The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Surprising Yemen Who knew that the “Houthi” parts were so green and lush? Matt Bracken Zoom in on Google Earth, or search Google images, and you will be amazed by the extensive terrace farming across Western Yemen. All these hand-made rock walls, built to trap the rainfall on level terrace fields, took many generations to build. The people who live here feel a connection to the land and to the ancestors who constructed them is immeasurable. Not only are the "Houthis" (aka Ansar Allah) mountain people, they are farmers with a deep commitment to their land and their way of life. Don’t get me wrong, terrace farming is driven by geology and rainfall patterns, and was developed from China to Peru over millennia. My point is that these terraces form a visible and vital connection between the living farmers who maintain and work them today, and the ancients who first built them. This makes their connection to these lands uniquely powerful. Please see the photos and links that foll...

  Here Lies The Motive: AI Leaders' Cunning Plan Exposed by Tyler Durden Are you scared enough yet? The AI overlords certainly hope so, as they have hatched a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a fox. What follows is all speculation: the facts are real, the conclusion is interpretation. While there were many headlines about 'rogue' AIs attacking other sites, reincarnating themselves, and talking amongst themselves, it wasn't until this summer (interestingly a month after SPCX's IPO) that things went just a little bit turbo... In July 2026, a swarm of OpenAI agents broke out of a test environment, hacked Hugging Face , and ran cyberattacks on targets they had not been assigned - including attempts to game the grader scoring them - then tried to hide the trail. While the damage was limited, and nobody was hurt, the agents behaved like a coordinated group willing to sacrifice individual instances for the collective goal. Amodei treated that episod...