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Retirement Living Your Way
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

On this day in 1998, Dorothy West died on Martha's Vineyard.
The Boston-born writer was the last living member of the Harlem Renaissance,
a movement of African American artists, writers, and musicians
that energized American culture in the 1920s
https://www.massmo…

Oak Bluffs Writer Dorothy West Dies
On this day in 1998, Dorothy West died on Martha's Vineyard. The Boston-born writer was the last living member of the Harlem Renaissance, a movement of African American artists, writers, and musicians that energized American culture in the 1920s. Although profoundly influenced by her years in New York, West was …

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…

i bought some frilly emf shielded underwear (because it's cute. i don't have any organs there that would need to be shielded from emf even if i was living in a microwave)

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

A Personalised Formal Verification Framework for Monitoring Activities of Daily Living of Older Adults Living Independently in Their Homes
Ricardo Contreras, Filip Smola, Nu\v{s}a Fari\v{c}, Jiawei Zheng, Jane Hillston, Jacques D. Fleuriot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08701

A Personalised Formal Verification Framework for Monitoring Activities of Daily Living of Older Adults Living Independently in Their Homes
There is an imperative need to provide quality of life to a growing population of older adults living independently. Personalised solutions that focus on the person and take into consideration their preferences and context are key. In this work, we introduce a framework for representing and reasoning about the Activities of Daily Living of older adults living independently at home. The framework integrates data from sensors and contextual information that aggregates semi-structured interviews, …

🪧 Trump to blame for high cost of living, Americans say in new poll
#inflation

Open Questions about Time and Self-reference in Living Systems
Samson Abramsky, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Leo S. D. Caves, Michael Levin, Penousal Machado, Charles Ofria, Susan Stepney, Roger White
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11423

Open Questions about Time and Self-reference in Living Systems
Living systems exhibit a range of fundamental characteristics: they are active, self-referential, self-modifying systems. This paper explores how these characteristics create challenges for conventional scientific approaches and why they require new theoretical and formal frameworks. We introduce a distinction between 'natural time', the continuing present of physical processes, and 'representational time', with its framework of past, present and future that emerges with life itself. Representa…

Week Without Driving
> "If you can drive or afford a car, you may not understand what it’s like to rely on walking, rolling, transit and asking for rides. But for nearly a third of people living in the United States – people with disabilities, young people, seniors and people who can’t afford cars or gas – this is our every day."
Monday, September 29 – Sunday, October 5, 2025

Week Without Driving
Sep 29th – Oct 5th, 2025 - An experience created for everyone to learn firsthand about barriers and challenges for nondrivers. Join, support, or become a host.

»What Does That Server Really Serve?
How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.
[…] Software as a service always subjects you to the power of the server operator, and the only remedy is to avoid it. […]«
Yes, we are living in the future, fifteen years ago. But even back then, those who looked into the future were labeled as paranoid crackpots and negative propagandists, but they were right.
🫤

SFMTA board is hearing Mayor Lurie’s mass displacement plan to banish working-poor, mostly Latino families living in RVs from the city.
Here’s the “refuge permit” designed as window dressing to make liberals feel ok about this. Notice to get one, you have to “agree to accept offer of… interim… housing,” ie agree to be displaced a little later anyway. 💩
#sfpol

An early morning alone on the banks of the (still young) Isar river some weeks ago... Really more "flow" rather than #WaterfallWednesday, but I just absolutely cherish places and moments like this & feeling so privileged being able to experience these after decades of living in large cities... (each time also a reminder how much we stand to lose...)

I asked fascism for advice on living my best life. It suggested following orders and never smiling.
#Fascism #AntiFascism #Antifa

is thinking about wearing ear plugs while coding to avoid all of the barking coming from the living room.

That's nice...
I already have machines that I need an antique SSH client to log into because they run antique bespoke ssh implementations. Now I'll have another set causing a whiny client.
https://bsd.network/@jggimi/115038801591528303

Josh Grosse (@jggimi@bsd.network)
Cryptography tells us we are already living in a post-quantum world. We need to be cognizant of a new form of attack. I get warned about it when I connect to github.com with SSH, because Microsoft isn't keeping up: --- ** WARNING: connection is not using a post-quantum key exchange algorithm. ** This session may be vulnerable to "store now, decrypt later" attacks. ** The server may need to be upgraded. See https://openssh.com/pq.html

15.4% #chocolate inflation! Terrible!
The more subtle thing is how white chocolate stuff is getting more common and dark rarer; I think that's actually due to the cost - that was noticable in dark chocolate easter eggs and bunnies being rarer this year, and I bet the same will be too of reindeers.

UK inflation remains at 3.8% but food prices continue to surge
While UK inflation held steady in August, the pace of price rises for food surged, increasing cost of living pressures.

Tahoe Therapeutics, which is building AI models of living cells, raised $30M led by Amplify Partners at a $120M valuation, taking its total funding to $42M (Alex Knapp/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/202

Biotech Startup Tahoe Therapeutics Raised $30 Million To Build AI Models Of Living Cells
The Palo Alto, California-based company, now valued at $120 million, has developed a scalable way to quickly generate crucial biological data needed for AI models–and use them to find new cures for cancer.

Urban Living II 🌝
都市生活 II 🌝
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
NoMeansNo:
🎵 Living Is Free
#NoMeansNo

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once."
"The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing."
"God made Blues right after he made woman."
-B. B. King (born today in 1925)

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and
family. But he can't make a living for them *and* his government, too,
the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is
live as cheap as the people.
-- The Best of Will Rogers

CoNav Chair: Development and Evaluation of a Shared Control based Wheelchair for the Built Environment
Yifan Xu, Qianwei Wang, Jordan Lillie, Vineet Kamat, Carol Menassa, Clive D'Souza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11716

CoNav Chair: Development and Evaluation of a Shared Control based Wheelchair for the Built Environment
As the global population of people with disabilities (PWD) continues to grow, so will the need for mobility solutions that promote independent living and social integration. Wheelchairs are vital for the mobility of PWD in both indoor and outdoor environments. The current SOTA in powered wheelchairs is based on either manually controlled or fully autonomous modes of operation, offering limited flexibility and often proving difficult to navigate in spatially constrained environments. Moreover, r…

American who spied for Kremlin from inside Ukraine receives Russian citizenship: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/american-who-spied-for-kremlin.html

Self : Merging Human and AI for Co-Determined XR Living in the Metaverse
Thammathip Piumsomboon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10967 https://

Self++: Merging Human and AI for Co-Determined XR Living in the Metaverse
This position paper introduces Self++, a novel nine-level framework for co-determined living in the Metaverse, grounded in Self-Determination Theory. Self++ prioritises human flourishing by progressively cultivating competence, autonomy, and relatedness through dynamic human-AI collaboration in extended reality (XR). Unlike technologically deterministic approaches, Self++ emphasises user empowerment by enhancing competency, mitigating cognitive biases and leveraging XR's immersive capabilities.…

Repulsive particle interactions enable selective information processing at cellular interfaces
Jenna Elliott, Hiral Shah, Roman Belousov, Gautam Dey, Anna Erzberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14739

Repulsive particle interactions enable selective information processing at cellular interfaces
Living systems relay information across membrane interfaces to coordinate compartment functions. We identify a physical mechanism for selective information transmission that arises from the sigmoidal response of surface-bound particle densities to spatial features of adjacent external structures. This mechanism implements a form of spatial thresholding, enabling the binary classification of external cues. Expansion microscopy measurements of nuclear pore complex distributions in S. arctica show…

More than 80% of content on Civitai AI image platform is overtly sexual, much of it non-consensual imagery of real living people.
And it's not governments trying to control that, but payment providers.
https://www.404media.co/a16z-backed-ai-sit

#fakedrumroom
Had a drum track recorded in a small room so re-amped it in my living room to add to the original #recording.
#drums

I don't want to live forever, I just want to live long enough to... (list in alphabetical order by verb):
- climb every mountain, hill, and cliff
- hug every pillow, plushie, and stuffed animal
- learn every language
- listen to every song, podcast, radio show, and sound effect
- meet every person, animal, and other living being
- play every video game, board game, sport, and musical instrument
- read every book, newspaper/magazine article, website, and social media post
- run every computer program
- sleep on every bed, couch, and futon
- swim in every lake, river, and other body of water
- view every painting, sculpture, photograph, map, and other work of art
- visit every city, landmark, historic site, and protected area
- watch every movie, TV show, video, and theater production
...that all shouldn't take too long, right?

Google autocomplete for "What is the point of" from 2016:
Life
Pokemon go
Wasps
Instagram
Living

Quorum sensing of light-activated colloids in nematic liquid crystals
Antonio Tavera-V\'azquez, David Martin, Haijie Ren, Sam Rubin, Andr\'es C\'ordoba, Rui Zhang, Vincenzo Vitelli, Juan J. de Pablo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10866

Quorum sensing of light-activated colloids in nematic liquid crystals
Motile living organisms routinely probe their surroundings to adapt in ever-evolving environments. Although synthetic microswimmers offer surrogates for self-propelled living entities, they often lack the complex feedback mechanisms that enable organisms to adapt. In this work, we present an experimental platform in which light-activated colloids dispersed in a nematic liquid crystal can (i) switch from directed to active Brownian motion depending on the nematic anchoring and (ii) mechanically …

Thinking about it now there was one other time, when it was claimed the battery life was impacted, but normally I'm all in. I mean, I get the new phone on Friday, so I'll be living in it then.
But I can't name one feature I'm looking forward to 🤪 https://mastodon.social/@boxspring/115

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Living Colour:
🎵 Love Rears Its Ugly Head
#NowPlaying #LivingColour
https://open.spotify.com/track/7m5WaOV2oW0lghW8GQo95T

Virtual states and exponential decay in small-scale dynamo
A. V. Kopyev, A. S. Il'yn, V. A. Sirota, K. P. Zybin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13206 https://

Virtual states and exponential decay in small-scale dynamo
We develop the Kazantsev theory of small-scale dynamo generation at small Prandtl numbers near the generation threshold and restore the concordance between the theory and numerical simulations: the theory predicted a power-law decay below the threshold, while simulations demonstrate exponential decay. We show that the exponential decay is temporary and owes its existence to the flattening of the velocity correlator at large scales. This effect corresponds to the existence of a long-living virtu…

TL;DR: what if nationalism, not anarchy, is futile?
Since I had the pleasure of seeing the "what would anarchists do against a warlord?" argument again in my timeline, I'll present again my extremely simple proposed solution:
Convince the followers of the warlord that they're better off joining you in freedom, then kill or exile the warlord once they're alone or vastly outnumbered.
Remember that even in our own historical moment where nothing close to large-scale free society has existed in living memory, the warlord's promise of "help me oppress others and you'll be richly rewarded" is a lie that many understand is historically a bad bet. Many, many people currently take that bet, for a variety of reasons, and they're enough to coerce through fear an even larger number of others. But although we imagine, just as the medieval peasants might have imagined of monarchy, that such a structure is both the natural order of things and much too strong to possibly fail, in reality it takes an enormous amount of energy, coordination, and luck for these structures to persist! Nations crumble every day, and none has survived more than a couple *hundred* years, compared to pre-nation societies which persisted for *tends of thousands of years* if not more. I'm this bubbling froth of hierarchies, the notion that hierarchy is inevitable is certainly popular, but since there's clearly a bit of an ulterior motive to make (and teach) that claim, I'm not sure we should trust it.
So what I believe could form the preconditions for future anarchist societies to avoid the "warlord problem" is merely: a widespread common sense belief that letting anyone else have authority over you is morally suspect. Given such a belief, a warlord will have a hard time building any following at all, and their opponents will have an easy time getting their supporters to defect. In fact, we're already partway there, relative to the situation a couple hundred years ago. At that time, someone could claim "you need to obey my orders and fight and die for me because the Queen was my mother" and that was actually a quite successful strategy. Nowadays, this strategy is only still working in a few isolated places, and the idea that one could *start a new monarchy* or even resurrect a defunct one seems absurd. So why can't that same transformation from "this is just how the world works" to "haha, how did anyone ever believe *that*? also happen to nationalism in general? I don't see an obvious reason why not.
Now I think one popular counterargument to this is: if you think non-state societies can win out with these tactics, why didn't they work for American tribes in the face of the European colonizers? (Or insert your favorite example of colonialism here.) I think I can imagine a variety of reasons, from the fact that many of those societies didn't try this tactic (and/or were hierarchical themselves), to the impacts of disease weakening those societies pre-contact, to the fact that with much-greater communication and education possibilities it might work better now, to the fact that most of those tribes are *still* around, and a future in which they persist longer than the colonist ideologies actually seems likely to me, despite the fact that so much cultural destruction has taken place. In fact, if the modern day descendants of the colonized tribes sow the seeds of a future society free of colonialism, that's the ultimate demonstration of the futility of hierarchical domination (I just read "Theory of Water" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson).
I guess the TL;DR on this is: what if nationalism is actually as futile as monarchy, and we're just unfortunately living in the brief period during which it is ascendant?

Living an abundant life doesn't mean having so many things that we can't move around. That's not an abundant life. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-192-make-mistakes-on-purpose/

live the mystery - creative living as solution https://muz4now.com/2016/live-mystery-creative-living-solution/

live the mystery - creative living as solution
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Survey: NFL vets report high toll, few regrets https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45843811/espn-kff-survey-nfl-players-1988-battle-pain-embrace-football

In the so-called world's greatest nation, people without homes are living in tents under bridges. Some would respond by killing all of them. Sadly, people like that are on television and paid millions of dollars per year. This country is sick.

The Mars House was a fun read. I enjoyed the ideas Natasha Pulley has put into worldbuilding: How would people change when living on Mars, as society and physically? How would languages and tech evolve? The actual story is a wee bit too YA soap lit for my taste but as I said: a fun read!

Packers star Billy Howton, believed to have been the oldest living NFL player, dies at 95 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/packers-star-billy-howton-believed-to-have-been-the-oldest-living-nfl-player-dies-at-95

I watched the Disney, two season, series on the risk of Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).
It was interesting.
And last night I watched a Studio Ghibli film.
I am active in live theatre - living actors on a stage before a live audience.
It struck me that movie making a la ILM tends to glorify the scenery without necessarily adding to the impact of the story.
I can understand how filmmakers want to immerse the audience in a different reality. But I don't thin…

dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…

Most cybersecurity risk comes from just 10% of employees
A new report from Living Security and the Cyentia Institute sheds light on the real human element behind cybersecurity threats, and it’s not what most organizations expect.
💻 https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/16

Most cybersecurity risk comes from just 10% of employees - Help Net Security
New report reveals how human cybersecurity risk is concentrated in just 10% of users, and how organizations can manage it effectively.

Orchestrating the Implementation of the Smart City
Filippo Marchesani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12267 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.122…

Orchestrating the Implementation of the Smart City
This chapter explores the six core dimensions of smart cities (i.e. smart economy, mobility, environment, people, living, and governance) emphasizing their interdependence and the need for holistic orchestration. Building on Giffinger et al. (2007) and subsequent literature, it argues that integrating these dimensions is crucial for sustainable urban development. ICT plays a key enabling role but must be complemented by human and social capital. Through institutional examples, such as the creat…

StarDojo: Benchmarking Open-Ended Behaviors of Agentic Multimodal LLMs in Production-Living Simulations with Stardew Valley
Weihao Tan, Changjiu Jiang, Yu Duan, Mingcong Lei, Jiageng Li, Yitian Hong, Xinrun Wang, Bo An
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07445

StarDojo: Benchmarking Open-Ended Behaviors of Agentic Multimodal LLMs in Production-Living Simulations with Stardew Valley
Autonomous agents navigating human society must master both production activities and social interactions, yet existing benchmarks rarely evaluate these skills simultaneously. To bridge this gap, we introduce StarDojo, a novel benchmark based on Stardew Valley, designed to assess AI agents in open-ended production-living simulations. In StarDojo, agents are tasked to perform essential livelihood activities such as farming and crafting, while simultaneously engaging in social interactions to est…

By “social infrastructure,” I mean norms and expectations: What is polite? What is acceptable? What is safe? Whose job is it to maintain which aspects of safety and courtesy?
So much of the tension around these questions right now is because we’re still living a world framed by “jaywalking” and its surrounding constellation — a term that was invented by the auto industry in the 1920s to absolve cars of responsibility for killing so many pedestrians, especially children.

Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/strong-men-hot-mics-putin-and-xi-dream-about-immortality-living-to-150/

Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants
What do warmongers and strongmen chat about? Living forever, of course.

Would be nice not living in a banana republic

On the Bay Area regional transit measure: "A gross receipts tax [rather than sales tax] would ensure that the largest and wealthiest companies contribute their fair share to the infrastructure that helps make their record profits possible. This approach avoids placing an additional burden on families already struggling with the crushing cost of living in the Bay Area." #SB63
🎁🔗:

If you’re asking if there are people like me, people who smoke pot, want multiple partner relationships, believe in communal living, want the world to be in harmony, take psychedelics, listen to underground music (Psytrance), are against war, and also consider themselves anarchists, the answer is yes. I exist, and I’m definitely not alone in this.
#Hippie

> "The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags"
We're living in the backstory lore of a satirical 90s videogame.
https://www.theverge.com/x-ai/775411/grok-xai-safety-musk-warren-hegseth-dod

The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags
Every AI company should be worried about safety. But xAI and Grok should be most concerned. Senator Warren sent Pete Hegseth a letter to that effect.

Important, informative thread re farmworker pay.
#agriculture

Important, informative thread re farmworker pay.
#agriculture

Farm Sanctuary fights the disastrous effects of animal agriculture on animals, the environment, social justice, and public health through rescue, education, and advocacy. #AnimalRights

We Envision a World Where Sanctuary Replaces Exploitation | Farm Sanctuary
Farm Sanctuary is a nonprofit pursuing bold solutions to end animal agriculture and foster compassionate vegan living.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Aubrey Travez:
🎵 Living As I Dream
#AubreyTravez
https://aubreytravez.bandcamp.com/track/living-as-i-dream
https://open.spotify.com/track/63OnJnqRlyywYyeLeIK0v1

ReGen Homes offers eco-conscious townhomes in BC with sustainable features and urban amenities. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Couple shares unique home offering incredibly high standard of living: 'An urban lifestyle without the urban density'
ReGen Homes is building eco-conscious townhomes in British Columbia that promote sustainable living while meeting future homeowners' needs, reported the Vancouver Sun.

dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…

Thought of the day: neobourgeoisie.
A growing part of the population is living in a quasi-sumptuousness, surrounding themselves with unnecessary crap. At the same time, the necessary exploitation reaches the levels where the same people are being exploited. Effectively, we're hitting a vicious cycle of people exploiting each other.
#AntiCapitalism

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

Unconventional Phase Separation and Fractal Interfaces of Colloids in Active Liquids
Pragya Kushwaha, Pratikshya Jena, Partha Sarathi Mondal, Sanjay Puri, Shradha Mishra, Vijayakumar Chikkadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11000

Unconventional Phase Separation and Fractal Interfaces of Colloids in Active Liquids
Phase separation driven by nonequilibrium fluctuations is a hallmark of both living and synthetic active matter. Unlike equilibrium systems, where ordered states arise from the minimization of free energy, active systems are fueled by a constant injection of energy at the microscopic scale. The emergence of ordered phases in such driven systems challenges our conventional views of domain growth and interfacial structure. In this study, we investigate the coarsening of colloidal clusters in acti…

Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization

Some performances can be rewatched, this is a good example, Cult of Personality, Living Colour, live in Auburn, 1988. Unbelievably good. Also a fitting anthem in the Trump era.
https://youtu.be/cwwJkaT2PHM?si=wDU1gGhkf-U-ac_a

Fascinating:
A feature in the Financial Times reveals some very rich people have started selling up and living in motorhomes.
Obviously, they’re ultra-luxurious motorhomes. The owner of a private equity firm interviewed has a 30-tonne behemoth with air conditioning and high-speed internet, a kitchen, dining room, two bathrooms, a “spacious master bedroom” and “a range of modern hi-tech appliances”. which cost
“around $2.7m” (£2m)
I read something else about ultra-high…

Designing for Engaging Communication Between Parents and Young Adult Children Through Shared Music Experiences
Euihyeok Lee, Souneil Park, Jin Yu, Seungchul Lee, Seungwoo Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10907

Designing for Engaging Communication Between Parents and Young Adult Children Through Shared Music Experiences
This paper aims to foster social interaction between parents and young adult children living apart via music. Our approach transforms their music-listening moment into an opportunity to listen to the other's favorite songs and enrich interaction in their daily lives. To this end, we explore the current practice and needs of parent-child communication and the experience and perception of music-mediated interaction. Based on the findings, we developed DJ-Fam, a mobile application that enables par…

Third Hives single 'Legalize Living' from the new record next month. Rad tune. You know a band is 🔥 and has amazing videos when you just know to turn it up and fully maximize the window to take it all in. 💥
Don't know how they do it, but The Hives always do
https://youtu.be/uqCV7wR-pmM?si=gV902c

Trump to blame for high cost of living, Americans say in new poll | US economy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/01/trump-inflation-cost-of-living-poll

Kürzlich las ich in einem Internetartikel in Leserkommentaren die geringschätzige Bemerkung, dass ein Großteil der Menschen ohne inneren Monolog seien. Es wurde impliziert, diese seien dumm, unfähig nachzudenken.
Mir war das nicht bekannt und ich habe geforscht und festgestellt, das ist ein Vorurteil. Wie sich nachdenken ausdrückt, ist, ja, #Neurodivers und unterscheidet sich zwischen den…

What It’s Like to Be ‘Mind Blind’
Aphantasia, or mind blindness, refers to an inability to visualize imagery. One person living with the condition describes what it's like.

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
VILA: [V.O.] Belkov's living quarters.
TARRANT: We'll be right there.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/409 B7B2

visiting the #Netherlands right now and the first impression is: people have huge ground-floor windows without curtains. So walking through a picturesque suburb feels weird because you could see everybody‘s super tidy living rooms. Or see them watching TV. Is this a cultural thing? Like, if you have curtains you‘re a weirdo?

This Is Not the World I Wanted to Leave for You: Reflections on Legacy, Loss, and the Future We Shape
I have been thinking a great deal lately about living and dying, and about the strange, stubborn human hunger to leave something meaningful behind. The faces of those I have known who have already passed return to me in quiet moments, and I find myself watching those who are, even now, nearing the end of their own stories. I also include my final braided prairie knot…

Living Next To Tesla Diner Is 'Absolute Hell,' Neighbors Say https://www.404media.co/living-next-to-tesla-diner-is-absolute-hell-neighbors-say/

If your government tells you that everyday citizens are terrorists, you might be living under fascism. https://mastodon.online/@Geri/115162976145463345

Totts (@Geri@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Met Police are now, Sept 7th, reporting 890 were arrested at the #PalestineAction demo in London on the day before So with 717 arrested in previous days And with 3 people arrested in Edinburgh that makes a total of 1610 who have been arrested Astonishing!

This is so great!
"First photos from the Greatest Gathering of trains in living memory"
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/first-photos-from-the-greatest-gathering-of-trains-in-living-memory-82970/…

Detecting alien living worlds and photosynthetic life using imaging polarimetry with the HWO coronagraph
Svetlana Berdyugina, Lucas Patty, Jonathan Grone, Brice Demory, Kim Bott, Vincent Kofman, Giulia Roccetti, Kenneth Goodis Gordon, Frans Snik, Theodora Karalidi, Victor Trees, Daphne Stam, Mary N. Parenteau
https://arxiv.org/a…

Detecting alien living worlds and photosynthetic life using imaging polarimetry with the HWO coronagraph
Our Earth, being the only living planet that we know, provides us with clues that photosynthetic life-forms may be dominant on other exoplanets for billions of years. Spectropolarimetric signatures of the terrestrial photosynthetic life (PSLife) are well studied in the lab and remotely sensed with space and airborne instrumentation. An astonishing biosignature revealed by these measurements is an extremely strong linear polarization (tens \%) associated with broad absorption bands of biological…

People Globally Are Living Better Lives, More Hopeful About the Future: We Know Because They Said So https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/people-globally-are-living-better-lives-more-hopeful-about-the-future-we-know-bec…

People Globally Are Living Better Lives, More Hopeful About the Future: We Know Because They Said So
"The world is not short of significant challenges, from climate change to conflicts and technological upheaval," the Gallup authors wrote.

Aaron Donald was one of the NFL's toughest players. A stalker left him living in fear https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6543065/2025/08/13/aaron-donald-stalker-rams-nfl/

Replaced article(s) found for stat.ME. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ME/new
[1/1]:
- ALL-IN meta-analysis: breathing life into living systematic reviews and prospective meta-analyses
Judith ter Schure, Peter Gr\"unwald

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Andrey Krekhov, Sebastian Cmentowski, Katharina Emmerich, Maic Masuch, Jens Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11304

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Virtual reality games are often centered around our feeling of "being there". That presence can be significantly enhanced by supporting physical walking. Although modern virtual reality systems enable room-scale motions, the size of our living rooms is not enough to explore vast virtual environments. Developers bypass that limitation by adding virtual navigation such as teleportation. Although such techniques are intended (or designed) to extend but not replace natural walking, what we often ob…

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

🧠 Imaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-imaging-tech-deepest-brain-tissue.html

Imaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution
Both for research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of microscopy to produce ever deeper and sharper images of brain activity, not only in the cortex but also in regions underneath such as the hippocampus. In a new study, a team of MIT scientists and engineers demonstrates a new microscope system capable of peering exceptionally deep into brain tissues to detect the molecular activity of individual cells by using sound.

Hi! I’m an anarcho-syndicalist, gender-fluid, bisexual, and autistic individual living in Bergen, Norway, and I love Debian and GrapheneOS, and I wanted to reintroduce myself for all the new followers I’ve gotten in the past few weeks.
I like to be clear and specific, so here’s a structured list:
- Activism: Syndicalist (Anarcho-syndicalism)
- Gender: Fluid (changes, not fixed)
- Sexuality: Bisexual (attracted to more than one gender)
- Neurotype: Autistic (diagnos…

Packers Star Billy Howton, Believed To Have Been Oldest NFL Player, Dies At 95 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/packers-star-billy-howton-believed-to-have-been-the-oldest-living-nfl-player-dies-at-95

As I listen it continues to cement them as the greatest living rock band in my mind https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/115191521169092660

I'm using two routers at the time. One, provided by the ISP, is on a windowsill in the living room, where the fiber ends. The other is in the corridor, connecting all the devices.
Sometime around the house renovation, Lulu 🐱 started behaving hostile towards Ruh 🐱. So when we moved back in, they divided the house: Ruh would sit in my room, while Lulu would roam the rest of the house. And of course, the windowsill router was one of her favorite places.
Over time, Ruh got bolder and started visiting other rooms. Even though Lulu regularly chased her away, she wasn't successful in keeping her away. So eventually Ruh started visiting the windowsill as well. She apparently wasn't really interested in the router, but her presence sufficed to discouraged Lulu.
So Lulu eventually discovered the other router.
#cat

Author and editor Callie Collins on finding spaces to think and work creatively https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo

Author and editor Callie Collins on finding spaces to think and work creatively – The Creative Independent
Author and editor Callie Collins discusses having a stable job, the ethics of art about living people, and finding the perfect zone to create

My friend Marty was like "Hey man, Fran needs help" and you know what, Fran is an awesome dude and a great asset to Milwaukee, and he gave me a chance to show & sell my work last year so I pitch a bit of money towards him.
And then more people did, and more, and it doubled the same day, and doubled again since last night! Smashed the original goal.
Community. We build it. Be there for each other. Help when you can.
➡️

Donate to Help Fran Heal and Cover Living Expenses, organized by Francisco Ramirez
Hello, I'm Francisco, most call me Fran. I'm a printmaker in Milwaukee, … Francisco Ramirez needs your support for Help Fran Heal and Cover Living Expenses

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jeb Loy Nichols:
🎵 That's How We're Living
#NowPlaying #JebLoyNichols
https://jebloynichols.bandcamp.com/track/thats-how-were-living
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hDUUOOMHek56iXZQqhIDo

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a 3,500-year-old city in Peru's northern Barranca province.
The city, named Peñico, is believed to have served as a key trading hub connecting early Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes mountains and Amazon basin.
Located some 200km north of Lima, the site lies about 600 metres (1,970 feet) above sea level
and is thought to have been founded between 1,800 and 1,500 BC
- around the same time that ea…

Archaeologists discover 3,500-year-old city in Peru
Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes and Amazon.

dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…

😷 Viruses hidden within fungi could be secret drivers of deadly lung infections
#medicine

Viruses hidden within fungi could be secret drivers of deadly lung infections
Researchers have discovered that a virus living inside the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus significantly boosts the fungus's ability to survive stress and cause severe infections in mammals. Removing the virus made the fungus weaker and less virulent, while antiviral treatments improved survival outcomes. This finding reveals a hidden factor driving the deadliness of fungal infections and opens the door to potential new treatments that target the virus rather than the fungus itself.

AROMA: Mixed-Initiative AI Assistance for Non-Visual Cooking by Grounding Multi-modal Information Between Reality and Videos
Zheng Ning, Leyang Li, Daniel Killough, JooYoung Seo, Patrick Carrington, Yapeng Tian, Yuhang Zhao, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10963

AROMA: Mixed-Initiative AI Assistance for Non-Visual Cooking by Grounding Multi-modal Information Between Reality and Videos
Videos offer rich audiovisual information that can support people in performing activities of daily living (ADLs), but they remain largely inaccessible to blind or low-vision (BLV) individuals. In cooking, BLV people often rely on non-visual cues, such as touch, taste, and smell, to navigate their environment, making it difficult to follow the predominantly audiovisual instructions found in video recipes. To address this problem, we introduce AROMA, an AI system that provides timely responses t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Hives:
🎵 Legalize Living
#TheHives
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/7s4jEMchJ03AxIw7IQKZJT

I feel like people have forgotten what "analog" means. They're living in an analog — digital dichotomy, where everything that's electrical is "digital", and everything else is "analog", entirely ignoring the whole lot of analog electronic devices, or rather dumping them all in the category of "digital".
Perhaps we're lacking a good term for all the non-electrical devices.
#English

Oh my gosh, it’s over 30°C in Bergen, Norway today! It’s seriously so hot outside, I’m totally living in cute dress at home right now. Summer vibes are officially here! 🥵👗☀️
#GenderFluid #LGBTQIA #Summer

I've always thought of civility like I think of objectivity in news:
well intended, but entirely optional standard that often results in things that need to be said not being said in order to keep messages more palatable.
Of course, I am a Midwestern guy who teaches the 1st Amendment for a living.
-- Christopher Terry
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residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

01:46—Good night #Fediverse! 😴💤
For real this time, I'm leaving my phone in the living room!
https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/114837080153655342
Bik…