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@…’s mom needs your help:
“My mother has been suffering from chronic diabetes, and some time ago, one of her toes had to be amputated. During the war, her condition has worsened, and she now relies on a walker to move. 💔
Today, she fell inside our tent, and her foot got injured again – it’s swollen and bruised badly…

Help Bara'a and her elderly parents in Gaza
My name is Bara'a El-Mughraby. Me and my older brother are the sole breadwinners for my family of five in Al-Shati refugee camp in North Gaza. Me, my elderly parents, my sister and my brother. For months, we have endured the unimaginable and did everything we can to survive, but now our situation worsened a lot and has become a matter of life or death. The constant bombardment and the recent evacuation orders from the IDF mean we have to leave our home—but we don't have the capabilities nor t…

A look at AI startups aiming to address loneliness among the elderly; a study predicts the AI market for aging and elderly care will grow to over $43B in 2025 (Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/10/18/lon…

Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship
The AI boom has brought with it a new crop of startups looking to build a business on an urgent but vaguely dystopian idea: solving loneliness among the elderly.

Elderly US Citizen Brutalized By ICE Files $50M Lawsuit - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/elderly-us-citizen-brutalized-by-ice-files-50m-lawsuit/

On several input channels I’m seeing rage about the new Android Phone and Contacts apps, big redesigns with no warning. If there are people for whom you provide tech support, e.g. elderly relatives, you'd better get in touch and teach them how to answer a phone call, because tapping the green button doesn’t work any more. Also it’s hard to find call history, and more.
Some Product Manager needed a promotion. As usual, when doing cost/benefit analysis, the pain inflicted on users w…

DESAMO: A Device for Elder-Friendly Smart Homes Powered by Embedded LLM with Audio Modality
Youngwon Choi, Donghyuk Jung, Hwayeon Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18918 https://…

DESAMO: A Device for Elder-Friendly Smart Homes Powered by Embedded LLM with Audio Modality
We present DESAMO, an on-device smart home system for elder-friendly use powered by Audio LLM, that supports natural and private interactions. While conventional voice assistants rely on ASR-based pipelines or ASR-LLM cascades, often struggling with the unclear speech common among elderly users and unable to handle non-speech audio, DESAMO leverages an Audio LLM to process raw audio input directly, enabling a robust understanding of user intent and critical events, such as falls or calls for he…

LIFY: IoT System for Monitoring Vital Signs of Elderly People
Sara Gonzalez, Martin Vasquez, Wilder Castellanos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18411 https://ar…

LIFY: IoT System for Monitoring Vital Signs of Elderly People
This article describes the implementation of a technological solution aimed at improving the recording of physiological signals in the elderly population residing in geriatric facilities. The developed system consists of a smart device equipped with sensors for body temperature, heart rate, and blood oxygen levels. This device establishes an Internet connection to transmit data to a cloud-based platform for storage. Within this platform, a dashboard has been created to visualize real-time value…

"She’d seen a guerilla bench effort take off in Berkeley, Calif. and wondered if they could pull off something similar in Nashville. They built a dozen or so benches based on a simple design and put them at bus stops."
https://nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/22

An elderly Asian woman was mauled to death by a pair of large dogs in San Bernardino County, California, last week.
Soon Han, 80, was out for a morning walk on Friday when two Dogo Argentinos attacked her near the intersection of Vinton Street and Mesa Road in Baldy Mesa.
Sheriff’s deputies arrived after 11 a.m. and found Han unresponsive along the roadway. She had suffered major injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene

Elderly woman mauled to death by Dogo Argentino dogs while on morning walk in California
An elderly Asian woman was mauled to death by a pair of large dogs in San Bernardino County, California, last week. The Dogo Argentino is a large, white and...

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--DPRK's Kimsuky forged a deepfake military ID using ChatGPT for S. Korean attack,
--Vastaamo hacker who released psychotherapy center records is set free,
--FBI issues warning of UNC6040 and UNC6395 targeting Salesforce users,
--Shiba Inu stopped damage from attack,
--DC AG charges Athena ATM operator for ignoring elderly scams
-…

DPRK's Kimsuky forged a deepfake military ID using ChatGPT for S. Korean attack
Vastaamo hacker who released psychotherapy center records is set free, FBI issues warning of UNC6040 and UNC6395 targeting Salesforce users, Shiba Inu stopped damage from attack, DC AG charges Athena ATM operator for ignoring elderly scams, much more

WildElder: A Chinese Elderly Speech Dataset from the Wild with Fine-Grained Manual Annotations
Hui Wang, Jiaming Zhou, Jiabei He, Haoqin Sun, Yong Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09344

WildElder: A Chinese Elderly Speech Dataset from the Wild with Fine-Grained Manual Annotations
Elderly speech poses unique challenges for automatic processing due to age-related changes such as slower articulation and vocal tremors. Existing Chinese datasets are mostly recorded in controlled environments, limiting their diversity and real-world applicability. To address this gap, we present WildElder, a Mandarin elderly speech corpus collected from online videos and enriched with fine-grained manual annotations, including transcription, speaker age, gender, and accent strength. Combining…

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest (Gosia Wozniacka/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/federal-agents-knock-down-elderly-couple-during-portland-protest.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p77#a251004p77

I just got a spam message from a electronics shop here in Norway. It is highly offensive to me on multiple levels. It is an invitation to a motivational course for the elderly on AI. I mean WTF!?
• I hate spam and avoid being on these SMS/Mailing lists at all costs. How did they get my details?
• AI!? Seriously I could think of few things more boring than listening to some fanboy drone on.
• I am part of 'the elderly' now? Fuck you, Power!
Also… Kill me. 😭

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Pearl Jam:
🎵 Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
#PearlJam
https://benparinello.bandcamp.com/track/elderly-woman-behind-the-counter-in-a-small-town-pearl-jam
https://open.spotify.com/track/5lHgBqh9VwAAzQma55gHRY

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Beings II 👁️‍🗨️
在路上 - 去西安/ 灵 II 👁️‍🗨️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Kodak Double-X 5222
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
C.A. ONE: For what reason?
FRANTON: Conquest.
C.A. ONE: That's ridiculous.
FRANTON: Surely it would be safer to wait for the Liberator. At least we can trust them, and we know they're coming, Zelda heard.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/223

Passwords are a scourge foisted on elderly tech-users. :(
I just got back from a house call with a fellow who can’t remember his passwords for his email. None of his backups work. His little book of passwords, useless.
There is no support to call for help.
His only option is to create a new email and leave the other behind.
Over and over I have seen this trouble. Not always to this extent, but always the same frustration.
Passwords are elder abuse.
#techsupport #life #security

Large Language Model Data Generation for Enhanced Intent Recognition in German Speech
Theresa Pekarek Rosin, Burak Can Kaplan, Stefan Wermter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06277 ht…

Large Language Model Data Generation for Enhanced Intent Recognition in German Speech
Intent recognition (IR) for speech commands is essential for artificial intelligence (AI) assistant systems; however, most existing approaches are limited to short commands and are predominantly developed for English. This paper addresses these limitations by focusing on IR from speech by elderly German speakers. We propose a novel approach that combines an adapted Whisper ASR model, fine-tuned on elderly German speech (SVC-de), with Transformer-based language models trained on synthetic text d…

Trump's Going After Disabled And Elderly People Living On SSI | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/trumps-going-after-disabled-and-elderly

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

A Standing Support Mobility Robot for Enhancing Independence in Elderly Daily Living
Ricardo J. Manr\'iquez-Cisterna, Ankit A. Ravankar, Jose V. Salazar Luces, Takuro Hatsukari, Yasuhisa Hirata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19816

A Standing Support Mobility Robot for Enhancing Independence in Elderly Daily Living
This paper presents a standing support mobility robot "Moby" developed to enhance independence and safety for elderly individuals during daily activities such as toilet transfers. Unlike conventional seated mobility aids, the robot maintains users in an upright posture, reducing physical strain, supporting natural social interaction at eye level, and fostering a greater sense of self-efficacy. Moby offers a novel alternative by functioning both passively and with mobility support, enabling user…

A study finds that six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting elderly people, despite being trained not to (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ai-chatbots-cyber/

Living with Data: Exploring Physicalization Approaches to Sedentary Behavior Intervention for the Elderly
Siying Hu, Zhenhao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11059 https://

Living with Data: Exploring Physicalization Approaches to Sedentary Behavior Intervention for the Elderly
Sedentary behavior is a critical health risk for older adults. While digital interventions exist, they often rely on screen-based notifications that feel clinical and are easily ignored. This paper presents a Research through Design inquiry into data physicalization as a humane alternative. We designed and deployed tangible artifacts that ambiently represent sedentary patterns in older adults' homes. These artifacts transform abstract data into aesthetic, evolving forms, becoming part of the do…

Dutch far-right Wilders (Putin-Orbšn-Trump admirer) presents his repugnant, medieval party platform for the October elections here.
If we vote for him, we'll get young, blonde, blue-eyed, women. If we vote for the social-democrats, we'll get elderly, angry, ugly, Muslim ladies.
https://masto…

Erik Jonker (@ErikJonker@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Wilders wil aandacht en ophef creëren, toch vind ik dat we verontwaardigd moeten blijven over dit soort puur fascistische uitingen. #politiek #wilders #fascisme #pvv

When you’ve spent almost nine hours inside the vortex of Psytrance, you can bet it’s my favorite genre of all time, because once you’re hooked on 145 BPM the line between hearing and being the music completely disappears.
The bassline doesn’t just sit in the background, it takes command with ruthless precision, rewiring thought into rhythm and heartbeat into tempo, proving again and again that Psytrance isn’t just what I listen to, it’s the sound I belong to.
By the time the flow…

Hätte Mario Alexander Müller damals in Schnellroda nur diese Hinweise gelesen...
https://jorts.horse/@Ananas/114972578639014632

Diagnosing Shoulder Disorders Using Multimodal Large Language Models and Consumer-Grade Cameras
Jindong Hong, Wencheng Zhang, Shiqin Qiao, Jianhai Chen, Jianing Qiu, Chuanyang Zheng, Qian Xu, Yun Ji, Qianyue Wen, Weiwei Sun, Hao Li, Huizhen Li, Huichao Wang, Kai Wu, Meng Li, Yijun He, Lingjie Luo, Jiankai Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.092…

Diagnosing Shoulder Disorders Using Multimodal Large Language Models and Consumer-Grade Cameras
Shoulder disorders, such as frozen shoulder (a.k.a., adhesive capsulitis), are common conditions affecting the health of people worldwide, and have a high incidence rate among the elderly and workers engaged in repetitive shoulder tasks. In regions with scarce medical resources, achieving early and accurate diagnosis poses significant challenges, and there is an urgent need for low-cost and easily scalable auxiliary diagnostic solutions. This research introduces videos captured by consumer-grad…

Why Are More Older People Dying After Falls? (Paula Span/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/health/falls-deaths-elderly-drugs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p37#a250907p37

My favourite politician who I have nearly had to call the cops to get them to leave me alone, had our ICO send them numerous legal demands re how she had my birthdate eg. and who I reported for numerous Covid breaches around the largely elderly population around my house is now in jail for 2.7 million fraud.
She stole wages from the uni and paid the bulk of it into her personal revolut.
Not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Personality-Enhanced Multimodal Depression Detection in the Elderly
Honghong Wang, Jing Deng, Rong Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08004 https://arxiv.org…

Personality-Enhanced Multimodal Depression Detection in the Elderly
This paper presents our solution to the Multimodal Personality-aware Depression Detection (MPDD) challenge at ACM MM 2025. We propose a multimodal depression detection model in the Elderly that incorporates personality characteristics. We introduce a multi-feature fusion approach based on a co-attention mechanism to effectively integrate LLDs, MFCCs, and Wav2Vec features in the audio modality. For the video modality, we combine representations extracted from OpenFace, ResNet, and DenseNet to co…

Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of #Gaza detainees are fighters.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

Damned elderly white hippies.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/dead-and-company-charity-21022456.php

@… I think a lot of people, including me, struggle with remembering that people in positions of authority (successful people in your field, management, elderly people, your mother) are not their superiors.

Resilient Vital Sign Monitoring Using RIS-Assisted Radar
Christian Eckrich, Abdelhak M. Zoubir, Vahid Jamali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10088 https://arxiv…

Resilient Vital Sign Monitoring Using RIS-Assisted Radar
Vital sign monitoring plays a critical role in healthcare and well-being, as parameters such as respiration and heart rate offer valuable insights into an individual's physiological state. While wearable devices allow for continuous measurement, their use in settings like in-home elderly care is often hindered by discomfort or user noncompliance. As a result, contactless solutions based on radar sensing have garnered increasing attention. This is due to their unobtrusive design and preservation…

Finished “Frankie” by Graham Norton (yes, that Graham Norton!)
Frankie, elderly and recovering from an ankle injury, begins to tell the home care night nurse her life story while convalescing. We open as a child in Ireland, travel to London, settle in New York City, and eventually end up in London. And what a journey!
Really well done characters & dialogue. Norton is a really good writer, of which this skeptic was won over.
4.5/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

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The Hot Chick and her Elderly Musician Boyfriend
#BillyVera #ChristaSauls

Baywatch Nights 1x22 - Heat Rays
#RandomBaywatch

This would be *59-year-old* Dean Cain.
What’s he going to do, exactly? Slouch on a rocker on his porch and yell for those damn immigrants to get off his lawn? Roll elderly POC for their Preparation H? https://laserdisc.party/@Thomas/114984689417665935

Kaiju Expert :letterboxd: (@Thomas@laserdisc.party)
Attached: 1 image I hope he gets his head caved in with a rock

Formulation and Therapeutic Assessment of a Zinc Oxide, Silver, and Cerium Oxide Enriched Ointment for Accelerated Wound Healing in Aged Models
Iqra Yousaf, Aneela Anwar, Atika Umer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10717

Formulation and Therapeutic Assessment of a Zinc Oxide, Silver, and Cerium Oxide Enriched Ointment for Accelerated Wound Healing in Aged Models
Chronic wounds present a major challenge in elderly individuals due to diminished regenerative capacity and impaired tissue repair mechanisms associated with aging. In this study, we formulated a topical gel composed of zinc oxide (ZnO), silver (Ag), and cerium oxide (CeO2) nanoparticles, each chosen for their respective antimicrobial, antioxidant, and tissue-regenerative properties. The nanoparticles were synthesized through precise precipitation or reduction techniques and thoroughly characte…

WPTrack: A Wi-Fi and Pressure Insole Fusion System for Single Target Tracking
Wei Guo, Shunsei Yamagishi, Lei Jing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09166 https://

WPTrack: A Wi-Fi and Pressure Insole Fusion System for Single Target Tracking
As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to evolve, indoor location has become a critical element for enabling smart homes, behavioral monitoring, and elderly care. Existing WiFi-based human tracking solutions typically require specialized equipment or multiple Wi-Fi links, a limitation in most indoor settings where only a single pair of Wi-Fi devices is usually available. However, despite efforts to implement human tracking using one Wi-Fi link, significant challenges remain, such as difficul…

How Age Influences the Interpretation of Emotional Body Language in Humanoid Robots -- long paper version
Ilaria Consoli, Claudio Mattutino, Cristina Gena, Berardina de Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19335

How Age Influences the Interpretation of Emotional Body Language in Humanoid Robots -- long paper version
This paper presents an empirical study investigating how individuals across different age groups, children, young and older adults, interpret emotional body language expressed by the humanoid robot NAO. The aim is to offer insights into how users perceive and respond to emotional cues from robotic agents, through an empirical evaluation of the robot's effectiveness in conveying emotions to different groups of users. By analyzing data collected from elderly participants and comparing these findi…

Is she supposed to lie on the kitchen table? No.
Do we really want cat hair on the beach towels (or table)? No.
Will she use this position to harass anyone who may sit down for breakfast with a bowl of cereal in milk. Yes.
Is she completely deaf. Yep, pretty sure.
Is she elderly. (16ish) Yep.
Do we love her. Yup.
So there she lies.
#cats #whiskers #catsodon #catsofmastodon