Cynthia Bailey
@cynthiablee.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @ Stanford Computer Science Dept. AI Policy Advisor @ U.S. Senate. Interested in all things tech. Also: YIMBY, bikes, chickens, sourdough. 🏳️🌈 (formerly Cynthia Lee)
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.
August 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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.
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.
August 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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.
It says everything about *our* cognition and nothing about the machine’s cognition.
May 28, 2025 at 6:09 AM
It says everything about *our* cognition and nothing about the machine’s cognition.
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?...
Ikea "Lamp" Commercial - Hi Res
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May 28, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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?...
Aww. Cuckoo’s Egg had such a formative impact on my early teen interest in computer systems. ❤️
March 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Aww. Cuckoo’s Egg had such a formative impact on my early teen interest in computer systems. ❤️
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. 😞
January 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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. 😞
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.
January 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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.
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.
January 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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.
Our student-athletes are impressive af, if anyone can pull it off they can, but it’s asking a lot of them.
January 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Our student-athletes are impressive af, if anyone can pull it off they can, but it’s asking a lot of them.
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.
January 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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.
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
January 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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
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.
December 31, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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.
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.
December 29, 2024 at 11:43 PM
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.
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”
December 27, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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”