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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 21h

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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

Dems are so worried about Free and Fair Elections in 2026 that they're missing the deliberate movement to make that irrelevant by turning Congress into the Duma, a toothless, powerless rubber-stamp body.

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

Exactly this. It looks more and more like Congressional Republicans are strategically using the Shutdown to cede Appropriations power to the Executive. (I won't say President, because we're currently ruled by a Junta of Miller, Vought, & Bessent. But they'll turn on each other eventually.)

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2h

They don't even need to do anything complicated to defend it. They can nuke the filibuster and end the shutdown without even negotiating with Ds, but instead are choosing to turn their whole institution into soggy tissue paper by ceding the appropriations power to the executive branch

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

I think at this point I think we just have to assume that every US Congressperson over 70 is a sock puppet of some form or another.

Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 2h

Among other things, Sarah’s theory explains this interaction which made me want to die the other day

Rep. congressperson Virginia Foxx quote RTing Sen Mazie Hirono, who tweeted that republicans are lying. Foxx’s post reads: Congratulations on the ratio - you’ve earned it. By the way, you voted to shut down the government.

Jordan Uhl posting Virginia Foxx’s age (82) and saying “Ok what are we doing here”

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Kragar @kragar.bsky.social · 1d

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 7h

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The “But It Might Work For Us” meme, changed to be as follows:

Panel 1: A man says, “There are many parts of AI that I think are kind of bubbly right now.”
Panel 2: A woman says, “Well did it work for those people?”
Panel 3: The man replies, “No, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...”
Panel 4: He continues, “...but there’s something real happening here.”

The words in the first and last panel are taken from the BBC News article.

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 2h

Agreed, Matt. Most Americans don’t really care if it’s Congress appropriating the funds constitutionally or the President appropriating unconstitutionally and spending illegally. As long as the money flows. I fear the Shutdown is going to prove to be a dangerous (& ultimately disastrous) strategy.

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 2h

I argued against the shutdown because of this & other possibilities. Shutdowns are probably a tool for a different, older game with different rules. And it’s increasingly clear that Congressional Dems & their consultants do not understand that the rules of the game have shifted out from under them.

Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 2h

There is a risk here for Democrats (and the American people), though. If Trump decides he can just appropriate and spend money without Congress, then the government shutdown could, in some form, become a permanent condition.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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⚡️Silvers⚡️ @cut.buzz · 3h

I don't understand. When he Passion'd, he was Jesus the Grey. When he Resurrects, he would come to us as Jesus the White.

I'm not watching either way, but de-aging isn't needed when lore works. consequence.net/2025/10/pass...

Mel Gibson to Recast Jesus for The Passion of the Christ Sequel

Mel Gibson has apparently decided to recast the role of Jesus in his upcoming Passion of the Christ sequels.

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 3h

That was perfect. Robot Chicken in its prime.

Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 4h

Canonically, the Muppets are a bunch of Dirty Hippies who just want to Put On a Show. After their Hollywood Days they probably *moved to Portland* and built a community theater in partnership with Reed College.

They wouldn’t just be behind the protests, they’d be down there with them.

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 4h

People are losing their minds over Sora bending reality when here’s Open AI doing it much more subtly right at the discursive layer, Grok-style.

This is why we’re cooked folks. www.theverge.com/news/798388/...

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 4h

I mean, all superhero movies should be set in the 1957-1967 period. I’d have thought Darwyn Cooke settled that. Alas.

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 4h

All Tron movies should be set in the early 1980s, just as all Bond movies should be set between 1955-1970. Some characters and concepts are Of Their Time and we really shouldn’t fight that.

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 4h

AI at its peak

An image of the I Took a Lickin’ From a Chicken game from the early 1980s in which you played tic tac toe against a robotic, animatronic chicken.

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

The United States is currently being ruled by a Junta of Miller, Vought, and Bessent. Vance is kept on the outs as Court Jester while they feed the old man a steady diet of AI-generated videos to keep him pliable.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 21h

Your Own Personal Jesus - Someone to hear your prayers,
Someone who cares - only $9.99/mo. for the ad-supported plan.

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

I guess I'm now "I only wear tactical pants" years old because of all the pockets.

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

Oh god yes, they borrowed so much from visionOS for this UX redesign. Tim Cook is determined to leave a Legacy with Apple, but I'm not sure he's going to get the legacy he wants.

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

But honestly, I suspect iPadOS 26 may be a better working environment now, because Liquid Glass was clearly meant as an iOS UX. But it makes no sense in the current form on macOS. I blame OS-convergence fetishism.

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

I feel like they're gonna have to roll a lot of this back by the .5 release. Complaints are widespread. I don't know what I expected. Apple has been shit at software for over a decade now.

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

Like, part of me wants to see if iPadOS 26 is actually a better environment for getting work done now. It's that bad.

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

For the first time, I feel like my Mac is actively fighting me when I try and be productive. And I've been a Mac user for decades.

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

It's so bad. The Liquid Glass interface actively gets in the way for seeing parts of the screen, accessing buttons and UI elements, nothing's in any location that makes sense. This goes way beyond just some buggy apps (and there's lots of that too) and aesthetics that make my eyes bleed.

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