Elijahlrc
Game developer (mostly UE5), photographer, yimby, Berkeley grad and resident, liberal. Microplasticsꙮenjoyer.
Doing my best to be honest and kind. I post about politics, technology, my creative work, and other interests.
Same handle on 🧵s.
- I swear anti-electoral leftism is straight up an op. I'm not saying everybody who buys into that is bad faith, many are good faith people who are tricked, but Jesus Christ the idea that "voting doesn't do anything anyway" is obviously being pushed in the US by authoritarians abroad.
- I think if Iran has actually killed 10,000 protesters in 3 days the US should seriously consider intervention. I'm not saying that I support intervention, I lack the knowledge to make that call, but it has to be on the table.
- In the interest of not losing my mind following current events, this account is now a microplastics fan account. Chew on that plastic fork, smell the sweet smell of tire debris coming off the freeway. Open up a can (with a plastic liner inside of course) & set yourself free:
- By far the best breakdown of what actually happened in Minneapolis. This was a murder committed by an angry man in the heat of an emotional situation. ICE must be destroyed. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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- The US's repeated escalation against the sovereign nation of Venezuela is absolutely unacceptable. It destroys our reputation, makes us less safe, and risks American and Venezuelan lives. The Trump administration must be stopped.
- @mmasnick.bsky.social, Long time listener first time caller. I love the show but the interview in your most recent episode of Control Alt Speach about Australia's tax on links was perhaps the least convincing thing I have ever heard from you.
- Happy Thanksgiving! This year I am especially grateful for access to outdoor space & for collaborative, constructive projects undertaken with my partner & friends.
- Honestly this was a rough year for games in more ways than one, at least for someone with my taste. Hades 2 is great but it's a straight forward sequel, not GOTY material imo.
- I rarely find anarchist writing worth reading, but this is an exception. If your gonna be an anarchist please strive to be at least as thoughtful as this: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anon...
- If Trump fellated Bill Clinton and Bill Clinton kept it secret through *THREE* Trump presidential campaigns Clinton is complicit in Trump's ascension to power & is no better than Merrick Garland.
- Discovering your new house is on a street without tricker treaters... Devastating 😞
- Huge kudos to Spotify for including the degeneracy button in their UI:
- Building code should not require a specific number of outlets per room. That's an insane thing to regulate at a government level. Let people build and live in whatever style house they want!
- I don't understand why anyone cares about the White House modifications. This is such a non-issue. The president is a criminal pedophile illegally killing fishermen with no trial and no congressional authorization for force.
- I think boredom is an underrated driver of human behavior. The problem with infinite scrolling on our phones is not anything about the infinite scroll itself, it's that this fully removed boredom from our lives. Identical logic applies and is why I don't like weed.
- Utopia, apocalypse, or 2.1% real GDP growth. Thems your options according to the Dallas Federal Reserve folks.
- Reposted by ElijahlrcMAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus. It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions. Thank you, Governor!
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- What is my dude talking about?Watts are a power measurement. This is definitional, there is a consensus on this.
- I think the "Johnathan Blow style of game development" by which I mean "small, high power team takes a long time to make a smallish tight game" is aesthetically beautiful as a dev approach. Too bad it's financially challenging & doesn't work for most of the games players want. #gamedev
- A close friend of mine has spent the past couple years working with his wife to build this beautiful & unique cozy game! Give them a follow if you like Egypt &/or cozy games!
- That face when you can't tell if you stumbled in to a Russian bot farm pretending to be toxic dumb accelerationist leftists... or if they are real.
- Just resharing my manifold market for no particular reason: manifold.markets/ElijahRavitz...
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- Credit where credit is due, science fiction authors of the past 50 years did an excellent job predicting the vibe of 2025.
- It would be much easier to take the right wing concern about political violence as good faith if they didn't all seem so excited about it. Political violence is tragic. It's not an exciting opportunity to beat your opponents for good.
- Berkeley needs a 🚠 from downtown through campus & up into the hills. Berkeley could build dorms on the now accessable hillside & Downtown Berkeley Bart -> campus or the labs would be sooo much quicker.
- Is it just me or does Swiss Water Process decaffeinated coffee just kind of suck?
- America's leaderless revolutionary gorilla movement is stupider and more pointless than anyone could have possibly prepared for. It's literally children angry at their teachers & gamers radicalized by 4chan.
- Reminder that the US could provide air support to Ukraine and allow them to win the war in a few months if we were willing to risk a few US casualties.
- They should teach utilitarian moral philosophy as the correct way to understand morality in grade school.
