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Hugo-winning, best-selling sci-fiction author, NASA consultant, physicist, inventor - whose prediction scores offer a deluded sense of competence! When my real job is to speculate entertainingly... not necessarily to be right! http://www.davidbrin.com

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Asteroid Mining: Science or Fiction
YouTube video by C. Brin Asteroid Mining: Science or Fiction

Another video of mine from a little while back, but totally pertinent to why there's more wealth to be found in a few asteroids than - at least near-term - the entire Moon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQl...

09.10.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Seldon Paradox, our faulty memories... and the unintentional resurrection of Karl Marx A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

What do Hari Seldon, Karl Marx & Wall Street 'analysts' have in common? Their predictions change the things they predict-about! That's the 1st half of a strange cycle you should know about. So should the oligarchs now reviving old Karl from the dustbin.

davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

06.10.2025 01:04 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Rocky Horror Picture Show-Hot Patootie-Bless my soul
YouTube video by Graylandertagger Rocky Horror Picture Show-Hot Patootie-Bless my soul

Here's the only good (and rockin') song - (Meatloaf at his best) - in an otherwise pathetically over-rated fad/cult drip. If you truly want fantastic songs and drama and comedy and fun for those midnight showings, try PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMRl...

05.10.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
Transparent Society & Sousveillance | David Brin, Author of The Transparent Society
YouTube video by Foresight Institute Transparent Society & Sousveillance | David Brin, Author of The Transparent Society

Heck, for your weekend pleasure and interest, here's another interview that probes issues far more important today than they were, even then.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A0f...

04.10.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Name that Villain: Bad guys and Aliens in Sci-fi Movies
YouTube video by C. Brin Name that Villain: Bad guys and Aliens in Sci-fi Movies

A riff to amuse you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRU2...

Later elaborated in VIVID TOMORROWS: Science Fiction and Hollywood - www.davidbrin.com/vividtomorro...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRU2...

04.10.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Where will we be in 40 years? A Conversation between Futurists David Brin and John Smart
YouTube video by C. Brin Where will we be in 40 years? A Conversation between Futurists David Brin and John Smart

All of a sudden we're getting these vids in feed.* I leave it to you whether my 'predictions' from 13 years ago were on target. And should they lend credibility?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzWv...

*As if Ais want them to come back? ;-)

03.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Inside Rockbridge: The Billionaire Network Shaping the Right
YouTube video by NowThis Impact Inside Rockbridge: The Billionaire Network Shaping the Right

This next 13 months may be our last chance... and they are fighting as if they know it's theirs.
youtube.com/shorts/1ytVn...

03.10.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Life Eaters
YouTube video by C. Brin The Life Eaters

More pertinent than ever!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DqI...

02.10.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Beginning of Existence
YouTube video by C. Brin The Beginning of Existence

More pertinent than ever, for right now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPm7...

01.10.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are we facing a looming Night of Long Knives? And silly oligarchist would-be 'kings.' A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

New blog about the weird Hegseth summons of 800 generals &admirals to a 'meeting' that at-best screws chain-of-command for days. But maybe far worse, now that most counter-terror and counter-espionage groups have been trump-disbanded or neutered.

davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/are-...

29.09.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Expert explains: unprecedented military meeting at Quanitco called by the Sec. of Defense
YouTube video by ABC 7 News - WJLA Expert explains: unprecedented military meeting at Quanitco called by the Sec. of Defense

Note: Before calling this 'meeting,' DF* Hegseth fired most of the JAGs** who advised generals what's legal. JAGs could excuse generals from illegal orders and now they are gone. Without them, the officers coming to Quantico (at great expense) will be helpless.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMJ...

27.09.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Over the years, astronomers have spotted holes and large pits dotting Venus’ surface, suggesting the existence of lava tubes. Venusian lava tubes, may be especially large, arrayed along volcano rims, and the most extensive subsurface cavities in the solar system. futurism.com/space/venus-...

24.09.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
War, loverly war. In Ukraine and in the USA. A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

Back to weekend posting while I work on my AI book. This time about the real crimes against America they are distracting you from. No, not Epstein. I mean gutting the JAGs & Inspectors General and esp the counter-terrorism agencies. Now why would they do that?

davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/war-...

22.09.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Texas epic poet Frederick Turner passed, alas. One of the finest male humans I ever knew. Also brilliant: likely the best epic poet since Byron . And brave enough to set his grand works where epics now belong -- in bold futures with science fictional premises.

youtu.be/HpCPLGhQooE?...

21.09.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump says 'bad things' will happen if Afghanistan does not return Bagram air base U.S. President Trump on Saturday threatened Afghanistan if it does not give back control of the Bagram air base to the United States.

Having reamed the FBI & demolished our counter-terror and counter-spy agencies, he now needs to ignite vigor into the groups who did 9/11, so that he can have the kind of pretext that worked so well, for Bush. Which this Bagram base drool is meant to accomplish.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

21.09.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears Military lawyers and legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army and Navy's top judge advocates general politicizes and sets an alarming precedent for a crucial...

While they distract you by banishing late-night comedians, the Trumpist-KGB gang severs the sinews of Law. I cited gutting of the Inspectors General in most agencies. Now it's JAGs, plus the anti-terror & counter-espionage experts, laying us open to enemy attack.
www.military.com/daily-news/2...

20.09.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Altruistic Horizons: Our tribal natures, the 'fear effect' and the end of ideologies A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

Our survival depends on where we are in these 'cylinders.' And those pushing fear are committing suicide.

davidbrin.blogspot.com/2015/07/altr...

19.09.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Suddenly, Trump's Postmaster general is demanding vast info on every person who rents a PO box! Photo ID and eerything but fingerprints. If Biden or anyone else had done this, you'd be screeching tyranny! But the MAGA brown shirts who howled about invasive government are totally okay with it now.

18.09.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
DAVID BRIN: Shouting At the Cosmos Perhaps driven by frustration over the lack of SETI-gleaned signals, so far, the few dozen radio astronomers in this international community-of-interest now aim to poke at the experiment in hope of pr...

Well, it's sad. The Evpatoria radio telescope should never have been used for military purposes. For two years, Ukraine warned the Russians not to. And their warnings were taken as a sign of weakness and Putin ordered the mis-use continued. And so we all lose.

www.space.com/astronomy/dr...

18.09.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The trajectory to another 9/11 (which empowered GW Bush) is on course. Esp. if the mid-terms seem a likely blow-out vs redders. Be ready. Canned goods and flowers to stick in the barrels of the rifles of the troops (our neighbors' kids) whom he'll try to send against us.

17.09.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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DT is permitted by Putin to YOWL at his master, to maintain credibility. What he will never, ever do is actually and palpably harm his master's interests. In this case, he knows that Europe needs to get through one more winter before lining up full energy independence. Hence DT safely does nothing.

14.09.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
The Colour Of Magic | PART 1 of 2 | FULL MOVIE | Jeremy Irons, Brian Cox | Fantasy Adventure
YouTube video by Shout! Studios The Colour Of Magic | PART 1 of 2 | FULL MOVIE | Jeremy Irons, Brian Cox | Fantasy Adventure

Terry Pratchett's comedy series is now a fun movie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Kz...

Or so it seems from the first few minutes.

14.09.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
2025 NIAC Symposium 2025 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium (September 9-11, 2025).

Watching this week's symposium of NASA's Innovative & Advanced Concepts program - (NIAC) -

vimeo.com/event/5358801

Come on by today and tomorrow!

10.09.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
How a hero might escape the Blackmail Trap: a chapter of near-future what-ifs that could (and should) happen today... A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

Midweek posting is a chapter (from a novel in-progress) set in a near future based upon today. A scene with utter pertinence to current problems! As promised in my previous posting, it shows how one hero might set things in motion to save America.

davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

09.09.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why the Vance (Thiel) transition will only be the beginning. And how the Secret Weapon of the oligarchs may backfire. A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

You're warned. This weekend's post is long, as I dissect what might happen if (when) Trump passes from the scene, and disparate factions in the GOP axis draw their long knives. And why their greatest tool in maintaining GOP discipline might fail suddenly.

davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

07.09.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Check your registration now! Many red states are purging voter rolls to eliminate Democrats or independents. But there is a way to safeguard your right. Re-register Republican. I did, back when CA was GOP gerryed, to vote in the only election that mattered in my district, the Republican primary.

07.09.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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ariverse 🌠 {short fiction} | Ari Brin | Substack Your time is so precious. That's why all my stories are written to be read in extraordinarily short sittings. I write strange, humorous micro-stories that are based in the emotional truth of our sha...

One of the finest young writers I ever met… and I met her pretty young(!) … has some lovely short works (some of them super-short!) to share with you here: aribrin.substack.com?r=lgm8k&utm_...

07.09.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Okay, a terrific sci fi reference on Instagram. Watch it play. Of course you'll get the reference to THEY LIVE! But points for anyone citing the brilliant source story by Robert Sheckley!

www.instagram.com/reel/DHe2q8P...

02.09.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

My parents in the WWII Greatest Generation knew more about history and re Karl Marx. YOU should have at least a glimmer how stupid aristocrats are now reviving Marx from his crypt. Start here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/davidb...

...and dive deeper here:
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2007/01/blac...

01.09.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump taps federal agents to tackle local policing. That's not always helpful, critics say Federal agents have used aggressive policing tactics in cities such as Washington and Los Angeles at President Donald Trump's direction.

This is how 9/11 happened. GW Bush diverted counter-terror agents to search (uselessly) for scandals under Clinton. Counter-terror divisions have been stripped bare under Trump. And we need to yell about it. So when bad things happen blame will fall where it belongs...

apnews.com/article/trum...?

31.08.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 98    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

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