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Travis

@travis.social

Hi I’m Travis. I’m a lefty full-stack dev in Virginia. My friend and I run cheerfulghost.com. You may recognize me as @nottravisnewman on Twitter

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Paul F. Tompkins@pftompkins.bsky.social · 3d ago

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.

Travis@travis.social · 3d ago

This is alarming and you need to read it. This is only the beginning. It WILL get worse when more and more of these fake articles get generated. What even is shared reality if we are fed hallucinations as news?

Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7d ago

Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead, I wrote about them. Read on: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...

A fake AI generated article about me in the July 2026 Times of India. No i did not quit writing to become a gardener, as they claim!
Zoey@zoeytro.pe · last yr.

There are 3 kinds of Bluesky user: 1. Was just kicked in the head by a horse 2. Raised in Plato's cave where they were only shown 2010s tumblr posts 3. Normal

Travis@travis.social · 6mo ago

I feel like Bluesky never got a good algorithm going for the home feed and twitters is just getting worse. We are in the “everything sucks” portion of the web

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12mo ago

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.
hailey@hailey.at · 12mo ago

an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you’d agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing “dna” with “bits” doesn’t make it ok

Travis@travis.social · 12mo ago

You ever unfollow someone who is amusing, insightful, kind, interesting, or all of the above, who just posts sooooo much it dominates your feed?

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · last yr.

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage