I would say this an incredibly important article on the systematic destruction of our scientific capacity for no apparent reason than our government profoundly misunderstands how science works, but literally folks like @propublica.org and @statnews.com were first, www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/c....

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Big kudos to the co-authors, and especially the first author, Hanbei, who seems to be operating in double-time relative to the rest of us: This was her brain-child from start to finish

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in general I recommend reading the Discussion: we consider limitations but also possible exciting future directions, and how different content might be affected differently by changes to temporal frames.

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ANYWAY, what does this mean? I recommend reading the Discussion. (it seems people can in principle separate imagined content and temporal reference frame, but this separation did not happen fully for stylized animations. We consider this from a physics-engine perspective)

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Aside 2: similarly for the pendulum, Hanbei first filmed herself pushing someone on a swing in a playground, but it wasn't good enough. "more rope", I suggested vaguely. Hanbei and Ash came back with videos of bags swinging from a giant tether in a local climbing gym. Amazing people.

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