davidbrin.bsky.social
Hugo-winning, best-selling sci-fiction author, NASA consultant, physicist, inventor - whose prediction scores offer a deluded sense of competence! When my real job is to speculate entertainingly... not necessarily to be right! http://www.davidbrin.com
👤 Joined on 23 July 2023
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@davidbrin.bsky.socialIn Duncan Jones' "Moon" (2009), Sam Rockwell stars as a lowly worker trying to finish a job and return home to Earth, but instead finds himself facing disturbing revelations, corporate skulduggery, and an existential quandary...
Show PostPuff stitches: arggggg (It's the whole pulled stitches that's giving me nightmares)
Show PostThe US hardcover edition of "A Conventional Boy" is a Real Thing! (My author copies just arrived today.)
Show PostChandler, Arizona famously erects a Christmas tree made of tumbleweeds every year. It does get lights, but they weren’t on Saturday night when we were there for the Parade of Lights. By now this should be playing in your head: youtu.be/c-YLGUHIqhU?...
Show PostA lot of this is exactly the the kind of compelling I’m the market for, but is that ending bit about putting faith in a general strike basically just “Wait until Atlas shrugs…?” Because my experience of living in a corrupt kleptocracy is that people can delude themselves through Pump Six failing.
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