Mira Philips
@mkphil.bsky.social
PhD candidate at UPenn. Migration | Labour | Social Reproduction | Precarity | Basic Income
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Almost twice as many Canadians see immigrants as being unfairly scapegoated and most believe that we should continue to welcome newcomers while fixing housing and healthcare shortfalls.
Source: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shifting-borders/
Source: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shifting-borders/
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Almost twice as many Canadians see immigrants as being unfairly scapegoated and most believe that we should continue to welcome newcomers while fixing housing and healthcare shortfalls.
Source: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shifting-borders/
Source: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shifting-borders/
New research with my colleagues at Penn/Delaware! Using unconditional cash as a lens, we explore how traditional notions of deservedness may be fracturing amongst beneficiaries of social services. #unconditionalcash #deservedness #policy #qualmethods
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Renegotiating deservedness: A Big Qual analysis across eight guaranteed income experiments
Accessing the US safety net depends on labour market participation and demonstrating behaviour policymakers deem responsible. These prescriptions create moral distinctions between deserving and undes...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
New research with my colleagues at Penn/Delaware! Using unconditional cash as a lens, we explore how traditional notions of deservedness may be fracturing amongst beneficiaries of social services. #unconditionalcash #deservedness #policy #qualmethods
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I’m wondering what the timeline is for teachers who write glowing articles about embracing ai in the classroom to those same teachers writing about how their school replaced them with a bot.
September 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I’m wondering what the timeline is for teachers who write glowing articles about embracing ai in the classroom to those same teachers writing about how their school replaced them with a bot.
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A commercial for AI shows a college student asking it how to make her dorm room southwest cozy and it gave her websites and how is this better and different than just typing southwest cozy decor into a search engine 🙄
September 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A commercial for AI shows a college student asking it how to make her dorm room southwest cozy and it gave her websites and how is this better and different than just typing southwest cozy decor into a search engine 🙄
One of the worst things I’ve ever read. ChatGPT won’t save you. Also, of course it’s going to tell you whatever you want to hear!
www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
I asked ChatGPT to predict my retirement and it helped calm my financial anxiety
Some save every penny for a down payment on a home. Others live for today and figure tomorrow will sort itself out. I’ve spent years comparing myself to them
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
One of the worst things I’ve ever read. ChatGPT won’t save you. Also, of course it’s going to tell you whatever you want to hear!
www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
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We've just sent this letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney regarding negotiations between @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants and Air Canada/Air Canada Rouge.
tl;dr: Respect the collective bargaining process and don't intervene.
#BCLab #CdnPoli #CanLab
tl;dr: Respect the collective bargaining process and don't intervene.
#BCLab #CdnPoli #CanLab
August 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
We've just sent this letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney regarding negotiations between @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants and Air Canada/Air Canada Rouge.
tl;dr: Respect the collective bargaining process and don't intervene.
#BCLab #CdnPoli #CanLab
tl;dr: Respect the collective bargaining process and don't intervene.
#BCLab #CdnPoli #CanLab
@pattyhajdu.bsky.social says this isn’t the time to add more challenges and disruptions for Canadians. I guess that doesn’t include the challenge of poor working conditions for Canadian flight attendants.
I won’t book any more flights w @aircanada.bsky.social until they agree to a fair contract.
I won’t book any more flights w @aircanada.bsky.social until they agree to a fair contract.
August 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
@pattyhajdu.bsky.social says this isn’t the time to add more challenges and disruptions for Canadians. I guess that doesn’t include the challenge of poor working conditions for Canadian flight attendants.
I won’t book any more flights w @aircanada.bsky.social until they agree to a fair contract.
I won’t book any more flights w @aircanada.bsky.social until they agree to a fair contract.
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It’s time for the #CLC to call for a #generalstrike. Patty Hajdu has just ordered striking Air Canada workers back to work and into binding arbitration. The Charter doesn’t matter to her. Workers’ Rights don’t matter to her. #AirCanada #CUPW #CUPE #solidarity
August 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It’s time for the #CLC to call for a #generalstrike. Patty Hajdu has just ordered striking Air Canada workers back to work and into binding arbitration. The Charter doesn’t matter to her. Workers’ Rights don’t matter to her. #AirCanada #CUPW #CUPE #solidarity
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TRUISM: When big news breaks about some systemic environmental fuckery, there will be some bullshit story about how you are the problem.
Scientists: OMG the Thwaite’s glacier is breaking up
NY Times:
We Love Our Dogs and Cats. But Are They Bad for the Environment? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
Scientists: OMG the Thwaite’s glacier is breaking up
NY Times:
We Love Our Dogs and Cats. But Are They Bad for the Environment? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
We Love Our Dogs and Cats. But Are They Bad for the Environment?
www.nytimes.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
TRUISM: When big news breaks about some systemic environmental fuckery, there will be some bullshit story about how you are the problem.
Scientists: OMG the Thwaite’s glacier is breaking up
NY Times:
We Love Our Dogs and Cats. But Are They Bad for the Environment? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
Scientists: OMG the Thwaite’s glacier is breaking up
NY Times:
We Love Our Dogs and Cats. But Are They Bad for the Environment? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
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I wish academic institutions would stop rewarding ‘entrepreneurship’ like it’s a benign force without any ethical or moral (or indeed scholarly) implications.
July 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I wish academic institutions would stop rewarding ‘entrepreneurship’ like it’s a benign force without any ethical or moral (or indeed scholarly) implications.
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The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.
Woman in line in front of me at the post office is not happy about the cost of shipping. She just whipped out her phone, asked ChatGPT how much it thinks the shipping should cost, and is trying to get the mailman to honor that price.
July 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.
Ok so I’m never flying #DeltaAirlines
We went from the customer is always right to the customer is always ripe for the picking.
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket
The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.
fortune.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Ok so I’m never flying #DeltaAirlines
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If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/
When I see people complain about male loneliness, it is so painfully OBVIOUS to me that most of these lonely men are men who feel entitled to a woman who does that labor for them, who acts as their agent enmeshing them into community through unpaid pro-social labor on their behalf.
July 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/
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Okay their dad just took them to the playground so HERE WE GO
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I have a banger thread on informal feminized labor and "male loneliness epidemic discourse" cooked up in my head, but I can't get my kids to leave me along long enough for me to write it
July 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Okay their dad just took them to the playground so HERE WE GO
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The problem isn't that generativeAI will get so good it will replace artists. It can't and never will.
The problem is that uncreative and incurious people will flood every venue with so much regurgitated slop that no artist has a chance of ever being seen or found.
The problem is that uncreative and incurious people will flood every venue with so much regurgitated slop that no artist has a chance of ever being seen or found.
July 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The problem isn't that generativeAI will get so good it will replace artists. It can't and never will.
The problem is that uncreative and incurious people will flood every venue with so much regurgitated slop that no artist has a chance of ever being seen or found.
The problem is that uncreative and incurious people will flood every venue with so much regurgitated slop that no artist has a chance of ever being seen or found.
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Meta is accused of “using faulty data to train an AI climate tool, raising false hopes about the feasibility of removing CO2 at scale”
This seems like Big News about three things: the vulnerability of AI to bias; the sketchy politics of Meta; the inherent idiocy of CO2 capture and storage
This seems like Big News about three things: the vulnerability of AI to bias; the sketchy politics of Meta; the inherent idiocy of CO2 capture and storage
July 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Meta is accused of “using faulty data to train an AI climate tool, raising false hopes about the feasibility of removing CO2 at scale”
This seems like Big News about three things: the vulnerability of AI to bias; the sketchy politics of Meta; the inherent idiocy of CO2 capture and storage
This seems like Big News about three things: the vulnerability of AI to bias; the sketchy politics of Meta; the inherent idiocy of CO2 capture and storage
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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
May 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
They call it an “objective tool.” That doesn’t exist and certainly not with AI.
The obsession with inserting AI into everything, especially sensitive issues, is so concerning. And I’m not even going to touch the sample size of 18.
The obsession with inserting AI into everything, especially sensitive issues, is so concerning. And I’m not even going to touch the sample size of 18.
“The interdisciplinary team built the model after recording 18 sessions with children as they shared traumatic experiences.”
USF researchers develop AI that detects PTSD in children’s facial expressions
The tool can help overcome barriers to diagnosis, like cognitive development, language skills, avoidance behaviors and emotional suppression.
www.tampabay.com
July 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
They call it an “objective tool.” That doesn’t exist and certainly not with AI.
The obsession with inserting AI into everything, especially sensitive issues, is so concerning. And I’m not even going to touch the sample size of 18.
The obsession with inserting AI into everything, especially sensitive issues, is so concerning. And I’m not even going to touch the sample size of 18.
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This is poor reporting on pseudo-science, but it will be used to provide a "scientific" justification for the application of AI to determine job worthiness or parole worthiness etc from videos & images of applicants' facial expressions. See "Automated Affect Recognition" in Crawford's _Atlas of AI_.
July 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is poor reporting on pseudo-science, but it will be used to provide a "scientific" justification for the application of AI to determine job worthiness or parole worthiness etc from videos & images of applicants' facial expressions. See "Automated Affect Recognition" in Crawford's _Atlas of AI_.