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Michael Saxon

@saxon.me
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To mine own opinions be true Research scientist @ GDM. Prev: postdoc @ UW, PhD UCSB, BSMS ASU Evals, metrics, multilinguality, multiculturality, multimodality, and (dabbling in) reasoning 100% Product of public schools saxon.me

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026
Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 04/09/2026
guys ace combat 4 was incredible. Ps2 games have an aura modern titles can't touch
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 31/08/2026
God the odyssey is a boring read lmao
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
found an organization for some of you all
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 08/08/2026
Minimum qualifications: PhD OR Stanford BS OR high school diploma and 25k twitter followers
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I’m saying this as a routine voluntary user of LLMs: constant questioning and re-evaluation of whether you are interacting with a human does real psychic damage.
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 23/07/2026
"Claude, generate and post a promotional animation for my book about the space shuttle. Show the shuttle taking off from above"
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 22/07/2026
The problem with tesla design is they made one extremely kiki car and the rest are bouba
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 14/07/2026
The fool thinks technology is making the world worse The wise man knows technology is making the world better The genius acknowledges these things and still thinks technology is making the world worse
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Election results:
Everyone gets a Puppy: 49.9%
Diarrhea Forever: 50.1%
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
MONROE DIVISION
JILL HINES ET AL — CASE NO. 3:23-CV-00571
VERSUS — JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY
ALEX STAMOS ET AL — MAG. JUDGE KAYLA D. MCCLUSKY
MEMORANDUM RULING
Before the Court is a Renewed Joint Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter and Personal Jurisdiction [Doc. No. 191] filed by Defendants, Alex Stamos, Renée DiResta, the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, the Leland Stanford Junior University, Kate Starbird, Graphika, Camille François, the Atlantic Council, and Graham Brookie (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs, Jill Hines ("Hines") and Jim Hoft ("Hoft") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), filed an Opposition [Doc. No. 207]. Defendants then filed a Reply [Doc. No. 209].
For the reasons set forth, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED.
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 28/06/2026
Apologizing to the ghost of noah webster for having my name attached to a paper with br*tish english spelling
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 22/06/2026
get annoyed whenever people use whenever when when is correct
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 15/06/2026
Got ghosted by a VC on Hinge for sharing my honest opinions about Chalmers and consciousness research
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The ban is an incredibly successful maneuver if the aim is ham up the drama surrounding supposed ‘snowballing capabilities’ without needing to demonstrate any actual advancement in performance.
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 13/06/2026
problem is that language model, unlike a cannon, isn't actually dangerous
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 12/06/2026
Low key pulling for Spurs because my Yankee hatred has jumped sports
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
there's actually being chill about your degree or credentials, which is of course totally cool and good, and then there's the whole meta-snobbery thing some people will do where they make a show of humbebragging about how little [prestigous credential] means to them, and I really hate the latter.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 04/06/2026
This was very obviously always the plan, and anyone who believed that Meta had any qualms about maximum privacy invasion is a rube. We must deploy rigorous mockery to fully socially ostracize anyone who attempts to wear these things. We have to go full Scoble on Meta glasses.
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 27/05/2026
Got booed on the caltrain for wearing my dbacks jersey. Listen, how about you guys win against us ONCE, and then you get to boo
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 25/05/2026
I appreciate this tack toward the slop(like) submitters. The point is to gatekeep on whether something is contribution-shaped
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 22/05/2026
Had a nightmare that arxiv links on twitter started getting indexed as citations by google scholar
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 16/05/2026
Many have pointed out that the industry titans of yore used their wealth to build libraries, universities, while today's make megayachts and rockets Robber barons brought infrastructure and industrialization vs software and financialization Maybe they're connected? Builders build, buyers buy
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 14/05/2026
Had trouble making it through Ezra Klein's California gubernatorial candidate housing forum because he pronounces housing as "how sing" instead of "how zing" (the correct way)
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 13/05/2026
Ethics reviewing is fun because pretty much all you have to do is remind reviewers that they did not give a legitimate reason to request an ethics review
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 13/05/2026
Just watched the Michael Jackson movie. It was a bold creative decision to spend 30 minutes of runtime on a shot-for-shot remake of Captain Eo
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 08/05/2026
Looking for an emergency reviewer for COLM on evaluating LMs for science/engineering. Do me a solid and I'll owe you a bite or beverage when next we meet
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 08/05/2026
"We Are the World" and Ravel's Bolero are topologically equivalent
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 01/05/2026
Is there a recognized dialectal distinction in american english for whether people pronounce the "s" in "housing" or "islam" as an /s/ or a /z/? I am a z user
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 01/05/2026
Just said "no problema, es muzukash- es difícil"
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 27/04/2026
So much productivityslop on YouTube
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 23/04/2026
Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.
yousofazizi.com
Free Yousof Azizi
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 23/04/2026
New "wreck a nice beach" encountered Siri transcribed "illusion of free will" as "allusion a free whale"
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 19/04/2026
Saw an interesting video claiming Dwarkesh Patel is an industry plant, to which I say duh? There is no way to have a tech podcast whose relevance revolves around getting CEOs etc to come on and NOT be an industry plant
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 18/04/2026
promptologist
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 18/04/2026
so basically imagine the Grant administration in the 21st century, except instead of a woke war hero putting is dumbass friends in charge, it's a craven perverted reality star
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I had cautioned 3 years ago that xrisk doomerism was going to get people hurt or killed (on that other site when I was active there)
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 16/04/2026
Happy tax day youtube.com/watch?v=Oc8v...
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Ta-Ta-Tax Fraud! (Reprise) - Yoshi Commits Tax Fraud
YouTube video by SiIvaGunner
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 16/04/2026
Should we be troubled that "Pentagon worship service" is a thing that exists...?
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 04/04/2026
Trump lackeys, if anyone, should think twice about normalizing ignoring pardons
ICE detained him due to a burglary conviction when he was a teenager that he was pardoned for in 2010,
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 03/04/2026
you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:
actual nytimes headline 

FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.
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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 30/03/2026
Palantir has student data, including immigration status, from the ed tech discussion platform Piazza. Palantir paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg... I blew the whistle on this in 2016 and the CEO contacted my employer.
"Add additional information to your Piazza profile

Diversity & Inclusion – select one or more (required)

Let's harness the power of human difference to help solve some of the world’s hardest problems with employers on Piazza Network.

A list of checkboxes follows, labeled as:

    Female
    Male
    Non-binary
    American Indian or Indigenous Peoples
    Asian
    Black or African American
    Hispanic or Latino
    Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
    White or Caucasian
    Veteran or served in the Armed Services
    First-generation college student
    Living with a disability
    Member of the LGBTQ community
    National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)

Each of the 3 sections above are required by the Piazza Network.""Add additional information to your Piazza profile"

Checkboxes from previous screenshot continue:

"- Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
- Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
- Women in Computer Science (WiCS)
- Prefer not to share"

Next, a section titled:

"Visa requirement to work in the U.S. (required)

- I am a US citizen
- To work in the US, I do not require sponsorship for an employment authorizing status or visa immediately, nor in the future
- To work in the US, I will require sponsorship for an employment authorizing status or visa in the future
- To work in the US, I will require sponsorship for an employment authorizing status or visa immediately
- Not applicable / Prefer not to share

Next is a field labeled:

"Personal email (non-school, example: name@email.com) (required)"

"Employers may need to use this to communicate with you as part of the Piazza Network."

"Each of the 3 sections above are required by the Piazza Network."
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 30/03/2026
Going to no kings and then watching project hail mary on Saturday was a refreshing cocktail of obamacore
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 30/03/2026
Every sufficiently viral post about AI for X will have at least one reply that says "erm, hello, hi, [profession X] here, and there are a million reasons this is fucking wrong I can't even explain it"
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 29/03/2026
Project Hail Mary is a good film to watch with machine translation people
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 28/03/2026
I have a very high bar for what AI-generated content of yours I want to see, it has to be something I couldn't trivially generate myself. Wikipedia-like informational text is probably the canonical example of LM text anyone can prompt, so just let me generate my own don't put yours on the site
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/03/2026
A person who stumbles into great wealth & power will inevitably develop an elaborate worldview that tells them: a) yes, you & people like you deserve the wealth & power, & b) no, you shouldn't feel bad about it. There is nothing more boring on earth than them sharing the details of said worldview.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/03/2026
Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.
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Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...
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