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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That, unfortunately, suggests that you are not of this universe.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A little light reading for a warm autumn day.

Jamais holds up the book “End Times Fascism” by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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

My unexpectedly hairy shoulder, shirt sleeve pulled back, showing two different round adhesive bandages covering injection spots. Just coincidentally, my book is visible in the background.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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

Two large pieces of construction equipment tearing up a suburban street, adjacent to multiple houses.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's hard to think constructively about the future when there are people out there who only want to see that future burn.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've had a really hard time getting back into the swing of foresight work this year, and I've come to recognize that it's because so many of the people with massive wealth and extensive power have chosen to limit, control, and extinguish our futures, all without accountability or consequence.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you’re lucky, you’ll soon hear the sound ”BAMF” coming from the room.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yeah, I watched that one earlier, that's what led me to subscribe.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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...

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Everything We Know About Nepal's Flood - And What Everyone Got Wrong

YouTube video by Critical Latitude

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I've always had a soft spot for RPGs where your character could quite easily die while being created.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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...

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Flock Camera with chamber; squirrel and bird feeder V2 by David | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Designed to look like a Flock camera, hollow with chambers and a removeable hatch for putting treats for your friends | Download free 3D printable STL models

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton passed. I was a fan of her music, but also a fan of her as a person. Particularly her kindness. And her work on literacy. And her stance on vaccination. And animal rights. And... She used her powers for good. She wasn't perfect, but she damn sure tried to be. RIP, Dolly.

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Sweet Cháa: Playful Sip

Alt: Dolly Parton sipping tea

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Reference to the musician/song "Alex Chilton," I mean.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So, completely non-important question: In the new season of Ted Lasso, a character is named "Alice Chilton." Is that a reference to the 1960's musician and/or the 1987 Replacements song? A subtle wink? A deep reference to pay off later? Or just a coincidence? There's nothing out there about it.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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

A very young adult Jamais stands in his dorm, wearing big black glasses and a black overcoat. He has a clean-shaven face and looks so damn young

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I've seen persuasive arguments that there was never any plan to do a season two. They knew, however, that audiences are starting to avoid shows that have a single brief season. Announcing -- early on -- that the series was getting renewed meant an audience boost, at least so goes the argument.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Alex Cox's Pride and Prejudice

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Stanley Kubrick's My Fair Lady (a classic)

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The static camera symmetry of the D-Day scene was itself Oscar-worthy.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Quentin Tarantino's Oppenheimer

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It took just 20 minutes to get it done. I hope you know how much you are loved, Richard.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm honestly surprised that they haven't gone back to calling it "test tube babies."

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

From the user perspective, though, it seems like it's all the same thing. But that's strictly an outsider view, I haven't wagered money in either forum.

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Alan Fisher @amfisher.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Because bookies have a bit of old cachet to them, a hint of mafia and maybe even a touch of cool, while Kalshi and Polymarket are nerds manipulating markets.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The only time I’ve personally seen adults wearing blackface was at a corporate party, worn by a group of Dutch executives. (ca. 2000)

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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

Five panels from a comic book featuring Captain America. Cap, having beaten the fascist imposter, turns to chastise the crowd of citizens. The imposter may have said that America was great, but... from panel #3: "Well, I say America is nothing! Without its ideals -- its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash! A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth!"

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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)

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Only available as PDF now: www.sjgames.com/transhuman/b...

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Transhuman Space: Broken Dreams

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

(The game series uses "memes" throughout, but in the original "idea components" sense from Dawkins.)

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Example: "There is no greater accomplishment than disrupting a society's memespace. Once the traditional hierarchy of ideas is overturned, all memes become equal, even the most ludicrous or hysterical. *Especially* the most ludicrous or hysterical, as a point of fact." (p16)

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

See, my much simpler set of instructions is: Don't Use the Lying, Sycophantic Surveillance and Plagiarism Machine.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Congratulations, but I must admit that I first interpreted "FFS" as "For Fuck Sake." Not sure whether it's a valid alternative.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Ugh. "We don't want to repeat past social media (Twitter), so instead we're going to repeat past social media (Reddit)." What are the odds that they also want to repeat the Reddit-as-AI-Training-Data path (for a fee)? Really, really sucks that they've fallen into the Line Goes Up trap.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Still haven't seen a reason to use it.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

sic transit, baby. sic transit.

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

(Maybe he used an AI trained on Taylor Sheridan, as mentioned in The Boys)

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Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My 1986 research paper on the Pakistan nuclear weapons program for Dan Hirsch’s class remains the college-era work I’m most proud of.

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fae⁷ @onthistangent.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026

"The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you—" Do not outsource your cognitive skills to the yes-machine.

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