Notices by David Brin (davidbrin@mastodon.social)

Weekend posting goes back to AI and the generated tsunami of misinformation that will flood us till the US elections... and then on for at least a decade. Is there a solution?

https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/09/reflecting-on-ai-accountability-for.html

Sci Fi great Ed Lerner is interviewed here about fusion and anti-matter, electromagnetic bottles, the Prime Directive, the Drake equation, the Fermi Paradox etc.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-39-edward-m-lerner-on-first-contact-in-on-the/id1696534853?i=1000670745430

Today only. STARTIDE RISING and THE UPLIFT WAR e-books are $1.99 on Kobo and B&N and Amazon. Start here and have fun on the adventure!

https://www.davidbrin.com/startiderising.html

A study out of Finland looks at different types of love in the human brain, including parental, romantic, pets, friends, nature, and strangers.

https://nicenews.com/science/study-pinpoints-where-love-is-located-in-the-brain/

J. Roberts's top job for his masters: protect gerrymandering. A Dem win will let Hakeem Jeffries pass (and Biden sign) a renewed Voting Rights Act. They hope flakes on our side will scamper to the next Nader-Stein Kremlin agent. Or a Reichstag fire.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-gop-south-carolina-redistricting-case-rcna127946

“It reads like a scene from your "Earth" when the ivory collectors are pursued by the UNEPA.” So say people writing to me about the bust of an eco-hoarder-criminal against Mother Nature.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/22/operation-easter

Today only, the entire Uplift Storm Trilogy (e-book) is on sale for $4.99. The biggest - and MULTI-galactic - adventure and total way fun.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-uplift-storm-trilogy