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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

In his defense, I too would be extremely concerned for my safety driving around DC, if I had challenged the head of Teamsters to a fistfight.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

In fairness, being concerned for his safety is pretty reasonable, given he publicly challenged the head of Teamsters to a fistfight during a senate cmte hearing.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

“"Eppur si muove.” — Galileo to the Church, and now US scientists to the federal government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...

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The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

It says everything about *our* cognition and nothing about the machine’s cognition.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

My go-to in these discussions is always the classic aughts IKEA lamp commercial, and how a lamp is very obviously not sentient but all it takes is a little music and lighting and camera angles and we, with our human cognitive biases, read emotions into it. youtu.be/dBqhIVyfsRg?...

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Ikea "Lamp" Commercial - Hi Res

YouTube video by cheedogg

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

This is not only cruel to the individuals involved, it will destroy America’s leadership in high tech.

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IMPACTS @fedscienceimpacts.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

📢 Today we joined the March for Science. What happens when federal science programs are cut? 🚨 Tomorrow, we launch a project tracking the real-world impacts of these decisions for all Americans. Stay tuned. #MarchForScience #IMPACTSSurvey #ThisAffectsEveryone

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Aww. Cuckoo’s Egg had such a formative impact on my early teen interest in computer systems. ❤️

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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Please wear a tightly-fitted N-95 or KN-95 anytime you go outside even if you think you don’t need it. If you have a stockpile left over from Covid, share them. The particulates can easily do permanent lung damage. I wish I’d known this during the San Diego fires and evacuations I lived through. 😞

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I’m just trying to wrap my head around why you would park a $200k car in your basketball court, as if dents from stray balls increase its resale value.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It’s the $200k car parked next to the basketball court for me, because what your $200k car really needs is a bunch of dents from stray balls.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Our student-athletes are impressive af, if anyone can pull it off they can, but it’s asking a lot of them.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Yeah I really worry about how hard all that travel is on the athletes. It wipes out almost a week of productivity for me when I do a round trip to the other coast for work. Flight time, time zone change, inefficiency of being off routine and living out of a suitcase, all that. Idk how they do it.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

We’re as confused as you are. 😅 Like the Pacific Ocean is so close to campus you could see it if it weren’t for the hills, and you’re telling me we’re in a conference named for a whole *different* ocean now? Make it make sense

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I’m with whatshername—that is WILD. Generic sertraline is so cheap! It must be costing them more in paperwork to kick you off than a 6mo supply would cost.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Mini Cat Town is a 501c(3) nonprofit kitten rescue operating adoption cat cafes 5 different shopping centers across NorCal. The City of Palo Alto is evicting the new Stanford Shopping Center location due to a strained reading of “boarding” facility in zoning.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

As if there weren’t enough reasons Palo Alto zoning is villainous: city planners take bold anti-kitten stance. www.change.org/p/help-mini-...

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Sign the Petition

Help Mini Cat Town Stay at Stanford Shopping Center!

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

My cat could win Oscars for her roles in “nobody has fed me breakfast yet today” and “you thought I escaped out the door but actually I’ve been in this weird new hiding place you wouldn’t think is physically possible for the past hour while you mourned my death”

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Cyber Civil Rights Initiative @cybercivilrights.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

For over a decade, CCRI leadership has been championing both state and federal legislation related to the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images. Here is a thread of gratitude to CCRI's early leaders and a throwback through the last decade. 1/x

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I hope you are planning on using it to generate true random numbers

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I wept. What a moment. Can’t find a tougher act to follow than Elizabeth Prelogar, but Chase Strangio absolutely met the moment and crushed it.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Still true: “I can’t point to one instant of time where I overcame that societal programming and decided that I mattered as much as anyone else. It’s been a long process that continues right up to the present.” medium.com/women-of-sil...

medium.com

10 Questions with Cynthia Bailey Lee

Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“[Growing up,] I always thought of myself in a supporting or object role — it was my destiny to be somebody else’s mom, somebody else’s wife, an indispensable help to somebody else’s startup.” medium.com/women-of-sil...

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10 Questions with Cynthia Bailey Lee

Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“When I get to witness that moment when a a student’s passion for coding is first sparked, it feels almost holy, like being present for a birth.” medium.com/women-of-sil...

medium.com

10 Questions with Cynthia Bailey Lee

Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“It was [at NASA] that I first started working on UNIX, and I was mesmerized, completely hooked. There was something about the austere command prompt that inspired my imagination about what could be explored beyond.” medium.com/women-of-sil...

medium.com

10 Questions with Cynthia Bailey Lee

Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Gave this interview 8 years ago today. I’d like to think that past me would be really proud of what I’ve done in that time. medium.com/women-of-sil...

medium.com

10 Questions with Cynthia Bailey Lee

Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’m baaaack!! Had to be off socials entirely the past 12 months while working in the Senate, but now I’m back embarrassing myself without risking tipping the balance of power in Congress in the process.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Why does a generation that relies so much on their phones never charge them it’s so stressful to me watching it 😭

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Truly my loss on both accounts. Also no ramen vending machine. Though I have used a chicken broth/soup vending machine (the ice rink in the mall when I was growing up had one next to the coffee/hot chocolate vending machine), and as rudimentary and terrible as it was, it was still glorious.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

If I ever switch careers to chef, I’m going to put that world-changing culinary act on my C.V.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 25/06/2023

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Cynthia and Racine at Dolores Park for Dyke March, holding a progress pride flag.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

Happy birthday!!! 🎊 And happy pride!!

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

Deep sea pressures are so 🤯 Anybody else spend this week thinking about the episode of Mythbusters where they got a train tanker car to implode like a stepped-on soda can, by reducing interior pressure? That took 78kPa. Under 4,000m of saltwater, the pressure is 40,000kPa. 😱

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

Next time I’ll do more fluffing/squishing of the top crust.

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

Thank you for sharing this. It looked so good I added it to my shopping list, and finally made it tonight. Soooo good! I felt like I didn’t do a great job of assembly but it still came out beautiful and delicious.

https://smittenkitchen.com/2022/01/spanakopita/

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 18/06/2023

Oh good heavens what an autocorrect—*all not AI. 😅

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Cynthia Bailey @cynthiablee.bsky.social · 18/06/2023

Congratulations to Al the class of 2023! Every year of your college life was touched (or in some cases punched) by the pandemic. You’ve paid an unusual price for these degrees. But they carry unusual honor because of it. Love you all!! 💕

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