Cynthia Taylor
@pinkhairedcyn.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Oberlin College.
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Letter from @pinkhairedcyn.bsky.social (posted with permission) to our Congressman.
June 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Letter from @pinkhairedcyn.bsky.social (posted with permission) to our Congressman.
@techconnectify.bsky.social Just wanted to let you know your videos inspired me and @stevecheckoway.bsky.social to get an electric car because you convinced us we didn’t need a 220V charger.
April 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
@techconnectify.bsky.social Just wanted to let you know your videos inspired me and @stevecheckoway.bsky.social to get an electric car because you convinced us we didn’t need a 220V charger.
Has anyone written their thesis yet on how the current belief in generalized AI is just like when the Victorians went through the Industrial Revolution and suddenly believed in ghosts and fairies and shit?
March 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Has anyone written their thesis yet on how the current belief in generalized AI is just like when the Victorians went through the Industrial Revolution and suddenly believed in ghosts and fairies and shit?
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What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
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Hello folks in spite of The Everything™️, my next book is out in one week!! 7 days!
If you would like to have a small heavily illustrated book tell you about the stars illuminating our understanding of the cosmos, this is your book!
To preorder (US): bookshop.org/p/books/fort...
🧪🔭📚 #booksky
If you would like to have a small heavily illustrated book tell you about the stars illuminating our understanding of the cosmos, this is your book!
To preorder (US): bookshop.org/p/books/fort...
🧪🔭📚 #booksky
March 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Hello folks in spite of The Everything™️, my next book is out in one week!! 7 days!
If you would like to have a small heavily illustrated book tell you about the stars illuminating our understanding of the cosmos, this is your book!
To preorder (US): bookshop.org/p/books/fort...
🧪🔭📚 #booksky
If you would like to have a small heavily illustrated book tell you about the stars illuminating our understanding of the cosmos, this is your book!
To preorder (US): bookshop.org/p/books/fort...
🧪🔭📚 #booksky
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1. Incredible ruling! An Ohio appeals court has ruled that trans care is healthcare, strikes down youth trans care ban!
It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare!
Subscribe to support my journalism.
You'll want to read this one.
It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare!
Subscribe to support my journalism.
You'll want to read this one.
Ohio Appeals Court Rules Trans Care Is Healthcare, Strikes Down Ban For Trans Youth
The ruling was in part based on a 2011 Amendment in the state guaranteeing healthcare freedom, originally meant to challenge Obamacare.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
1. Incredible ruling! An Ohio appeals court has ruled that trans care is healthcare, strikes down youth trans care ban!
It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare!
Subscribe to support my journalism.
You'll want to read this one.
It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare!
Subscribe to support my journalism.
You'll want to read this one.
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There’s a “death before detrans” sticker on a bollard just outside my office building. I see it and think about it every day when I come to work. I think it’s important and I’m glad whoever put it up did so.
trans folk say "death before detransition" because most of us would have died without transition
that statement is backed up by a mountain of dead trans folk who never got to live
only reason not to listen to us when we tell you what keeps us alive is because you think we are not worthy of life.
that statement is backed up by a mountain of dead trans folk who never got to live
only reason not to listen to us when we tell you what keeps us alive is because you think we are not worthy of life.
March 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
There’s a “death before detrans” sticker on a bollard just outside my office building. I see it and think about it every day when I come to work. I think it’s important and I’m glad whoever put it up did so.
Sure he’s an asshole, but between this and Rust in the Linux kernel Linus Torvald is winning me back.
March 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Sure he’s an asshole, but between this and Rust in the Linux kernel Linus Torvald is winning me back.
Stayed up too late looking at the moon.
March 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Stayed up too late looking at the moon.
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Not all heroes wear capes:
(h/t: Jay Kaufman)
(h/t: Jay Kaufman)
![Highlighted sentence in a peer-reviewed paper which reads: "As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references [35–47] although they are completely irrelevant to the present work."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7u67yo3nsfvnhcnttzzr35ck/bafkreie6zwzfiqybrxuopncdf5rgyqdsfmczjnofzeb4chgcymjowknfx4@jpeg)
November 12, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Not all heroes wear capes:
(h/t: Jay Kaufman)
(h/t: Jay Kaufman)
Amazing that none of these tech bros have ever heard of the Streisand effect. Sure she’s not allowed to publicize it, but now there’s a NYT article about how it hurts Zuck’s feelings if you buy a copy.
It appears that poor little Zuckerberg is working his wee fingers to the bone to silence the author of a memoir. Apparently, it hurts his feelings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t...
Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir (Gift Article)
An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Amazing that none of these tech bros have ever heard of the Streisand effect. Sure she’s not allowed to publicize it, but now there’s a NYT article about how it hurts Zuck’s feelings if you buy a copy.
I’ve seen two different college students wearing witch hats in the last two days. I can only assume witch hats are trending now?
March 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I’ve seen two different college students wearing witch hats in the last two days. I can only assume witch hats are trending now?
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If you're a man looking for a way to support women today, tell all your female coworkers how much money you make.
March 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If you're a man looking for a way to support women today, tell all your female coworkers how much money you make.
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happy international women’s day to all the women AND cis women out there!
March 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
happy international women’s day to all the women AND cis women out there!
Tonight I received four identical response emails from the office of Senator Bernie Moreno, which is not actually making me feel like he is “committed to listening to my concerns and ensuring that my voice is heard in Washington”
March 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Tonight I received four identical response emails from the office of Senator Bernie Moreno, which is not actually making me feel like he is “committed to listening to my concerns and ensuring that my voice is heard in Washington”
“So I thought this was just a regular SpaceX explosion but apparently it’s an extra bad SpaceX explosion?” is a thing I just said to my husband.
March 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
“So I thought this was just a regular SpaceX explosion but apparently it’s an extra bad SpaceX explosion?” is a thing I just said to my husband.
Today while trying to figure out what’s up with one of our cats our vet causally said “Maybe she’s allergic to her teeth” and how is THAT a thing.
March 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Today while trying to figure out what’s up with one of our cats our vet causally said “Maybe she’s allergic to her teeth” and how is THAT a thing.
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filed under: baudy horror
my stomach is making modem noises
March 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
filed under: baudy horror
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
I appear to have made a typo and titled this lecture “The Translation Look-aside Bugger”
March 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I appear to have made a typo and titled this lecture “The Translation Look-aside Bugger”
Stop trying to look at kids’ junk, you fucking freaks!
The NCAA already banned transgender athletes from competing in women's sports. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says in a new suit that that's not enough: www.chron.com/sports/colle...
Texas lawsuit seeks 'sex-screening' of NCAA student-athletes
Paxton's latest lawsuit is an attempt to further scrutinize and hyperfocus on the prevention of transgender women in sports.
www.chron.com
February 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Stop trying to look at kids’ junk, you fucking freaks!
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This is a really interesting group!
The Computing Research Association (CRA) has done something like this aimed at every member of Congress and their staff. Focusing on local papers is another great way to connect the benefits of Federally-funded work with your community!
The Computing Research Association (CRA) has done something like this aimed at every member of Congress and their staff. Focusing on local papers is another great way to connect the benefits of Federally-funded work with your community!
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
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February 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is a really interesting group!
The Computing Research Association (CRA) has done something like this aimed at every member of Congress and their staff. Focusing on local papers is another great way to connect the benefits of Federally-funded work with your community!
The Computing Research Association (CRA) has done something like this aimed at every member of Congress and their staff. Focusing on local papers is another great way to connect the benefits of Federally-funded work with your community!
So how many times a day are we all having to consciously unclench our jaws lately? For me I would say it’s all the times.
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
So how many times a day are we all having to consciously unclench our jaws lately? For me I would say it’s all the times.
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James No LGB without the T Kirk
James T-boyrius Kirk
February 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
James No LGB without the T Kirk
Finally finished knitting this sweater! 🧶. It’s inspired by the eclipse this April (and made with wonderful eclipse themed yarn from @destinationyarn.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Finally finished knitting this sweater! 🧶. It’s inspired by the eclipse this April (and made with wonderful eclipse themed yarn from @destinationyarn.bsky.social