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Construction on President Trump’s wall in Texas will bulldoze the site of the Porvenir massacre, “a hundred-year-old crime scene” and a sacred place for the victims’ descendents. / Texas Monthly
An interactive overview of plans for how the gaps will be filled in Trump’s border wall. / The New York Times [$]
The National Gallery of Art has been rearranging its collection to avoid damage from vibrations during Trump’s IndyCar race this month. / Hyperallergic
How Elon Musk can—and let’s face it, probably will—take a shortcut to his $1 trillion Tesla pay package by merging the company with SpaceX. / The Wall Street Journal [$]
Leah Stokes: A more fine-grained analysis suggests that Bidenomics was actually very successful in some respects, and clean-energy manufacturing garnered Harris 2.5 million votes. / The Atlantic [$]
“It is a fantasy that exists to pull its dancers and listeners away from their own moral catastrophe.” How the rave scene anesthetizes Israelis. / Current Affairs
Amid the ongoing cyclospora outbreak, Taylor Farms is now facing a salmonella outbreak linked to jalapeños, and has recalled 20 products sold in stores. / Food Safety News
See also: An app you can use to scan your groceries’ bar codes to see if a product is connected to Taylor Farms. / Taylor Detector
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In a study of breadfruit, 17th-century naturalist Georg Forster broke with his contemporaries to understand the ocean connects—rather than separates—the people of the South Pacific. / Lapham’s Quarterly
Genomic investigation reveals contributions from two more ancient hominins absorbed into human populations. / Science Daily
The “work versus gym” argument on using AI: “if the task is more like the gym, and how the task is done is at least as important, then it probably doesn’t make sense to use AI.” / The Guardian
See also: An AI agent tasked with booking a gym class wound up hacking the reservation system and canceling other users’ spots. / The Decoder
Elizabeth Lopatto: “I would suggest that everyone already has incredible tools for creation to express their ideas, and that one need merely practice with those tools in order to get better at them.” / The Verge [$]
AI music company Suno announces a plan for users to be able to have the music they generate on the platform pressed on vinyl. / Music Business Worldwide
“People are starved for real experiences, things that they can’t get online, and the harp is tactile immediacy.” Everyone wants to play the harp now. / Dazed
IMAX projectors have a dust-clearing button, and David Keighley, the company’s quality control officer, attached one to an extension cord so he could operate it from his seat during the Oppenheimer premiere. / Totei
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