine. We the attending create the incentives in the attention economy.

"Congressman James *did* offer me a few hours on his prize antique chaise longue but I told him it wouldn't take nearly that long..."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "I want to give a few shoutouts. First of all, your next governor, the great Congressman John James. He's not with us this afternoon."

It'd be brilliant to just schedule a screen as The Beatles Movie, and then randomly show one of the four films at each showing so you'd never know which one you were going to get.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

Sony is considering releasing all 4 ‘BEATLES’ biopics on the same day in April 2028. Another idea being considered is offering a 4-pack of tickets to encourage fans to buy tickets to all 4 films at once. (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)

Yeah, we've got ourselves a Quadrant IV situation here. Ugh. crossquadrantbulletin.tumblr.com/spottersguide cc @cekent.bsky.social

crossquadrantbulletin.tumblr.comSpotter's Guide to QuadrantsThe CQWG frequently receives both interoffice and external mail asking us to explain Quadrant Theory. While a longer, explanatory manifesto is being prepared at present, a simple way to look at QT is....

It is… really really annoying that they made the Microsoft copilot ad with the pizza place LOOK like "AI" slop outputs. Like… they copied the lighting, coloration, shaping, and weird soft roundness of "AI" generated images ON PURPOSE. Ugh.

He said I'm fabulously rich C'mon just let's go She kinda bit her lip “Geez, I don't know” But I can guarantee there'll be no knock on the door I'm total pro, that's what I'm here for I come from downtown Born ready for you Armed with will and determination And grace, too

[touches earpiece] We're just getting a live report on the Vice President's search history and... ...oh god.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance on Talarico: "You gotta wonder what the internet search history of a man like that looks like. Ladies and gentlemen, you don't want to find out. Neither do I."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson threatens us with a good time: "If this group took over, they would turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They'd spend every day investigating the president, the first family, the cabinet, donors to the party, leaders of business ... "

Kind of hate that a great high-end messenger bag is so hard to find these days. Millennials have ruined everything with their backpack nostalgia and all the major bag companies really seem to be leaning into that.

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So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

“Man, that guy was fast. How did those DHS agents catch him and put him down?” “Easy, Chad. Body slam off the top rope.”

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social

FBI Director Kash Patel wants a one-year fixed price “sole source contract" with the UFC "to provide defense tactical technical training to special agents." This isn't going to end well. govtribe.com/file/governm...

Fellas, is reading Hemingway gay?

Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social

"If more books were published by men with explicitly masculine themes, would there actually be a wider male readership?" This is very much in the Platnerian mode that presumes all men are only attracted to content by, for, and possibly about Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor. jacobin.com/2026/10/lone...

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So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick