mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Author (The Postman, Earth, Existence, The Transparent Society)
In the 80s I drew howls, defending Jimmy Carter, now eulogized as "A fine human, if a poor president." One of those is a dam' lie. I prove it tonight in detail. Oh and then there's G.Soros. Come by either to burst a vessel or to honor our defenders.
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/01/jimmy-carters-big-mistake.html
Find anyone eles... anyone... who predicted this. And 15 years ago.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/01/02/why-canada-should-join-the-eu
Startide Rising -my 2nd novel that zoomed my career- is $1.99 today (e-book). ALSO try to STAY OFF FACEBOOK and X starting tomorrow through Feb1. Not total exit yet- but a 1st gesture. Our silence for a week or two could send a message. Spread word.
https://www.davidbrin.com/startiderising.html
Are any of you members of the Planetary Society*? Tuesday 6pm (pacific) I'll be livestreaming with Mat Kaplan & Stephen Potts about the terrific volume PROJECT SOLAR SAIL - now updated/fascinating!
* You should join TPS president Bill Nye!
Today only, EARTH is just $1.99 (e-book). Came in 2nd for the Hugo and ranked high on every list of best 'predictive" novels, and always being nibbled-at by movie producers/directors. Could it save the namesake planet? Do your own bit!
A Netflix miniseries by my brilliant colleague Ken Liu – Pantheon- posits that AI – the current fad – will be superseded by UI – Uploaded human minds. Good writing, layered. With some of the nuance about uploading that are in Robin Hanson’s THE AGE OF EM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-diws-5e4DY
Last time, Joe. OK you mooned republicans with the Medal of Freedom choices. Now one last bold act might tip the clown car& defy Putin’s USAputsch -and defy incompetents in your own party, who put us here. Do this and be remembered for it, forever.
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/11/joe-mark-do-these-now-my-own-post.html
Today only, one of my favorite novels GLORY SEASON is just $1.99 (e-book) in Kobo (preferred) and B&N and Amazon. Oh, guess what? The same sale applies to EARTH, which appears on almost every list of Top Ten Modern Predictive Novels.
Fewer posts? So busy! But here I offer life's basic contradiction! Between the genetic self-interest of individuals & the natural -or social- systems they are in. Too think-y for the web? OK I add THEOLOGICAL demolition of Pete Hegseth. For light fun.
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-meaning-and-most-basic.html
Today, EARTH - called one of the top ten predictive novels ever and rich in science and adventure... and love of our world - is just $1.99 (e-book) on Kobo, B&N, Google & Amazon. Oh and it was Hugo Award runner-up.
In April 2023 X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis launched an $11M XPRIZE Wildfire: "...a global incentive competition whose goal it is to detect a fire at ignition and put it out within 10 minutes." Such efforts have been going on for a long time.
https://www.xprize.org/prizes/wildfire?
2025 phase one awards by NASA’s Innovative & Advanced Concepts program – (NIAC)! Truly mind-expanding possible endeavors, in early phase studies.
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/niac-2025-selections/
https://www.nasa.gov/niac-funded-studies/
all-out war vs ALL fact using professions, from science and teaching, medicine and law and civil service to the heroes of the FBI/Intel/Military officer corps who won the Cold War and the War on terror.
Fun discussion of spaceflight and our anthology for the Planetary Society PROJECT SOLAR SAIL! My co-editor Dr. Stephen Potts & I - interviewed by Mat Kaplan - discuss Arthur Clarke's "The Wind From The Sun" and other great contents by Asimov, Vance, etc
https://www.planetary.org/video/planetary-society-book-club-project-solar-sail-with-david-brin
Dear Mastodon folks! Sorry! But I gotta prioritize. It looks like Bluesky is the place with momentum and I'll be trying Sez.us and Threads. If you folks here want to reach me, come to comments under http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ (Contrary Brin blog)
One week. Joe could still do it. Lure the blackmailed in DC into the open. All it might take is...
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/11/joe-mark-do-these-now-my-own-post.html
Today only, the e-version of GLORY SEASON is $1.99 on Kobo, Barnes&Noble, GoogBooks and Amazon. A Hugo runner-up and way fun... and in many ways topical for our times.
In 1987, a group of killer whales off the northwestern coast of North America briefly donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads for weeks. Recently, a male orca was seen in Puget Sound wearing a salmon on his head.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/07/science/orcas-salmon-hat-puget-sound/index.html
For your weekend pleasure, I've posted a third installment of THE ANCIENT ONES. My SF comedy novel delivers unexpected twists on sci-fi tropes!
https://davidbrin.wordpress.com/2024/12/07/the-ancient-ones-chapter-2-5/
AND on Contrary Brin I offer many sci fi scholarship resources. And TASAT! Busy Busy.
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/12/more-sci-fi-comedy-and-tasat-is-go-plus.html
You must watch these two minutes of Tim Kaine grilling a perfect example of today's Republican nominees. Stunning to finally find a Democrat capable of polemical knife-fighting. Demand wagers which party's top guys have 3x or even 4x as many wives.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/politics/video/pete-hegseth-marriage-affairs-senate-hearing-tim-kaine-digvid