Bad medicine
ICE plans to equip officers with shock gloves that can incapacitate people, and it’s obvious from the manual that some of those people will be badly injured or worse. / 404 Media
At least two Florida sheriff’s offices have purchased Meta glasses, but it’s not entirely clear how they’re being used or what policies officers are following. / Miami New Times
Europe’s new electronic entry-exit system can be faster and more secure than having your passport stamped—except when it breaks and you enter travel limbo. / The Wall Street Journal [$]
Researchers warn the growing trade in mummified human remains poses serious health risks from the toxic materials and substances used in preservation. / The Guardian
Unrelated: Viral social media posts are the reason you can’t find canned sardines at the grocery store right now. / Street Talks
On the art of obituaries, “a reminder that when you die, someone else gets the last word on your legacy—or, at least, the first of the last words.” / Longreads
Big tech has wrested power away from users and weaponized tools that have “atrophied the exact civic muscle we’ll need to reclaim power over it.” / Rebecca Williams
The danger of doctors ceding judgment to AI is most pressing among med students, who could be missing out on the chance to acquire the skills to think on their own. / The Guardian
See also: The most entertaining intensive care medicine resource you’ll see all week is “an exploration of human physiology, with frequent irrelevant digressions.” / Deranged Physiology
“Everybody, at some point, has looked into the bowl and wondered whether what just happened requires a doctor, a plumber, or last rites.” Everybody poops, Taylor Farms edition. / McSweeney’s
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There’s no point in overthinking One Night Only except to say it breezily ignores the degree of harm that would have been enacted upon gay people in the universe of the movie. / Them
Today’s music business isn’t unlike how 18th- and 19th-century nobles commissioned works from composers, but “at least the viceroy didn’t fall back on traffic numbers.” / Hearing Things
Spotify’s ad-skipping button appears destined to kill the podcast industry (though it doesn’t work on ads sold by Spotify). / Semafor
See also: Spotify says it will label AI profiles to differentiate them from human musicians, as well as exclude them from the platform’s algorithmic and editorial playlists. / NPR
A pair of type designers introduce a font that employs ligatures to choke AI scrapers. / Ars Technica
Embark on a Choose Your Own Adventure-style journey to finding your best Halloween costume. / Darker Times
A tally of sofa colors from IKEA catalogs shows we haven’t been this beige since the 1980s. / The European Correspondent