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chris martens

noticed someone saying they're learning tech skills as a fallback for their art career. meanwhile i'm leaning harder into art skills in case this computer science thing turns out to be impossible without Complying

also considering renaming my grad class to Special Topics in Programming Languages: Intensive Principles of Woke Gender Ideology

look, they may call it “type systems” at some other university, but if you actually read the syllabus it’s the same content

@chrisamaphone I’m kinda regretting a little foregoing the opportunity a couple years ago to get certified as an aircraft mechanic

@chrisamaphone bringing this back from one of our old accounts:

trans 101: classical gender mechanics
trans 111: analytical gender mechanics
trans 201: intro to relativistic gender mechanics
trans 222: intro to quantum gender mechanics
trans 301: advanced quantum gender mechanics
trans 401: gender interactions in the societal fieldℊ²

@ricci at my diverse, equitable, and inclusive place of employment, northeastern university

@chrisamaphone sounds like some queer shit. I'm in

@chrisamaphone Ultimately, "gender" is a grammatical term for a way of assigning nouns to classes that affect the forms of other words associated with them in a sentence. Sounds a lot like a type system to me.

(It's not "polymorphism", it's verb-object agreement)

@chrisamaphone I'm learning wood working and carpentry on top of my cooking skills. While struggling to find meaningful work in tech...

@alesroubicek it's a brutal market out there. wishing you luck and a steady roof over your head!