Appreciator of finches and birds. The mask is my face.
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Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
"It is very hard to support graduate student unions."
no it isn't. don't universalize your personal shortcomings.
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
Understand that ALL of the AI hyperscale datacenters being built in the US, Canada, China, South Korea, Africa, and SEAsia, to process nonsense like GenAI microdramas, memes, LLM programs and chatbots like Claude and Grok to answer asanine questions and emails. Not cure cancer.
MEMPHIS: “I bought this house and named her Serenity because of the quiet… now my kids want me to move because it’s not safe.”😕
This is what Elon Musk’s xAI is doing to people. This is why the people fight. @nonewdatacenters
(from the @Tennessean)
Ok we need the human intervention to keep them OUT of the wet lab and AWAY from our scientist jobs 😤
An AI system coordinates laboratory instruments to conduct multi-step molecular-biology experiments with limited human intervention
go.nature.com/4sIngog
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Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
Horrifying. Spa workers face untold amounts of sexual assault, violence, and robberies, and no one seems to care. People make jokes about “happy endings.” These mostly immigrant women deserve dignified work and dignified lives. RIP to the victim and hope they find the killer.
An unidentified woman was found dead with multiple stab wounds inside a Queens building Friday, cops said. nydailynews.com/2026/11/06/w…
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
Any academic who unironically cites "free tuition" as part of a graduate student's compensation package should be instantly disqualified from weighing in on labor issues
A $51,000 annual stipend, combined with free tuition and health insurance, produces a total annual compensation package exceeding $100,000. In exchange, students work approximately 20 hours per week for say four 14-week semesters over five years. This amounts to just 1,120 hours of work over the entire five-year period, yielding an effective hourly compensation of more than $450 -- over 18 times the median hourly wage of an American worker. Even if you write off the free tuition, this wage is around 9x that of the median US worker.
Not to mention that you walk away with a Harvard PhD when all is said and done. Good work if you can get it.
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
Non-NYer’s won’t pick up on the significance of this, but the Mayor’s and Governor’s offices have historically had a very adversarial relationship. Hochul and Mamdani working this closely together is a monumental change in NY politics. Hasn’t been like this since the ‘50s.
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
In the piece I'm working on, I'm arguing that what drives a lot of AI recklessness and anti-humanistic sentiment is an inability to accept limitation (perhaps especially mortality) as an essential and valuable aspect of a human life. (1/2)
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
As a biologist working in drug development, I’m sick and tired of “curing diseases” being paraded around as the one thing that makes AI worthwhile. AI has not developed a single drug. Nor has it made any unique discoveries that could directly lead to the development of one.
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
“One of the more striking aspects of the pandemic is just how unwilling we’ve been to engage in the collective interventions that could mitigate it. Whether it’s wearing a mask… too many of us have been unwilling to sacrifice our individual choice for the collective well-being.”
In 2022, @AbdulElSayed wrote an opinion piece about Long Covid and the importance of continuing to address it long after the emergency phase of the pandemic.
newrepublic.com/article/1654…
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
Thank you thank you thank you everyone for believing that our planet and our children deserved better than all this
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
california voters i’m going to explode you with my mind what is your fucking problem
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
MAGA was possibly the stupidest cult in history. TRUMP didn’t break America because he was strong, he broke America because we let our country become weak. Incoming democrats: no more “stern letters” and “concerned tweets.” Prosecute these criminals. Never let this happen again
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
LIFE TIP: Do not argue with your coworkers about anything at all tonight. Someone’s going to say shit they can’t take back and HR is going to take sides. Don’t bet on it being yours lmao
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
The fact that Google felt comfortable even threatening this is evidence enough that the anti-trust hammer needs to be brought down on them hard. We've let these corporations get away with too much for too long.
Google is now threatening America's schools, saying they will turn off their core search functions if schools choose to entirely block AI.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
Joyce 佳欣 retweeted
I think she just summed up why being disrespected in my field used to make me so angry. Minoritized folks who grow up poor often witness their parents be disrespected and that stays with you. So when you experience that yourself it feels 1000x amplified. Thanks Twitter therapy.
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Federal employees with Long COVID are reportedly facing revoked remote work accommodations, months-long delays, and repeated disability reviews.
Long COVID is recognized under federal disability law. Those protections mean little if patients can’t access them.
motherjones.com/politics/202…
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The City University relies more heavily on part-time professors as a portion of its teaching workforce than the national average. CUNY adjuncts say they’re struggling without their paychecks.
buff.ly/WIWf7sR
