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Rocky Horror Picture Show-Hot Patootie-Bless my soul

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 2d

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...

YouTube video by Graylandertagger

Transparent Society & Sousveillance | David Brin, Author of The Transparent Society

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 3d

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...

YouTube video by Foresight Institute

Name that Villain: Bad guys and Aliens in Sci-fi Movies

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 3d

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...

Where will we be in 40 years? A Conversation between Futurists David Brin and John Smart

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 4d

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? ;-)

Inside Rockbridge: The Billionaire Network Shaping the Right

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 5d

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

YouTube video by NowThis Impact

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 5d

More pertinent than ever!

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

The Life Eaters

The Beginning of Existence

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 6d

More pertinent than ever, for right now.

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

Are we facing a looming Night of Long Knives? And silly oligarchist would-be 'kings.'

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 9d

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-...

A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

Expert explains: unprecedented military meeting at Quanitco called by the Sec. of Defense

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 10d

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...

YouTube video by ABC 7 News - WJLA

War, loverly war. In Ukraine and in the USA.

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 14d

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-...

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 16d

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-...

A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

Trump says 'bad things' will happen if Afghanistan does not return Bagram air base

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 16d

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?...

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 17d

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...

U.S. President Trump on Saturday threatened Afghanistan if it does not give back control of the Bagram air base to the United States.

www.reuters.com

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 17d

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...

'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...

www.military.com

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 18d

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

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

Altruistic Horizons: Our tribal natures, the 'fear effect' and the end of ideologies

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DAVID BRIN: Shouting At the Cosmos

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 19d

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.

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 19d

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...

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...

www.davidbrin.com

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 20d

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.

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 23d

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.

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 24d

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.

The Colour Of Magic | PART 1 of 2 | FULL MOVIE | Jeremy Irons, Brian Cox | Fantasy Adventure

YouTube video by Shout! Studios

2025 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium (September 9-11, 2025).

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 27d

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

vimeo.com/event/5358801

Come on by today and tomorrow!

2025 NIAC Symposium

vimeo.com

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 28d

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-...

How a hero might escape the Blackmail Trap: a chapter of near-future what-ifs that could (and should) happen today...

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Why the Vance (Thiel) transition will only be the beginning. And how the Secret Weapon of the oligarchs may backfire.

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · Sep 7

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-...

A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.