Michael Saxon

@saxon.me

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

ICE detained him due to a burglary conviction when he was a teenager that he was pardoned for in 2010,

Maintainer told to remove malware skills, he says "There's about 1 Million things people want me to do, I don't have a magical team that verifies user generated content"

An email from Deepak Chopra to Jeff Epstein discussing inviting Lady Gaga, Max Tegmark, Madonna, Frank Wilczek, and Woody Allen to a dinner to "have [Madonna and Lady Gaga] make peace with each other"

Rand's kind of resistance doesn't require you to change the way you live your life; it doesn't require you to grapple with a completely new picture of the world. It requires you to do what you're already doing, but now with the added halo of the political. Don't like paying your taxes? Well, good news, that's now an ideological stance. Annoyed by bureaucracy and tedious meetings? Well, congrats, be- cause that's philosophy now. This is the genius behind the kvetching about "political correctness," for instance: you get to keep talking the way you've always talked, but instead of having to worry you're being lazy, you get to tell
yourself you're actually being courageous.

My five star review of knives out reads: Throughout the movie there's a running gag that nobody knows where Ana de Armas came from. This was unbelievable to me, obviously she's from heaven

A deepseek whale about to overthink until the Terminator tells it to answer right away.

Cursor with Claude backend suggests I say "built with a lot of help from Claude"

This Star Wars character's name is Klaud