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  1. Every Face Is Doing Something

    A viral post claims the West never once produced the Buddha's expression across twenty-five centuries of art. The claim collapses in the first wing of any decent museum, and the thing that killed it spent thirty-five years walking through Janna's ASL classrooms. There is a post moving through social media that stakes an entire theory of civilization on one face. Every Buddha statue, it observes, from Thailand to Japan to China to Tibet to India, wears one expression: lids lowered a few degrees, the corners of the mouth lifted by a hair. The styles vary by country and by century while the face holds steady. The post rules out the easy readings, smile and peace both, and names the look "the absence of wanting." Western religious art, the argument continues, produced this expression at no point in twenty-five hundred years. Michelangelo's Last Judgment strains, Bernini's Teresa swoons, every Annunciation leans toward its angel. Western faces reach; the Buddha's face has stopped reaching; and that difference, the post concludes, compresses the whole philosophical quarrel between East and West into a single expression. It closes with a slogan engineered for the share button: "your face is where you are." […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/07/28/ever

  2. Every Face Is Doing Something

    A viral post claims the West never once produced the Buddha's expression across twenty-five centuries of art. The claim collapses in the first wing of any decent museum, and the thing that killed it spent thirty-five years walking through Janna's ASL classrooms. There is a post moving through social media that stakes an entire theory of civilization on one face. Every Buddha statue, it observes, from Thailand to Japan to China to Tibet to India, wears one expression: lids lowered a few degrees, the corners of the mouth lifted by a hair. The styles vary by country and by century while the face holds steady. The post rules out the easy readings, smile and peace both, and names the look "the absence of wanting." Western religious art, the argument continues, produced this expression at no point in twenty-five hundred years. Michelangelo's Last Judgment strains, Bernini's Teresa swoons, every Annunciation leans toward its angel. Western faces reach; the Buddha's face has stopped reaching; and that difference, the post concludes, compresses the whole philosophical quarrel between East and West into a single expression. It closes with a slogan engineered for the share button: "your face is where you are." […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/07/28/ever

  3. The #semiotics of this picture from today's @guardiannews are intriguing. #bodylanguage #facialexpression positioning. Power, delusion of power,Machiavellianism,male ego.

  4. The #semiotics of this picture from today's @guardiannews are intriguing. #bodylanguage #facialexpression positioning. Power, delusion of power,Machiavellianism,male ego.

  5. #AI #GenerativeAI #Smile #FacialExpression #USA #Imperialism: "As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple. In 2006, as part of her Ph.D. dissertation, “The Phenomenon of the Smile in Russian, British and American Cultures,” Maria Arapova, a professor of Russian language and cross-cultural studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University, asked 130 university students from the U.S., Europe, and Russia to imagine they had just made eye contact with a stranger in a public place — at the bus stop, near an elevator, on the subway, etc.

    Which, she asked the participants, would you do next?

    A) smile and then look away
    B) look away
    C) gaze at his eyes, then look away

    90% of Americans and Europeans chose the option with a smile in it. Only 15% of Russians did.

    How we smile, when we smile, why we smile, and what it means is deeply culturally contextual."

    medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-

  6. #AI #GenerativeAI #Smile #FacialExpression #USA #Imperialism: "As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple. In 2006, as part of her Ph.D. dissertation, “The Phenomenon of the Smile in Russian, British and American Cultures,” Maria Arapova, a professor of Russian language and cross-cultural studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University, asked 130 university students from the U.S., Europe, and Russia to imagine they had just made eye contact with a stranger in a public place — at the bus stop, near an elevator, on the subway, etc.

    Which, she asked the participants, would you do next?

    A) smile and then look away
    B) look away
    C) gaze at his eyes, then look away

    90% of Americans and Europeans chose the option with a smile in it. Only 15% of Russians did.

    How we smile, when we smile, why we smile, and what it means is deeply culturally contextual."

    medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-

  7. Adobe Neural Net Detects Photoshop Shenanigans - Photoshop can take a bad picture and make it look better. But it can also take a picture of you sm... more: hackaday.com/2019/06/18/adobe- #facialexpression #softwarehacks #photoshop #facial #adobe