Abolition Game - Current Project

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I have a small idea what I'm doing. I'm working on a prison abolition game that engages people deeply in the policy choices that have created mass incarceration in the U.S. Emphasis on choices because there are other ways.

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Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· 26d

Jonathan Chait: famed understander of politics and re-definer of democracy. Following the only maxim one ever needs: "what I frame as the center of two extremes I've chosen must be correct and reasonable."

A screenshot of an article by Jonathan Chait in The Atlantic. The title is "There's nothing democratic about these socialists." At the bottom, the social media graphic for the article is cut off, but it is a wilting rose representing, one can only assume, the failing strength of the DSA.

Above is a short summary which starts with what might be the silliest take in the article "The organization is still called democratic socialists, 'but the term does not necessarily mean 'liberal democracy as Americans have traditionally defined it,' Chait writes. 'Many socialist thinkers define what they call 'true democracy as a system in which capitalism has been overturned and the proletariat classes have seized political power through their representative vanguard (that is, them).'

'This is not, obviously, how the group sells itself to the broader universe of left-leaning, mostly Democratic voters it is trying to attract,' Chait continues at the link. 'One can easily imagine a feedback loop in which DSA influence makes it harder for Democrats to win back moderate and Republican voters [lol, lmao even], causing the party to lose , causing its base to grow more distrustful of the party's leaders, thus making them more likely to nominate DSA candidates. But even to conceive of the DSA's entry to the party as mainly an electoral setback, as some glue liberals appear to be doing, is to miss the deeper significance of the group's influence."

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Jun 11

Hmmmm, the chance to make money and ruin an AI with completely incorrect answers? I'm very tempted

A screenshot of a LinkedIn message from a company called Outlier. It says "Sponsored - Earn $20 USD/hrs from Home! Teach AI Chinese"

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· May 25

Meme from The Incredibles where Syndrome explains "When everyone's super, no one will be." Here super is crossed out and replaced with the word sovereign

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Apr 20

Got inspired to make this today. Idk

An image of Maslow's hierarchy of needs which is a pyramid with the base being physiological needs, then safety needs above it, love and belonging, esteem, and finally self-actualization on top. Self-actualization is crossed off and replaced with "Ownership" with the description "desire to own private property."

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Mar 3

Business people generally tell you who they are and we need to start believing them. If the numbers in this random LinkedIn post are accurate, Apple and Nvidia employees are being absolutely ripped off by the CEO and shareholders. This is seen as good by business people

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post with corporate bullshit about employees which highlights that "Apple generates over $2.5 million per employeed. NVIDIA generates over $3 million per employee" and other facts unintentionally highlighting how undercompensated employees are.

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Feb 25

The thing about a dystopia is that it's just really weird.

A screenshot of Maryland Governor Wes Moore's linkedin post about the economic impact of building a gigantic sphere in Maryland

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Feb 14

@puppylove23.bsky.social Thank you Brett Culbert's dog for the follow. Let's create a world that doesn't need prisons.

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Dec 10

Not a huge fan of a lot of the wrapped things, but this is neat. I should probably aim for more minutes of play time next year if I want to improve

A screenshot of 2025 wrapped stats from Ultimate Guitar. It shows 1187 minutes played, 129 songs, and 39 genres. Top 3 bands are Mischief Brew, The Airborne Toxic Event, and The Taxpayers and top 3 songs are Shadow Stabbing, Every Town Will Celebrate, and Hungry Dog in the Street

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Oct 26

Screenshot of a tweet saying "Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. - Hannah Arendt"

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Oct 16

The "you wouldn't steal" meme about piracy with the text "you wouldn't create a society without borders", making a society without borders seem like a cool thing to do

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Oct 13

Always has been meme. One astronaut behind another saying "always has been". The point is that police as a bloc have always been political actors for the right wing and use their influence in every election to advance the carceral state.

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Aug 20

Core memory unlocked

A movie poster for the 1997 movie A Kid in Aladdin's Palace. A movie about a pizza delivery boy who accidentally time travels to the ancient Middle East.

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Jul 11

1/ "At the same time, the guidance urges officers to consider a range of nonviolent behavior and common protest gear—like masks, flashlights, and cameras—as potential precursors to violence, telling officers to prepare “from the point of view of an adversary.”

WIRED headline reading "DHS tells police that common protest activities are 'violent tactics' with the subheading "DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action"

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Jun 29

I won't even link the paywalled article, but the answer is no, criminalising homelessness will not help.

A screenshot of a poorly written headline from The Economist that reads "American cities are criminalising homelessness. Will that help?" The subheading is "How a Supreme Court decision paved the way for more punitive policies"

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Jun 27

In Nicaragua, gentlemen, the mouse kills the cat

A passage from Open Veins of Latin America reading: "and there were plenty of machetes; the flag flew from any handy stick, and the peasants moved through mountain tickets wearing strips of hide called huaraches instead of boots. The guerrillas sang, to the tune of Adelita: in Nicaragua, gentlemen, the mouse kills the cat.

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Jun 24

"The land was as exhausted as the workers - the land was robbed of humus and the workers of their lungs - but there were always new lands to exploit and new workers to exterminate. Comic opera dictators watched over United Feuit's interests with knives between their teeth." - Eduardo Galeano

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Jun 22

Reading The Open Veins of Latin America right now and there is so much to unpack even now, 50 years after it was written. "It is much more profitable to consume coffee than to produce it."

An image of a passage from The Open Veins of Latin America which reads as follows:
"It is much more profitable to consume coffee than to produce it. In the United States and Europe coffee creates income and jobs and mobilized substantial capital; in Latin America it pays hunger wages and sharpens economic deformation. It provides work for more than 600,000 people in the United States: those who distribute and sell Latin American coffee there earn infinitely more than the Brazilians, Colombians, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Haitians who plant and harvest it on the plantations. And incredible as it seems, coffee - so ECLA tells us - puts more wealth into European state coffers than it leaves in the hands of producing countries. In effect, in 1960 and 1961 the total taxes levied on Latin American coffee by European Economic Community countries amounted to about $700 million, while supplier countries (in terms of the f.o.b. value of exports) only got $600 million. The rich countries that preach free trade apply stern protecrionist policies against the poor countries: they turn everything they touch - including the underdeveloped countries' own production - into gold for themselves."

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Mar 18

I liked this passage from a book I'm reading.

"The people in the King's city of Kamesham thought that these highvalley folk lived like animals. But in truth these villagers lived pure human life. They needed each other to survive, and knew it. They had no conspiracies and no secrets, no ambitions and no feuds. They couldn't afford the luxury of treating any man or woman or child as expendable."

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Mar 13

I'm proud of this one prospect.org/politics/202...

A screenshot of a WhatsApp message. The text reads, "Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) advocates for stricter vote-by-mail requirements and led a national campaign to purge voter roles by sending threatening letters to state election officials. PILF is one of more than 100 organizations in Project 2025. The organization's budget was $1.7 million in 2019 and more than doubled by 2023, to $3.7 million."

Underneath is a caption reading, "Next season on PILF Island, will Debórah have her ballot rejected?" A reference to the fictional TV show on 30 Rock, MILF Island.

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Mar 6

Day 3 of slow progress, now the NPC has a very simple AI which moves him when the player moves and there's an explosive barrel. Still trying to figure out how to make the barrel roll after touching it, but we'll get there. For some reason AddForce doesn't make it keep moving. #help #indiegamedev

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Mar 5

Building up those little wins! Now you can push and infect NPCs! Next will be objects and then some more complex forms of interacting. #indiegamedev

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Mar 3

Working on a side project zombie game (as all #indiegamedevs are required by law to do) to up my skills. Set up grid-based movement for the player. Next step: interactable NPCs/objects.

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Jan 25

Meme from the TV show Arthur with the caption "you really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?"

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Jan 12

New blog post published today! This one includes a personal story from my time in the Dominican Republic and a new original story I wrote based on the many challenges my students faced in the U.S. Excerpt and link below: artwork by @smeetpxl.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bathrumi...

A boy stands in a dark alley facing two men. It is late and all of them are shadowy silhouettes. Clothes hang on a line above and buildings are visible in the background.

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Jan 9

Classic mugs in this game.

I like work i just hate my boss mug and smile mug on an office desk in the game The Stanley Parable.

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Jan 9

Playing The Stanley Parable for the first time. Free on PS+ this month!

Image of a TV screen with Stanley Parable on it. On the screen is an office desk with filing cabinets behind it and a mug on the desk that says "I hate Mondays"

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Dec 1

Anyone know what invalid username means? Reason for concern?

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Oct 29

Had an idea for a Halloween game. Please feel free to steal #indiegamedev

Notes app screenshot saying "Cake Mania but tombstones"

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Oct 26

I have this paper in my tabs to read eventually, but every time I see the preview I think of this guy. Anyway, housing first is effective at helping people and cost-effective compared to incarceration and other proposed "solutions" to homelessness

Research paper title: "Penny Wise But Pound Roolish: How Permanent Supportive Housing Can Prevent a World of Hurt"

Two images of Pennywise the clown from Stephen King's It

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine· Oct 26

Listening to The 48 Laws of Power and it's like this guy is speaking directly into my ear. Literally a pathetic book for pathetic people. A little sad it's got 181k ratings on goodreads with over 4 stars.