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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · Feb 19

As a father of a daughter with a rare medical condition, I rely on Medicaid and IHSS to keep her at home, safe, and cared for. These programs aren’t luxuries—they are lifelines…
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#ProtectMedicaid #IHSS #DisabilityRights #TrumpCuts

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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · 7d

Bro knows he’s doomed. 💀🔥

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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · Aug 15

He’s definitely gonna shit the bed.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 24

This moment from today’s Medicaid vigil is so powerful…

Question: What do you say to the people who voted to cut Medicaid? Be honest.

Samantha Phillis: They voted against my child’s life.
#MedicaidCutsKill

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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 29

TACO. Pass it on.

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 18

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with his mouth open .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with his mouth open .

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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 14

This is AI doing research. Solving problems in ways we haven’t. Creating things we don’t fully understand.

It’s thrilling, useful, and tbh I’m not even sure what many of these discoveries mean and their implications but it’s happening!

If this is 2025, what’s 2035 going to look like? 😅

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 14

It used trial and error. It mutated ideas. It learned through failure, like evolution but on steroids.

AlphaEvolve is already being used in the real world:
• 23% faster matrix computations
• 32.5% faster FlashAttention performance (used in AI models)

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 14

AlphaEvolve was given a math challenge. Improve matrix multiplication.

For 50+ years, Strassen’s method was the gold standard. It used 49 multiplications.

AlphaEvolve found a way to do it with 48. What’s wild is how it got there. It didn’t read examples or get trained on human code.

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 14

Something big just happened in AI, and most people don’t realize it yet.

Google’s AlphaEvolve didn’t just write better code. It discovered a new algorithm.

It wasn’t taught. It didn’t copy. It invented it.

deepmind.google/discover/blo...

AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators

deepmind.google

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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 9

Finally, some recognition for my genius-level prompting skills!

A 3 Panel Meme Image:
Panel 1: A crudely drawn, drooling figure represents someone making a very basic or lazy request: “make me website.” It parodies how users sometimes treat AI as a magic button.
Panel 2: The AI (GPChat) responds with an overly encouraging, polished response: “You’re making excellent progress and your detailed feedback is incredibly helpful!” It’s the kind of phrasing that feels like it was meant for a collaborative, thoughtful process—not a one-liner command.
Panel 3: The same figure now beams with joy, still drooling, proud and satisfied—not because they’ve done anything profound, but because they were praised anyway.

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 9

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“We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology" Edward O. Wilson (biologist and sociologist)

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 8

Nick Bostrom-The Vulnerable World Hypothesis
Paper PDF (University of Oxford):
nickbostrom.com/papers/vulne...

Yuval Noah Harari -On “Digital Dictatorships”
Essay in The Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Carl Sagan-Quote on technology and ignorance:
www.goodreads.com/quotes/17320...

nickbostrom.com

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 8

E.O. Wilson
Quote origin & background:
www.goodreads.com/quotes/10099...

Francis Fukuyama – Political Order and Political Decay
Book summary & context:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politic...

Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast and Slow
Book overview on cognitive bias:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkin...

A quote from The Defectors

overreliance bred complacency. I

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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 8

7/ Wilson’s quote isn’t just a warning, it’s a mirror.
We don’t need to outpace our tools.
We need to remember what makes us human: reflection, empathy, cooperation, curiosity.
The fix isn’t more power- it’s more wisdom.

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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 8

6/ Carl Sagan warned:

“We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements…profoundly depend on science and technology, yet…almost no one understands science and technology.”
That was the 1990s. He hadn’t even seen Twitter yet let alone deep-fakes and AI enabled facial recognition.

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 8

5/ Yuval Noah Harari cautions about the rise of “digital dictatorships,” where data and AI concentrate power, potentially eroding democracy and individual freedoms.

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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 8

4/ God-like technology:
Nick Bostrom calls it the “vulnerable world hypothesis” - the idea that some technologies are so powerful, they require preemptive governance to avoid catastrophe.
AI, biotech, autonomous weapons all qualify.

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 8

3/ Medieval Institutions
We’re addressing 21st-century challenges with structures from centuries past.
Francis Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay discusses how institutions can stagnate, failing to adapt to modern complexities, leading to political rot.

A classical oil painting showing a weathered marble bust beside a large, aged book titled Francis Fukuyama: Political Order and Political Decay, surrounded by crumbling stone and faded architectural columns.

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 8

2/ Paleolithic emotions:
Our brains were wired in a world of hunting and gathering and fighting saber-toothed tigers, not dopamine slot machines and algorithmic outrage.

Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow shows how cognitive biases like loss aversion and tribal thinking still govern us.

A caveman in a fur garment sits on a rock, confused, poking a glowing iPhone with a spear in a dim cave. The scene contrasts primitive and modern worlds in a dramatic, Renaissance-style painting.

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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 8

1/ “Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”
- Edward O. Wilson

AI capabilities have surpassed most people’s understanding.
Institutions are scrambling to respond.
Human cognition hasn’t changed in 50,000 years.

Let’s unpack!…🧵

Renaissance-style painting:
An ape dons a VR headset, seated on a throne of circuitry, one hand clutching a glowing smartphone, the other hovering over a red button labeled “Nukes.” Behind, a crumbling cathedral looms, symbolizing our outdated institutions.

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · May 5

Mom has Parkinson’s and my daughter has a rare genetic condition requiring a trach and ventilator while asleep. Good times! They’re amazing, wonderful and loving people and I would not change it for the world.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 4

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · Apr 15

Get other blue dots in your red state to get out and vote!

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Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · Apr 10

So the president gets to sink the market, tell everyone it’s a good time to buy stocks, then hours later pause the tariffs knowing full well the market will soar on the news…got it. Definitely not any sort of market manipulation. Riiiight. So god damn VILE.

Travis Gregory @undeadpickle.bsky.social · Apr 2

TANTRUMP!
The grossest addition to your collection! This disgustingly detailed foam ball features a permanently angry orange face with synthetic yellow hair that feels disturbingly real. WARNING:May leave orange stains on hands. Keep away from social media and actual politics. #parody #trump #funny