Saturday, September 19, 2026
ArchiveWhy the Houthis Are Saudi Arabia’s Problem
The Houthis now sit on the Bab el-Mandeb, the strait a tenth of global trade squeezes through. The piece's argument: it's Riyadh, not Washington, that's boxed in.
Trump Moves to Bar Three News Outlets From White House
CNN, MS NOW and Politico lost their credentials by presidential say-so. The useful part of this segment is the unglamorous question nobody's answering: who physically enforces it, and on what authority?
The Overhang
Mollick had GPT-6 turn the 1977 text game Zork into a playable 3D world in an afternoon. The demo isn't the point; the distance between what the models can do and what any workplace has absorbed is.
The Blind Birdwatcher
Juan Pablo Culasso, blind since birth, identifies more than 700 bird species by ear. Two decades of field recordings later, he describes song as how he perceives the shape of a forest.
The Wiggly Wonder of Music | Jacob Collier
One voice, one grand piano, and "What a Wonderful World" taken to pieces. Collier has a name for the thing that moves through a great song — the wiggle — and then he shows you it. Headphones on.