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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 recently returned from exile in Austin. Hi-Tech Low-Life.

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 11h

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 11h

Because seriously, I would like to buy this shirt now, please.

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 12h

So...where is the Buy This Shirt Now link?!?

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AsylumHouse @asylum.bsky.social · 1d

NO KINGS.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 16h

D’Angelo at Afropunk - August 2014 youtu.be/34S8mat51KQ?...

D'Angelo at AFROPUNK FEST 2014 [FULL SET]

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 15h

Yeah, I think we can fearlessly predict how this is going to work for people of color based on Google's history. youtu.be/oRT5rK4Q1nk?...

Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 15h

This remains a good exploration of that question. medium.com/ingeniouslys...

The origins of the 10x developer

For as long as I’ve been in software, there’s been talk of the 10x developer. These are the people you want to solve your problems…

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 16h

RIP--ah, what a loss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCL...

D'Angelo, The Vanguard - The Charade (Live on SNL)

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 16h

as per Donny McCaslin, Bowie was listening to "Black Messiah" during the making of Blackstar (it had come out a month or so before sessions began), and you really hear it in many corners of that record.

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 16h

RIP D'Angelo. balleralert.com/profiles/blo...

D’Angelo Dead At 51 After Battle With Pancreatic Cancer

Neo-soul legend D’Angelo has died after a private battle with pancreatic cancer. Read Baller Alert’s exclusive report celebrating his life, music, and impact.

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 17h

a black and white photo of a woman with curly hair and the words `` and we 'll never be royals ''

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 17h

I could support the Sacramento Kings if they'd move back to Cincinnati and become the Royals again.

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David Christianson @dpchristianson.bsky.social · 17h

What’s the best one-liner in movie history?

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 17h

Goddamnit. There are old band photos where I'm 25 and look *exactly like this.*

Sigh.

#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 23h

*I'm surprised that Mr American Average looks so much like me around age 25. I would wonder if maybe the platform has profiled me and is pulling my leg

Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 17h

What’s the best one-liner in movie history?

Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 1d

It's not available on Amazon for purchase anymore, fwiw. And it won't show up in a search. So whenever Amazon decides to eventually vanish it from my library, that'll be it.

So if you're out there, Bruce, any chance this one'll ever see a print version? It's a beauty.

Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 1d

Late night thought:

One of my favorite @bruces.bsky.social books is Love is Strange. I go back and re-read that one every couple years. It's a deeply weird book, and was only available on Kindle.

I dread the day it vanishes from my Kindle library, and wish it existed as a physical print somewhere.

Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 1d

This guy.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 1d

As always

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 1d

The Italians I celebrate

Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 1d

OMFG. I grew up around helicopters and I’m having a hard time figuring out how they did that. 😂

But sure, let’s give the keys to the family Fantasticar to little Johnny for his date. What could go wrong?

Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 1d

I…I didn’t know it was possible to have *not* seen The Man With No Name movies. They (and other spaghetti westerns) were on every Sunday afternoon on WDRB (with a Godzilla and a kung fu movie). It was my church.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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