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Jocelyn Shen
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Something is “wrong” — on perspective and acceptance in the digital age

I don’t like edge cases. Lists and procedures, scheduled jobs, binary categories, and efficiency are much more comforting to me. I used to think that adding constraints and laws to handle different conditions would make my life easier. Perhaps it’s a combination of being a computer scientist who thinks too…

Writing

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Writing

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Jul 3, 2022

poem sketches winter to summer ‘22

6/24/2022 — memorial to morning Twenty two sailboats, I count, They look like toys from where I stand, and I Imagine pinching them between my fingertips The way my dad used to catch Monarch butterflies Gently by the wings Before letting them fly away Twenty seven flights down, I count, …

Poetry

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Poetry

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Nov 5, 2020

A Letter to Nainai

桂花酒 Osmanthus Wine Those memories I have of you are sweet, sweet like the osmanthus honey you used to make me, petals hand picked from your cobblestone patio back in China. You left only a few jars before you went back to Nanjing seven years ago, but I still remember…

Asian American

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Asian American

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Jun 5, 2019

Between Barbed Wire: A Visual Analysis of TIME’s Welcome to America

Between Barbed Wire: A Visual Analysis of TIME’s Welcome to America A series of rafts float closer to shore, near the Rio Grande on United States territory. The riders’ faces are beaten and their hair mangled and sweaty. Most, if not all of them, are women and children. Driving out…

Immigration

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Between Barbed Wire: A Visual Analysis of TIME’s Welcome to America
Between Barbed Wire: A Visual Analysis of TIME’s Welcome to America
Immigration

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Aug 11, 2018

Open Source and Diversity

Open source still has a long way to go before software, and software development alike, becomes more equitable. Open source has proved useful in building a community of developers and creating high-quality products, but it is also reveals some of the worst parts of humanity. …

Open Source

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Open Source

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