Hijacking Religion: How the Pentagon Turned the Sermon on the Mount into a War Manual

Saudi, Turkish, Pakistani Military Chiefs To Hold Urgent Meeting Over Yemen War Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani army heads are set to urgent talks on the Yemen crisis. Crucially, these countries represent signatories to the Mecca Defense Pact, which vows mutual defense in the instance that any member is attacked. Of course, the Iran-aligned Houthis have been semi-frequently targeting the Saudi kingdom's territory, gong after oil export infrastructure as well as fuel storage sites, with ballistic missiles even targeting the capital of Riyadh this month, which marked a first. Anadolu/Getty ImagesAhead of the...

"BigMacGPT": McDonald's Uses AI To Figure Out How Much Your Next Burger Will Cost Depending On Location One week after McDonald's held its investor day at its Chicago headquarters, Wall Street has soured on a near-term turnaround effort, with Deutsche Bank analysts saying it has effectively been delayed.  Now, a new report says the quick-service restaurant chain behind the Big Mac is rapidly expanding its use of artificial intelligence to recommend menu prices based partly on what customers in each restaurant's area are willing to pay. Reuters details exactly how and what AI expansion at...

The Great Normalization (Nobody Declared Martial Law... Yet America Began Looking Like It Anyway) Authored by Madge Waggy, There are stories that announce themselves with explosions, riots, or breaking-news headlines, and then there are stories so subtle that they quietly rewrite an entire society before anyone realizes what has happened. This is one of those stories. During the preparation of this investigation, several retired police officers, private security professionals, emergency responders, and ordinary citizens described nearly identical experiences despite living hundreds or even thousands of miles apart. None believed they were...