Jamais Cascio

Longer thoughts on the Ukraine MoD twitter quote. (Yeah, it's LinkedIn, but it's convenient at the moment.) lnkd.in/p/gZHfEbDf

Here's my daily dose of WTF: The Ukraine Ministry of Defense twitter account quoted me today. Not a BANI-related line, but something I said about 15 years ago that's still floating around. Alongside a graph showing how many Russians have been killed in the war.

A little light reading for a warm autumn day.

Why I'm Not Getting Work Done Today: COVID and Flu shots. Painful, relentless muscle ache.

Why I'm Not Getting Work Done Today: This is happening literally right outside my home office window.

Every now and then it’s nice to see life just going on. A mourning dove nested on our porch light. This morning I found that it has two chicks.

This is a great breakdown of the flood/debris flow event in Nepal. But it's not just a description of what happened, Critical Latitude goes into how the scientific understanding of what happened evolved, and what can be done to monitor for the underlying conditions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPcI...

Guess what? 1) You can 3D print a crow and squirrel feeder that looks like a Flock camera 2) Crows are extremely good at pattern recognition 3) People are fucking hilarious and creative and I hope every Flock camera gets its own personal murder (of crows) www.printables.com/model/180491...

Post you from a different era in your life College in the 1980s

@cascio.bsky.social I don't know what we're doing to Google's AI Summaries today, but it's wonderful.

Why don't we refer to Kalshi and Polymarket as "Bookies?" As far as I can tell, there seems to be little real-world difference between wagering on a sporting event at a bookmaker and making a "prediction" about that same event at a prediction market.

If an ethical norm Makes you need to conform That's a "more."

4th of July, 2026 From "What If?" (1977), #44 (came out in 1984). By Peter B. Gillis (writer) and Sal Buscema (artist)

And "Memetic Shock (n): Culture Shock and Future Shock, with a twist of Paradigm Shift. [from] Transhuman Devil's Dictionary, 2097."

The big one is "Social Transition Stress Disorder" -- STSD. "...a broad range of psychological effects arising from rapid, discontinuous social change. Known triggers for STSD include significant economic disruption or transitions, encounters [...] with new technologies, and paradigm shifts." (p55)

So I'm reading over the text of the Transhuman Space game book I wrote in 2002, "Broken Dreams." Again, 2002. And if you set aside the conceit that it's set in 2100, it's remarkable how much stuff I hit on back then that's highly relevant now.

Well, *that* was depressing. I got pinged yesterday on LinkedIn by someone looking to fill a Director-level role doing the integration of foresight and strategy, but as a remote/global position. He referenced things I've been working on, so it seemed at least plausible. Nope. Just more spam.

Damn.

Got up at 12:30 AM to do a talk to a German audience from 1 AM to 2:30 AM, then went back to bed. I'm pretty sure it really happened, but it feels entirely like I dreamt it.

Still haven't seen a reason to use it.

Watching WWDC26, and I'm amused at just how slow SiriAI seems to be. There's a surprising amount of dead air waiting for it respond.

Today is the last day to tell the FCC to reject the proposal to require a warning label for TV programs that talk about transgender, non-binary, and gender identity topics. GLAAD has a good summary here, and a direct link to comment: glaad.org/fcc Here's what I posted (text copied in alt):

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Trump’s national intelligence director

Russia has so far lost more war dead -- *dead* -- in Ukraine than the United States lost in all of World War II. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NwH...

I want to make it abundantly clear, in case there is any confusion, that I am not responsible for this Ebola outbreak.

Luna is ready to go on an adventure!

"The only thing that's preventing us from turning our leaders' dystopian technology against them is us choosing not to do it." Robot dogs commonly used by many police and military operations can be ridiculously easily hacked. And that's not the worst part. 24m. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8W...

I’m told that the most dangerous aspect of taking the DC Metro system is the presence of Super-Mutants and Feral Ghouls. The payment system works well though.

Me and Chuck.

Me and Al.

You can transmit an earworm purely in text. At least, that’s what someBODY once told me.

For those of you out there who find this kind of thing interesting: Here's comparison of the first generation MacBook Air (1.6GHz Intel Core Duo, 13" screen, 2GB/120GB) with the latest MacBook Air (10 core Apple M5, 15" screen, 16GB/1TB).

Somehow, whenever someone takes a picture of me giving a talk, it ends up looking weird. Maybe I don't give them any other options.

I always find it highly suspicious when an anonymous black SUV parks in front of my house.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...