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What’s in Trump’s Iran deal? No regime change, no mention of Israel, and no clear answer on who’s supposed to pay Iran $300 billion. / Al Jazeera
Netanyahu ally and right-wing anchor Shimon Riklin: “If you compare the agreement Obama did with Iran to this, what’s the difference? In some ways, Obama was more serious.” / The New Yorker
See also: “For Beijing and Moscow, this evidence of America’s military industrial weakness may catalyze decisions to move forward on their own strategic interests.” / The New York Times [$]
A satellite analysis shows the algae bloom in the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has reached its highest levels in at least five years. / The Washington Post [$]
After a century of declining water levels and various schemes by Utah’s state and city leaders to exploit its resources, the future of the Great Salt Lake is uncertain. / The New York Review
The International Astronomical Unit has officially renamed Asteroid (861969) 2014 OS439 after Elliott Smith. / Paste Magazine
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Real-world scans provided by hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go users are now being used as training data for drones and military robots. / DroneXL
See also: The history of GPS—or how military and corporate power turned you into a trackable blue dot. / Literary Hub
DHS mobile devices will now have the White House app auto-installed, raising concerns it could “create backdoor access to government networks behind the firewall.” / Gizmodo
Only nine percent of Americans say their government has been fully honest about the Epstein files. / Politico
Researchers claim Tesla wildly exaggerated the US safety data on its “Full Self-Driving” system in a presentation to Swedish regulators. / Futurism
Archaeologists believe they’ve found a simplified version of Stonehenge that used wooden posts to align with the Sun on summer and winter solstices. / BBC News
Hunting for the next Backrooms or Obsession, Hollywood agencies are camping out on subreddits as “a real-time IP incubator of sorts.” / The Hollywood Reporter
Watch real-time baseball games rendered in 8-bit graphics. / Ribbie, Kottke
Fine, we’ll bite: On booksmaxxing and how reading became sexy. / The Guardian
An ode to the beauty—inner, outer, and beyond—of La Marzocco’s espresso machines. / Totei