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Is this wiring job safe in the house I'm renting?

I rent a house in LA that has been given the landlord special--after looking a the wiring to see if I would be able to install a pendant light, I was shocked to find a live wire wrapped with old, crusted duct tape barely attached to a new wire attachment(not the copper grounding wire) as well as another wire with exposed paper. Is this a fire hazard? What do you guys think?

here is the wire without the cap (just came off with barely any effort

the cap that the live wire was in. Is the duct tape up to code? What about the paper?