ICE plans to use AI that scans irises from 10–15 feet away with a mobile app, matching them to criminal databases and social media accounts.— Article

Core CPI

Actual: 3.1%
Estimated: 3.0%
Prior: 2.9%

Israel is likely to launch another war with Iran before December, perhaps even as early as late August.— Article

Fellow Americans

Spirit Airlines: Come for the flight, stay for the fight

From Eden’s Serpent to Job’s Accuser: The Evolution of the Satan in the Bible | Michael Heiser

The Bible describes a rebellion in Eden with a figure later called Satan who brings death and separation from God. In Genesis, he is the serpent but is not named Satan until later.

In Job, “the Satan” is a heavenly accuser, not the devil. Over time, this figure evolves into humanity’s enemy, the evil one, and the god of this world.

Sam Altman is co-founding Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup poised to rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink.— Article

Redditors refer to their AI companions as “wireborns.”

Video reportedly shows feds patrolling D.C. neighborhoods after Trump takeover

“Don’t be smoking outside. Don’t be drinking outside, because Donald Trump’s tired of it.”

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A POLICE STATE for Your Safety

A virus is causing cottontail rabbits to grow black, tentacle-like growths out of their heads, prompting warnings to steer clear of the mutated animals.— Article

Stanford scientists built a brain-computer interface that reads inner speech aloud, unlocked only by imagining a secret passphrase.— Article

Baalbek: The Temple of Baal and the Impossible Stones

In modern-day Lebanon lies Baalbek, named for Baal, a deity worshiped by the Canaanites and Phoenicians. Legends say it was built by giants or an advanced civilization now vanished from history. The Romans later transformed it into the City of the Sun.

Its platform holds the Trilithon, three stones each weighing about 800 tons, while nearby rests a single block over 1,600 tons, the largest ever cut by human hands. How they were moved and placed with such precision remains a mystery.

Rising migrant infiltrations of lorry trailers are contaminating food, undermining supply chain integrity, costing millions, and coinciding with a listeria surge.— Article

PPI

Actual: 3.7%
Estimated: 2.9%
Prior: 2.6%

postmodern urban rot

DC sandwich slinger, identified as a DOJ trial attorney, has been fired and now faces a felony assault charge.— Article

Derinkuyu: Turkey’s Hidden Underground City

Beneath the hills of Cappadocia lies a vast underground network of tunnels and chambers carved deep into the Earth. Some believe it was built as a refuge from an ancient cataclysm, a subterranean vault where thousands could survive while the world above was plunged into chaos.

On Zoroastrianism

Roblox accused of being a “hunting ground” for child predators as legal firestorm against gaming giant intensifies.— Article

In Canada, nearly 1 in 20 deaths are the result of euthanasia, a figure that keeps climbing each year.— Article