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Jay Kuo@jaykuo@universeodon.com (2026-05-30 02:20:03)
Narrator: There are no humans in the U.S. known to be alive above the age of 124. They remain nominally in the system as legacy entries, and do not collect any benefits, because it is too expensive to update our old systems to remove the presumably deceased. (This is physically painful to listen to.) 

Video: https://xcancel.com/nothoodlum/status/2059678918920069369
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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-05-30 02:27:15)
@jaykuo that's interesting.  There are far more than 250,000 US citizens who have died since social security records were digitized; I wonder what's special about these 250K people that others were deleted and they were not?  I also don't see a strong reason to remove dead people from the Social Security database; a flag on the record would be fine.