Notices by Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️ (cferdinandi@mastodon.social), page 2

@aral making up alternate realities is fun but but at all useful

@aral @josh I wouldn't call the kids at MIT, Princeton, UCLA, etc. without privilege by any means.

And yes, of course if our own President was murdering us, things would be "different." It's not a lack of care, Aral. It's a lack of agency.

@josh @aral I cannot convince Aral that voting against Biden (or not voting at all) is going to be EVEN WORSE than voting for Genocide Joe.

There won't be a democracy to save.

@aral It's so weird to describe a protest filled with Jewish people as "anti-semitic", and claiming that protest shouldn't disrupt people's lives misses the whole fucking point.

I'm not surprised, though. This dude called Vietnam protestors "assholes" back in the day.

Bernie Sanders hit the nail on the head when he called this Biden's Vietnam moment.

@aral @delroth "Now..."

Privilege is a hell of a drug, eh?

@aral Fucking irony

A lot of people don’t realize just how violent the struggle between labor and the rich was in recent history here in the US. https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/112303284411139172

About to launch a podcast for ADHD ftw!, and can't decide if the category for it is...

- Health
- Technology
- Education

I apparently have to choose one.

https://adhdftw.com

@aral it’s amazing how many German folks show up in my mentions to defend what Israel is doing to Palestine.

@aral @cory been a fan of your and @laura work for ages. Frankly, I’m exhausted. It’s feels like we’re “losing” the fight against big tech.

I’ve been feeling increasingly burnt out by tech

@cory Exactly this!

@ollicle @aral that’ll pay fruit in a few years. For now, I’m still in a bad place though.

@SamStrong @aral Funny thing is, I also see vanilla tech GROWING in popularity, which makes it all the more shocking to me. Everywhere I look, I see a renewed interest in vanilla CSS, and tools that send plain old HTML instead of the JS rendered stuff.

@thomasfuchs I really appreciate how consistently anti-Nazi you are, Thomas! Seeing a strange number of folks who are all "never again... except when it's people I don't like."

@aral Thanks Aral! I've had a shocking number of folks tell me "maybe you should teach folks how to use AI to learn code?"

That's antithetical to everything I believe. These tools are a scourge.

But because I have ADHD, still don't really know what's caused this, and depend on my business to keep a house over my head and food on plates, I'm stuck in analysis paralysis mode.

I simply don't know what to do next.

Working in web dev has been such a massive blessing for me. It's where I feel at home. And watching my students thrive has been the most fulfilling thing I've done in my career.

This sucks.

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Y'all... I'm struggling.

Over 8 years or so, I grew a handful of tutorials around vanilla JS into a series of courses and workshops that actually brought in enough money to be a full time business for me.

Then last year, sales took a nose dive... 🧵 /1

@Infrogmation @aral the choices are “bad” or “worse”

@aral and this is during an election year. This asshole is going to get trump re-elected.