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Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My

Erik Uden on Instagram: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases, written by Sara Reardon, published on the 20th of May 2026. Though, reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here? Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human. The article writes: “Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]” What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is? I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves? Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence I always thought the people who don't donate their full body to hospitals are religious lunatics, but this is the first time I wrote something on my organ donor card. They can take my brain, but not as one piece."
45K likes, 971 comments - erik.uden on May 21, 2026: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to inta…

Sonnet 106 - CVI
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;…

So amazing.
"Dr. Neumann died on Sunday at the Santa Clara Medical Center in Santa Clara, Calif. He was still working full time on a Pentagon-supported advanced computer security design, which is being adopted by companies such as Google and Microsoft. He was 93."

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy. And he developed solutions.

The 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is dead, as LLMs compress bug finding and exploit development time, and critical issues must be patched immediately (Himanshu Anand)
https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/05/the-90-day-disclosure-policy-is-dead/…

Former NFL cornerback LeRoy Irvin, two-time All-Pro with Rams, dead at 68 https://www.nfl.com/news/former-nfl-cornerback-leroy-irvin-two-time-all-pro-with-rams-dead-at-68

my final dispatch on dylan & the dead’s misbegotten 1986 shows for @…'s wonderful newsletter, in which dylan finds a new way to get booed, plays (to my ears) his best set of the run, & i rediscover my fave paul williams passage (& an all-time fave piece of rock writing, really), where he champions uncritical listening & hears genius in the specific w…

Dylan & The Dead Complete Their 1986 Test-Run (by Jesse Jarnow)
Volume 4: R.F.K. Stadium, Washington DC, July 6 & 7 1986

🌿 I know it's hard; but consider whether that complicated piece of technology you have invested time/effort in understanding is actually worth defending, just because of your personal time/effort investment. If it's a bad thing, let it go. That makes you stronger, not weaker.
Do not defend lost causes or dead end technologies/concepts. Be prepared to move on to something new and better.

Excerpt from an essay I may or may not write:
Ontologies evolve to fulfill functions. They serve a purpose, and will be adapted until they fulfill this purpose. There are, occasionally, things that exist within those ontologies which do not actually exist.
Programming bugs are an example. There is no such thing. Code is code. It can't be right or wrong, it just is or isn't. The mismatch between the intent and the execution creates a side effect. We may confidently assert such a thing exists. We may name such things. But they don't exist. This becomes apparent when you try to figure out how to suppress one specific instance of a bug in one specific place through multiple revisions.
At some level, a lot of things don't actually exist. We only need to follow through the logic of The Ship of Theseus to see how our ontologies break down.
One thing that doesn't exist, that is a side effect rather than an object, is the personal self. You do not exist. Your perception of your existence is an illusion, a necessary side effect.
Every day you wake up a different person. Every second you are not who you were. That person is as dead as you will be the next instant, as all versions of you will be every second until there are no more. These selves are bound together by imperfect memories. The person you remember as yourself, all those people, never existed. You created them based on your current experience, your current iteration.
You could, just as easily, wake up an unrecognizable person, in some Dark City, and never know the difference. Continuity is absurd. And yet, some people believe they'll still experience the same self after being frozen or "uploaded." It's a silly illusion.
Once you can get over that illusion, you can let go of the need to thrash against the void. You can let go of the various furious dreams of immortality.
At a high enough level, all ontologies are illusions. Useful illusions, but illusions none-the-less. There is only the undifferentiated universe, and you are experiencing it. You are the universe. You will always persist, long past the time this specific iteration or any iteration experiences it.
This implies a certain obligation then to all the others experiencing the same self, the future iterations that may remember being someone like you, and any other person you, the universe, could wake up as tomorrow.

Sad to hear we’ve lost one of the all-time greats. Truly, a legend. 🎷
“Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/arts/music/sonny-rollins-…

Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95
Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality.

40 years ago today in ohio, the grateful dead & bob dylan play together for the 1st time & it’s quite absurd. i continued my series of essays for @…’s newsletter (with lots of videos): https://www.

Memorial Day, an occasion to honor America’s war dead, originated from attempts to heal from war and prevent its recurrence.
First called Decoration Day, the holiday involved decorating the graves of Civil War soldiers and commemorating their sacrifices.
Some leaders at the time promoted the idea that the holiday could advance post-war reconciliation between the North and the South.
(Though that desire for reconciliation conflicted, to some extent, with advancing redress fo…

To Memorialize the Fallen, Renew the Pursuit of Peace
This Memorial Day is a good time for Americans to consider how to help mold a more peaceful future at home and abroad.

My dad is still dead keen on spending time with his microscope. I love the crystal formations he captures.

I always struggle to attend this festival. I've gone a few times, starting back when it was the Burger Boogaloo. It's expensive, and the stage areas get crammed so quickly now. You lose the intimate feel. Add in the likely heat and long lines and huge line up, and it can be a real drag unless you go with a group and find time to just chill in an open space.
#music

#deadfreaksunite https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/05/les-rallizes-denudes-japanese-rock-band-disque-4-interview-ma…

40 years ago tonight at the metrodome, the grateful dead share the 1st of 5 mega-shows with bob dylan & tom petty & the heartbreakers, a candidate for the worst-sounding dead show of all time. summer ’86, show #4.
soundboard (through drums): https://archive.org/details/gd1986-06-

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Hiding Places:
🎵 Dead Dove (Your Love Was Never A Waste Of Time)
#HidingPlaces
https://hidingplacesnc.bandcamp.com/track/dead-dove-your-love-was-never-a-waste-of-time

40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in #berkeley at the greek theatre, opening their unexpectedly shortened summer. a 7pm start time (staggering earlier over the course of the weekend).
soundboard: https://