Travis Gregory

"...And you still believe
This aristocracy gives a fuck about you
They put the mock in democracy
And you swallowed every hook"
- NOFX🤘

"...Now with our conversations tapped
And our differences exposed
Now ya supposed to love your neighbor
With our minds and curtains closed?
We used to worry 'bout big brother
Now we got a big father and an even bigot mother..."

"...We didn't raise our voice
We didn't make a fuss
It's funny, there was no one left to notice
When they came for us

Looks like witches are in season
You better fly your flag and be aware
Of anyone who might fit the description
Diversity is now our biggest fear..."


"First, they put away the dealers
Keep our kids safe and off the street
Then they put away the prostitutes
Keep married men cloistered at home
Then they shooed away the bums
Then they beat and bashed the queers
Turned away asylum-seekers
Fed us suspicions and fears..."

YouTube video by NOFX - Topic Re-Gaining Unconsciousness

NOFX dropped The War on Errorism in 2003. 22 years old and somehow got more relevant. The perfect soundtrack for 2025 America. #NOFX #TheWarOnErrorism #HistoryRepeating #PunkRock #TuckFrump

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvrT...

Awesome No Kings turnout in Morgan Hill, Ca.

Bro knows he’s doomed. 💀🔥

He’s definitely gonna shit the bed.

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

TACO. Pass it on.

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? 😅

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)

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.

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

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...

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.

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

bsky.app/profile/unde...

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...

A quote from The Defectors overreliance bred complacency.  I

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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!…🧵

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.

"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."

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

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