175 results for “fades”
Barcelona face La Liga investigation after alleged assault on Real Madrid star Eduardo Camavinga during El Clasico defeat
Barcelona’s miserable week has gone from bad to worse as the club now faces potential disciplinary action following…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #Barcelona #BarcelonavsRealMadrid #E.Camavinga #LaLiga #RealMadrid
https://www.europesays.com/spain/106738/
Netanyahu’s political survival on the line as Israel votes
By Steven Scheer and Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a fight…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #Iran #Israel #middleeast #middleeastcrisis
https://www.europesays.com/3334699/
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Liverpool made a mistake with Jordan Henderson - but fans won't sing his name after joining Chelsea
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-made-mistake-jordan-henderson-34820158
John Aldridge looks ahead to Liverpool's League Cup clash with Chelsea and a reunion with two familiar faces in the second half of his weekly ECHO colum #LFC #YNWA #FootballLeagueCup #JordanHenderson #AndoniIraola #JohnAldridge #LiverpoolFC #XabiAlonso #Premium
It will be creative and fine, a bit uninspired. This though, c'mon. Fresher faces please. He is literally a 'pick me'
At least seeing who joins him will be fun. #nfl #superbowl
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/491615/ Australia vs South Africa, third Test in Cape Town, team news: Matthew Renshaw set to open, why Nathan Lyon still faces snub, cricket talking points #SouthAfrica #sports
As with Aged Care providers, so it is with Child Care: private-for-profit is a failure and the government's response is negligible. #australia #ausgov #privatatisation #childcare #agedcare #essentialservices #healthandsafety https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-27/childcare-industry-faces-reckoning-but-safety-gaps-remain/107288858
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LIVE! Lula Wins, Serbia Ousts Vučić, Trump Targets Alaska: Latin America’s Religious Right Faces Defeat
Lula wins fourth term, Serbia’s students defeat Vučić, and Trump targets Alaska’s vote. See GOP deception and how religious politics fueled Latin America’s rightward turn—and how workers fight back.
Algeria to send troops to Niger in first foreign deployment in over 50 years
Algeria’s parliament on Sunday approved a resolution to send troops to Niger, making the first time Algerian soldiers will be deployed abroad since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Niger faces persistent attacks by armed groups, including near its border with Algeria, and the deployment comes as Algiers and Niamey are building the [...]
US Extradites Chinese National for $37 Million Crypto Scam Role
A Chinese national has been extradited to the US and charged with masterminding a crypto scam that swindled nearly $37 million from 174 American victims. The suspect, Zhen Zhao, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
#CryptocurrencyScam #InternationalCrime #MoneyLaundering #Extradition #China
This is terrible news. Rest of World has done some of my favorite tech journalism over the years: https://www.semafor.com/article/10/25/2026/rest-of-world-faces-prospect-of-shutting-down
India is a ‘refining superpower’, says US state secretary Rubio, as the world faces a potential energy crisis – Asia News Network
October 26, 2026 NEW DELHI – When US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited India this week, he…
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https://www.europesays.com/3332756/
https://www.europesays.com/3332756/ India is a ‘refining superpower’, says US state secretary Rubio, as the world faces a potential energy crisis – Asia News Network #MarcoRubio #SecretaryOfState
iPhone Duo Owners Report Devices Breaking Worldwide as Fears Grow Over Critical Design Flaw
Launched in October 2026 at $1,999, Apple’s foldable faces inner display cracks and dust ingress reports across multiple markets
#Apple #iPhone #iPhoneDuo #enshittification #technology #smartphone
French central bank trims growth outlook as demand softens | The Mighty 790 KFGO
PARIS, Sept 15 (Reuters) – France faces sluggish growth this year as consumers rein in spending and businesses…
#Economy #centralbank #CentralBanks #CentralBanksoftheEuropeanSystem #DeutscheBundesbank #ECB #ESCB #Europe #European #EuropeanCentralBank #EuropeanCentralBanks #THEBANKOFENGLAND #TheBankofFrance #TheBankofItaly
https://www.europesays.com/3332457/
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“Trump’s hostility to the press is also increasing:
–He is now attacking reporters–shouting at them, getting in their faces, threatening them–at every press briefing and Q&A session.
–Trump to Kaitlin Collins of CNN: “You don’t know what you’re talking about. ; You’re a dummy. You’re a low IQ person. You’re a dummy and you work for CNN.”
–Trump to Karen Travers of ABC: “Are you a stupid person? Who do you work for? You’re a stupid person. And by the way, your network is the worst of all.” (Note: In both instances, the reporters had asked about Trump’s removing sanctions on Russia, a question he obviously doesn’t want to discuss.)
–Trump threw Andrew Feinberg (who asked him a question he didn’t like the other day) out of the White House pool on Thursday… Trump told him: “I don’t know who the hell you are, but you better be careful.”
–The White House is demanding that Politico retract three stories about Susie Wiles “or face the consequences.””
David Rubenstein, #Orioles owner, in the MLBPA crosshairs as one of the faces of the pending labor unrest with repeatedly regrettable remarks about salary caps and profits. MLB is pissed and #Birdland will likely pay for it. Here's how:
https://www.si.com/mlb/orioles/onsi/orioles-owner-david-rubenstein-s-recent-remarks-are-likely-to-cost-o-s-fans-the-most-01m5sygeegj1
Damn, that third movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4! I just love how he finishes it with this unconventional, somber fade-away in four, with just the timpani, glockenspiel, and a figure from part of the reed section, after what you *thought* would be the full-orchestra climax. Did he hear this stuff in his dreams?
He got in trouble with Stalin for this one. Written in 1934-36, it wasn't performed until the '50s.
Emirati diplomat who helped deliver aid to Gaza enters UN secretary general race
By Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Lana Nusseibeh has Palestine’s endorsement but faces criticism over the UAE’s human rights record and alleged funding of the RSF in Sudan
#UnitedNations #AntnioGuterres #UnitedArabEmirates #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Worldnews #Gaza #Palestine #TheGuardian #PatrickWintourDiplomaticeditor
Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/embedded-ai-evaluators-wont-be-an-easy-solution-hugging-faces-policy-chief-says/
🐻 ICYMI: Character designer Chelsea Trousdale creates small animal #sculptures using felted #wool, barbed needles, and foam mats. In these step-by-step #tutorial #videos, she shows how to sculpt expressive bear and pig faces with tangled fibers.
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Arch Manning, Texas survive Ole Miss after another second-half meltdown creates Austin anxiety
There are two faces to Texas, and I still don’t know which one we saw Saturday night against…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/894226/
DATE: October 25, 2026 at 10:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG
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TITLE: Anger and fear nudge voters toward different kinds of leader faces, study suggests
The specific emotions that political issues stir up in voters may subtly shift the physical traits they look for in a leader. A new study published in Cognition and Emotion indicates that when people think about a policy problem that makes them angry, they lean slightly more toward dominant-looking leaders than when they think about one that makes them afraid. Fear, by contrast, appears to put more weight on whether a leader’s face looks trustworthy.
When people look at a stranger’s face, they form instantaneous impressions about that person’s character. As a 2008 behavioral and computer modeling study found, these rapid evaluations boil down to two main facial qualities: trustworthiness and dominance. Trustworthiness is an impression of a person’s intentions, signaling whether they appear warm, cooperative, and safe to approach. Dominance is an impression of physical strength and assertiveness, signaling a person’s capacity to impose their will or confront rivals.
These split-second facial judgments influence real-world voting decisions, and the traits voters prefer often depend on the surrounding political environment and their own personal beliefs. For instance, a 2025 study by members of the team behind the new research, covered by PsyPost, found that people who are generally distrustful of information from others tend to hold more rigid, dogmatic beliefs and more conservative views, which in turn predicts a preference for dominant, authoritarian-looking leaders. Broader contexts matter as well, with voters generally favoring dominant faces during wartime or conflict and trustworthy faces during peaceful periods.
Different emotional reactions to the same crisis can also pull people in different directions. Although anger and fear are both unpleasant, high-stress emotions, a 2001 study on emotion and risk showed that they trigger opposing mindsets: anger makes people feel certain and willing to take risks, whereas fear makes people feel vulnerable and cautious.
In the political arena, a 2025 panel study of Ukrainians conducted during the Russian invasion found that citizens who reacted to the war with aggressive, angry emotions showed stronger preferences for dominant leaders (and for the other leader traits measured, such as warmth and competence), while those who reacted with fear showed little change in their preferences.
Most research on these emotional dynamics has focused on wars, terrorist attacks, or major geopolitical crises. Far less is known about how anger and fear shape leader evaluations during everyday domestic politics, where citizens routinely react to policy debates over the economy, healthcare, or public safety. The research was led by Mariana von Mohr, a lecturer in social and affective neuroscience at the University of Kent, and conducted at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, which is directed by co-author Manos Tsakiris, a professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.
“Political issues often evoke strong emotions, which can shape political behavior in different ways,” von Mohr told PsyPost. “For example, anger can increase support for tougher, more confrontational political action, whereas fear can lead people to seek reassurance and favor responses that promise greater safety and protection. Here we wanted to understand whether these emotions also shape who people would prefer to vote for when dealing with the issues that concern them most, simply based on how dominant or trustworthy a potential leader looks.”
To investigate this, the researchers recruited 201 American participants through the online platform Prolific, ensuring the group was evenly split between people who identified with or leaned toward the Democratic Party and those who identified with or leaned toward the Republican Party. After removing four individuals who did not pass attention checks during the tasks, the final sample consisted of 197 participants.
The experiment used a within-subjects design, meaning every participant went through both the anger condition and the fear condition in a randomized order. In the anger section, participants viewed a list of 16 major national problems taken from a Pew Research Center survey, such as inflation, gun violence, illegal immigration, and climate change. They were asked to select the single issue that made them feel the most angry, defined as an issue that upsets or annoys them and brings up hostility, and to rate the intensity of their anger on a scale from 0 to 100.
Immediately after reflecting on that issue, participants completed a leader choice task consisting of 36 rapid rounds. In each round, two computer-generated faces appeared side by side on the screen for up to three seconds, and participants had to click on the leader they believed would be most capable of handling their chosen political issue. These nine digital faces were drawn from a standardized scientific database and had been systematically altered to represent different combinations of facial dominance and facial trustworthiness.
In the fear section, the same participants went through an identical process, but this time they selected the political issue from the list that made them feel the most afraid, defined as an issue that worries them a lot and feels like a frightening threat. After rating their fear on the 0 to 100 scale, they completed the 36-round face selection task again to pick the best leader to address that frightening issue.
Across the sample, both emotions were felt intensely, with average intensity ratings of 86.51 out of 100 for anger and 81.95 for fear. The issues most frequently selected for anger were illegal immigration (19.3 percent), gun violence (17.8 percent), and inflation (15.2 percent). For fear, participants most commonly selected climate change (15.2 percent), illegal immigration (14.2 percent), and domestic terrorism (11.2 percent).
The researchers first combined each participant’s choices into an overall index measuring the probability of picking a more dominant and less trustworthy-looking leader. Statistical analyses accounting for emotional intensity and specific policy issues showed that participants had a 49.5 percent probability of choosing a dominant-looking leader when angry, compared to a 46.5 percent probability when fearful, meaning participants on average leaned slightly toward the more trustworthy-looking face in both conditions. How intensely participants felt the emotion was unrelated to their choices. While this 3 percentage point absolute shift between anger and fear is modest, the authors note that even small emotional shifts could matter across an entire population during elections, when campaigns frequently amplify fear- and anger-inducing issues.
To see what drove this shift, the authors broke down the choices round by round to look at how participants weighed dominance cues and trustworthiness cues separately. When participants were in the fear condition, a face’s level of trustworthiness increased the likelihood that it would be chosen, whereas a face’s level of dominance had no statistically significant effect on their choices. When participants were in the anger condition, the positive pull of facial trustworthiness dropped, while facial dominance gained a stronger positive influence on their selections.
“Our findings suggest that how we feel about political issues can influence the kinds of leaders we find appealing, even based on something as simple as their facial appearance,” von Mohr explained. “When angry, people placed greater importance on facial cues of dominance (appearing strong and assertive) and less on trustworthiness. When afraid, they placed more importance on trustworthiness (appearing reliable and benevolent).”
The findings are in line with research covered by PsyPost in 2022, which similarly found that anger increased participants’ preferences for dominant-looking leaders over trustworthy ones. However, that earlier study examined anger triggered by non-political frustrations, whereas the new study suggests that anger tied to real-world policy issues is linked to a similar shift while directly contrasting it against political fear.
The researchers also examined the role of political party affiliation. Consistent with previous studies, Republicans showed a higher overall preference for dominant-looking leaders (52.5 percent probability) than Democrats did (43.5 percent probability), representing a 9 percentage point partisan gap. That gap was about three times as large as the 3-point difference between anger and fear. Even though Democrats and Republicans tended to pick different policy issues as their top concerns, the difference between anger and fear did not vary significantly by party, suggesting the emotions influenced leader choices in similar ways for both groups.
The emotion effects did not vary by participants’ gender and held when accounting for the order in which participants completed the tasks. When the researchers statistically controlled for the exact political issue each participant selected in the round-by-round analysis, the distinct effects of anger and fear on how participants weighed dominance and trustworthiness cues remained stable. In the overall-preference analysis, entering each specific issue as a separate factor left the anger-versus-fear difference about the same size but made the estimate less precise.
As with all research, there are some caveats to consider when interpreting these findings. Because participants were allowed to choose whichever political issue personally angered or frightened them the most, the study cannot completely separate the effect of the emotion from the nature of the policy issue itself. Although the researchers used statistical controls to account for the different issues selected, future experiments that induce anger or fear while keeping the policy topic identical for everyone would help isolate the pure effect of the emotion. The study also compared anger only with fear, without a neutral condition, so it cannot say whether anger made dominant faces more appealing, fear made them less appealing, or both.
Additionally, the faces used in the task were standardized, computer-generated avatars rather than photographs of real politicians. While digital faces allow scientists to precisely adjust facial structure without interference from a person’s hairstyle, age, race, or gender, real-world elections involve all of those visual factors alongside party labels and campaign rhetoric. Finally, the study only tested American voters, so it is not known whether the same patterns hold in other countries. Future research could also examine whether other political emotions, such as hope or disgust, shape leader preferences.
The study, “Political emotions shape preferences for leaders’ facial traits: anger favours dominance, fear favours trustworthiness,” was authored by Mariana Von Mohr and Manos Tsakiris.
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Pennsylvania House Race Tests If Republican Distance From Trump Works (Liz Skalka/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-25/brian-fitzpatrick-faces-tough-pennsylvania-house-race-despite-trump-distance
http://www.memeorandum.com/261025/p22#a261025p22
@lproven coattails? Exploitation of coolness?
Extremely unlikely, IMHO.
https://www.facesofopensource.com/jordan-hubbard-2/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johubbard_daemonarchy-111-is-released-httpslnkdin-share-7517486335977504768-hM2g/ five days ago (his response to a comment):
❮There's some context here, Scott Kamp - Omarchy is like any other desktop in a sense - you either like it or don't like it, and it's not like we didn't already have desktops going all the way back to Xcfe, KDE, Gnome, etc. The point wasn't to create "another streamlined desktop", the point was to show that the latest Buzzy Thing could be ported and wrapped up in a bow, using AI, in days instead of months. FOMO is history.❯
Brazillians vote in the second round of presidental elections. The incumbent center-left president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faces off against the right- wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro.
Japan and South Korea emerge as leading AI-ready economies in the global AI race beyond the US and China, while India faces challenges in improving productivity and preparing workers.
Source: Business Today
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/story/ai-race-beyond-us-china-japan-south-korea-emerge-as-leading-ai-ready-economies-how-india-fares-563478-2026-10-25?utm_source=rssfeed
Is it time for London to legalise cannabis?
Basel is orderly, prosperous and bourgeois. It is hosting the next dressage World Cup, the faces of bankers…
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