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Elijahlrc

@elijahlrc.bsky.social
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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.

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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wrote a short essay-ish thing about where I think we are at and where we're going with regard to AI. I mostly wrote this to share with my parents and loved ones, rather than for a general audience, but I thought, why not share it here as well: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I made a site to help you think about how you estimate your p(doom): My P(doom) over the next five years: median 10%, 90% of draws 5.0–20%. elijahlrc.github.io/pdoom//#m=s&...
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If Steyer edges out the Republican in the primary then loses to Becerra in the general I'm gonna have a seizure.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
So vampires have their associated nocturnal flying mammal, bats. There is a second nocturnal flying mammal, The flying squirrel. What is to flying squirrels as vampires are to bats?
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Aid whispering to push about twin towers attack meme with bottom text saying "Godspeed you! Black emperor has been removed from Spotify"
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Re: the repeated conversations about how much the American people support the "left" vs "liberals" vs "progressives." The American people lean conservative and must be persuaded that leftist policies are a good idea. The left flatly refuses to face reality and takes refuge in semantic arguments:
Screenshot of quote reading: "If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell." But the word "table" is replaced with the word "semantics"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2026
this is an example of “who cares what the court says it is none of their business”
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This seems like quite a wild story. Not terribly difficult to imagine what might have happened here. metro.co.uk/2026/05/12/m...
metro.co.uk
Mystery over sinking of Russian ship carrying 'nuclear reactors' to North Korea
The boat suffered three explosions near its engine room before sinking.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Something about Twitter today feels like a threshold has been passed. Dead internet theory is manifest. It's all slop and even the human posters have trained their own writing on AI slop. Nobody is really saying anything, just a lot of fiddling on the deck of the Titanic.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It's really quite shocking how almost every element of the initial pitch for Gmail has been broken, undermined or abandoned by Google.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Splashdown! Congratulations to the Artemis astronauts & the whole team at NASA and beyond.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Bernie Sanders is Yud posting. You're dooming while Bernie Sanders is Yud posting? youtu.be/hLcY30KEeNs?...
youtu.be
Hank and Bernie talk about AI (for real)
YouTube video by Hank Green
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So if Orban is Putin's little mouse, and J.D. Vance is supplicating himself to Orban, does that make him a flea? What is the appropriate derogatory animal for such a man?
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Y'all ain't going to like this but Andrew Callaghan is the Joe Rogan of the left.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Why is the entire discourse around the utility of LLM's driven by habitual liars? How did this happen?
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The idea that there is a proximate finite demand for software engineering, and thus that productivity improvements will lead to layoffs, seems false to me. We need many orders of magnitude more software than we have now, and that will eat a lot of productivity improvement.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I specifically tell reporters on ridealongs that I’m not the story, that I’m bringing them along so they can see what’s happening in Minneapolis. Including this reporter. She said she also wanted to interview me, about why I’m doing it. I would not have agreed if I’d known it would be about ME ONLY
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BART @bart.gov · 19/02/2026
Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is pop-sci idiocy. Lift works because that's what the fluid dynamics dictate & we have equations that model that behavior. In the physics sense we "understand lift". *You* don't, but that's a skill issue.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This kind of post is a good reminder that a lot of people just really don't like democracy. They hate that they have to be engaged in their own governance. They despise the idea of interacting & working with people who disagree with them. The yearn for authoritarianism.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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:
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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...
nytimes.com
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 22/12/2025
man I love avocados but I really wish they weren't so hard to cut
cut up avocado. including the seed
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
@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.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving! This year I am especially grateful for access to outdoor space & for collaborative, constructive projects undertaken with my partner & friends.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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...
theanarchistlibrary.org
An Anarchist Anti-Gun Manifesto
anonymous An Anarchist Anti-Gun Manifesto May 2023
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Discovering your new house is on a street without tricker treaters... Devastating 😞
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Huge kudos to Spotify for including the degeneracy button in their UI:
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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!
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Utopia, apocalypse, or 2.1% real GDP growth. Thems your options according to the Dallas Federal Reserve folks.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
MAJOR 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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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
What is my dude talking about?Watts are a power measurement. This is definitional, there is a consensus on this.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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!
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Just resharing my manifold market for no particular reason: manifold.markets/ElijahRavitz...
manifold.markets
Will political violence in the US increase in 2025?
This market resolves primarily based on data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data's US Crisis Monitor. https://acleddata.com/us-crisis-monitor/. Qualitative information from the FBI/DHS's S...
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Fields of Aaru ☀️ Zymartu Games @zymartugames.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
#ScreenshotSaturday Excited to share the very first post for our cozy life-sim. It's set in Ancient Egypt, built using Bevy, and we've been working on it for almost 3 years! #gamedev #indiegames #bevy
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Credit where credit is due, science fiction authors of the past 50 years did an excellent job predicting the vibe of 2025.
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Elijahlrc @elijahlrc.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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.
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