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Not to speak ill of the newly-deceased, but holy cow 😮

Sonnet 072 - LXXII
O! lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love
After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worthy prove.
Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
O! lest your true love may seem false in this
That you for love speak well of me…

A scientifically important fMRI study of a deceased salmon won an IgNobel Prize a while back. It’s still important.
Bennett et al. "Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction" Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results, 2010

IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Dio:
🎵 Stand Up and Shout
#Dio
https://the-true-deceased.bandcamp.com/track/stand-up-and-shout-dio-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2HwtiwV8OgIwNuj1Wq9e0B

just found the official website of deceased iranian prince Gholam Reza Pahlavi
https://www.gholamrezapahlavi.com/

For you #Minneapolis, #Dinkytown, University of #Minnesota folks: five years ago, we lost the iconic McDonald's

Our medical insurance system super sucks when hospital staff recommend to the spouse of an ill patient that the spouse seek a divorce in order to avoid huge medical bills.
(I remember when my mother got a hospital statement for well over $200k to cover some of her deceased husband's medical bills incurred while dying at that hospital.)

Sora videos depicting dead celebs spark backlash from families; OpenAI says reps of "recently deceased" public figures can request their likeness be blocked (Washington Post)

AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI’s new tool lets users make realistic AI videos of dead public figures like Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson. Many have responded with crude and racist memes.

"Didn't mean to upset you, dad". Really? Showing him his deceased wife's wedding dress, on camera, what did you think was going to happen. Hmm. Not cool.
Loved the dance though. #strictly

NY governor signs bills requiring ads to disclose AI-generated performers and mandating consent of heirs to use a deceased person's likeness commercially (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/new-york-ai-law-consumers-film-industry-1236646078…

New York Enacts Landmark AI Laws Requiring Disclosure Of Synthetic Performers In Ads And Consent For Posthumous Use Of Name, Image & Likeness
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed the nation's first AI bill designed to both protect consumers and increase transparency in the film industry.

It is not clear that Trump’s image can be featured on a coin.
An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy.
The Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
-- Alan Rappeport

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
The coin, bearing President Trump’s face, would honor the 250th birthday of the United States.

Instagram story from the daughter of Robin Williams: please stop sending me ai videos of my deceased dad
#posiwid #GenAI #itiswhatitis
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/796870860936003584

NY governor signs bills requiring ads to disclose AI-generated performers and mandating consent of heirs to use a deceased person's likeness commercially (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/new-york-ai-law-consumers-film-industry-1236646078…

New York Enacts Landmark AI Laws Requiring Disclosure Of Synthetic Performers In Ads And Consent For Posthumous Use Of Name, Image & Likeness
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed the nation's first AI bill designed to both protect consumers and increase transparency in the film industry.

Calibration of answer probabilities in verbal autopsies: Working Paper
Nathan Higgins, James Liley, Eilidh Cowan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10065 https://a…

Calibration of answer probabilities in verbal autopsies: Working Paper
In most of the world, causes of death are not recorded. Verbal autopsies are structured interviews with people close to the deceased, which are used to estimate the likelihood of various causes of death. Such estimates typically make use of a table of marginal probabilities, called a `probbase', describing the frequency of answers to each interview question conditional on each cause of death. Assembling probbase tables is challenging, since data labelled with verified causes-of-death are not ty…