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Newly released records show New York City officials allowed residents to return to homes caked in toxic dust after Sept. 11, offering little guidance on its dangers. / The New York Times [$]
The ICE officer who shot a man in a car with a five-year-old has previously faced multiple accusations of excessive force, including tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. / WIRED
Four detainees at an ICE facility in Georgia commandeer a videoconferencing system to expose how the detention center is indistinguishable from a prison. / The Verge [$]
A contractor approached to convert warehouses into detention centers says his company was told “point-blank” that Stephen Miller “did not want facilities that were humane.” / NPR
Crew members quit after discovering the “fun action movie” they were filming with Danny Trejo and Harvey Keitel was actually a pro-ICE film. / IndieWire
The UN issues a warning over technology advances that could make it possible for governments to extract information from people’s minds. / The New York Times [$]
Why Lula, not Mark Carney, “has done more to protect democracy and promote a fair global system,” and is more deserving of the title “leader of the free world.” / Jacobin
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Two days before setting a new space-travel policy, Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million in SpaceX debt. / The Washington Post [$]
After injecting an unregulated peptide to stimulate tanning, a man with a history of melanoma develops a new cancerous lesion. / Gizmodo
It’s bad news for the software industry now that AI can decompile and open-source applications, as one person just did with Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite. / PetaPixel
See also: The Adobe dupes aren’t perfect by any means, but it’s hard not to cheer on someone hitting back at a company that’s earned little goodwill among designers. / Tedium
Kevin Roose’s new book on AGI has already been knocked off as AI slop available for sale on Amazon. / Futurism
Looking into why his parents’ wi-fi was having issues, a man discovers their smart coffee maker had transmitted a terabyte of data over the course of 10 days. / Dexerto
“Today, writing in the spirit of geological time—to observe nature, but also for any kind of long-form journalism, really—is a vanished privilege.” / The Baffler
Crossword clues gone wrong: “What 14-Across and 28-Down might sound like if you tried to say both of them at the same time.” / McSweeney’s