#fully automated luxury gay space communism

[naxalite1967]

[geekysteven]

[puppynametaken]

H1: “So what do you think of this “unending alien threat”?”

H2: “I honestly don’t care. Hasn’t affected my life greatly. I have bills to pay and student loans. Rent went up again. Essentials are more expensive and oranges aren’t available for some reason but that’s kinda the same thing we’ve been dealing with forever.”

H1: “I heard they’re a bunch of commies. Don’t have money anymore or are at least working toward that. Oh my god what if they pay for hormones???“

H2: “You think alien monsters from outer space care about that of all things?”

H1: “Hey they might! Let’s put it another way. Wouldn’t it be nice not to pay for insulin?”

H2: “Yeah okay you got me there.”

H1: “You ever think about… just leaving? Going off to join that band of xeno commies?”

H2: “I could turn you in for that. But I won’t. Because that’s looking like a better option every day.”

[all-socialism-is-democratic]

[existennialmemes]

I really wanted the Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism future. Not the AI Generated Virtual Reality Capitalism one.

[maphesdus]

Evil CIA agent explains why they had to destabilize Cuba and other countries.

[departmentq]

Tell me you've never watched Star Trek, without telling me you've never watched Star Trek...

Opening statement of the Roddenberry Foundation:

[victusinveritas]

[authenticaccount]

I hope I live long enough for this.

[nando161mando]

The US passed a law saying that all students must be tought that communism is evil: Crucial Communism Teaching Act

https://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/

https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/

https://asf-iwa.org.au/

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

https://www.britannica.com/

https://www.splcenter.org/

https://www.akpress.org/

https://libcom.org/

https://www.cntait.org/

https://iwa-ait.org/

https://www.outoftouchwithcostofliving.org.au/

https://www.politicalcompass.org/

https://audioanarchy.org/

https://deathtofascism.com/files/40ways.online.2020.pdf

https://riotmedicine.net/

https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/

https://www.iww.org.au/

https://www.iww.org/

https://anarchist-archive.org/

[ajumbleoffk]

A Comment on Bukharin's 'Anarchy and Scientific Communism' from a Critical Perspective

I'm reading Bukharin's "Anarchy and Scientific Communism". I would like to quote: "As with capital, the state is not a 'thing', but a relationship between individuals - between classes to be more precise. It is a relationship of class, domination and oppression - that's the essence of the state."

What does Bukharin mean "the state is not a 'thing'"? Is not a relationship a thing? This word "thing" designates all sorts of phenomenon that can all be classed under "NOUN". A noun can be any person, place, thing, or idea. Is the state a person? Are relations between persons the persons themselves. What is a relation when you think about it? Is it something over and above the people that make the relation? Are relations ideas?

Well, if the state is not a thing it, or reducible to just people, it could be a place, but it seems more logical to say that there are places within states more than that the state is a collection of places, and can there not be relations between places?

The state must be an idea, right? If it is not a thing. Ideas have no material being. They are like dreams: only existing in the mind. However, ideas have a funny way of leaking into the real world.

The state is not just an idea obviously. If it was it would be harmless, but it is not. There are jails, batons, body armor, handcuffs, legal documents, etc. All paraphernalia of the state.

Then there is the problem of production. Bukharin criticizes the anarchists on decentralized production in communes. I think he misrepresents the anarchist thoughts, if anarchists can agree on anything it is that there are many anarchisms, on production. I don't think many anarchists, with the exception of anarcho-primitivists, want to do away with centralized production, per se. They want a production that is more responsive to the demands and needs of those that work within those sites of production and the people that they produce for. It is the centralized planning of production that was railed against because it appeared to them that a centralized bureaucracy deciding everything from on high was not going to be able to truly imbibe "From each according to ability, to each according to need."

How can a centralized bureaucracy truly know what the people need? People would have to send information to the central offices that ultimately decide on all production. What if things change by the time the central office gets around to processing work orders? Bureaucracies are notorious for their slowness in response and miles of red tape that accumulate over time. Perhaps somewhere in between is the answer to that problem?

[naxalite1967]

If you work 40 hrs/ week, you should be able to own a 1 bedroom apartment that's within a five-minute walking distance of two good grocery stores, a bar or cafe, and a restaurant that's not just some fast food chain

[justaguyhitmewithyourcar]

What Karl Marx thought of AI and robotics and shit: "The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society."

[all-socialism-is-democratic]

[copperbezel]

Nova Blaze, cyborg streamer

I started this project intending it to be a quick test of a few techniques, and I didn't start thinking of it as a "character" until I was already printing test parts. I think Nova Blaze nonetheless managed to take on a unique identity by the end.

Sadly, she isn't a dinosaur, and she doesn't come with any transformations or widgets, but she's going to live on my monitor stand for a while nonetheless. 

There were really three technical goals for this project. First, I wanted to rely as little as possible on painted detail, using dye for the bulk of the figure's colors to greatly improve durability. Second, April convinced me to try ball and socket joints on a figure again, because their simplicity and compactness opens up a lot of options. Third, I wanted to to make a figure that was a bit sexy, with some reference to lines like Frame Arms Girl, Robot Neoanthropinae Polynian, and Busou Shinki.

So, first, those colors. The acrylic paints I used on Bit Cobalt and still use for detailing are prone to chipping and scratching. I want my figures to be durable enough to pose and play with, and dye is the natural solution.

Outside of the beige "skin" parts, Nova is mostly made with white resin dyed into color, with the dye mixed into the liquid resin for the pink parts. The yellow parts were printed white and dyed in a diluted dye bath, and the black was painted on directly undiluted. Most of the photos in this post are of a second copy of the figure made for April, and there's very little paint on it, essentially just the lipstick, the gray sections on the torso, and the cyan streak in the hair.

The second technical goal for this project was in the joints. Nova's joints include a few ball and socket joints with both sides printed in resin, which I was initially reluctant to try. I've seen very bad results from attempting ball and socket joints in "standard" resin, and the "ABS-like" resin I'm using doesn't solve all of the problems - the porous surfaces still bite and grind at first - but it made the difference between unworkable and workable results once I'd dialed in the socket geometry.

In the hips and ankles, I've used Kotobukiya Hexa Gear joints for the ball side of the pair, which seem to be working very smoothly. (April very sweetly surprised me with a small stash of the joints after handling an early form of the figure.) Nova's range of articulation is the most I've hoped to get out of a figure so far, and I'm very happy with some of the poses she can pull off, as is probably clear in the photos. 

The third goal of the project, of making a figure that was a bit sexy, doesn't sound like a technical challenge, especially for a cartoon cyborg. But I've always really struggled to draw human characters that aren't uncanny and awkward, and up to now, the robot figures I've been modeling have largely been made up of chunky shapes that are very forgiving to my weak understanding of human anatomy. Nova was an opportunity to push and practice just a little in that area.

In turn, working with more organic shapes was a chance to practice a bit more with sculpting tools in Blender rather than leaning solely on the hard-surface modeling tools (constructing rather than sculpting) I'm more comfortable with.

I'm indebted to the time Workbenchmaniac has spent tutoring me in using Blender's sculpting tools, and specifically in sculpting faces. I made much more use of that tool set (and skill set) in this project than in any of my previous ones. I'm particularly happy with Nova's face sculpt, even if it took me three days to do what a real sculptor can do in thirty minutes.

I had the figure mostly modeled, still thinking of it as mostly a technical exercise, when April suggested the cyan hair streak to complete the CMYK color scheme. Things snowballed from there, and a few realizations (like "laptop stickers") and a week of work later, Nova had developed into something a bit more like a character.

Nova's hair can be popped off to interchange her face plates using a pair of magnets. She has stands in varied heights for any of five emoji, meant to represent chat reactions to her stream, and some alternate hands.

Since I've never done any animation or sculpted posed figurines, I still have a lot to learn about modeling humans and creatures for posing, so the hand poses are simplistic and don't bend quite right. That'll be something to improve on in a future project, although I'll have to get back to something a little more crunchily mechanical for a bit for my next figure.

As always, thanks to my partner April and my mentor in all things Blender or miniature Workbenchmaniac, without either of whom none of these projects would be here.

Photo backdrops via Nendoroid More: Background Book 03.

[iconophasm]

Alexander Samokhvalov, "The Councils and Electrification Are the Basis of the New World," 1924

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the consolidated USSR embarked on a campaign to increase electrical output by eight times throughout the Russian territories. Lenin believed that electrification was the next step in the development of communism, saying "communism is council power plus electrification." The first battle had been for "all power to the councils (soviets)," and next, the battle would be for the expansion of productive capacity (electrical power).

The campaign recruited many Left Futurist artists to promote electrification as a social campaign.

(more GOELRO art posts coming soon hehe)