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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, …

Tech to Support Older Adults and Caregivers: Five Privacy Questions for Age Tech
https://fpf.org/blog/tech-to-support-older-adults-and-caregivers-five-privacy-questions-for-age-tech/
@…

OpenAI restores GPT-4o as default for all paid ChatGPT users, vows "plenty of notice" if 4o is deprecated, raises GPT-5 Thinking rate limits to 3K messages/week (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/a…

OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again
For now, the changes should help placate users who felt frustrated by the sudden shift to GPT-5 and deprecation of OpenAI's older LLMs.

Phospho-Tau 217, Plasma

USEFUL FOR
Evaluation of individuals, aged 50 years and older, presenting with cognitive impairment who are being assessed for Alzheimer disease and other causes of cognitive decline
 
This test is not intended as a screening test for Alzheimer disease in asymptomatic individuals.
https:/…

Watching an older gentleman struggling to insert a tattered dollar bill into an ORCA machine and wondering for the millionth time why we punish transit users with fares.

I saw a guy with an Aventon PAC this morning, chatted for a bit, he offered to let me test ride but I said “Thanks, but I’m good!” then ran into a guy with an Aventon Aventure later in they day. Both said they loved their bikes. Both looked a few years older than me.
I really think I’m just gonna go for the Level 3. Spent a bunch of time reading and watching reviews, looks like it would be a great commuter bike for work & weekend fun rides.

@… @… I have some older Shokz and I love them so much. They often sit on my ears all day even when I’m not using them.

Linux Mint is often shilled as a lightweight distro that runs great on older hardware. Well, turns out the Cinnamon Desktop actually requires a certain amount of GPU performance to render smoothly.
On my old laptop Intel HD Graphics 4000, the entire Desktop only runs at ~30 FPS. The Xfce/MATE Editions run at 60 with occasional drops.
I didn't expect that from Cinnamon. Even KDE Plasma ran better.

Validation of a CT-brain analysis tool for measuring global cortical atrophy in older patient cohorts
Sukhdeep Bal, Emma Colbourne, Jasmine Gan, Ludovica Griffanti, Taylor Hanayik, Nele Demeyere, Jim Davies, Sarah T Pendlebury, Mark Jenkinson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08012

Validation of a CT-brain analysis tool for measuring global cortical atrophy in older patient cohorts
Quantification of brain atrophy currently requires visual rating scales which are time consuming and automated brain image analysis is warranted. We validated our automated deep learning (DL) tool measuring the Global Cerebral Atrophy (GCA) score against trained human raters, and associations with age and cognitive impairment, in representative older (>65 years) patients. CT-brain scans were obtained from patients in acute medicine (ORCHARD-EPR), acute stroke (OCS studies) and a legacy sample. …

Interval Walking Training
or “Japanese walking,”
is getting renewed attention after going viral on TikTok.
Nearly 20 years ago a team led by Hiroshi Nose and other researchers from Japan published a study that found that
middle-aged and older people who did high-intensity interval walking had lower blood pressure, stronger thigh muscles, and better aerobic capacity than walkers the same age who kept a more moderate, continuous pace.

In the study, the volunteers…

Just 30 minutes a day of ‘Japanese walking’ may help you get in shape
People are rediscovering interval walking training (IWT), a technique that can help you get fit in 30 minutes a day.

Apple Watch's hypertension notifications and sleep score will come to some older models with watchOS 26; FDA clearance for the notifications is expected soon (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775200/apple-watch-series-9-hyp…

Apple’s newest health-tracking features are coming to older watches
Apple is bringing some of its new health tracking features to older watches, with hypertension notifications, live translation, and a wrist flick gesture coming to the Watch Series 9 and up.

Exploring the History of Stellar Mergers with Chemistry: Examining the Origins of Massive $\alpha$-Enriched Stars using Carbon Isotope Ratios
Zachary G. Maas, Keith Hawkins, Jeffrey M. Gerber, Zoe Hackshaw, Catherine Manea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08900

Exploring the History of Stellar Mergers with Chemistry: Examining the Origins of Massive $α$-Enriched Stars using Carbon Isotope Ratios
Recently discovered massive $α$-enriched (MAE) stars have surface chemistry consistent with members of the older thick disk Milky Way population but high masses ($\sim$ 1.5 - 3 M$_{\odot}$) that suggest these stars are young. The origin of MAE stars is not fully understood although binary interactions are likely an important formation pathway. To better constrain the history of MAE stars, we have measured metallicities, carbon isotope ratios, and CNO abundances in 49 red clump stars and four r…

Japanese ‘Rental Grandmother’ Service Provides Much-Needed and Much-Loved Purpose for Older Women https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/japanese-rental-grandmother-service-gives-much-needed-and-much-loved-work-to-older-women/

Japanese 'Rental Grandmother' Service Gives Much-Needed and Much-Loved Work to Older Women
Sharing their love and experience with a young family is an opportunity many are happy to have and happy to do—the $55 per hour helps too.

Holder to huddle with House Democrats
https://punchbowl.news/article/house/holder-huddle/

There are lots of Police watching over the OASIS concert; a couple with machine guns taking out anyone without a bucket hat.
the guests at this are notably older than other concerts; while there are some yungsters, there are a lot of middle age fat blokes.

Hiroshi Mori's Saikawa&Moe series is so funny because both characters somewhat know what the other feels but the older guy is like "nope, I will play ignorant until the day I die, and I'll smoke as much as possible so that cannot be in a long time" and the younger girl is all "welp, I will be spiteful and jealous and I will definitely do everything in my power to tease you because I know of your weakness against watermelons"

I tried running #spinrite via #jetkvm, and then tried to run it via a physical thumb drive. Neither seems to work. I guess the next step is to pull the drives and scan them on a second, older PC? 🤷‍♂️

ExplorAR: Assisting Older Adults to Learn Smartphone Apps through AR-powered Trial-and-Error with Interactive Guidance
Jiawei Li, Linjie Qiu, Zhiqing Wu, Qiongyan Chen, Ziyan Wang, Mingming Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01282

ExplorAR: Assisting Older Adults to Learn Smartphone Apps through AR-powered Trial-and-Error with Interactive Guidance
Older adults tend to encounter challenges when learning to use new smartphone apps due to age-related cognitive and physical changes. Compared to traditional support methods such as video tutorials, trial-and-error allows older adults to learn to use smartphone apps by making and correcting mistakes. However, it remains unknown how trial-and-error should be designed to empower older adults to use smartphone apps and how well it would work for older adults. Informed by the guidelines derived fro…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Sonny & the Sunsets:
🎵 Lovin' on an Older Gal
#Sonny #theSunsets
https://sonnyandthesunsets.bandcamp.com/track/lovin-on-an-older-gal
https://open.spotify.com/track/2mGQ8gUdZNAbb3Bheq3NLr

I know I've said this before but height gap is already good but you know what's even better? when it's a pair where the older one used to be taller than the younger one but then the younger one outgrows the older one in height. I'm always emo at things like that.

@… hey, I've been reading up on your older posts about using Sonos speakers as Mac audio outputs, and they've been super helpful! Thanks for taking the time to write everything up so thoroughly. I'm thinking of getting an old Ray and an optical-out adapter and giving it a go. Anything new to know since your write-ups? (I know Sonos has …

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
NEBROX: You don't want him Lady! Take me [rushes forward and kneels in front of her] take me, Lady. I'm strong, I won't let you down.
BENOS: Silly old fool. [hauls him to his feet]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/167 B7B6

I appreciate that beta 3 now identifies itself as *OS 26 for apps built with any version of the SDK, rather than claiming to be macOS 16, iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and visionOS 3 for apps built with older (i.e. shipping) SDKs.

Facilitating the Emergence of Assistive Robots to Support Frailty: Psychosocial and Environmental Realities
Angela Higgins, Stephen Potter, Mauro Dragone, Mark Hawley, Farshid Amirabdollahian, Alessandro Di Nuovo, Praminda Caleb-Solly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08510

Facilitating the Emergence of Assistive Robots to Support Frailty: Psychosocial and Environmental Realities
While assistive robots have much potential to help older people with frailty-related needs, there are few in use. There is a gap between what is developed in laboratories and what would be viable in real-world contexts. Through a series of co-design workshops (61 participants across 7 sessions) including those with lived experience of frailty, their carers, and healthcare professionals, we gained a deeper understanding of everyday issues concerning the place of new technologies in their lives. …

A view of the crowd after the Ithaca 5 and 10 in front of Ithaca High School... more photos that Kilian Weinberger, myself and maybe some others took here: #photo

Ultra-depleted mantle source of basalts from the South Pole–Aitken basin: #LunarFarside samples from the SPA basin [...] Either way, originating during the LMO or later melt extraction, the ultra-depleted mantle beneath the SPA basin offers a deep observational window into early lunar crust–mantle differentiation." Three older CE6 papers are also in https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/643/issues/8071 with the strange cover picture https://bsky.app/profile/andrewjonesspace.bsky.social/post/3ltlh6d4h5c2d which is probably fake: https://bsky.app/profile/stim3on.bsky.social/post/3ltlm6um3a223

hansom swag fellowes

With GPT-5's launch, OpenAI has removed its older models like GPT-4o and o3 from the ChatGPT model selector, sparking a backlash from some users (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/openai-faces-backlash-for-retiring-older-models-wit…

Probing accretion and stellar properties in the Orion Nebula with VLT/X-Shooter
L. Piscarreta, G. Beccari, R. A. B. Claes, C. F. Manara, H. M. J. Boffin, T. Jerabkova, B. Ercolano, A. Natta, S. E. van Terwisga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08784

Probing accretion and stellar properties in the Orion Nebula with VLT/X-Shooter
Multiple photometric studies have reported the presence of seemingly older accreting pre-main sequence stars (PMS) in optical colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs). We investigate this phenomenon in the Orion Nebula, which harbors a subset of stars that show infrared excess detected by Spitzer and Halpha excess emission, yet display significantly older isochronal ages (>10 Myr) compared to the bulk population (~1-3 Myr) in the r, (r-i) CMD. We perform a detailed spectroscopic analysis of 40 Orion Ne…

As I get older, I prefer bread that is more like wood than bread.
Or maybe I'm just turning into a Beaver? 🦫
#Rustic

Send your good thoughts to Watson, who is now an older cat and has pancreatitis and possibly cancer. Here’s a photo of when we got him long ago.

#Animals #Health Pets Appear to Slow Cognitive Decline in Older People Who Live Alone

Pets Appear to Slow Cognitive Decline in Older People Who Live Alone
Owning a pet could protect against the mental decline that can foreshadow dementia in older folks living alone, a study of nearly 8,000 people has found.

Pluri-perspectivism in Human-robot Co-creativity with Older Adults
Marianne Bossema, Rob Saunders, Aske Plaat, Somaya Ben Allouch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07550

Pluri-perspectivism in Human-robot Co-creativity with Older Adults
This position paper explores pluriperspectivism as a core element of human creative experience and its relevance to humanrobot cocreativity We propose a layered fivedimensional model to guide the design of cocreative behaviors and the analysis of interaction dynamics This model is based on literature and results from an interview study we conducted with 10 visual artists and 8 arts educators examining how pluriperspectivism supports creative practice The findings of this study provide insight i…

#LB Lindíssimo este desenho. Esse @… é mesmo muito talentoso.
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Ground-Based Mid-IR Direct Imaging: The Origin of the Thermal Background on the Keck II Telescope and Correcting Instrumental Systematics
Jayke S. Nguyen, Quinn M. Konopacky, William Thompson, Natasha Popenoe, Bruce Macintosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08313

Ground-Based Mid-IR Direct Imaging: The Origin of the Thermal Background on the Keck II Telescope and Correcting Instrumental Systematics
Mid-IR wavelengths are of particular interest to exoplanet science due to the fact they can extend the searchable parameter space to planets that are older and/or colder. However, a significant source of uncertainty at mid-IR wavelengths on ground-based telescopes is the thermal background. This background comes from blackbody radiation in the atmosphere and telescope and is therefore dependent on instrument design and atmospheric conditions. When performing imaging observations, this backgroun…

On my gas supplier’s website, and I can only describe the stock photo choices as “couples finding out the answer to ‘does my husband’s penis still work?’”

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

1/ My older kids from my previous marriage phoned this evening. My daughter (10) asked if she could have a second piercing in each ear and my son (7) asked if he could get a piercing. The kids then told me that mum had said yes, but that they would have to ask me. This is not ok as I have to be the bad guy on my own if I disagree. Their mum needs to talk to me if they make a request like this, before anything is said to the kids. I need to message my ex wife to make this clear.

Top 30 players age 30 or older: T.J. Watt takes the top spot as trenches dominate; only three QBs make the cut

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/top-30-…

Discrete-event Tensor Factorization: Learning a Smooth Embedding for Continuous Domains
Joey De Pauw, Bart Goethals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04221 https://

Discrete-event Tensor Factorization: Learning a Smooth Embedding for Continuous Domains
Recommender systems learn from past user behavior to predict future user preferences. Intuitively, it has been established that the most recent interactions are more indicative of future preferences than older interactions. Many recommendation algorithms use this notion to either drop older interactions or to assign them a lower weight, so the model can focus on the more informative, recent information. However, very few approaches model the flow of time explicitly. This paper analyzes how ti…

...and a parallel occasional/rolling thread of favorite newish reissues, archival releases, live tapes, & other older fresh-to-me music.

A new deepening of mass-radius empirical relation for main sequence stars
Salvatore Camposeo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08845 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08…

A new deepening of mass-radius empirical relation for main sequence stars
In the following paper I have compared some typical mass-radius relations for main sequence stars by studying their level of agreement with DEBCat [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1411.1219], which is a recent catalogue by J. Southworth. Models chosen for testing were originally developed using older, smaller datasets than DEBCat. Each model follows a two-piece function structure, where each branch is a monomial power-law. This approach is motivated by theoretical considerations suggesting that …

“People who socialize more are more resistant to cognitive decline as they get older,”
Dr. Ben Rein said. And, he added, they “have generally larger brains.”
Researchers think that may be because socializing could help to protect against declines in brain volume that happen with age and isolation.
Loneliness, which is particularly common in older adults, can increase levels of the stress hormone cortisol,
and if cortisol is elevated for long periods of time it can lea…

How Do ‘Super-Agers’ Stay Young? What 25 Years of Research Has Revealed.
After 25 years of research on this notable group, here’s what stands out.

Yet another example of Marc Maron as one of the few good guys left in comedy. It's so nice to see and older comedian call out these frauds and collaborators so clearly and unapologetically.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/marc-maro…

Marc Maron Slams Netflix Over Chappelle, Bill Maher's Desperation
Marc Maron doubles down on his criticism of Bill Maher, saying the HBO host is desperately trying to stay relevant.

Nonlocal Harnack inequalities for nonlocal double phase equations I ; with positive bounded modulating coefficient with no H\"older condition
Yong-Cheol Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07433

Nonlocal Harnack inequalities for nonlocal double phase equations I ; with positive bounded modulating coefficient with no Hölder condition
In this paper, by applying the De Giorgi-Nash-Moser theory we prove nonlocal Harnack inequalities for (locally nonnegative in $Ω$) weak solutions to nolocal double phase equations \begin{equation*}\begin{cases}\cL u =0 & \text{ in $Ω$,} \\ u=g & \text{ in $\BR^n\sΩ$ } \end{cases}\end{equation*} where $Ω\subset\BR^n$ ($n\ge 2$) is a bounded domain with Lipschitz boundary, $\cL$ is the nonlocal double phase operator $\cL$ given by \begin{equation*}\begin{split}\cL u(x)=&\pv\int_{\BR^n}|u…

Verifying Correctness of PLC Software during System Evolution using Model Containment Approach
Soumyadip Bandyopadhyay, Santonu Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05596 https://

Verifying Correctness of PLC Software during System Evolution using Model Containment Approach
Upgradation of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) software is quite common to accommodate evolving industrial requirements. Verifying the correctness of such upgrades remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a verification-based approach to ensure the correctness of the existing functionality in the upgraded version of a PLC software. The method converts the older and the newer versions of the sequential function chart (SFC) into two Petri net models. We then verify whether o…

The Evolving Homefront: Millennials Stay Put as Older Buyers Dominate the Market
Penn Mutual Asset Management - July 24, 2025
“While housing demand may soften due to economic pressures, strong rental demand is expected to continue, particularly among younger adults navigating high costs and limited financial flexibility.”

The Evolving Homefront: Millennials Stay Put as Older Buyers Dominate the Market | Penn Mutual Asset Management, LLC
Penn Mutual Asset Management is committed to serving the institutional marketplace by offering fixed income investment solutions and client-focused services

🧓 Older adults are more psychologically resistant to cyberbullying, student-led research finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-older-adults-psychologically-resistant-cyberbullying.html

Older adults are more psychologically resistant to cyberbullying, student-led research finds
Undergraduate-led research from the University of Warwick has found that older adults are less emotionally affected by negative social media comments.

Bouncing Grains Keep Protoplanetary Disks Bright
Yansong Qian (Toronto), Yanqin Wu (Toronto)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06298 https://

Bouncing Grains Keep Protoplanetary Disks Bright
Proto-planetary disks display the so-called size-luminosity relation, where their mm-wavelength fluxes scale linearly with their emitting areas. This suggests that these disks are optically thick in mm-band, an interpretation further supported by their near-black-body spectral indexes. Such characteristics are seen not only among disks in very young star-forming regions like Lupus (1-3 Myrs), but, as we demonstrate here, also among disks in the much older Upper Scorpius region (5-11 Myrs). How …

This took quite a while to experiment, but now that it kinda works, feels pretty cool.
- Still experimental on my local machine (not on dev site)
- Replies are segmented between edit time slots, idea from X https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/114996911713894433
- Older …

Trivia for your weekend:
Long before HP got into "gaming hardware", omen.com belonged to a tech company with a cool logo that brought us YMODEM and ZMODEM. Note that the predecessor XMODEM is just a bit older.
https://web.archive.org/web/200801292216…

How does Carrie-Anne Moss keep getting hotter as she gets older?
I want what she's having

Just saw the most MN contest ever: two men competing to see who could open the door for the other. The older man got to the door first but then the younger man squeaked out a win by holding the door open for the older man to come in. #coffeeshop

We have raspberries growing. When we lived in Seattle we grew kale and picked wild blackberries. All were so much better than anything you get in a grocery store.
I don't eat a lot of fruit these days because its so disappointing to take a bite out of a bland or bitter berry from a plastic carton..
https://m…

Do I understand what freedom really means? Absolutely. Can I explain it clearly? Nope, that’s a hard pass!
Luckily, the image below does a way better job at explaining it than I ever could.
#ActuallyAutistic #Anarchism

Comparison of the effectiveness and costs of hepatitis A vaccination strategies to mitigate future deaths in the Republic of Korea
Yuna Lim, Yubin Seo, Jacob Lee, Eunok Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05373

Comparison of the effectiveness and costs of hepatitis A vaccination strategies to mitigate future deaths in the Republic of Korea
Improved hygiene and infant vaccinations have led to age specific variations in hepatitis A antibody prevalence in Korea, with lower rates among individuals in their 20s to 40s. Given that the fatality rate of hepatitis A increases for those aged 50 and older, the low immunity level among younger adults indicates a future risk of increased deaths in older age groups without additional preventive measures.We developed an age structured transmission model to assess the impact of adult vaccination…

We were near President office today where was the gathering of time-stopping supporters which is the essence of „Poland will always be Poland” motto..
Conversation between two older men, both dressed in „patriotic” chinese t-shirts, commenting an arabic-dressed lady.
„My mate in Paris was afraid of standing in the train station, there so much of *this*”.
„My friend in Cologne…”
It’s interesting how in Polish macho culture it’s so easy to admit you’re afraid of a perso…

iPhone 17 event tidbits: the new MagSafe battery is iPhone Air exclusive, the Air likely uses binned A19 Pro chips, and older AirPods will get Live Translation (Dan Moren/Six Colors)
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/a-few-details-apple-di…

A few details Apple didn’t mention during its “awe-dropping” event
Apple crams a lot into its keynotes, but almost as notable is what it chooses not to talk about. Having had some time after today’s “awe-dropping” event announcing the iPhone 17 l…

On Demographic Transformation: Why We Need to Think Beyond Silos
Nicholle Mae Amor Tan Maravilla, Myles Joshua Toledo Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03129 …

On Demographic Transformation: Why We Need to Think Beyond Silos
Developed nations are undergoing a profound demographic transformation, characterized by rapidly aging populations and declining birth rates. This dual trend places unprecedented strain on healthcare systems, economies, and social support structures, creating complex biological, economic, and social challenges. This paper argues that current, often siloed, policy responses, such as pronatalist initiatives that overlook the equally urgent needs of older adults, are inadequate for addressing thes…

The key is not allow boys to be raised by older boys, even ones who are legally adults. By the time they’re thinking about dating, they are likely to be ruined.
The problem is too much gendering in childhood. So many people are raised to think in binary gender terms compelled to conform to gender norms and believe in binary-gender ideology.
I will never run out of gratitude for being the only boy in my family for much of my childhood.

Eye2Recall: Exploring the Design of Enhancing Reminiscence Activities via Eye Tracking-Based LLM-Powered Interaction Experience for Older Adults
Lei Han, Mingnan Wei, Qiongyan Chen, Anqi Wang, Rong Pang, Kefei Liu, Rongrong Chen, David Yip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02232

Eye2Recall: Exploring the Design of Enhancing Reminiscence Activities via Eye Tracking-Based LLM-Powered Interaction Experience for Older Adults
Photo-based reminiscence has the potential to have a positive impact on older adults' reconnection with their personal history and improve their well-being. Supporting reminiscence in older adults through technological implementations is becoming an increasingly important area of research in the fields of HCI and CSCW. However, the impact of integrating gaze and speech as mixed-initiative interactions in LLM-powered reminiscence conversations remains under-explored. To address this, we conducte…

On The Road - To Xi’An ⛑️
在路上 - 去西安 ⛑️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Association of Timing and Duration of Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity with Cognitive Function and Brain Aging: A Population-Based Study Using the UK Biobank
Wasif Khan, Lin Gu, Noah Hammarlund, Lei Xing, Joshua K. Wong, Ruogu Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06969

Association of Timing and Duration of Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity with Cognitive Function and Brain Aging: A Population-Based Study Using the UK Biobank
Physical activity is a modifiable lifestyle factor with potential to support cognitive resilience. However, the association of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) intensity, and timing, with cognitive function and region-specific brain structure remain poorly understood. We analyzed data from 45,892 UK Biobank participants aged 60 years and older with valid wrist-worn accelerometer data, cognitive testing, and structural brain MRI. MVPA was measured both continuously (mins per week) a…

What on earth was that bit about an older woman, Bates? I was waiting for maybe a punchline or an explanation but no. #TOTP

How can music companies boost recorded-music sales among older consumers? https://musicandcopyright.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/how-can-mu…

How can music companies boost recorded-music sales among older consumers?
A significant but underutilized market Older consumers, particularly those aged 55 years and above, represent a significant yet underutilized market for recorded-music. While they spend less on new…

SynPAIN: A Synthetic Dataset of Pain and Non-Pain Facial Expressions
Babak Taati, Muhammad Muzammil, Yasamin Zarghami, Abhishek Moturu, Airhossein Kazerouni, Hailey Reimer, Alex Mihailidis, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19673

SynPAIN: A Synthetic Dataset of Pain and Non-Pain Facial Expressions
Accurate pain assessment in patients with limited ability to communicate, such as older adults with dementia, represents a critical healthcare challenge. Robust automated systems of pain detection may facilitate such assessments. Existing pain detection datasets, however, suffer from limited ethnic/racial diversity, privacy constraints, and underrepresentation of older adults who are the primary target population for clinical deployment. We present SynPAIN, a large-scale synthetic dataset conta…

The older I get, the more impressed I am by the #Wimbledon ball-girls and ball-boys.

UDFA corner with whopping 56 college games played hoping to impress Cowboys coaches https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/06/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-36-cb-bruce-harmon/8549313…

There’ve been articles all over lately, based on a single small (n=55) study that purports to show adverse effects of cannabis use by the elderly. Here’s some evidence to the contrary. A series of studies show improved working memory function with cannabis use for those over 65 years of age. Heading on down to the dispensary as soon as I post this toot. It’s science, friends.

The Benefits of Daily Cannabis for the Middle-Aged Brain
Even daily use of low-level cannabis does not have a negative impact on cognition in older adults, recent research finds.

Sometimes (often) one ends up needing to run older versions of R using older versions of packages. Evercran might be just the tool to help with that: #RStats

GitHub - r-hub/evercran: Any version of R -- with the matching version of CRAN
Any version of R -- with the matching version of CRAN - r-hub/evercran

Considered a lot of flicks I haven't checked out to take in today, both older and newer, but settled on 1997's 'The Relic'. I always want weird monstery creature features over anything else, and this sounds like it is. And it has Tom Sizemore (RIP).
https://boxd.it/1UR2

The Relic (1997)
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVANDIR: Igin volunteered.
HUNDA: I should never have sent him. He was too old.
AVANDIR: But that's why he volunteered Hunda, don't you see? He wanted to be of use.
https://bl…

i thought i was weird autistic and pathetic, then over the last few months, i constantly encounter new people who are more aggressively that than me. this is good, cause they all remind me of an older version of myself in certain ways. and that means the fact ive never given up on tryna get better, and tryna do bigger things that make the world, being alive, and humanity better in general for "others", has been paying off over the years, slowly but surely ^_^

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sufjan Stevens:
🎵 Now That I’m Older
#SufjanStevens
https://music.sufjan.com/track/now-that-im-older-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/22RBQ5jqGycGYRSsH1u0qx

Whether you're eager to migrate to the new OmniFocus 4.7 database format, or wanting to understand what features are available in 4.7 when sticking with an older format (to sync with earlier versions), we have support articles about both scenarios (supplementing the detailed documentation built into the app):
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Mountain biker I caught on the trail in Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #portrait #sports

H\"older regularity of weak solutions to nonlocal doubly degenerate parabolic equations
Qifan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05914 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Hölder regularity of weak solutions to nonlocal doubly degenerate parabolic equations
We study local regularity for nonlocal doubly degenerate parabolic equations. The model equation is \begin{equation*}\begin{split} \partial_t(|u|^{q-1}u)+\mathrm{P}.\mathrm{V}.\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}\frac{|u(x,t)-u(y,t)|^{p-2}(u(x,t)-u(y,t))}{|x-y|^{n+sp}}\,\mathrm{d}y=0, \end{split} \end{equation*} where $02$ and $0

From Canada to Japan: How 10,000 km Affect User Perception in Robot Teleoperation
Sim\'eon Capy, Thomas M. Kwok, Kevin Joseph, Yuichiro Kawasumi, Koichi Nagashima, Tomoya Sasaki, Yue Hu, Eiichi Yoshida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05143

From Canada to Japan: How 10,000 km Affect User Perception in Robot Teleoperation
Robot teleoperation (RTo) has emerged as a viable alternative to local control, particularly when human intervention is still necessary. This research aims to study the distance effect on user perception in RTo, exploring the potential of teleoperated robots for older adult care. We propose an evaluation of non-expert users' perception of long-distance RTo, examining how their perception changes before and after interaction, as well as comparing it to that of locally operated robots. We have de…

An older writeup, but interesting nevertheless.
In-kernel windowing makes sense in certain environments.
https://github.com/8l/fbui
The problem then is though that for general purpose OSes (where a port is *not* a modified copy, but additional runtime evaluation!) this makes the kernel itself comp…

Dane Brugler’s 2026 NFL Draft summer positional rankings: Cornerbacks https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513284/2025/08/05/nfl-draft-2026-summer-rankings-cornerbacks/

Developer Perceptions on Utilising Low-Code Approaches to Build Accessible and Adaptive Applications for Seniors
Shavindra Wickramathilaka, John Grundy, Kashumi Madampe, Omar Haggag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02968

Developer Perceptions on Utilising Low-Code Approaches to Build Accessible and Adaptive Applications for Seniors
The global ageing population presents a growing societal challenge, creating an urgent need for inclusive technologies that promote autonomy among older adults. Software practitioners can address this by delivering digital services that enhance seniors' independence and reduce reliance on routine support from family members and healthcare infrastructure. However, traditional development practices, constrained by time and resources, often result in applications with major accessibility and perso…

Intergenerational Support for Deepfake Scams Targeting Older Adults
Karina LaRubbio, Alyssa Lanter, Seihyun Lee, Mahima Ramesh, Diana Freed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11579 http…

Intergenerational Support for Deepfake Scams Targeting Older Adults
AI-enhanced scams now employ deepfake technology to produce convincing audio and visual impersonations of trusted family members, often grandchildren, in real time. These attacks fabricate urgent scenarios, such as legal or medical emergencies, to socially engineer older adults into transferring money. The realism of these AI-generated impersonations undermines traditional cues used to detect fraud, making them a powerful tool for financial exploitation. In this study, we explore older adults' …

A major setback for grumpy old people in the UK. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/aug/19/young-chatty-workers-disturbing-older-ones-not-age-harassment-tribunal-rules

Evaluating Personalized Beneficial Interventions in the Daily Lives of Older Adults Using a Camera
Longfei Chen, Christopher Lochhead, Robert B. Fisher, Nusa Faric, Jacques Fleuriot, Subramanian Ramamoorthy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19494

Evaluating Personalized Beneficial Interventions in the Daily Lives of Older Adults Using a Camera
Beneficial daily activity interventions have been shown to improve both the physical and mental health of older adults. However, there is a lack of robust objective metrics and personalized strategies to measure their impact. In this study, two older adults aged over 65, living in Edinburgh, UK, selected their preferred daily interventions (mindful meals and art crafts), which are then assessed for effectiveness. The total monitoring period across both participants was 8 weeks. Their physical b…

Determination of the Schr\"odinger-Robin operator by incomplete or asymptotic spectral boundary data
Mourad Choulli, Abdelmalek Metidji, Eric Soccorsi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06598 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06598 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.06598
arXiv:2507.06598v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This article deals with the inverse problem of determining the unbounded real-valued electric potential of the Robin Laplacian on a bounded domain of dimension 3 or greater, by incomplete knowledge of its boundary spectral data. Namely, the main result establishes that the unknown potential can be H\"older stably retrieved from the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues and the sequence of the boundary measurements of the corresponding eigenfunctions where finitely many terms are missing.
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im on my phone in the back of the van with my family, we're all heading to visit my grandparents in maryland. on the highway, i look out the window through the windows of other vehicles. two nose-pierced teen girls, one with an afro, one with a wolf cut. an older-twenties looking woman with a buddha bobblehead on the dash. a middle-aged or elderly hispanic husband and wife with bellies that remove negative space from my view's lower half. i wonder where they're going, what they…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Poached:
🎵 Getting Older
#Poached
https://poached.bandcamp.com/track/getting-older
https://open.spotify.com/track/5PctW35tG11sFuXRwUDCcO

Charlie Kirk initially made his name by being the most obnoxious of the “debate me” bros.
Republicans love men who are the worst, so it turned him into an overnight MAGA star.
Kirk, who wanted to seem like a young and “hip” Republican when he started out, claimed in 2016 to have a “secular worldview.”
Two years later, he criticized older Republicans for ignoring the “separation of church and state.”
His organization, Turning Point USA, cited their values as “fiscal re…

How Charlie Kirk turned to religion to level up his racism
The "debate me" bro reveres a minister who claimed God cursed Black people to be "servile"

LLM-enhanced Interactions in Human-Robot Collaborative Drawing with Older Adults
Marianne Bossema, Somaya Ben Allouch, Aske Plaat, Rob Saunders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18711

LLM-enhanced Interactions in Human-Robot Collaborative Drawing with Older Adults
The goal of this study is to identify factors that support and enhance older adults' creative experiences in human-robot co-creativity. Because the research into the use of robots for creativity support with older adults remains underexplored, we carried out an exploratory case study. We took a participatory approach and collaborated with professional art educators to design a course Drawing with Robots for adults aged 65 and over. The course featured human-human and human-robot drawing activit…

Threads launches DMs for users aged 18 and older, without support for E2EE, and announces a "highlighter" feature to emphasize trending topics (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/695743/threads-dms-direct-messaging-launch…

Threads now has DMs
Threads has finally launched the ability to send direct messages to everyone. For now, you can only DM users who follow you on Threads or mutual follows on Instagram.

Replaced article(s) found for math.AP. https://arxiv.org/list/math.AP/new
[1/1]:
- Orlicz-Sobolev versus H\"older local minimizer for nonlinear Robin problems
Anouar Bahrouni, Hlel Missaoui, Hichem Ounaies, Vicentiu Radulescu

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Searows:
🎵 Older
#Searows
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ejTKcE8LBKrPD9ZTwuMeJ

IoT and Older Adults: Towards Multimodal EMG and AI-Based Interaction with Smart Home
Wies{\l}aw Kope\'c, Jaros{\l}aw Kowalski, Aleksander Majda, Anna Duszyk-Bogorodzka, Anna Jaskulska, Cezary Biele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19479

IoT and Older Adults: Towards Multimodal EMG and AI-Based Interaction with Smart Home
We report preliminary insights from an exploratory study on non-standard non-invasive interfaces for Smart Home Technologies (SHT). This study is part of a broader research project on effective Smart Home ecosystem Sagacity that will target older adults, impaired persons, and other groups disadvantaged in the main technology discourse. Therefore, this research is in line with a long-term research framework of the HASE research group (Human Aspects in Science and Engineering) by the Living Lab K…

There’s a small difference between MacDonald and many other social media starlets.
She is 79.
“I was 70 when I started [working out],” MacDonald says on a video call from her home in Ontario,
white hair elegantly coiffed.
“I keep thinking I’m in my 30s.”
MacDonald’s workouts are intense,
whether you’re 30 or 70.
She does deadlifts, weighted planks and kettlebell swings,
and casually lifts dumbbells the size of fire extinguishers over her head.

How ChatGPT-powered companionship dolls from Hyodol are helping ease loneliness among older adults in South Korea, as the company aims for a US debut in 2026 (Michelle Kim/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/korea-ai-robot-senior-care-hyodol/

AI robots are helping South Korea’s seniors feel less alone
A ChatGPT-powered robotic companion called Hyodol is taking over some work from overburdened caregivers, much to the delight of seniors who treat them like grandchildren.

Autonomy for Older Adult-Agent Interaction
Jiaxin An
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12767 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12767

Autonomy for Older Adult-Agent Interaction
As the global population ages, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered agents have emerged as potential tools to support older adults' caregiving. Prior research has explored agent autonomy by identifying key interaction stages in task processes and defining the agent's role at each stage. However, ensuring that agents align with older adults' autonomy preferences remains a critical challenge. Drawing on interdisciplinary conceptualizations of autonomy, this paper examines four key dimensions of a…

SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2…

Emotion Detection in Older Adults Using Physiological Signals from Wearable Sensors
Md. Saif Hassan Onim, Andrew M. Kiselica, Himanshu Thapliyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08167

Emotion Detection in Older Adults Using Physiological Signals from Wearable Sensors
Emotion detection in older adults is crucial for understanding their cognitive and emotional well-being, especially in hospital and assisted living environments. In this work, we investigate an edge-based, non-obtrusive approach to emotion identification that uses only physiological signals obtained via wearable sensors. Our dataset includes data from 40 older individuals. Emotional states were obtained using physiological signals from the Empatica E4 and Shimmer3 GSR+ wristband and facial expr…