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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0e7b0-aff9-7371-850b-8f67d6fceb74", "title": "Lessons on limiting political power - and that of oligarchs - as we approach a climax to this phase of the US Civil War.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/limiting-political-power.html", "published_at": "2026-09-25T21:14:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d7d5-457b-72ed-9675-a392a6df3fdb", "title": "The real reason for Kash Patel's \"B-word\" is another B-word.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-real-reason-for-kash-patels-b-word.html", "published_at": "2026-09-23T21:06:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c506-69a7-7012-90e9-be04173be563", "title": "Demons or dAImons or escaping chimeras terrify the LLMavens… but may offer us hope", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/of-demons-or-daimons-or-escaping.html", "published_at": "2026-09-20T01:03:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0b0bf-2545-709a-ad21-176c64097411", "title": "The birth of EARTH may be Trump's great (unintended) accomplishment -- and, a scary update on 'AI Prison Breaks.'", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-birth-of-earth-may-be-trumps-great.html", "published_at": "2026-09-17T02:43:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0b0bf-2545-709a-ad21-176c64a0500f", "title": "Suddenly, all the AI zealots are Doomers! Is there something fishy about their abrupt concern? While neglecting the one possible solution?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/suddenly-all-ai-zealots-are-doomers-is.html", "published_at": "2026-09-15T23:24:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a15326da69", "title": "Criticize America amid our civil war? Sure. But help us! And to heck with ingrate nonsense.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/criticize-america-amid-our-civil-war.html", "published_at": "2026-09-02T00:22:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a154102872", "title": "Y-Chromosome Bottlenecks and Making Peace with the Awful Human Past", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/08/y-chromosome-bottlenecks-and-making.html", "published_at": "2026-08-25T00:31:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a154a8bae4", "title": "More space news!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/08/more-space-news.html", "published_at": "2026-08-22T02:27:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a154e8af41", "title": "AI-volution in our sudden, CAImbrian Explosion. No one is breeding 'dogs' to hold off 'wolves.'", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/08/ai-volution-in-our-sudden-caimbrian.html", "published_at": "2026-08-18T00:45:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a155c66b7f", "title": "Why the salty-Earth folks hate us - and especially hate science. There's even a (slightly) valid reason!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/08/why-salty-earth-folks-hate-us-and.html", "published_at": "2026-08-05T20:42:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a1564263af", "title": "Claude's creepy-good appraisal of AIlien Minds.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/07/claudes-creepy-good-appraisal-of-ailien.html", "published_at": "2026-07-02T21:49:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a156f7ba2d", "title": "The Seldon Paradox and the (alas) revival of Karl Marx", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-seldon-paradox-and-alas-revival-of.html", "published_at": "2026-06-28T23:08:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a1578e5d8c", "title": "Disclosure... alas... of an 80 year cliché with the same, tired villains. But still fun. (SPOILERS!)", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/06/disclosure-alas-of-80-year-cliche-with.html", "published_at": "2026-06-20T03:37:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a15828307c", "title": "A Pope Offers Hope… and a Dope Plans Our Rope…", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-pope-offers-hope-and-dope-plans-our.html", "published_at": "2026-05-31T21:16:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a158dcec98", "title": "Amid the chaos and UFO (non) 'disclosures' ... actual space news!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/05/amid-chaos-and-non-disclosures-actual.html", "published_at": "2026-05-22T21:30:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a1596f503c", "title": "AIlien Minds - May-June Updates", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/05/ailien-minds-may-june-updates.html", "published_at": "2026-05-13T03:00:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a159d1efa7", "title": "Snowflake despair over ... court rulings? Sack-up! The fight will be elsewhere.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/05/snowflake-despair-over-court-rulings.html", "published_at": "2026-05-10T19:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a15abd03db", "title": "The Wager Challenge updated: why it works… and why no one tries it.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-wager-challenge-updated-why-it.html", "published_at": "2026-05-04T22:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a15b7b2d23", "title": "Science Fiction News!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/04/science-fiction-news.html", "published_at": "2026-04-26T22:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a15c138c78", "title": "Why we have some goodwill around the globe, rooting for us to overcome (again) our recurring demons... And the real danger when we're hit by that coming 9/11 Reichstag Fire.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/04/why-we-have-some-goodwill-around-globe.html", "published_at": "2026-04-19T21:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a15d0272d8", "title": "Space news! Artemis and the planned 'base'... Slashing NASA science... and no, Avi. It wasn't ET.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/04/space-news-artemis-and-planned-base.html", "published_at": "2026-04-12T20:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a15dd61f2a", "title": "Ideas for when we get out of this mess.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/04/ideas-for-when-we-get-out-of-this-mess.html", "published_at": "2026-04-05T23:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a15de18434", "title": "The tsunami of image fakery... where is it worst? Pointing to disaster?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-tsunami-of-image-fakery-where-is-it.html", "published_at": "2026-03-31T19:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a15e7a3f28", "title": "Creepy foresight? Find one paragraph not coming true!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/03/creepy-foresight-find-one-paragraph.html", "published_at": "2026-03-27T18:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a15efe42ce", "title": "Cancel the useful Lunar Gateway and drop the modules down to the lunar surface? Are you $%@#! kidding?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/03/cancel-useful-lunar-gateway-and-drop.html", "published_at": "2026-03-25T21:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a15fe20906", "title": "Claude answers GPT re ailien minds. And the winner is...", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/03/claude-answers-gpt-re-ailien-minds-and.html", "published_at": "2026-03-21T19:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a1607ffbaa", "title": "ChatGPT attempts to summarize and review my new book 'ailien minds!'", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/03/chatgpt-attempts-to-summarize-and.html", "published_at": "2026-03-19T04:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a1616690d1", "title": "Seven rationalizations to suppress our renaissance. (This is a long one)", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/03/seven-rationalizations-to-suppress-our.html", "published_at": "2026-03-16T03:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a1619f7cc6", "title": "Want perspective & maybe wisdom re: AI? Try ailien minds!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/03/want-perspective-maybe-wisdom-re-ai-try.html", "published_at": "2026-03-09T20:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08769-2f83-721d-9653-52a1625ac260", "title": "WHY we are at war again? Ten reasons not in the news.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/03/why-we-are-at-war-again-turns-out-seven.html", "published_at": "2026-03-02T03:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae65dc4116", "title": "A little sci fi tale to boost your optimism for a new and better year... and era... ahead.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-little-sci-fi-tale-to-boost-your.html", "published_at": "2026-02-26T03:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae66d0ae67", "title": "A Mafia Don does mafia deeds. And Europe rises. And those backstabbing our own side.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-mafia-don-does-mafia-deeds-and-europe.html", "published_at": "2026-02-18T22:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae674003b0", "title": "Two Weeks: your last chance to save the Republican Party. Plus how to answer \"Voter ID!\"", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/02/two-weeks-your-last-chance-to-save.html", "published_at": "2026-02-14T22:19:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae675425f2", "title": "Wow... AI-personalized sales pitches hit new levels! Here's how I've been targeted..", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/02/heres-where-ai-personalized-sales.html", "published_at": "2026-02-13T18:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae67f7a775", "title": "Science updates - while there's still time", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/02/science-updates-while-theres-still-time.html", "published_at": "2026-02-08T03:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae68ad4797", "title": "Contemplating Artificial Intelligence", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/01/contemplating-artificial-intelligence.html", "published_at": "2026-02-01T01:54:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae699a33e8", "title": "Will Oceania (Imperial USA) accept its assigned role in 'spheres of Influence?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/01/will-oceania-accept-its-assigned-role.html", "published_at": "2026-01-29T03:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae6a2245ce", "title": "His ‘cool’ obsession isn’t ICE or icy Greenland. I bet it’s 'getting chilled.'", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/01/his-cool-obsession-isnt-ice-or-icy.html", "published_at": "2026-01-18T02:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae6b0f107d", "title": "Marvels of Space - My \"Tank Farm\" story may be coming true in several ways!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/01/marvels-of-space-my-tank-farm-story-may.html", "published_at": "2026-01-15T18:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae6b29bbcb", "title": "Minor proposals - even crackpot! - for a Newer Deal", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/01/minor-proposals-even-crackpot-for-newer.html", "published_at": "2026-01-12T03:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae6b76b219", "title": "Imperial dreams and Greenland seams and GOP manic swings", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/01/imperial-dreams-and-greenland-seams-and.html", "published_at": "2026-01-08T21:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae6b98404e", "title": "A Newer Deal Part 10: Taxes, excellence & the Liberal agenda! Before solving your favorite problems, shall we repair our nation's ABILITY to solve problems?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-newer-deal-part-10-before-solving.html", "published_at": "2026-01-03T18:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae6c67a648", "title": "A Newer Deal Part 9: Fix politics! And a (very) few people who seem to get it.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-newer-deal-part-9-fix-politics-and.html", "published_at": "2025-12-27T22:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae6d5763da", "title": "Part 8 of a Newer Deal: immigration, budgets, emoluments and... no, the President doesn't own the White House!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/12/part-8-of-newer-deal-immigration.html", "published_at": "2025-12-21T02:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae6dbca188", "title": "Midweek: Will the \"sane wing\" Republicans step up? -- And my selection of best SMBCs!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/12/midweek-will-sane-wing-republicans-step.html", "published_at": "2025-12-18T02:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae6ea5b157", "title": "A Newer Deal Part 7: Save our Defenders! And more winning (and passable!) proposals", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/12/save-our-defenders-and-more-newer-deals.html", "published_at": "2025-12-15T00:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae6f1cabfb", "title": "A Newer Deal Part 6: Four MORE proposals - this time to fix CONGRESS... and why they'll work better than the Reich 'pledges'", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/12/four-more-newer-deals-and-why-theyll.html", "published_at": "2025-12-08T02:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae6fcaead2", "title": "Newer Deal Part 5: More quick-passables! Insure kids! Truth/reconciliation to end blackmail! Curb Prex immunity!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/12/four-more-urgent-proposals-for-newer.html", "published_at": "2025-12-04T01:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae70a8eeef", "title": "A Newer Deal Part 4: Zooming in on IGUS(!) & subpoenas & cyber & political reform", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/11/last-week-i-issued-three-parter-that.html", "published_at": "2025-11-28T22:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae70e26d4f", "title": "A Newer Deal part 3: A big SUMMARY of those fresh 'contract' ideas!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-contract-part-three-aggressive.html", "published_at": "2025-11-22T22:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae70ecd5cf", "title": "A Newer Deal Part 2: Learn from your opponents' cleverest tactic! And turn it on them.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/11/part-2-of-agressive-agility-learn-from.html", "published_at": "2025-11-20T03:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-bb72-708a-bfa9-dfae714ad1f8", "title": "A Newer Deal part one: Turn the GOP's Most Successful Political Ploy Against Them", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/11/aggressive-agility-turn-gops-most.html", "published_at": "2025-11-15T19:31:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa3314deae27", "title": "A midweek rant about Sumo vs Judo and dems need to stop whining.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-midweek-rant-about-sumo-vs-judo-and.html", "published_at": "2025-11-12T21:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa3314e1c65e", "title": "A Science Roundup - Lots going on!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-science-roundup-lots-going-on.html", "published_at": "2025-11-09T00:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa3315b545f2", "title": "Will the professionals innovate new ways to protect us?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/11/will-professionals-innovate-new-ways-to.html", "published_at": "2025-11-03T03:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa3316812ab1", "title": "Macro-Consciousness: the sci-fi notion that may apply to entire worlds. Even EARTH.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/10/macro-consciousness-sci-fi-notion-that.html", "published_at": "2025-10-30T00:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa331735430a", "title": "Out of Time: A sci-fi adventure series across time and space!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/10/out-of-time-sci-fi-adventure-series.html", "published_at": "2025-10-21T19:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa33179b5f57", "title": "AI ‘optimists’ who are down on us. And is the antichrist one of them?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/10/ai-optimists-who-are-down-on-us.html", "published_at": "2025-10-13T00:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa33179b92e3", "title": "The Seldon Paradox, our faulty memories... the death of vaccinations and the unintentional resurrection of Karl Marx", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-seldon-paradox-our-faulty-memories.html", "published_at": "2025-10-05T18:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa331849e099", "title": "Are we facing a looming Night of Long Knives? And silly oligarchist would-be 'kings.'", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/are-we-facing-looming-night-of-long.html", "published_at": "2025-09-29T02:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa3318c4d111", "title": "War, loverly war. In Ukraine and in the USA.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/war-loverly-war-in-ukraine-and-in-usa.html", "published_at": "2025-09-22T01:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa3319b86755", "title": "How a hero might escape the Blackmail Trap: a chapter of near-future what-ifs that could (and should) happen today...", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-hero-might-escape-blackmail-trap.html", "published_at": "2025-09-09T16:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa331ab65386", "title": "Why the Vance (Thiel) transition will only be the beginning. And how the Secret Weapon of the oligarchs may backfire.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-vance-thiel-transition-will-only-be.html", "published_at": "2025-09-07T20:21:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa331b21cf81", "title": "Consciousness is hot! And may heat up the world", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/08/consciousness-is-hot-and-may-heat-up.html", "published_at": "2025-08-31T02:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa331c064ff8", "title": "This is EXACTLY the 1850s... and this arc will end the same.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/08/this-is-exactly-1850s-and-this-arc-will.html", "published_at": "2025-08-22T20:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa331ca6f56d", "title": "AI + WAIST. A predictive riff from EXISTENCE", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/08/ai-waist-predictive-riff-from-existence.html", "published_at": "2025-08-14T15:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa331cf67c00", "title": "A debate about saving democracy, that will likely (needlessly) be lost", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-debate-about-saving-democracy-that.html", "published_at": "2025-08-08T19:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa331d759cdb", "title": "Some lighthearted stuff this time! Plus a few sobering reminders.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/08/some-lighthearted-stuff-this-time-plus.html", "published_at": "2025-08-03T21:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa331e4ec187", "title": "Science Fiction Updates!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/07/science-fiction-updates.html", "published_at": "2025-07-14T00:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa331f286798", "title": "If you won't listen to Paine, or Adam Smith, or Marx, or history - this fellow might scare the Dickens... And Are There ANY Republican stand-ups?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/07/if-you-wont-listen-to-paine-or-adam.html", "published_at": "2025-07-10T17:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa331fd0ab91", "title": "To make next July 4 a true Independence Day - How About a Little Paine? Thomas Paine.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/07/to-make-next-july-4-true-independence.html", "published_at": "2025-07-06T02:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa3320088025", "title": "Missing contexts for AI: The context of mental damage", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/07/missing-contexts-for-ai-context-of.html", "published_at": "2025-07-03T22:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa33204370f9", "title": "Oh, those misleading teleologies about \"progress\" - and a few political notes", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/06/oh-those-misleading-teleologies-about.html", "published_at": "2025-06-29T03:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa332112acda", "title": "Jimmy Carter’s Big Mistake - And the noblest president of my lifetime.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/06/jimmy-carters-big-mistake-and-noblest.html", "published_at": "2025-06-22T19:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa3321eac155", "title": "More on AI: Insights from LIFE. From evolution, from Skynet, IBM and SciFi to Brautigan", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/06/more-on-ai-insights-from-life-from.html", "published_at": "2025-06-14T17:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa3321ee9fe3", "title": "Science (mostly bio, this time) Forges Ahead. Even empowering... citizenship!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/06/science-mostly-bio-this-time-forges.html", "published_at": "2025-06-07T00:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-c56d-714a-9b5b-fa33222ac3f5", "title": "Lying promises and how to NAIL them...", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/05/lying-promises-and-how-to-nail-them.html", "published_at": "2025-05-31T19:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b25ee552be", "title": "Science as the ultimate accountability process - And are AI behaving this way because they're DREAMING?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/05/science-as-ultimate-accountability.html", "published_at": "2025-05-25T19:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b25fc3f7d1", "title": "AI and consciousness -- and a positive-sum tomorrow", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/05/ai-and-consciousness-and-positive-sum.html", "published_at": "2025-05-17T20:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b26068c41e", "title": "And ... the Great Silence persists: More on the Fermi Paradox: Where is Everyone?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/05/and-great-silence-persists-more-on.html", "published_at": "2025-05-11T04:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b2609c4144", "title": "This class war has no memory – and that could kill us", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/05/this-class-war-has-no-memory-and-that.html", "published_at": "2025-05-03T23:19:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b26197bc95", "title": "The AI dilemma continues - part 2", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-ai-dilemma-continues-part-2.html", "published_at": "2025-04-27T17:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b2624183b0", "title": "The AI Dilemma continues onward... despite all our near term worries", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-ai-dilemma-continues-onward-despite.html", "published_at": "2025-04-19T03:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b2628f8e33", "title": "Twenty things about The Mess that no one has mentioned, so far. From tariffs to signalgate to DOGE to Houthis and...", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/04/twenty-things-about-mess-that-no-one.html", "published_at": "2025-04-12T02:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b262f708b7", "title": "Science Fictional News & Updates - spring 2025", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/04/science-fictional-news-updates-spring.html", "published_at": "2025-04-06T15:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b2639b7945", "title": "And yet-more news from (or about) Spaaaaaace!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/03/and-yet-more-news-from-or-about.html", "published_at": "2025-03-30T17:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b2643f2300", "title": "Zelensky, here's your ceasefire judo move", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/03/zelensky-heres-your-ceasefire-judo-move.html", "published_at": "2025-03-20T02:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b264f6feb2", "title": "Compare DOGE to Gore's efficiency drive? Or Hamilton vs. Robspierre?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/03/compare-doge-to-gores-efficiency-drive.html", "published_at": "2025-03-16T01:19:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b26526db77", "title": "The Meaning - (and most basic contradiction) - of Life", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-meaning-and-most-basic.html", "published_at": "2025-01-15T19:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b265658c14", "title": "Jimmy Carter’s Big Mistake... and the other fellow who they hate even more...", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/01/jimmy-carters-big-mistake.html", "published_at": "2025-01-05T00:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b266641dec", "title": "The hidden history of life, viruses, covid, y-chromosome bottlenecks and more...", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-hidden-history-of-life-viruses.html", "published_at": "2024-12-29T21:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b266a9b94c", "title": "NeoReactionaries Redux... oh my!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/12/neoreactionaries-redux-oh-my.html", "published_at": "2024-12-24T20:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b266d2abf4", "title": "Space Roundup : heading into 2025", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/12/space-roundup-heading-into-2025.html", "published_at": "2024-12-20T23:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b267ad9c6a", "title": "Brin's Final Election Daydream. A Cassandra's forlorn appeal.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/12/brins-final-election-daydream.html", "published_at": "2024-12-16T07:54:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b268905838", "title": "More sci fi comedy! And TASAT is go! Plus many other sci-fi related sites and resources!", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/12/more-sci-fi-comedy-and-tasat-is-go-plus.html", "published_at": "2024-12-08T03:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b26978a024", "title": "What Democrats did wrong... Three categories of rationalizing - while ignoring why they hate us.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/11/what-democrats-did-wrong-three.html", "published_at": "2024-11-29T19:17:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b269d04924", "title": "THE ANCIENT ONES lives! So does TASAT! And a SUNDIVER hardcover! Plus some Science Fictional Musings", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-ancient-ones-lives-so-does-tasat.html", "published_at": "2024-11-24T01:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b26aaa2513", "title": "So, what lessons did we learn? And what does the future hold?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/11/so-what-lessons-did-we-learn-and-what.html", "published_at": "2024-11-18T02:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b26adcb020", "title": "Joe & Mark do these now! My own post-mortem can wait.", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/11/joe-mark-do-these-now-my-own-post.html", "published_at": "2024-11-10T23:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52e-6378-71c6-a28b-37b26b7840dd", "title": "Balanced perspectives for our time - JUST in time?", "url": "https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/11/balanced-perspectives-for-our-time-just.html", "published_at": "2024-11-04T21:33:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Lessons on limiting political power - and that of oligarchs - as we approach a climax to this phase of the US Civil War.original ↗
25 Sept 2026
The real reason for Kash Patel's "B-word" is another B-word.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Demons or dAImons or escaping chimeras terrify the LLMavens… but may offer us hopeoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
The birth of EARTH may be Trump's great (unintended) accomplishment -- and, a scary update on 'AI Prison Breaks.'original ↗
17 Sept 2026
Suddenly, all the AI zealots are Doomers! Is there something fishy about their abrupt concern? While neglecting the one possible solution?original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Criticize America amid our civil war? Sure. But help us! And to heck with ingrate nonsense.original ↗
2 Sept 2026
Y-Chromosome Bottlenecks and Making Peace with the Awful Human Pastoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
More space news!original ↗
22 Aug 2026
AI-volution in our sudden, CAImbrian Explosion. No one is breeding 'dogs' to hold off 'wolves.'original ↗
18 Aug 2026
Why the salty-Earth folks hate us - and especially hate science. There's even a (slightly) valid reason!original ↗
5 Aug 2026
Claude's creepy-good appraisal of AIlien Minds.original ↗
2 Jul 2026
The Seldon Paradox and the (alas) revival of Karl Marxoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2026
Disclosure... alas... of an 80 year cliché with the same, tired villains. But still fun. (SPOILERS!)original ↗
20 Jun 2026
A Pope Offers Hope… and a Dope Plans Our Rope…original ↗
31 May 2026
Amid the chaos and UFO (non) 'disclosures' ... actual space news!original ↗
22 May 2026
AIlien Minds - May-June Updatesoriginal ↗
13 May 2026
Snowflake despair over ... court rulings? Sack-up! The fight will be elsewhere.original ↗
10 May 2026
The Wager Challenge updated: why it works… and why no one tries it.original ↗
4 May 2026
Science Fiction News!original ↗
26 Apr 2026
Why we have some goodwill around the globe, rooting for us to overcome (again) our recurring demons... And the real danger when we're hit by that coming 9/11 Reichstag Fire.original ↗
19 Apr 2026
Space news! Artemis and the planned 'base'... Slashing NASA science... and no, Avi. It wasn't ET.original ↗
12 Apr 2026
Ideas for when we get out of this mess.original ↗
5 Apr 2026
The tsunami of image fakery... where is it worst? Pointing to disaster?original ↗
31 Mar 2026
Creepy foresight? Find one paragraph not coming true!original ↗
27 Mar 2026
Cancel the useful Lunar Gateway and drop the modules down to the lunar surface? Are you $%@#! kidding?original ↗
25 Mar 2026
Claude answers GPT re ailien minds. And the winner is...original ↗
21 Mar 2026
ChatGPT attempts to summarize and review my new book 'ailien minds!'original ↗
19 Mar 2026
Seven rationalizations to suppress our renaissance. (This is a long one)original ↗
16 Mar 2026
Want perspective & maybe wisdom re: AI? Try ailien minds!original ↗
9 Mar 2026
WHY we are at war again? Ten reasons not in the news.original ↗
2 Mar 2026
A little sci fi tale to boost your optimism for a new and better year... and era... ahead.original ↗
26 Feb 2026
A Mafia Don does mafia deeds. And Europe rises. And those backstabbing our own side.original ↗
18 Feb 2026
Two Weeks: your last chance to save the Republican Party. Plus how to answer "Voter ID!"original ↗
14 Feb 2026
Wow... AI-personalized sales pitches hit new levels! Here's how I've been targeted..original ↗
13 Feb 2026
Science updates - while there's still timeoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
Contemplating Artificial Intelligenceoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2026
Will Oceania (Imperial USA) accept its assigned role in 'spheres of Influence?original ↗
29 Jan 2026
His ‘cool’ obsession isn’t ICE or icy Greenland. I bet it’s 'getting chilled.'original ↗
18 Jan 2026
Marvels of Space - My "Tank Farm" story may be coming true in several ways!original ↗
15 Jan 2026
Minor proposals - even crackpot! - for a Newer Dealoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2026
Imperial dreams and Greenland seams and GOP manic swingsoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2026
A Newer Deal Part 10: Taxes, excellence & the Liberal agenda! Before solving your favorite problems, shall we repair our nation's ABILITY to solve problems?original ↗
3 Jan 2026

2025

A Newer Deal Part 9: Fix politics! And a (very) few people who seem to get it.original ↗
27 Dec 2025
Part 8 of a Newer Deal: immigration, budgets, emoluments and... no, the President doesn't own the White House!original ↗
21 Dec 2025
Midweek: Will the "sane wing" Republicans step up? -- And my selection of best SMBCs!original ↗
18 Dec 2025
A Newer Deal Part 7: Save our Defenders! And more winning (and passable!) proposalsoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2025
A Newer Deal Part 6: Four MORE proposals - this time to fix CONGRESS... and why they'll work better than the Reich 'pledges'original ↗
8 Dec 2025
Newer Deal Part 5: More quick-passables! Insure kids! Truth/reconciliation to end blackmail! Curb Prex immunity!original ↗
4 Dec 2025
A Newer Deal Part 4: Zooming in on IGUS(!) & subpoenas & cyber & political reformoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2025
A Newer Deal part 3: A big SUMMARY of those fresh 'contract' ideas!original ↗
22 Nov 2025
A Newer Deal Part 2: Learn from your opponents' cleverest tactic! And turn it on them.original ↗
20 Nov 2025
A Newer Deal part one: Turn the GOP's Most Successful Political Ploy Against Themoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2025
A midweek rant about Sumo vs Judo and dems need to stop whining.original ↗
12 Nov 2025
A Science Roundup - Lots going on!original ↗
9 Nov 2025
Will the professionals innovate new ways to protect us?original ↗
3 Nov 2025
Macro-Consciousness: the sci-fi notion that may apply to entire worlds. Even EARTH.original ↗
30 Oct 2025
Out of Time: A sci-fi adventure series across time and space!original ↗
21 Oct 2025
AI ‘optimists’ who are down on us. And is the antichrist one of them?original ↗
13 Oct 2025
The Seldon Paradox, our faulty memories... the death of vaccinations and the unintentional resurrection of Karl Marxoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2025
Are we facing a looming Night of Long Knives? And silly oligarchist would-be 'kings.'original ↗
29 Sept 2025
War, loverly war. In Ukraine and in the USA.original ↗
22 Sept 2025
How a hero might escape the Blackmail Trap: a chapter of near-future what-ifs that could (and should) happen today...original ↗
9 Sept 2025
Why the Vance (Thiel) transition will only be the beginning. And how the Secret Weapon of the oligarchs may backfire.original ↗
7 Sept 2025
Consciousness is hot! And may heat up the worldoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2025
This is EXACTLY the 1850s... and this arc will end the same.original ↗
22 Aug 2025
AI + WAIST. A predictive riff from EXISTENCEoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2025
A debate about saving democracy, that will likely (needlessly) be lostoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2025
Some lighthearted stuff this time! Plus a few sobering reminders.original ↗
3 Aug 2025
Science Fiction Updates!original ↗
14 Jul 2025
If you won't listen to Paine, or Adam Smith, or Marx, or history - this fellow might scare the Dickens... And Are There ANY Republican stand-ups?original ↗
10 Jul 2025
To make next July 4 a true Independence Day - How About a Little Paine? Thomas Paine.original ↗
6 Jul 2025
Missing contexts for AI: The context of mental damageoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2025
Oh, those misleading teleologies about "progress" - and a few political notesoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2025
Jimmy Carter’s Big Mistake - And the noblest president of my lifetime.original ↗
22 Jun 2025
More on AI: Insights from LIFE. From evolution, from Skynet, IBM and SciFi to Brautiganoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2025
Science (mostly bio, this time) Forges Ahead. Even empowering... citizenship!original ↗
7 Jun 2025
Lying promises and how to NAIL them...original ↗
31 May 2025
Science as the ultimate accountability process - And are AI behaving this way because they're DREAMING?original ↗
25 May 2025
AI and consciousness -- and a positive-sum tomorroworiginal ↗
17 May 2025
And ... the Great Silence persists: More on the Fermi Paradox: Where is Everyone?original ↗
11 May 2025
This class war has no memory – and that could kill usoriginal ↗
3 May 2025
The AI dilemma continues - part 2original ↗
27 Apr 2025
The AI Dilemma continues onward... despite all our near term worriesoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2025
Twenty things about The Mess that no one has mentioned, so far. From tariffs to signalgate to DOGE to Houthis and...original ↗
12 Apr 2025
Science Fictional News & Updates - spring 2025original ↗
6 Apr 2025
And yet-more news from (or about) Spaaaaaace!original ↗
30 Mar 2025
Zelensky, here's your ceasefire judo moveoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2025
Compare DOGE to Gore's efficiency drive? Or Hamilton vs. Robspierre?original ↗
16 Mar 2025
The Meaning - (and most basic contradiction) - of Lifeoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2025
Jimmy Carter’s Big Mistake... and the other fellow who they hate even more...original ↗
5 Jan 2025

2024

The hidden history of life, viruses, covid, y-chromosome bottlenecks and more...original ↗
29 Dec 2024
NeoReactionaries Redux... oh my!original ↗
24 Dec 2024
Space Roundup : heading into 2025original ↗
20 Dec 2024
Brin's Final Election Daydream. A Cassandra's forlorn appeal.original ↗
16 Dec 2024
More sci fi comedy! And TASAT is go! Plus many other sci-fi related sites and resources!original ↗
8 Dec 2024
What Democrats did wrong... Three categories of rationalizing - while ignoring why they hate us.original ↗
29 Nov 2024
THE ANCIENT ONES lives! So does TASAT! And a SUNDIVER hardcover! Plus some Science Fictional Musingsoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2024
So, what lessons did we learn? And what does the future hold?original ↗
18 Nov 2024
Joe & Mark do these now! My own post-mortem can wait.original ↗
10 Nov 2024
Balanced perspectives for our time - JUST in time?original ↗
4 Nov 2024
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