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More than a dozen people remain missing, and at least one person is dead, from flash floods that hit a remote area of the Grand Canyon yesterday. / NBC News
Over the past year, the Trump administration has been working with the National Park Service to sell off a corner of Yosemite to a private developer. / NOTUS
In a lawsuit, a supplier that provided fuel to the Trump-tangential Freedom Fuel Network alleges it wasn’t paid for nearly $4 million worth of gas. / CNBC
How an ICE agent jailed in Texas for shooting an immigrant walked free: “It appears that political considerations have derailed the federal prosecution.” / The New York Times [$]
See also: (Content warning) Harrowing 911 calls made from inside an El Paso immigration detention center. / ProPublica
The Dept. of Defense has hired veterans with large social media followings, apparently to amplify Pete Hegseth’s culture-war ideology. / The Washington Post [$]
Related: An influencer paid by the Pentagon announces a tool that purportedly tracks Democratic Socialists. / The New Republic
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Published last week, a pair of reports disagree over whether the forced contraception of Greenlanders from the 1960s to 1990s constitutes genocide. / Associated Press
MapQuest is now the top navigation app in the US App Store, following Google’s capitulation on renaming Lake Ontario. / TechCrunch
AI researchers and philosophers say they’re being emailed by either AI agents or people claiming to be AI, and it all sounds very annoying. / The New York Times [$]
See also: “Editing is something The Economist deals with day in, day out, so here are our tips for re-writing AI prose.” / The Economist
Interviewing for a job in 2026 often starts by proving to an AI interviewer that you’re not an AI applicant. / The Wall Street Journal [$]
As retirement slips out of reach for more people, “how radically are we willing to revise our assumptions about what the last act of life can look like?” / MacLean’s
AI spam is infiltrating jazz on YouTube and Spotify, replete with waifu pics and what appears to be “cut-up lyrics from the Backstreet Boys’ repertoire.” / Futurism
Whether full-body MRIs are beneficial as a preventative health measure is an open question, but you will certainly “be made poorer in the process.” / The New York Times [$]