The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Are We Hungry Yet? Karen Kwiatkowski Bulldozing hundreds of established olive trees  last week, and  thousands since 1967 , and  unleashing feral pigs  to destroy Palestinian fields and gardens are parts of Israel’s war on agriculture and the environment. These tactics are important to Israel’s national security project. A country has a right to defend itself, after all. Targeting food and the ability to grow and produce food to defeat an enemy, as well as for domestic population control, is historically typical state methodology. North American bison were all but eliminated in order to drive native Americans off their lands and hunting grounds. We watch historical dramas like Downton Abbey and marvel at how food defines and separates class, liberty and power. Americans, as tenants of empires on the cusp of collapse will do, obsess over food, and their health. Simultaneously the people who will build the new republics that will inherit this continent are study...

  Killer Robots, Video Games & Artificial Wombs Fully autonomous weapons aren't just the third revolution in warfare, they're the manifestation of everything that has gone wrong with technology. Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek We are the masters of artificial intelligence! If you doubt it, check out the video below. Look how these robot dogs do the bidding of their controllers. It must be a powerful feeling, to have created all those robot dogs and watch them perform on command. H0W_THlNGS_W0RK @HowThingsWork_ Perfectly Synced AI Dogs. We've seen these introcuced to many industries over the past few years including farming, private security firms & even national police forces. 6:09 PM ∙ Jan 28, 2023 8,207 Likes 2,231 Retweets In fact, robot dogs are so obedient, the military thinks it’s a good idea to do this: What happens when packs of robot dogs roam free after having been fed an algorithm by their masters. But who might those masters be? We worry about robots going rogue...