Mathew Fidge

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created by drawing with my eyes. I ALS and am a quadriplegic. This drawing is done using #eyegaze camera and ArtRage app.

#als #alswarrior #alsawareness

'Those who dared speak up were branded "negative" and "haters", no matter how much data they lugged in tow.'

We were also just told we didn't know what we were talking about or didn't know how to write JS enough OR that we didn't work on complex enough applications that warranted needing CSS-IN-JS solutions or going all in on frameworks :) :) :)

https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/

The Market for Lemons

New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?

Alex Russell
Today's cartoon is about vaping. In the cartoon I suggest vaping is "bad for you" and hilarious hijinks ensue. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/03/vaping-its-bad-and-not-just-because-tiny-children-are-doing-it
Vaping – it’s bad and not just because tiny children are doing it!

What a wretched and ubiquitous weird smelling thing. It is everywhere!

The Guardian

Sad stories.

My @smh cartoon.

My goal isn't for Mastodon to replace Twitter.

My goal is for the Fediverse to replace Big Social.

Yesterday Twitter announced the end of the free API, as I expected they would, and a pricing structure so steep I couldn't fundraise up it if I tried.

This means that @[email protected] and @[email protected] will stop working on the 9th.

The outpouring of support on my announcement of that made me cry, but the Blind folks in the replies despairing at using twitter now breaks my heart. Fuck Elon Musk.

My timeline currently consists of posts that say:

“iOS has a cultural advantage over Android because of Apple’s relentless focus on highly-polished UX.”

And:

“I tried to move an app on my home screen and fifteen icons disappeared; I had to reboot.”

Facebook/Meta laid off 11,000 people and now is doing 40 BILLION in stock buybacks. None of these companies care about cost cutting, they saw an opportunity to suppress wages without any criticism and they took it. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/01/facebook-parent-meta-announces-40-billion-stock-buyback.html
Facebook-parent Meta announces $40 billion stock buyback

Meta added active users in the fourth quarter, but revenue growth still slowed, and the social networking company is emphasize its cash-generation powers.

CNBC

You don't have to be racist to participate in systemic racism. US policing produces racist outcomes even from "not-racist" people. I'm going to explain (again):

* why I've probably been pulled over way more times than most people you know, even though most of the times I'm pulled over, I get no ticket (because I did nothing wrong)
* how I stopped getting pulled over so much (because I understand the system)
* And why lots of cops say that the average voter is more racist than the average cop