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The Rome/Athens metaphor is cute and makes a point... till you know something. Like that Athenian democracy - which I admire as the very first beacon of Periclean light across the darkness - also fell into a spasm of aggressively populist imperial ambition that led to its downfall. As for Trump...

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Okay, it had to come to this. We are now gods... and not the best kind. And the clue is in the poster's name. x.com/HashemGhaili...

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For any of you looking to produce the next highly original blockbuster film, have a look here: youtu.be/wzr-DSDMkJM

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The gorgeous collector's hardcover of DUNE, by Earthling Publications, features my - well - perspicacious introduction. www.earthlingpub.com/fh_dune.html

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My weekend post covers several topics, like: what social innovation allowed us to escape the darkness of almost-universal dominance by 'noble' bullies? Plus the optimism of Peter Diamandis. Plus are AIs DREAMING long before they actually wake up? davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/05/scie...

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Cool concept and pacing & execution of fun animated sci fi... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeAq...

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BET NOW whether GOP Congresses and administrations were EVER as fiscally responsible as Democratic ones. Our tsunami of red ink began the week Bill Clinton's veto pen vanished and 'supply side' GOP tax grifts filled the open maws of plutocrats. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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DTrump's fave past Prez. Parallels? Spurn court orders to expel innocents on Trails ofTears, wreck US financial institutions, demolish science, military loyalty tests, tariff obsession, gut civil service, rile poor-white racism to enrich plantation lords. Much more... www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jwd...

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What a long-winded but sweet & hopeful 'weather report' from the Mothers Brothers in the 60s that applies so well today. Watch to the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=neLe...

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To be clear, not a single "Supply Side" tax grift for the uber-rich ever, ever, ever came through with a single predicted beneficial outcome. Have your atty contact me with wager stakes. In science that refutes. But not in a cult.

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My Weekend post is a mini-book for you, about the AI-Panic of 2025, pointing out things that go unmentioned by ANY of the geniuses who are right now creating these new entities. Genius fools who have no idea at all about the Big Picture. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/05/ai-a...

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JPL techies keep finding ingenious ways to keep alive the two Voyager probes, after 48 years. An impressive example of multi-generational human competence and a reminder that the scions of chippers-of-flint-arrowheads remain admirable and much-needed. gizmodo.com/nasa-revives...

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One of Colbert's best monologues EVER. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Cp...

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Time for master-servant instructions. "Marco Rubio, told reporters: "We’ll have a meeting between President Trump and President Putin. So the US and Russian leaders engage in frank, direct conversation”. As usual, without any US witnesses. Yes massa. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Weekend posting is about The Fermi Paradox and why we don't see signs of alien civilizations. And yeah, I mean no plausible signs. Though I start with an announcement and I end with a challenge. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/05/and-...

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There is no accounting or explanation for today's "two" other than we're in a simulation and someone is messing with me. And hence, continuing to play feels like cheating. But then, we are ALL in a ridiculous scenario where a syphalitic 140 year old Donald Trump dropped quarters into a holodeck.

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So much of this was predicted in Gregory Benford's Galactic Center Series! dailygalaxy.com/2025/05/webb...

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For 80 years the Marshallian tradition promoted real scholar-warrior leaders. The most mature, constitutionally-loyal outcome-oriented humans I've met. THE vital clade blocking Project 2025/KGB monsters is not the DemParty. It's the US Military Officer Corps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-OP...

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Questions: 1-Offer stats on how Leavenworth & Lewiston etc are doing? Is there even a problem? 2-Where's your damn wall? Making it out of tariffs instead of spikes? 3-Honestly, it's a California thing, right? 4-Um, the Wall? www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...

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Not just the economy, but every aspect of human creativity in arts and sciences... and the best election laws in the nation. And at absolutely every level - except cost of living and crowding - utterly opposite to every meme that twits have yammered about California all my life.

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Putting a lying smiley-face on Trump's 25% cut in the NASA budget. FAR MORE than 25%, when you take into account that Artemis and manned Mars are also ways to sabotage US space endeavors that might actually do good things. Plus other science sabotages plus reaming the US officer corps and FBI...

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My new post explores modern ignorance about vital things our parents and grandparents of the WWII generation - even poor workers - understood about 6000 years of human history. And scenarios of Marx. Whose revival seems the top goal of today's Lords. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/05/this...

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My WIRED article (July'23) breaks free of the three standard 'AI-formats' that can only lead to disaster, suggesting instead a 4th. That AI entities can only be held accountable if they have individuality... even 'soul'... www.wired.com/story/give-e...

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Today only, the entire Uplift Storm Trilogy (e-book) is just $2.99 on B&N, Kobo and other sites. The greatest adventure spanning many galaxies and levels of reality. Plus dolphins(!) and alien kids who read (and out-do) Huckleberry Finn! www.amazon.com/Uplift-Storm...

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My new posting serves insights about AI from various sources, including many that you are unlikely to get elsewhere! Meanwhile, the ongoing KGB takeover of the USA daily obsolesces anything I start blogging about it, so I'll just be doing that on soc media. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1990s. "The '90s were a special time for speculative fiction." theportalist.com/best-1990s-s...

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Democratic politicians - while often smart and honest - are polemical dunces - as demonstrated by their inability to nickname Pete Filthy Fingers Hegseth, who avowed he hasn't washed his hands in a decade.Suggestions? On to Microcephalic Marjorie and Lindsey "Um duh why he's blackmailed" Graham?

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Well-well. Events like this - triggering 'could this finally be IT?' musings -draw attention as fools out "Yoohoo! messages"! Tho I posit that our recent cultural manias can only best be explained by an alien stoopid-ray, already beaming down at us. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The "4th Turning" pustule-cult is refuted "cyclical history," a teleology that sucks in millions of conservatives, back to Nazis and before. (Liberals' obsession is unlimited human improvability).Slap silly any true believers in disproved 4th turning crap. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/02/oh-t...

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Field workers long reported chimps sharing slightly fermented/alcoholic fruit in the wild. Lubricating social interactions with a slight buzz. Recall Fiben and the dance-party in The Uplift War? ;-) Which BTW is just $2.99 (ebook) on Sunday. Hugo winner. www.iflscience.com/chimps-filme...

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Roger Berkowitz, director of the epically wise Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, offers this terrific and vital essay about the importance of civil disobedience. And he cites two Davids very near each other on the bookshelf! hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/c...

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Today only the e-book of GLORY SEASON is $2.99 at your favorite sites. My spunkiest and most indomitable heroine, Maia, peels back layer after mysterious layer of secrets and mysteries about her world's strange origins, and destiny. Come click on the video trailer! www.davidbrin.com/gloryseason....

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Weekend posting is mostly a set of a dozen must-see links about Artificial Intelligence or AI! And related trends of onrushing modernity. Though I start with a warning to any of you joining the protests, Saturday. Stay safe. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

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Carumba! Idiots! The 50501 folks have scheduled their protests for April 19, which far right maniacs call Waco Day or Timothy McVeigh Day. A day when you are best advised to lock the doors. It is almost as stoopid as the morons who made April 20 (4-20) their day of freedom.' Hitler's birthday.

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Today only, the e-book of one of my best works EARTH (runner-up for Hugo Award) is just $2.99 on most sites like B&N and Kobo & Amazon. davidbrin.com/earth.html

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Today only, the e-book of one of my best works EARTH (runner-up for Hugo Award) is just $2.99 on most sites like B&N and Kobo & Amazon. davidbrin.com/earth.html

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THE great schism in the 250 year American experiment has been between those who love to ride each new wave of modernity and those who despise and fear those waves. I make the case that we are now in phase nine of the American Civil War. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/09/phas...

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NASA’s science budget will be cut in half. Total NASA budget will be slashed by 20%. Especially pounded -climate, atmosphere & marine mammal science. Not yet mentioned the wasteful SLS mixed news for Elon. Closing NASA Goddard sabotages every astrophysics mission www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHIg...

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I've not posted politics for a while, for... reasons. But today's post makes up for it with TWENTY items to make you go huh! And I bet you've seen just one or two - if any - even mentioned in media. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/04/twen...

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I've not posted politics for a while, for... reasons. But today's post makes up for it with TWENTY items to make you go huh! And I bet you've seen just one or two - if any - even mentioned in media. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/04/twen...

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Of course this is amateurish, but still way-fun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakl... We already made 'trailers' for Glory Season, Heart of the Comet, Life Eaters, Otherness and others. These could be given AI animation and voices pretty easily. See them via davidbrin.com/books.html

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Weekend posting is entirely about great science fiction news and no politics or bemoaning the fading light. We need a literature of can-do spirit and belief in a future! These bits will cheer you! davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/04/scie...

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Long-awaited news! My 1st novel SUNDIVER never had a hardcover, till now! Phantasia Press has issued a special, limited edition, finely-bound with interiors and gorgeous cover, all by the epic artist Jim Burns! Not cheap. But a lovely edition with a foldout! phantasiapress.com/products/sun...

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New books in my Out of Time series or teens who love adventure plus history&science. Boondoggle byTom Easton & Raising the Roof by R.J. Doyle! Plus great tales by Nancy Kress, Sheila Finch etc. Teens from across time use unique skills to help a future in peril! www.davidbrin.com/outoftime.html

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Weekend posting (slowly returning to normal) is mostly about SPACE! But also about how science has been rare across human history and may be very rare across the cosmos. That may also explain the Fremi Paradox. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/03/and-...

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Today only, the entire Uplift Storm Trilogy is on sale for just $2.99*. Your best deal in a thrilling saga of dolphins, interstellar refugees, and more original kinds of chilling or endearing or weird aliens than you could shake a cosmic string at! www.amazon.com/dp/B091YFWFZ...

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My 1st novel SUNDIVER never had a hardcover, till this Phantasia Press limited edition, fine-bound to survive several geological epochs with interiors and gorgeous cover, all by the epic artist Jim Burns! Not cheap. But if you want a lovely book to fondle ;-) phantasiapress.com/products/sun...

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A worthy opinion! theportalist.com/the-best-sci...

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The current, proposed 'ceasefire' benefits only Putin. But Zelensky can't be seen 'obstructing' a truce. Hence a modest proposal: Should Zelensky present this to the world, Putin/Trump would reject it! And have a hard time justifying that to their people. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/03/zele...

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