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New Dolphins edge Matt Judon didn't go to Miami for 'relaxing': 'It's about the work I put in' https://www.nfl.com/news/new-dolphins-edge-matt-judon-didn-t-go-to-miami-for-relaxing-it-s-about-the-work-i-put-…

#HotTake:
Liberalism is a syncretic religion where the highest deity is the State and all other deities are subject to it. Liberalism asserts this distinction by classifying political systems as deriving from "natural law" and religions as faith systems. Classical liberalism divided the world into "primitive" beliefs and "enlightened" beliefs. Atheistic anarchism aligns with this distinction by opposing the state and capitalism through logic, rather than asserting that the state and capitalism are themselves systems of faith. Atheistic anarchism further reinforces the narrative of the liberal state by aligning with the liberal understanding of religion as a "primitive" institution.
Graeber et al pointed out the connections between property rights as a form of fedishism (magic) and the evolution of currency, debt, taxes, and the state from temples.

Experience Level Influences User's Criteria for Avatar Animation Realism
Yudong Huang, Avneet Singh, Mark Roman Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15372 https://

Experience Level Influences User's Criteria for Avatar Animation Realism
The sense of realism in avatar animation is a widely pursued goal in social VR applications. A common approach to enhancing realism is improving the match between avatar motion and real-world human movement. However, experience with existing VR platforms may reshape users' expectations, suggesting that matching reality is not the only path to enhancing the sense of realism. This study examines how different levels of experience with a social VR platform influence users' criteria for evaluating …

Religions of Revolution Symposium https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20122951/religions-revolution-symposium

Quantifying mixed-state entanglement via partial transpose and realignment moments
Poetri Sonya Tarabunga, Tobias Haug
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13840 htt…

Quantifying mixed-state entanglement via partial transpose and realignment moments
Entanglement plays a crucial role in quantum information science and many-body physics, yet quantifying it in mixed quantum many-body systems has remained a notoriously difficult problem. Here, we introduce families of quantitative entanglement witnesses, constructed from partial transpose and realignment moments, which provide rigorous bounds on entanglement monotones. Our witnesses can be efficiently measured using SWAP tests or variants of Bell measurements, thus making them directly impleme…

Call for Papers: Religion in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World and Beyond
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Religion in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World and Beyond Editor: Matthew Brake Jack Kirby needs no…
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Call for Papers: Religion in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World and Beyond
Religion in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World and Beyond Editor: Matthew Brake Jack Kirby needs no introduction. He was one of the most prolific and creative figures in the history of modern mainstream sup…

Power-Law Interactions Stabilize Time Crystals Realizing Quantum Energy Storage and Sensing
Ayan Sahoo, Debraj Rakshit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14847 https://

Power-Law Interactions Stabilize Time Crystals Realizing Quantum Energy Storage and Sensing
We study discrete time-crystalline (DTC) phases in one-dimensional spin-1/2 chains with power-law interactions under periodic Floquet driving. By generalizing Stark localization to power-law interaction profiles, we identify robust period-doubled dynamics across a wide range of interaction exponents, stabilized by the interplay between coherent driving and spatially varying coupling. Within the DTC phase, the energy stored in the system, interpreted as a quantum battery, increases superlinearly…

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
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Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction…
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Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction and Horror Editor: Gregory Stevenson, York University The genres of Science-Fiction and Horror ha…

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Video Games
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Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Video Games
CFP: Theology, Religion and Video Games Volume Editor: Trevor B. Williams Abstract + CV due: Oct 1, 2025 Video games have become a formative aspect of popular culture because they provide special o…

Call for Papers: "Religion" https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20122510/call-papers-religion