CONTRARY BRIN
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WHY we are at war again? Turns out seven reasons not in the news.
A little sci fi tale to boost your optimism for a new and better year... and era... ahead.
A Mafia Don does mafia deeds. And Europe rises. And those backstabbing our own side.
Two Weeks: your last chance to save the Republican Party. Plus how to answer "Voter ID!"
Wow... AI-personalized sales pitches hit new levels! Here's how I've been targeted..
Science updates - while there's still time
Contemplating Artificial Intelligence
Will Oceania accept its assigned role in 'spheres of Influence?
His ‘cool’ obsession isn’t ICE or icy Greenland. I bet it’s 'getting chilled.'
Marvels of Space - My "Tank Farm" story may be coming true in several ways!
Minor proposals - even crackpot! - for a Newer Deal
Imperial dreams and Greenland seams and GOP manic swings
A Newer Deal Part 10: Before solving your favorite problems, shall we repair our nation's ABILITY to negotiate and solve problems?
A Newer Deal Part 9: Fix politics! And a (very) few people who seem to get it.
Part 8 of a Newer Deal: immigration, budgets, emoluments and... no, the President doesn't own the White House!
Midweek: Will the "sane wing" Republicans step up? -- And my selection of best SMBCs!
Save our Defenders! And more Newer Deals.
Four more Newer Deals... and why they'll work better than the Reich 'pledges'
Four More Urgent Proposals for a 'Newer Deal' to Save our Great Experiment
Four specific notions that could help to save us all
The “Contract” – Part Three. Aggressive Agility requires fresh ideas!
Part 2 of Agressive Agility: Learn from your opponents' cleverest tactic! And turn it on them.
Aggressive Agility: Turn the GOP's Most Successful Political Ploy Against Them
A midweek rant about Sumo vs Judo and dems need to stop whining.
A Science Roundup - Lots going on!
Will the professionals innovate new ways to protect us?
Macro-Consciousness: the sci-fi notion that may apply to entire worlds. Even EARTH.
Out of Time: A sci-fi adventure series across time and space!
AI ‘optimists’ who are down on us.
The Seldon Paradox, our faulty memories... and the unintentional resurrection of Karl Marx
Are we facing a looming Night of Long Knives? And silly oligarchist would-be 'kings.'
War, loverly war. In Ukraine and in the USA.
How a hero might escape the Blackmail Trap: a chapter of near-future what-ifs that could (and should) happen today...
Why the Vance (Thiel) transition will only be the beginning. And how the Secret Weapon of the oligarchs may backfire.
Consciousness is hot! And may heat up the world
This is EXACTLY the 1850s... and this arc will end the same.
AI + WAIST. A predictive riff from EXISTENCE
A debate about saving democracy, that will likely (needlessly) be lost
Some lighthearted stuff this time! Plus a few sobering reminders.
Science Fiction Updates!
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?
To make next July 4 a true Independence Day - How About a Little Paine? Thomas Paine.
Missing contexts for AI: The context of mental damage
Oh, those misleading teleologies about "progress" - and a few political notes
Jimmy Carter’s Big Mistake - And the noblest president of my lifetime.
More on AI: Insights from LIFE. From evolution, from Skynet, IBM and SciFi to Brautigan
Science (mostly bio, this time) Forges Ahead. Even empowering... citizenship!
Lying promises and how to NAIL them...
Science as the ultimate accountability process - And are AI behaving this way because they're DREAMING?
AI and consciousness -- and a positive-sum tomorrow
And ... the Great Silence persists: More on the Fermi Paradox: Where is Everyone?
This class war has no memory – and that could kill us
The AI dilemma continues - part 2
The AI Dilemma continues onward... despite all our near term worries
Twenty things about The Mess that no one has mentioned, so far. From tariffs to signalgate to DOGE to Houthis and...