smashedpotatoes
@smashedpotatoes.bsky.social
My emotional state is not a reliable indicator of my immediate surroundings
December 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
My emotional state is not a reliable indicator of my immediate surroundings
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
Please enjoy my Christmas cartoon
December 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Please enjoy my Christmas cartoon
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
When Customs and Border Protection and Commander Gregory Bovino move into town, so does Whistlemania.
These activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby. And it's working.
These activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby. And it's working.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
When Customs and Border Protection and Commander Gregory Bovino move into town, so does Whistlemania.
These activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby. And it's working.
These activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby. And it's working.
Soledad y Paciencia son hermanas
December 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Soledad y Paciencia son hermanas
Practice starts as an idea and ends as a habit
December 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Practice starts as an idea and ends as a habit
We are all one set of circumstances away from making very bad decisions
December 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
We are all one set of circumstances away from making very bad decisions
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.
Read our full investigation here 👇
Read our full investigation here 👇
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.
Read our full investigation here 👇
Read our full investigation here 👇
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
How do trackers see your internet browser? Find out with Cover Your Tracks: coveryourtracks.eff.org
Cover Your Tracks
See how trackers view your browser
coveryourtracks.eff.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
How do trackers see your internet browser? Find out with Cover Your Tracks: coveryourtracks.eff.org
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
In case you had any doubt that peer review doesn't work in pay-to-publish journals, including those with a Nature badge....
#academicSky
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/28/n...
#academicSky
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/28/n...
Nature’s latest AI-generated paper — with medical frymblal and Factor Fexcectorn
Nature’s open-access sideline Nature Scientific Reports is the “we’ve got Nature at home” of scientific publishing. It appears to run any garbage for a mere $2,690 processing charge. A snip, I’m su…
pivot-to-ai.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
In case you had any doubt that peer review doesn't work in pay-to-publish journals, including those with a Nature badge....
#academicSky
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/28/n...
#academicSky
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/28/n...
It is not optimal to turn every problem into an optimization problem
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It is not optimal to turn every problem into an optimization problem
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
Are there any *good* reasons to consider engagement-maximizing algorithms protected speech? I wrote about the California law that has platforms shaking www.platformer.news/california-a...
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Are there any *good* reasons to consider engagement-maximizing algorithms protected speech? I wrote about the California law that has platforms shaking www.platformer.news/california-a...
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
"I am probably the most apolitical person in America because I was separated from all of you, and I was told that I was worthless and that I would be put to death."
Nick Yarris spent more than 20 years in solitary confinement for a crime he didn’t commit. And he didn't mean to be at #NoKings.
Nick Yarris spent more than 20 years in solitary confinement for a crime he didn’t commit. And he didn't mean to be at #NoKings.
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
"I am probably the most apolitical person in America because I was separated from all of you, and I was told that I was worthless and that I would be put to death."
Nick Yarris spent more than 20 years in solitary confinement for a crime he didn’t commit. And he didn't mean to be at #NoKings.
Nick Yarris spent more than 20 years in solitary confinement for a crime he didn’t commit. And he didn't mean to be at #NoKings.
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
We’ve lived 15 years under Citizens United, watching billionaires and corporations shape democracy with their wallets. Reform once seemed impossible. But now, a group in Montana is asking a radical question: What if states simply stopped granting corporations the power to spend in politics?
Could We End Corporate Money In Politics?
Backers of a referendum before Montana voters next year believe they’ve found a vulnerability on Citizen United
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
We’ve lived 15 years under Citizens United, watching billionaires and corporations shape democracy with their wallets. Reform once seemed impossible. But now, a group in Montana is asking a radical question: What if states simply stopped granting corporations the power to spend in politics?
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
Money trouble? Trump poses for NSFW photos
October 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Money trouble? Trump poses for NSFW photos
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
I wonder if clothing evolved from a growing need for pockets
September 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I wonder if clothing evolved from a growing need for pockets
Reposted by smashedpotatoes
Wondering about arithemitic and geometric series almost caused me to crash my car. Don’t think and drive!
September 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Wondering about arithemitic and geometric series almost caused me to crash my car. Don’t think and drive!
Clandestino by Manu Chao, 1988. Some things will never change?
September 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Clandestino by Manu Chao, 1988. Some things will never change?
The opposite of sit up is slouch. The opposite of sit down is stand up. Therefore standing down is slouching up?
September 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The opposite of sit up is slouch. The opposite of sit down is stand up. Therefore standing down is slouching up?
As a man ages, his handshake strength approaches the limit to a death grip
August 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
As a man ages, his handshake strength approaches the limit to a death grip