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Harry Medved and Dana Gould visit the forgotten graveyard where Ed Wood shot Bela Lugosi’s final movie
"Plan 9 from Outer Space "
https://www.pbs.org/video/ed-woods-plan-9-adventures-ligruh/

Locationland | Ed Wood’s Plan 9 Adventures
Harry Medved and Dana Gould visit the forgotten graveyard Ed Wood shot Bela Lugosi’s final movie.

'I want to try to get to heaven,' Trump cites divine motivation for Ukraine peace: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/i-want-to-try-to.html

There's some rich scientific literature on volunteering and how volunteer motivations change and shift from initial engagement to sustained contributing, including some work we've done in that space around motivations for engaging with self-research communities.
Maybe it's time for a another blog post to look at that in more detail 😅

Blackhole perturbations in the Modified Generalized Chaplygin Gas model
Sunil Singh Bohra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14064 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14064…

Blackhole perturbations in the Modified Generalized Chaplygin Gas model
We study blackhole in the Modified Generalized Chaplygin Gas (MGCG) model, a modified gravity framework proposed to unify dark matter and dark energy. The resulting spacetime is asymptotically non-flat and feature two distinct horizons, determined by the Chaplygin parameter α. Observational constraints favor negative values of α, which restrict the allowed parameter space. Through linear perturbation analysis, we show that this blackhole remain stable under both scalar and electromagnetic per…

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
BANKING COLLAPSE IN RUSSIA: MASS CASH WITHDRAWALS CONTINUE Vlog 1170: War in #Ukraine
#Medvedev announces that

Modified security analysis of device-independent quantum key distribution with random key basis
Sawan Bhattacharyya, Turbasu Chatterjee, Pankaj Agrawal, Prasenjit Deb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12938

Modified security analysis of device-independent quantum key distribution with random key basis
Security analysis is a critical part in any cryptographic protocol, may it be classical or quantum. Without security analysis, one cannot ensure the secrecy of the distributed keys. To perform a conclusive security analysis, it is very often necessary to frame the problem as an optimization problem. However, solving such optimization problems is quite challenging. In this article, we focus on the security analysis of device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD) with random key basis prot…

When motivation can be more than a message: designing agents to boost physical activity
Alessandro Silacci, Maurizio Caon, Mauro Cherubini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12388 https…

When motivation can be more than a message: designing agents to boost physical activity
Virtual agents are commonly used in physical activity interventions to support behavior change, often taking the role of coaches that deliver encouragement and feedback. While effective for compliance, this role typically lacks relational depth. This pilot study explores how such agents might be perceived not just as instructors, but as co-participants: entities that appear to exert effort alongside users. Drawing on thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 12 participants from a pr…

Creative Doldrums - Don't Let Them Fool You
#creativity #motivation
https://muz4now.com/2021/c…

Creative Doldrums - Don't Let Them Fool You
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Really wish someone would reveal what blackmail Putin has on Trump.

Even for Trump, whose motivations are entirely about personal vanity, money & racism, his Ukrainian decisions are straight up bizarre.

#ukraine #putin

I found this reflection of one community member in the forum interesting: «Every time I read that AI is better, faster etc. it lowers my motivation to identify. It makes me feel that what I do when identifying (mostly unknowns) is not going to be useful any longer.»
My take is that this development is par for the course once organizations "professionalize" — and thus start to focus more on keeping their staff salaries than on their mission & working with their volunteer community…
#inaturalist