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Now playing yet another older death metal banger again, Mortiferum's 2021 LP, 'Preserved in Torment'. Easily one of my favorite death metal (or any metal) records ever. I've listened to this one a LOT.
https://mortiferum.bandcamp.com/album/preserved-in-torment

New maps that added
five Republican districts in Texas
hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday,
with a federal judge saying
the state cannot use the 2025 maps
because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”.
The decision is likely to be appealed,
given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide
and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them.
A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision t…

Is it too soon to tell whether costs of older used PCs have begun to rise, or fall, in relation to their inability to run Windows 11?
With or without refurbishment.
@…
#Microsoft

Man Returns Dad’s ‘Souvenir of Parthenon’ and Turns Out it Was Even Older Acropolis Relic https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-returns-dads-souvenir-of-parthenon-and-turns-out-it-was-even-older-acropolis-temple-relic/

Man Returns Dad’s ‘Souvenir of Parthenon’ and Turns Out it Was Even Older Acropolis Temple Relic
In 2022 Tosti-Croce saw a report on the news about Greece's decades-long struggle to reclaim the Parthenon marbles, and realized he had one too

Stem-cell based retinal implant: Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration? #AMD

Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration?
LOS ANGELES — Age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness for Americans 65 and older, is a progressive disease affecting central vision. Over time, faces, book pages and anything directly in front of a person become obscured by blurry, dark or blind spots.Now, a novel clinical trial offers hope for patients...

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
BLAKE: He is older. It's seven years since he came into exile. [Into bracelet] Liberator, come in, Liberator.
[Flight deck of the Liberator]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/32

C has a very low threshold for coping with noise and chaos. Imagine for a moment, 5 kids, C and I in a small 3 bedroom house. The four older kids are boisterous, loud and hyperactive. And then there’s the baby. It’s a lot for me to cope with… and then imagine on top of that, C regularly spiralling into #autistic meltdowns. Fuck. My. Life. I wonder what the divorce rate is for those on the…

Our brains are shrinking

Huawei's key partners SiCarrier and Qiyunfang showcased chipmaking gear and EDA software at a Shenzhen expo; SiCarrier's gear competes with older US products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

UK ministers say they are considering options for the BBC including ads across its channels and subscriptions for older or more commercially oriented content (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e818aeb7-a485-4cc5-8db1-bb88c03d57e7

One should not sympathize with or idolize anyone, but this person radicalized my views deeply; I cannot speak for others.
Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/rocker-rudolf/misc/anarchism-anarcho-syn…

Non-linear associations of amyloid-$\beta$ with resting-state functional networks and their cognitive relevance in a large community-based cohort of cognitively normal older adults
Junjie Wu, Benjamin B Risk, Taylor A James, Nicholas Seyfried, David W Loring, Felicia C Goldstein, Allan I Levey, James J Lah, Deqiang Qiu
https://arxiv.org/ab…

Non-linear associations of amyloid-$β$ with resting-state functional networks and their cognitive relevance in a large community-based cohort of cognitively normal older adults
Background: Non-linear alterations in brain network connectivity may represent early neural signatures of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in cognitively normal older adults. Understanding these changes and their cognitive relevance could provide sensitive biomarkers for early detection. Most prior studies recruited participants from memory clinics, often with subjective memory concerns, limiting generalizability. Methods: We examined 14 large-scale functional brain networks in 968 cognitiv…

Heading into midterms, Republicans hold edge with older voters, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/heading-into-midterms-republicans-hold-edge-with-older-voters-reutersipsos-poll-2025-12-11/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p88#a251211p88

"Sometimes You Need Facts, and Sometimes a Hug": Understanding Older Adults' Preferences for Explanations in LLM-Based Conversational AI Systems
Niharika Mathur, Tamara Zubatiy, Agata Rozga, Jodi Forlizzi, Elizabeth Mynatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06697

"Sometimes You Need Facts, and Sometimes a Hug": Understanding Older Adults' Preferences for Explanations in LLM-Based Conversational AI Systems
Designing Conversational AI systems to support older adults requires these systems to explain their behavior in ways that align with older adults' preferences and context. While prior work has emphasized the importance of AI explainability in building user trust, relatively little is known about older adults' requirements and perceptions of AI-generated explanations. To address this gap, we conducted an exploratory Speed Dating study with 23 older adults to understand their responses to context…

At Redwood Coast Airport in California, older Nissan Leafs are enhancing grid resilience after being utilized as power generation stations, cutting costs and supporting renewable energy efforts. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/14/used-evs-pu…

Used EVs Pull New Duty As Guardians Of The Grid - CleanTechnica
Two older Nissan LEAFs are featured front and center in a new microgrid project that showcases the value of used EVs.

Oh yeah, I remember, when I don't favorite my own posts they will get deleted after a while...saving precious drive space...I'll need to remind myself to favorite my own posts which I want to stay...that's why ie. I don't find my older (#)Monthstodon posts...
#Monthstodon

"Four-year testing finds heat pumps run efficiently even in older homes"
#HeatPumps #Energy

Four-year testing finds heat pumps run efficiently even in older homes
Researchers at Fraunhofer ISE have tested various types of heat pumps in existing buildings across Germany over four years, finding that the systems achieved seasonal performance factors between 2.6 and 5.4. The team also showed that PV-driven heat pumps can boost self-consumption rates, particularly when paired with battery storage.

Vintage duel: Joe Flacco vs. Aaron Rodgers is a historic battle of QBs 40 and older https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46606954/nfl-cincinnati-bengals-joe-flacco-pittsburgh-steelers-aaron-rodgers

#potd Team Scheisse @ Flex, together with older son in a very sweaty moshpit - fun! "Es geht doch nur noch bergab, seit Pluto kein Planet mehr ist.." https://domm.plix.at/potd/2025-11-11.html

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…

Theo Jansen still at it with full force... (life goals!)
Strandbeest evolution 2025
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ANhA94ZqnEQ
...and obligatory re-sharing of some pics of our joint generative design workshop in 2013, incl. Theo's graveyard of older Strandbeests and mechanisms:
…

🤼‍♂️ Japan's sumo association turns 100, but the sport's rituals have a much older role shaping ideas about the country
https://theconversation.com/japans-sumo-association-turns-100-but…

Japan’s sumo association turns 100 – but the sport’s rituals have a much older role shaping ideas about the country
As Japan’s national sport, sumo has shaped perceptions of its culture since the mid-1800s.

okay #linux and #selfhosting nerds, here's a question for ya. I have a bunch of drives that use USB enclosures. I have an older USB 3 enclosure (its chipset has to use linux's usb-storage driver). I have two identical versions of a newer USB 3.2 enclosure (chipset uses linux's…

@… hey, thanks for the toshiba driver mirror site.
(I think they completely took down the drivers for older stuff from the dynabook site now.)

Watching Cleaner and I'm like, damn. This is a hell of a dramatic workday for a window cleaner
#2025Films #2025Movies

Cleaner (2025)
When a group of radical activists take over an energy company's annual gala, seizing 300 hostages, an ex-soldier turned window cleaner suspended 50 storeys up on the outside of the building must save those trapped inside, including her older brother.

Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/generative-ai-is-coming-for-ip

Generative AI is coming for IP and patent law, as Solve Intelligence raises its Series B
It looks like a swathe of older legal tech platforms are about to be hit by Generative AI startups. But are VCs using 'king-making' tactics to back the winners?

"Allowing the sale of plug-in hybrids or range-extended
electric vehicles beyond 2035 would 1️⃣ cost users more, particularly the most modest ones driving older used vehicles, 2️⃣ lead to significantly higher greenhouse gas emissions, and 3️⃣ negatively impact the trade balance and national sovereignty."
https://…

Plug-in hybrid vehicles and the 2035 objective: analysis of the socio-economic and climate impacts of a prolonged authorization of sales in the name of ‘technological neutrality‘ - Iddri
Allowing the sale of plug-in hybrids or range-extended electric vehicles beyond 2035? The IMT shows that such a choice would (1) cost users more,

The focus of turning phones into slop factories had one positive outcome.
Upgraded a older iPhone to the latest and wow the battery life is just crazy, really happy with this outcome

"It feels like hard work trying to talk to it": Understanding Older Adults' Experiences of Encountering and Repairing Conversational Breakdowns with AI Systems
Niharika Mathur, Tamara Zubatiy, Agata Rozga, Elizabeth Mynatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06690

"It feels like hard work trying to talk to it": Understanding Older Adults' Experiences of Encountering and Repairing Conversational Breakdowns with AI Systems
Designing Conversational AI systems to support older adults requires more than usability and reliability, it also necessitates robustness in handling conversational breakdowns. In this study, we investigate how older adults navigate and repair such breakdowns while interacting with a voice-based AI system deployed in their homes for medication management. Through a 20-week in-home deployment with 7 older adult participant dyads, we analyzed 844 recoded interactions to identify conversational br…

Sometimes hacking a computer means a whole different thing...
In this use, I'm actually hacking (with a hacksaw) the case apart to add an I/O shield (custom made) so I can fit an older motherboard that was not designed for this case.
And thank you to Gateway for making me do this by not using a removable shield and instead stamping every hole they needed and covering them with a sticker if they weren't on this model. 🤦‍♂️

Court rejection of rigged "racially gerrymandered" Republican #TX voting #redistricting maps hinged on #Drumpf #DOJ dubious declarations and h…

Apple iMac product page viewed by Safari 13 (2020). Apple website does not target customers of older Macs wanting to buy a new one.

Scientists Make Genetic Breakthrough with 39,000-Year-Old Mammoth RNA https://www.404media.co/scientists-make-genetic-breakthrough-with-39-000-year-old-mammoth-rna/

when im older i hope im just sitting around all day roasting bitches like this

Testing confirmed the patient has H5N5, a strain of bird flu that has previously been reported in animals but never before in humans
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/suspected-human-bird-flu-case-1st-us-9/story?id=127519769

1st US human bird flu case in 9 months confirmed with strain only seen in animals before
The patient is an older adult with underlying health conditions.

I'm looking for a reliable sporty older sedan in the year range of 2000s to 2010s. What are your best recommendations?

Me too!
https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115487186656267241

This episode of Ideas is powerful. Still - and not to minimize the experience of veterans - I'd really love a parallel series focused on the moms and dads, partners, and kids who stayed behind.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/canadian-war-museum-v…

Not a war story: this is about what comes after | CBC Radio
Canada’s veterans have a conflicted relationship with Remembrance Day, an idea that may be shifting as older war vets leave us. In a two-part series, IDEAS shares postwar experiences from The Canadian War Museum’s oral history project called In Their Own Voices. *This is a two-part series.

Higher H\"older regularity for degenerate elliptic PDEs with data in Morrey spaces
Giuseppe Di Fazio, Rafayel Teymurazyan, Jos\'e Miguel Urbano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10359

Higher Hölder regularity for degenerate elliptic PDEs with data in Morrey spaces
We establish sharp local $C^{1,α}$-regularity for weak solutions to degenerate elliptic equations of $p$-Laplacian type with data in Morrey spaces. The proof relies on the Fefferman-Phong inequality and standard tools from regularity theory for nonlinear PDEs.

Why ultra-processed foods make teens eat more when they aren’t hungry #nutrition

Why ultra-processed foods make teens eat more when they aren’t hungry
A Virginia Tech study shows that ultra-processed foods may influence adolescents differently from slightly older young adults. Participants aged 18 to 21 ate more at a buffet and snacked even when not hungry after two weeks on an ultra-processed diet. Because eating without hunger predicts future weight gain, these findings hint at a heightened vulnerability during late adolescence.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SHERELLE
Jasmín:
🎵 Bite The Hand
#Jasmín
https://jasminhoek.bandcamp.com/track/overdriven-feat-older-brother

https://theonion.com/local-teen-walks-in-on-family-masturbating-1819575823/

Local Teen Walks In On Family Masturbating
SALEM, OR—In a humiliating incident that all parties involved said they would “never get over,” Peter Miklewski, 15, confirmed he came home from school early Monday and accidentally walked in on seven members of his family masturbating in the living room. “Aaagh! Get out of here, goddammit!” shouted Peter’s parents, David and Jessica; his sister, Virginia; his older brother, Caleb; and his grandmother Emily, while his younger brother, Mark, and his aunt Fay reportedly scrambled to t…

Remember the stray dog that we adopted a few weeks ago, after park rangers cared for her in a natural reserve but without them being able to find anyone who would claim her as a lost/runaway dog?
Today we took her to be spayed. It was a short surgery, as the vet quickly noticed that she was already spayed. Seems she's at least a year older than initially estimated – which means that it's likely that someone abandoned the poor thing in the reserve.
#dogsofmastodon

Bertelsmann, which oversees Penguin Random House, BMG, and RTL, appoints Thomas Coesfeld as CEO; he beat his older brother to run the family-owned business (Laura Pitel/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b41c217b-69b4-4bce-be62-07d424bed6de

👵🏻 Barabak: A youth movement is roiling Democrats. Does age equal obsolescence?
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-10-26/older-politicians-term-limits-pelosi-challenger-barbara-boxer-pete-wilson…

Senior politicians discuss the Democratic Party youth movement
Seasoned California politicians, including former Sen. Barbara Boxer and Gov. Pete Wilson, say age is no impediment to accomplishment. But they differ over the value term limits.

Yeah lmao just tested and I don’t even need to reboot the console, just restart the game
Weight data and played days don’t seem to be moved tho, just the rankings
(I do have an even older nnid account that I don’t use anymore, tho that has a different name (just “oldaccound” now) and it didn’t steal any saves)
(I don’t really remember if when moving to Pretendo I moved the mii and created a new similar one for the old account or if it was the other way around and I just created a similar mii to the new one)
(Back then I did try moving the save data between the accounts with a SaveMii, but it didn’t work for Wii Fit U (or for mk8, tho haven’t had issues with that one))
#WiiU

STM32MP2 update: slowly working on getting stm32-cpp ported over. It's now failing to build because I haven't implemented any of the RCC code paths to turn on I2C, timer, or GPIO blocks, so that at least should be straightforward.
All of the peripherals are close to STM32H7, but with some extensions and new features in most cases (all of them have an IP identifier and version ID which is handy and I wish they had put this on their older parts too).

And at least here in #NYC, I see evidence of people #reading all the time.
1 - Bookstores all over the city have customers at any time of day - they are often full, I struggle to get through to certain shelves at times.
2 - Every time I ride the subway i see someone reading a paper book on the train. Same thing with most times I go to any park or most cafes (at least ones where people sit alone).
3 - I have a friend who works at a major book #publisher and she’s been telling me all year that their sales are some of the best they’ve ever been. They’ve had multiple instances of needing to urgently order more books printed because of certain titles getting way more demand than expected. Those aren’t all celebrity memoirs or newest trendy fantasy either - it often happens with older titles, across genres.
4 - Nearly every acquaintance I have in the city (not just my friends) reads on a regular basis. I hear about books people have read and see them pulling books out all the time - most of the people I know read at least a book a month.

Das Gleiche konnte man mit Annalena Baerbock beobachten.

Could? This has been happening for a long, long time. It's not a new phenomenon!
@… - Older Australian women could retire in poverty, new report says http…

Looming crisis for older Australian women who will retire into poverty if no urgent action taken, new report finds
Women’s super balances are disproportionately impacted by events later in life, in addition to childcare duties, which could mean serious financial problems, research from Super Members Council (SMC) has found. 

Browsing my timeline

Occasionally I have mocked the IT practices of my older daughter's school, but at least they don't hide behind a https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/.
They send emails from accounts which can receive emails. This is the way.

FPF Holiday Gift Guide for AI-Enabled, Privacy-Forward AgeTech
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-holiday-gift-guide-for-ai-enabled-privacy-forward-agetech/
@…

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
INTERCEPTOR LEADER: [V.O.] Interceptor Leader to Control. Request instructions!
SERVALAN: Hold position, Interceptor Leader, and wait for instructions from Assault Leader One. We will attack when the Liberator breaks out of Alpha Sector. Four should do it nicely. Well, Dastor, I think it's time we had a little strategic counsel. Bring this - Jarvik to me.

Good grief! Phyllis Gardner has died, age only 75. She was my second US postdoc, and produced a nice single channel study in 1984: https://onemol.org.uk/?page_id=10#goc84
She was a very determined woman. We met again in 2009 in Stanford

Publications
Jump to follow-up Some of our main papers since 2003 are listed below, with commentaries and reprints. Some older papers and classics can be downloaded here too. .For more papers, follow these…

I'm listening to the music track of the yet to be released Netflix "Train Dreams" by Dessner. (He also did the interesting music for the "Manhunt" series.)
It seems to me that some of the better compositions and performances are in sound tracks and credits of movies and series.
(Such as the "Strange Game" tune by Mick Jagger in the Slow Horses series. But perhaps the greatest are some older things, like the B. Hermann music from Hitchock's …

#Jellyfin for #Roku 3.0.14 has been released.
🎉 New Features
- Remember if user unchecks Save Credentials on login screen
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fix crash affecting users on Roku OS 14 or below
Release Notes:

An older video essay from the great #PatrickHWillems about trains in movies. Why is it such an essential vehicle in so many movies since the brothers Lumière? It restricts space and moves the plot forwards - and both things are great for propelling the plot and forcing the scriptwriters to get creative. And have you noticed that the conductor is often invisible? It's the train who is …

Rodgers, Flacco happy to be part of 'Icy Hot Bowl' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46596773/steelers-rodgers-bengals-flacco-rare-matchup-qbs-40s

@… @… #homeassistant
I know I could download an older #HAOS disk image, back up, make a new VM, and restore but frankly that's more hassle than I want to deal with.
It would also be useful in the case where someone hasn't updated in many months and may need to move forward in steps to deal with versions that had breaking changes.

On fundamental properties of high-order forward-backward envelope
Alireza Kabgani, Masoud Ahookhosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10421 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10421 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10421
arXiv:2511.10421v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper studies the fundamental properties of the high-order forward-backward splitting mapping (HiFBS) and its associated forward-backward envelope (HiFBE) through the lens of high-order regularization for nonconvex composite functions. Specifically, we (i) establish the boundedness and uniform boundedness of HiFBS, along with the H\"older and Lipschitz continuity of HiFBE; (ii) derive an explicit form for the subdifferentials of HiFBE; and (iii) investigate necessary and sufficient conditions for the differentiability and weak smoothness of HiFBE under suitable assumptions. By leveraging the prox-regularity of $g$ and the concept of $p$-calmness, we further demonstrate the local single-valuedness and continuity of HiFBS, which in turn guarantee the differentiability of HiFBE in neighborhoods of calm points. This paves the way for the development of gradient-based algorithms tailored to nonconvex composite optimization problems.
toXiv_bot_toot

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115655265870143520
The older I get the less impressed I am about ideas and the more I realize it's about the ability to actually deliver and turn those thoughts into something real.

"Guardian Essential poll: only a quarter of older Australians believe climate change can be prevented"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

Tides from the cloud can induce the fast disruption of star clusters and offer an explanation for Gaia strings
Xiao-Tong Chen, Guang-Xing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08913 htt…

Tides from the cloud can induce the fast disruption of star clusters and offer an explanation for Gaia strings
Young stars form in clusters within molecular clouds, but older stars are evenly distributed across the galactic disk, necessitating an explanation for cluster dissolution. We analytically study tidal forces from cold molecular clouds as a key mechanism for accelerated cluster disruption. Cloud tides, caused by the gravitational pull of the parent cloud along the radial direction, arise from the spatial gradient of gravitational acceleration and drive cluster disruption. This mechanism activate…

Getting older is like a walk in the park.....where nobody has bothered to pick up after their dog.
#oldFolksOfMastodon

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very
pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love
grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning
and unquenchable.
-- Bruce Lee

The only people who get “more conservative” as they get older are the ones that let indifference chisel away their humanity bit by bit

You see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it out: #lifeLog #app #memoryAid

We had a little rain last night.
#venusflytap #carnivorousplant

This long work from @… and @…, among many other interesting ideas,
calls the new kind of "AI" by a new name to distinguish it from older, often more ethical kinds of stats models:
"Displacement AI"
I lov…

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ (@olivia@scholar.social)
Attached: 3 images New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @Iris & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1 🧵 1/

> Or as Mamdani put it in his soaring speech last night: “I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.”
Hell yes. We need more of this. So, so, *so* much more of this.
https://zeteo.com/p/first…

🌊 It’s a Blue Wave, Baby!
Peter Rothpletz on Zohran Mamdani’s historic win, the Democrats’ electoral sweep, and Graham Platner’s viral response to the passing of Dick Cheney.

Long winter nights, red light on, UV burner on... So have missed making my own prints, and so glad to be able to pick this up again (and also working with older techniques, which are new to me), all after more than three decades... Still some more kinks to work out before I can share some proper prints, e.g. experimenting with different exposure times, toners (gold/selenium), fixers, concentrations... All very much like a science experiment and meticulous log keeping has been key (as have be…

Remember to use C attributes in your conversations. People always appreciate some qualifiers like [[likely]] or [[unlikely]]. If you talk to older people, you may prefer __builtin_expect instead.

Speaking of old school, it doesn't get much older than the TELECOM Digest. Sadly it looks it may have ended just a couple years ago. Some truly amazing history for #networking people to explore.
http://www.telecom-digest.org/

You get older and it’s hard not to think about the cats you have lost, but this boy is new to this house and we will love him just like we did the ones who came before. He’s a gem of a soul who never expected to wind up in New Jersey, a sweet, mad Arabian Mau who my friends rescued and brought to me. What a gift.
On instagram? Follow him @aj.in.nj #caturday

Obamacare Enrollees Get First Look at 2026 Prices as Premiums Soar #shutdown https://ground.news/article/obamacare-premiums-projected-to-surge-for-older-brown-county-residents-state-analysis-shows

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Jasmín:
🎵 The Ride
#Jasmín
https://jasminhoek.bandcamp.com/track/the-ride-feat-older-brother

🗳️🇺🇸 Tomorrow (Tue 4 Nov) Mainers will decide a referendum that could shape elections for years to come, especially for older/disabled/rural/on-call workers. More at #MEpolitics

While China’s older tech pioneers tend to idolize Silicon Valley,
younger founders find their role models in people such as
DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng and
Unitree’s Wang Xingxing
— both of whom studied exclusively at Chinese universities and are known to predominantly hire domestic talent.

A December analysis from Citi GPS projected that the world would be populated by 648 million humanlike bots by 2050,
unlocking an enduring production advantage and immen…

The Chinese robots are coming
China is miles ahead in the race to dominate a technology that could define the 21st century.

Amid US public media funding cuts, a look at how the model of private donations can lead to an audience that's older, whiter, and richer than average Americans (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/funding-c…

Funding cuts may make public radio more reliant on old, rich, white donors
After years of interviews, research, and writing, Laura Garbes submitted the final draft of her book on public radio in December 2024. By the time Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry published last month, a lot had changed. Following Trump’s election and fede…

Better Than "Better Than Nothing": Design Strategies for Enculturated Empathetic AI Robot Companions for Older Adults
Isabel Pedersen, Andrea Slane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01192

Better Than "Better Than Nothing": Design Strategies for Enculturated Empathetic AI Robot Companions for Older Adults
The paper asserts that emulating empathy in human-robot interaction is a key component to achieve satisfying social, trustworthy, and ethical robot interaction with older people. Following comments from older adult study participants, the paper identifies a gap. Despite the acceptance of robot care scenarios, participants expressed the poor quality of the social aspect. Current human-robot designs, to a certain extent, neglect to include empathy as a theorized design pathway. Using rhetorical t…

Sleep with one mouth open
Grippin' your human tight 🎵

“But .coop is a weird newfangled domain, my firewall doesnt allow it“
My guy, .coop is older now than .com was when .coop was started in 2001

#ThursDeath this week is another older, broken up band that I've been digging lately. SLUGATHOR was from Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland, and was active from 1999-2010. They had a few LPs, but I think my favorite of theirs is 'Circle of Death', originally released in 2006 (this is the 2020 reissue). Grueling, cavernous OSDM here like the Finnish can really nail - the likes of which clearly influence…

DMEGC just solved a major solar installation problem: roofs too fragile for heavy panels.
Their new lightweight module weighs under 7.5 kg/m2—using thinner glass while still delivering 460W of power. This opens up thousands of square meters of older buildings and fragile structures that couldn't support traditional solar before.

DMEGC launches framed solar module weighing 7.5 kg/m2
In response to the growing demand for solutions for low load-bearing roofs, Chinese manufacturer DMEGC is presenting an IEC-certified lightweight 460 W module at France's largest PV trade show - EnerGaïa.

AI-"enhanced" apps are to older versions as the "special edition" of the first Star Wars trilogy is to the original films. Nobody but the IP owners wants either.

went thru my bookmarks and found BOOTED HARLEYDUDE. whyd i never go thru this kings site before???
http://bootedman.com/

I was proving the Uniqueness of Prime Factorisation to my older daughter (11) yesterday, and it turned out to be trickier than I remembered. I had to do Euclid's lemma, and that involved explaining proof by induction, and I was just worried that I was losing her when she said "Oh! Like John Finnemore's biscuits?" and the day was saved.
So: A toast to John Finnemore's Inductive Biscuit Politeness Theorem!

Want a used car that works?
You’d be wise to not get an older Tesla.
In Consumer Reports’ latest ranking for used cars,
the Elon Musk-run automaker came dead last in terms of reliability,
trailing by over forty points from the top spot on a scale between 0 and 100
https://futurism.co…

Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.

The rest of my family got (m)nexspike a month ago, but for various reasons I was delayed and was given spikevax the other day. I've spent most of the time since then sleeping, and i'm still so very annoyed they gave me the older, worse vaccine tech..
Everyone else had minimal side effects.

Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-riva…

Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure
New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.

Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs,
unless subscribers are using older casting devices.
An updated help page on Netflix’s website, first reported by Android Authority, says that
the streaming service “no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices,”
and instead directs users to navigate Netflix using the remote that came with their TV hardware.
The change seems to have rolled ou…

Netflix kills casting from phones
Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices.

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
VILA: [All "drunk mannerisms" vanishing instantly] Drunk? Who's drunk?
DAYNA: You are.
VILA: Show me how to get drunk on plain water and I won't waste time.
DAYNA: Well, then why pretend?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/72…

Leveraging Familiarity with Television to Enrich Older Adults' Engagement and Wellbeing: A Feasibility Study Using Video Probes
Shyama Sastha Krishnamoorthy Srinivasan, Mohan Kumar, Pushpendra Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15618

Leveraging Familiarity with Television to Enrich Older Adults' Engagement and Wellbeing: A Feasibility Study Using Video Probes
The shift away from multigenerational families to nuclear families in India has created a growing need to support older adults living independently. While technology can help address this gap, older adults' limited exposure to newer technology restricts the adoption of such solutions. However, they remain comfortable with long-standing technologies like television (TV). This study explores their daily technology usage and challenges, aiming to determine whether TV can be leveraged to improve th…

@xankarn
Approximately 18% of SNAP recipients are over 60.
That’s over 7 million people.
A lot of those people have few options to generate more income.
Graphic from the USDA web page:
Also featuring a flagrant Hatch Act violation
http://www.ers.usda.gov/d…

Understanding Physical Therapy Challenges for Older Adults through Mixed Reality
Jade Kandel, Sriya Kasumarthi, Danielle Szafir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14514 https://

Understanding Physical Therapy Challenges for Older Adults through Mixed Reality
Physical therapy (PT) is crucial in helping older adults manage chronic conditions and weakening muscles, but older adults face increasing challenges that can impact their PT experience, including increased fatigue, memory loss, and mobility and travel constraints. While current technology attempts to facilitate remote care, they have limitations and are used in-practice infrequently. Mixed reality (MR) technology shows promise for addressing these challenges by creating immersive, context-awar…

Apparently your brain 'looks older' when you sleep poorly. Man, my brain's gotta look like, 593 fuckin years old

Financial well-being has an outsize imprint on older Americans’ quality of life
-- affecting their physical health, social life and even cognitive skills.

Low-income seniors are more likely to experience mental confusion,
spend less time pursuing hobbies,
and face difficulties with everyday tasks such as climbing stairs and grocery shopping,
compared with their more affluent counterparts

What a poll of 9,000 adults reveals about aging in America
A Pew Research Center survey reveals how income levels can affect someone’s physical health, social life and even cognitive skills in retirement.

Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.
In January, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will launch the
"Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction" (WISeR) Model to test
👉AI-powered prior authorizations on certain health services for Medicare patients in six states:
Arizona, New Je…

Pete Buttigieg said when he was campaigning for mayor, older people valued that he was a young candidate because it showed them that the new generation truly cared about the country’s future.
He told students not to underestimate their “moral authority”
and to continue influencing policy and creating meaningful change.
Buttigieg said it’s very easy to want to ignore the political climate and understands the “temptation to check out” of politics.
However, he stresse…