iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I acknowledge it might be (even likely is) addressed in the paper, which I have not read, but I read this list and I mostly notice what isn't on it.

“Another surprising finding was how consistent FAHR-FaceAge was across common real-world photo variations, including pose, lighting, facial expression and makeup,” noted Mak. “It was also stable across most tested plastic surgery procedures, with only a small shift observed after rhinoplasty."

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 18/10/2026

New abolition dropped www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

I’ve come to realize that business schools don’t just reflect our economic system — they actively manufacture its priorities and normalize its harms, training the future leaders who will design and defend the structures driving our overlapping global crises. Tinkering at the margins with a class on corporate responsibility or ethics is not going to help. We don’t need to “fix” business schools. We need to abolish them.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

Who amongst us? www.theguardian.com/world/galler...

A man in a clown mask, sweatshirt and jeans, sitting in front of a crowd of protestors mostly in black, some with masks, some with gas masks, some just chilling. A blurry police officer blocks the left side of the pic.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

You shall not crucify your grampy upon a cross of gold

William Jennings Bryan is pictured in a Dayton, Tennessee, courtroom at the John T. Scopes trial in 1925. He is an older man, dressed in a loose button down with a deep V and short wide sleeves. He is seated in a wooden chair, holding a large paper fan in one hand and his other hand on his hip.

Source:
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/william-jennings-bryan/

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 16/10/2026

I would be genuinely speechless

Matthew, a 25-year-old Black man living in Texas, said he doesn't regret his support for the president and gave him a C grade.

"I feel like he's done a really good job closing the border," he said. "I also do appreciate his efforts in trying to end some of the conflicts that began under the last administration, besides the fact that the Iran conflict hasn't really worked the best, from my perspective."

He plans to vote in the midterm elections and argued that Trump will be able to carry out more of his agenda if Republicans can secure a larger majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, although national polls indicate that the GOP is more likely to lose seats.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

I have found P&P useful reading on the OpenAI drop, with definite themes emerging but also a range of responses. That said, it was not comforting to see a Fields medalist wondering about something I was wondering about, too...though it is also amusing that Scholze reminds me of Gunter Janek

Peter Scholze

We should remember that we are all in this together; mathematics is a marathon, not a sprint; and the goal is and always will be the human understanding of mathematics, which will invariably take time.

What is worrying me the most, at the moment, is actually the (in)security of cryptography. Finding algorithms breaking standard cryptographic protocols is a number theory problem whose difficulty does, to my non-expert eyes, not significantly exceed what these systems are now capable of. And it would have disastrous consequences on society if such an algorithm is found.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

FYI This is the entirety of the History section of the Wikipedia article on Odyssey of the Mind en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey...

OMER the raccoon (right) is the mascot of Odyssey. SNYPS (left) is the New York state mascot.

(The mascot in the right is a person in a raccoon costume wearing a baseball cap and t shirt with Odyssey of the Mind related content. The mascot on the left is a person in a beaver costume. Together they solve crimes...of the mind.)

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

They caught him at an interesting time, beginning to digest the OpenAI dump while releasing his own paper. His response here is a familiar one, but I wonder what he'd say now that he's had a few days to mull over (with his colleagues) what OpenAI has done www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

Urschel also had an assist in his research. His acknowledgements cite the help of OpenAI models and says that he welcomes any questions about the role of AI, which is upending his entire field.

But supercomputers haven’t dented the passion that this football-player-turned-mathemetician has for math. He compares it to his enjoyment of chess: The computers are better than the humans, yet he still enjoys the pursuit of finding the right move.

“I really want to understand the why of things,” Urschel says. “AI doesn’t ruin the why.”

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026

Your move, Google maps www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump suggests "Ocean of Americas" as new name for Atlantic or Pacific

The president also floated the idea of naming an ocean after himself

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

Here's what happened to the Police Chief: www.buckscounty.gov/m/newsflash/...

Based on an exhaustive review of video and eyewitness evidence and a rigorous application of Pennsylvania law, the Office found no basis for a criminal prosecution of any police officers, including Police Chief McElree, whose use of force against juveniles received heavy scrutiny. While characterizing McElree’s choices as “calamitous” and against best practices in several regards, the Quakertown report describes the level of force used by McElree as within legal limits for a law enforcement official effectuating an arrest.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

"States are budgeting for prisoners who will never arrive" is...such damning and sobering and hopeful claim all at once. I keep rereading it.

"Risk is not a permanent trait," Bushway said. "It falls as people age. It falls every year they stay out of trouble. And it has fallen with every generation since the crime boom. Our prisons and our hiring rules have not caught up. States are budgeting for prisoners who will never arrive, and employers are turning away workers whose risk faded years ago."

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/p...

chris molanphy
That too. They would buy a tape of George Strait, “50 Greatest Hits” or whatever, and that would sit in their car. And that plus the radio was their listening diet. And now there is a whole generation of country listeners, particularly a Morgan Wallen fan, who streams the bejesus out of that music. And we finally have data on what country fans are playing.

And streaming, by the way, does this to all sorts of types of music and genres. Whether it’s Christmas music, kiddie music — we had a number one hit about four years ago from the movie “Encanto,” “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.”

wesley morris
“We Don’t Talk About Bruno.”

chris molanphy
Rap diss records — you can’t really picture “Not Like Us” by Kendrick going to number one without streaming music, without tracking what people are actually playing, not just buying. So it has really, dare I say, democratized the charts to an extent that I don’t think we even could have fully comprehended when they added streaming to the charts.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

This is tricky, because you have to click on the series to realize Betteridge already has you covered. It's odd because "breaking bread" comes from the Bible, doesn't it? From my limited knowledge of that book I thought I had gleaned that Jesus understood the difference between comity and justice.

Top line on article series:

Dining across the divide

Can breaking bread together help bridge political differences?

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026

www.npr.org/2026/05/26/n...

Immigrants are now being scheduled for massive master calendar hearings — or "mega masters" — that include 100 or more people at a time. That's up from two or three dozen people at a time, which had been typical before for a first hearing. For many immigrants, this is their first appearance in court to try to make their case to be able to stay in the U.S.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026

lpeproject.org/blog/the-neo...

Corporate abandonment of environmental pledges and right-wing environmental deregulation are hardly remarkable, but that is precisely why the turn to private power will not solve our current energy crisis. Positing “bring-your-own power” as a solution to the problem of insufficient power to meet demand concedes the notion that electricity is not a shared resource but one that goes to highest bidder. “Bring your own power” thus risks facilitating a privatization of the grid akin to the tech sector’s attack on hotels and taxis through AirBnB and Uber: hyperscalers can leverage their access to astronomical amounts of capital to build a parallel set of resources and then force governments to accommodate it. This structural similarity is not a coincidence—hotels, taxis, and utilities all fall within the category of businesses that LPE scholars have termed “networks, platforms, and utilities,” businesses recognized for hundreds of years as “affected by the public interest.” And electric utility regulation drew extensively and explicitly from the regulation of common carriers.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 21/09/2026

Well it was shown there because Thomas Dixon was a friend of Wilson's. With regards to the quote itself... woodrowwilsonhouse.org/wilson-topic...

The screening became infamous due to a quote widely attributed to Wilson, in which he allegedly described the film as “like writing history with lightning. My only regret is that it is all so terribly true.” Cooper and other historians dispute the authenticity of this quote, as it originated from the film’s publicity campaign rather than a verified source. Nevertheless, Cooper emphasizes that Wilson’s own published historical writings, particularly his multi-volume History of the American People, reflected a narrative of Reconstruction that was strikingly similar to the film’s—one that cast the federal government’s post-war policies as oppressive and praised the South’s resistance.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026

www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...

What does this have to do with being perfect?

Cats have nailed one thing so well that they all do it and just come up with slightly different sizes. That's why they're perfect evolutionarily. They don't need variation. They might get bigger or smaller, but they don't change anything else, because they're just right otherwise. They're not jacks-of-all-trades; they're masters of one.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026

The man just had a sinkhole open up in his driveway, why'd you have to end the story like that, LAT?

Cage is an award-winning actor whose accolades include an Oscar and Golden Globe for his role in the 1995 film “Leaving Las Vegas.” His Prime Video series “Spider-Noir,” despite being an awards season favorite, has been canceled.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

And on cue, it looks like the legislators responsible for this are retreating to "we didn't tell librarians they had to do this" (because we wrote an ambiguous law and then threatened prison time for those that didn't follow it) defense. jonesbororightnow.com/news/268862-...

State Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro), the primary sponsor of Act 372, told JRN that while the legislation requires libraries to develop policies regarding material access, it does not mandate specific operational rules like banning minors from bookstores or self-checkout kiosks. Sullivan stated that the restrictions chosen by the local library system may be “more restrictive than what the law requires.”

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 06/09/2026

It is a mugs game I know but I look at this list of Anders projects that weren't and just...damn

In development / past projects

Bastard Out of Carolina[29]

The House of Forgetting adaptation at Interscope Communications[30]

Drive-Away Dykes[31]

Quanah Parker project at AMC Networks with writer Terry Graham[32][33]

6 Foot Rule project at DeFina Film Productions[34]

Greta Garbo and John F. Kennedy project[35]

Paul Is Dead project at Cineville[36][37][38]

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026

I thought this might the result of a "covenant marriage" law but no, that's a -different- impediment imposed in -different- states. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce...

All states allow no-fault divorce on grounds such as irreconcilable differences, irremediable breakdown, and loss of affection. Some states mandate a separation period before no-fault divorce. Mississippi, South Dakota and Tennessee are the only states that require mutual consent for no-fault divorce. The rest of the states permit unilateral no-fault divorce.[15][26][27][28][29]

Since the mid-1990s, three states have enacted covenant marriage laws which give couples the option to make divorce more difficult: Louisiana,[30][31] Arkansas,[32] and Arizona.[33] For example, couples who choose covenant marriage may be required to undergo counseling before a divorce can be granted, or to submit their conflicts to mediation. In states lacking such provisions, some couples sign contracts undertaking the same obligations.[34]

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 30/08/2026

I will AlphaFold by hand if needed.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 27/08/2026

This part in particular - the issue isn't Kusama (per se) but that the art would was invested in making Kusama someone she wasn't. Thomas noted that her racism was banal, but the machinery to sanitize her was in$idiou$.

I’m genuinely surprised by the limited critical writing about racism in Kusama’s work. How has the art world, which is nothing if not endlessly self-critical, not had a discussion about Kusama’s use of Black people? This is especially odd considering that racism in art is a problem that Kusama herself has been vocal about. Near the end of the same 2002 autobiography in which she laments Black people driving down real estate value, she attacks the worship of White artists in her home country: “Just because their eyes are blue and hair is blonde, foreign artists’ work is sold at ten times the price of Japanese work. In any other country, this would be unthinkable, but in Japan, it is commonplace. This is ridiculous and we must raise our voices against it.”

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 26/08/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/o...

I believe this is the part of Dolly people don’t focus on enough. This is a woman who created a several-hundred-million-dollar media empire mining stories of her past. She used humor and charm to control every interview. If a male talk-show host made a joke about her figure, she’d make an even better joke about it. She was always two steps ahead of you. She never allowed herself to be a part of a story of which she was not the author.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 23/08/2026

I recently learned Bill Marler has a blog! www.marlerblog.com/case-news/fd...

FDA Told the Country Not to Believe the Fake News and Posted a Chart. Susan Mayne Pulled the Same Dashboard and Found the Chart Is Not About Food, and That Food Recalls Are Running Toward an Eight-Year High.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 22/08/2026

Is there any way to interpret this other than "Oren Cass isn't an economist but calls himself one (at the think tank he founded)"? www.semafor.com/article/08/2...

Correction: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this story was imprecise on Oren Cass’ academic background. He is a lawyer who serves as the American Compass’ chief economist.

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 21/08/2026

Duck you theweek.com/politics/gop...

“There will be no pause in my aggression” on the issue, Cramer told E&E News. “I have put a hold on all nominees, period, of all agencies. So I hope Clarence Thomas stays healthy.”

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'Swas @sbeen.myatproto.social · 17/10/2025

I appreciate Gessen's formulation of this point.

For much of the last 80 years, the United States has reserved for itself the role of the world’s conscience, meting out punishment with little consultation and even less accountability. Still, the Trump administration’s stance is different. This administration does not claim to have a conscience, and seeks to punish any country or person that aspires to have one.

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