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Solarpunk socialist web developer and I work on Godot games on the side. I hope to one day create a cooperative game studio/tech company.

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Stop buying into the hype that the tech oligarchs are selling to investors to keep the bubble going.

The LLM models have hit a plateau and will not reach AGI through the LLM strategy no matter how much data they give it.

It's like if the wright brothers said we could get to the moon by plane.

05.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If China is providing the US with the resources to make weapons, maybe they see it like "Don't interrupt your enemy while they're in the process of making a mistake" plus that strengthens them while weakening the US but obviously none of us know.

It doesn't seem great morally though.

05.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It bothers me that so many people only have an issue with the process for deciding this war but not the war itself.

Being anti intervention and anti war doesn't mean that you're pro terrorism or dictatorship either.

05.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love your character designs!

03.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

02.03.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 6309 πŸ” 1303 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 13

Yeah I think the ground needs to contrast a bit more from the background and the smoke should be more transparent

01.03.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think there needs to be more contrast so players can see the ground better

01.03.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s wrong to vaporize school children even if Congress votes to approve it.

28.02.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 3904 πŸ” 907 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 22

I've started to but I haven't seen enough to dissuade me from being worried about these things.

28.02.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They're relevant to any power structure

28.02.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is education, an educated proletariat wouldn't vote for Trump. An educated proletariat wouldn't allow the bourgeoisie to dominate everyone.

28.02.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nah that's socdem, demsocs want to abolish capitalism through democratic means

28.02.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bureaucrats expand their power to achieve their personal goals even if ideologically their end goal is the elimination of the state. Due to that it's in their interest to resist things that weaken their power in the state just like what happened with OGAS so state power generally increases over time

28.02.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Communists I've read talk as if workers at large will not be educated enough to be given power until some time far into the future.

Without programs to educate and empower workers in their systems it comes off as overly paternalistic and controlling.

Power corrupts so that's not a good combination

28.02.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Here's a couple pychology papers that I've read recently that get into the power issue.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

28.02.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It wouldn't even without imperialism

27.02.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Visual Adventures on Sea of Thieves
Visual Adventures on Sea of Thieves YouTube video by GDC Festival of Gaming

The technical details of how it works is so cool!

This GDC talk has some really interesting details about the challenges of the sea of thieves technical artists.

youtu.be/BzppoQTG3m0?...

Also @acerola.gg made a great in depth video on the major technical art techniques.

youtu.be/yPfagLeUa7k?...

27.02.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nintendo: β€œPokemon Are Real And You Can Eat Them”

27.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 1506 πŸ” 336 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 46

The Dems need to expand the supreme court first before doing all the other stuff they need to do

27.02.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I'm not against the idea of creating a state or a group of socialists seizing power. I'm talking more about how that can actually lead to worker empowerment because the state definitely does not simply wither away and the dynamics are very complicated.

27.02.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They still had to seize power because only a minority of workers backed them though right?

27.02.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been reading a lot about the psychological effects of power on people in power and how members of the party negatively viewed the working class and it seems like the organizational structure itself is a big issue to me

Educating as many people as possible and distributing power seems important

27.02.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been trying but I sympathize a lot with anarchists and think they make a lot of good points about how vanguardism and democratic centralism over time can begin to serve their own interests rather than the proletariat.

27.02.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Class consciousness can and should be built through syndicalist preconfiguration, after that then a democratic socialist state could be implemented that protects itself from and dismantles capital just like bourgeois democracies like the US did with their monarchist enemies.

27.02.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

That's fair that without class consciousness above even what was in the early days of the Soviet Union, worker democracy would just fall apart.

27.02.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why do you think it happened?

27.02.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll try to keep an open mind, thanks for taking the time to talk

27.02.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's frustrating because the point of the vanguard party and democratic centralism is to prevent those kinds of takeovers but it happened anyway because of the aligned interests of those in power.

I think anarchist narratives explain it well even if they are simple. Sometimes issues are simple.

27.02.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I do need to study this stuff more, thanks for sending me these resources.

Dengism was also just another form of Capitalism.

Idk if I'll ever fully agree with Marxists because I don't agree with some stuff like democratic centralism. I just think I might not be a Marxist at the end of the day.

27.02.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah what happened in the USSR can't really be separated from the necessity of absolute unity and control during WWII and afterwards with the betrayal of the allies but that would also go onto destroy any chance for worker liberation in the USSR.

27.02.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0