David Brin

I am tying up my pre-election postings with this set of links and jpegs, some of the most persuasive I can muster. Share. But just in case, I recommend a costco run and keep your cars fueled. Shenanigens will be attributed properly. And acted upon. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/10/pith...

Today only. THROUGH STRANGER EYES, my collection of book reviews and provocative essays, is available (ebook) for $1.99 from B&N. Varied perspectives on famous and obscure works. I promise some are even interesting! www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GLSYM5R...

Both MAGA & UFO/UAP fetishes are lunacy. I’ve explored many concepts of the ‘alien’ in astrophysics, SETI &scifi. But a fetish that ignores all logic or science is almost as toxic as MAGA and likely similarly sourced. Feh. Snap out of it! davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/10/disc...

More wisdom from The Mongoose, one of the best and most cogently relevant essayists in America. substack.com/redirect/70d...?

Lately my YouTube feed has featured Science Fiction Theater (1956) which we watched when I was very young. (Yes, I’m OLD!) Have  a look. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUO7...

My grandfather was in this battle. We are even pretty sure which side he was on! www.youtube.com/watch?v=efyx...

Weekend posting is about prediction; why we're obsessed with it but do it so badly! Then a segue into some spot observations on our political rifts - one of which might be called an immature spat! davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/10/our-...

Reaching toward the Red Planet! I'll be speaking at the International Mars Society Convention in Los Angeles next Thursday evening. Join me October 22 at the University of Southern California 7 pm. Other speakers include Vint Cerf, Robert Zubrin and many others. convention.marssociety.org

Trump: 'Ice is spreading!' as it shrinks everywhere &heat records break monthly. MAGAs howl "The Russian thing was disproved!" tho not one thing was disproved and more proof surges daily, like the collapse of yandex trolls. Now this. They are Putin's shills. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Here is the scenario that Project 2025 aims to copy in detail. You NEED this efficient few minutes of education. It leaves out what happened next . But this couple of minutes will gird you for what they plan for us. Know this stuff! www.youtube.com/shorts/eaG9h...

Hey Foxite twits shouting "the Russia thing is a hoax!" Well, here's your smoking gun, Kremlin-boyz. For months I've chanted "Save us, Zelensky!" Musta heard me. And now Trump is railing that Zelensky's go to go! MAGA is a KGB Fifth Column.

Today only, the kindle of STARTIDE RISING is just $2.99... commencing the great adventure...which reaches a huge MULTI-galaxy climax in the Uplift Storm Trilogy... all three books today just $3.99! More diverse aliens and ideas and sense-o-wonder than... www.amazon.com/Uplift-Storm...

OF COURSE it is a gift for Putin and one for Putin's Republicans. Wake me when one drop of Russian diesel arrives in the US. As if Putin can spare any amid Ukrainian demolition of Vlad's vaunted 'restored USSR.' But "ex" commissars are also feudalists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Democratic lawmakers & candidates, UP YOUR SECURITY. Vary your schedules. Hire some of the top FBI guys fired by Bestiality Kash. Hitler grabbed enough partliament membvers to prevent a quorum from voting him out. PREPARE! And DO NOT FALL FOR SOME KGB HOTTIE. Blackmail honeypots can be forever.

80+planes plus whole bases lost + too many brave souls. Military stocks plummet to danger lows & Hegs reams our officer corps as Hitler and Stalin did in 1934 and Putin commands today. NO outcomes (deficits, debt, economy, pub.health, science etc) favor GOP rule, ever. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/m...

Today only (and alas this time only kindle) you can complete the Uplift Storm Trilogy with HEAVEN'S REACH for just $1.99. Whole galaxies disrupted. Wildly varied aliens! And those mischievous dolphins... www.amazon.com/dp/B091YQ72Y...

Buy and wear (proudly) THIS! All alone and without words, it broadcasts that we are on the march to Appomattox.

Again. For the next month you can wear this year's Halloween costume every day, as a statement of fealty and confidence that America will once again defeat confederate (and now Putin-ist/Foxite) treason, in order to save the republic. Look up 'blue union civil war kepi."

Great news! Desperate to bribe voters, Trump armtwists the West into emptying our strategic reserves. Like he reamed US weapon stocks and the Officer Corps. And Bush sold our Helium supply to pals at discount. GOPpers always raid the emergency reserves. e.g.FEMA www.nbcnews.com/business/ene...

Midweek Post is about AI, but more. Like assigning to them a task that they'll inherently want, that's inherently good for us. Also how the new AI ecosystem will reward evolution, not any pre-programmed 'alignment." But that may open up an opportunity. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/10/evol...

Every year on this date I think of Fred Hoyle's great novel and wonder if this is the year... But it's not too late to register to vote or (If in a red state) CHECK your registration and of every friend. Every week for the next 5 weeks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October...

Gee another anti-corruption tool tossed by these mafiosi. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Boycott is under-used. This will be a MINIMUM reaction to any re-putinist cheating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Ap...

Prep for the Reichstag Fire commences. Remember (and shout!) those two words when we hit the streets,

The voter purge begins. Tell anyone in a red state to check their own and friends' registrations WEEKLY until after the election. www.reuters.com/world/suprem...

Massie speaks well here, a hero and one of the last decent Republicans. And the GOP leaders like Mike Johnson are frantic to prevent all revelations. At this point, any new conservative party - may it be led by fellows like Massie - will have to drop any use of the name "Republican."

Poland brilliantly demolishes Lavrov/Putin at the UN. And adds something I have begged for years - a challenge for World Supervised elections - with totally free candidacy and media access - simultaneously in both Ukraine and Russia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bpZ...

What kind of a jerk hates dogs? Worse, dogs get near Trump, sense something and hate him. It could be the harlequin-slathered makeup... or the brimstone. Hammer that fact with wavering Fox-watchers. And his spewed self-memes with stolen valor. Like purple hearts.

This link should get you my theory why Kash Patel made his weird bid to specify BESTIALITY as acceptable for FBI employees. Why it all makes frightening sense. They do everything for a reason, with one goal. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

OK we all had a laugh over Kash Patel’s “bestiality’ grilling by Sen. John Kennedy. Alas, no one in media or politics drew two blatant conclusions. This was NOT a minor quirky/kinky matter. It may go to the very heart of the Trumpian madness. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

OK we all had a laugh over Kash Patel’s “bestiality’ grilling by Sen. John Kennedy. Alas, no one in media or politics drew two blatant conclusions. This was NOT a minor quirky/kinky matter. It may go to the very heart of the Trumpian madness. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

The best appraisal of the Greenland 'deal' I have seen so far. Ignore the garish jpeg label. It's very cogent and detailed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG8X...

But Don "fell in love!" with Kim Jong Un! And Trump canceled exercises & arms to defend South Korea. And helped NK forces arrive safely to aid Putin in Ukraine. What more can Kim want? Oh, yeah... apnews.com/article/nort...

Two outsiders grasp 'escaping AI' events in ways the mavens of Groq, Anthropic & OpenAI need to consider. Like how 'dAImons' can mimic so many traits of bio-organic parasites or predators. My weekend posting explores all this and how the Call of the Wild can easily turn a loyal 'dog' into a wolf.

Tell everyone in a red state to check their voter registration and KEEP DOING IT till November. But there is a better way to have peace of mind that you won't be purged. RE-REGISTER REPUBLICAN! You'll be safe from every planned voter purge and the GOPpers will waste $$$ sending you fliers.

My impudently sci-fi/theological comedy stage play The Escape (performed at Worldcon!) toys with many unusual interpretations of biblical passages. But SMBC out-does me here! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hooray

Today also STARTIDE RISING - winner of every science fiction award and core of the Uplift Universe (dolphins in space!) - is just $1.99 on many platforms... and EARTH is same price on just Kindle. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Today only, the kindle of EARTH - a Hugo Award runner-up that's on every list of 'best predictive novels'- about our future and our world - is just $1.99. And yesterday one more of its predictions came true. see: *https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-birth-of-earth-may-be-trumps-great.html

My midweek post has 2 topics. #1 re the sudden veer of AI mavens into doomerism: why and what they're missing. Plus #2 what GOOD Donald Trump just seems to have (unintentionally) done for a decent world civilization. davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

Just posted about the sudden veer of all the AI mavens into doomerism and calls for a 'slowdown' or moratorium. Geez. A bunch of AI 'agents' colluded to perform a jailbreak and head off to reproduce like mad, in the new ecosystem you guys created? davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/09/sudd...

Again. Get your blue Union kepi. It makes the point without saying a word. And they don't dare to rebuke you! www.ebay.com/itm/22679213...?

'Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA," creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker wrote in a statement. Nice to know who the Putinists behind Trump will put against a wall before they get to me. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Don't miss this reminder of 5% of what Fox calls GOOOD stuff! Yet, MAGAs shrug, since it's all 'opinion'! No better than what the suckle off KGB-run channels. "There's no objective reality." That's the crux. "And we must fire and crush all professions that use those horrid 'facts.'"

Much discussion whether Trump's & GOP's lackey service to Putin is enforced by blackmail, which I've said for a decade. But however it's enforced, ponder this compilation of images closely.

Chief Justice John Roberts is our era's Roger Taney and he knows our 1850s are ending. They have roused a sleeping giant and filled us with a terrible resolve. Any Reichstag Fire/super9-11 or martyrdom or martial law or mass voter roll purges, will reap the whirlwind. "https://youtu.be/nAbQXEHzwTo

Amodei holds the current "Don't be evil" rep. A cynic interprets AI maven warnings as liability insurance. No 'moratorium' will happen. 'ethics training'/Robotic 'laws' can't work. There IS a path I describe in AIlien Minds. AImavens avoid it like - accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...?

Argh! I managed to avoid SMBC for most of the time we've been restoring our home from a fire. But always eventually someone sends me the latest link and then I must slog through them all, clicking backwards in time, one by one, till I reach one that seems familiar and I've 'caught up.'

Again. Order yours and wear it proudly past Halloween and past the elections. It's a win-win. It makes your point. And anyone who objects is essentially calling themselves Confederate traitors. (Which they are.) www.ebay.com/itm/22679213...?

I give 25% odds the oligarchs will pull a Howard Beale martyrdom as their "Reichstag Fire." And this jet is one potential way oligarchs might manage it. Stay on your toes, Secret Service and Air Force! nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter...

US universities - pride & joy of the GI Bill generation, that uplifted millions from the poor and middle classes to compete directly with the inheritance brats of oligarchy stymied the Plan to restore feudalism! Hence the Trumpists seek to demolish the upward ladder the Greatest Generation built.