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Comment · 1 day ago
Brin’s an interesting case.
In addition to his impressive bibliography (still hoping for the sentient space-exploring dolphins movie to get greenlit..), he has consulted for NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. He’s also quite vocal politically, for team blue.
Last week he penned this pre-mid-terms piece on the UAP transparency topic: https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/10/disclosure-ufo-cults-... . Couldn’t be more critical & denigrating. I happen to disagree, but at least he’s engaging with the subject, Manhattan Project 2.0 and all, which is more than most from his side of the aisle do. (Notable standout exceptions Andre Carson and Jared Moskowitz)
Comment · 1 day ago
*SPOILER quote re today’s episodle*:
[episode’s protagonist]: Computer, begin new programme. Create as follows, workstation chair. (he sits in it) Now, create a standard alphanumeric console positioned for left hand. Now an iconic display console positioned for right hand. Tie both consoles into the Enterprise main computer core, utilising neural-scan interface. COMPUTER: There is no such device on file. [protagonist]: No problem. Here's how you build it.
(some period context: circa 1990, a neuralink interface was pretty much unconscionable)
Comment · 2 days ago
But you don’t understand it’s okay when Mossad and Shin Bet do it.
Comment · 2 days ago
>That is how Communists get tbeir cultural revokution, you know
That is how blowhards get Red-Scares and Cold Wars, you know. And exactly the abuses OP posting is decrying.
Comment · 2 days ago
I wonder why this comments page isn’t anywhere close to the HN front page (couldnt find it at all through four pages in), in favor of the Reuters article comment page that is on page 2 at time of posting this.
Comment · 3 days ago
If the problem as presented is either invisible or neutral to you then, respectfully, you are of my epistemological adversary.
Comment · 3 days ago
I’m glad to see in their advocacy of technology usage that the Carmelites are so vocal.
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ba-dum pum.
Comment · 6 days ago
The timing was sadly important too. She started 2020. The pandemic had disputed origins. I would say one can guess which side her editorial take took, but one doesn’t need to; she openly mentioned her views on lab leak in a handbook for scicomm editors she authored.
https://ksjhandbook.org/editing-controversial-science/about-...
“Trumped-up controversies about where the novel coronavirus originated have fueled racism and given cover to politicians who withdrew funding for international collaborations with China.”
That handbook was her leaving her indelible mark on all western scicomms editing.
Comment · 7 days ago
In nomadism (as in digital nomad) this is quite salient to me, relevant to communication with relations, colleagues and potential ones (i.e. job/gig economic opportunities) across time zones and countries. I am constantly on the lookout for tools that create the feeling of geographic salience without actually being in the same area. I’ve learned to avoid answering the remotely-asked question ‘so where are you anyways’ for as long as possible, for answering candidly usually ends any follow-up communications (“this person is ‘out there’, not serious, etc”).
Comment · 7 days ago
Gen-C coming right up.
Comment · 8 days ago
Brilliant.
Comment · 17 days ago
how convenient to some for us to be placed into such an inextricable position.
Comment · 18 days ago
Jay Stratton’s long-awaited DOPSR-cleared book on his government experiences facing the phenomenon of non-human intelligence (NHI) goes on sale today. He was a central behind—the-scenes character in the Disclosure narrative to date, whose public-facing component started in 2017 with the NYT article by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal.
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