Mike Sax

AI, Accessibility, Policy,
Elixir, Phoenix, SwiftUI.

💯 personal views 💬

🏡🌳 Eugene, Oregon

Immigrant 🇧🇪 🇺🇸

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen

website: https://sax.net

Last Notes

2026-03-31 17:35:50 UTC

#KesslerSyndrome, coming soon to a planet near you. 🛰️💥🛰️
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-starlink-satellite-suffers-mysterious-anomaly-in-orbit/

2026-03-02 04:31:13 UTC

Today I learned that nearly every modern car has four tire pressure sensors that broadcast a unique ID in clear text, so a basic Raspberry Pi scanner can track when your car is nearby.
https://networks.imdea.org/your-cars-tire-sensors-could-be-used-to-track-you/

2025-11-21 23:42:21 UTC

“I assume for every one person like me, who’s actually standing up, there’s a thousand people who just don’t have the means or the time or, you know, they just leave frustrated and angry. They don’t have the ability to move forward and hold anyone accountable.”
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd

2025-11-21 19:50:14 UTC

“We as educators are helping families to write plans for their children’s care if they are kidnapped while their babies are at school. What are you as our community leaders doing?”
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/11/more-oregon-cities-declare-emergencies-as-federal-immigration-enforcement-takes-toll-on-communities.html

2025-10-16 03:38:42 UTC

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Most of Africa is way ahead in mobile banking because they didn’t have a wide network of bank branches. And maybe in a similar way the extreme income inequality and poor social safety net in the U.S. will spark a new system of distributing economic value, like a guaranteed basic income? I believe that good leadership with a common vision could get people at all levels on board, and cause a massive shift, much quicker than we’ve ever seen in history.

2025-10-16 03:02:30 UTC

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No, I believe the country will come together again.
In tech, the most successful companies help you either save or waste tons of time. Similarly, leaders run on either division or unity.
At some point, a new leader will step up to give us hope and remind us of our common hopes and dreams, and I believe people will be so ready for that.

2025-05-20 20:50:15 UTC

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Has the Pelican-on-a-Bicycle test become a victim of its popularity now that engineers may be optimizing for the benchmark?

2025-05-06 13:44:24 UTC

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Unless I’m missing something, this only looks at the cost of asking a question once the model is built but not at the cost of building or updating the model. I’m curious how that would compare (and frankly have no idea).

2024-12-28 03:46:11 UTC

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Can we please not ignore slavery? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Four_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Clause_3:_Fugitive_Slave_Clause