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This dialogue tracks The Simpsons' arc from subversive art form to merchandising juggernaut, a text whose postmodern irony dismantled the wholesome sitcom mythos of the Reagan era. With @AlanSiegelLA on @AmPrestigePod https://t.co/GjwoPtaZXQ

Supersoaker winters and parched summers in the American West fuel soil-borne fungus. This piece traces newly built testing protocols, real-time surveillance, and a near-ready dog vaccine that could pave the way for a human shot. By @zteirstein in @grist https://t.co/ymOxgQmphy

Germany’s grand coalition is funneling billions into the military. This piece questions the logic of military Keynesianism, where arms spending benefits arms capitalists but does little for sustainable growth. By @DierkHirschel at @rosaluxglobal https://t.co/b7yJ7ES8Qo

@AdioDinika @j_kloiber @JWI_Berlin This video is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Technology: https://t.co/ShBlRqASwN

Shifting focus from Silicon Valley engineers to millions of global South data workers, this panel exposes economic precarity, wage theft, and mental health risks – compounded by NDAs and migrant precarity. With @AdioDinika & @j_kloiber at @JWI_Berlin https://t.co/NhMEaRdIvW

@mvfreitasbr @PolicyCenterNS This document is part of this week's edition of the Best of Technology: https://t.co/ShBlRqASwN

A new data colonialism locks the Global South into dependence. Grounded in dependency theory and surveillance capitalism, this paper shows how informational empires steer behavior, markets, and politics. By @mvfreitasbr at @PolicyCenterNS https://t.co/T63GiwXi2j

From 2014 to 2022, tech workers’ social activism over #MeToo and Trump spurred the rise of bread-and-butter labor fights. Our article of the week examines the sources of class consciousness and labor activism in tech. By JS Tan et al. in @ILRReview https://t.co/pRHh72zdlI

@martinandree12 @Campusverlag This book is part of this week's edition of the Best of Technology: https://t.co/ShBlRqASwN

The real fight for democracy now runs through platform algorithms, argues this book. The author maps a pact between tech monopolies and strongmen that rigs attention, polarizes publics, and tilts elections. By @martinandree12 on @Campusverlag https://t.co/YBZtrl4ad2

Across poverty policy, digital governance, and inequality, our video of the week portrays China as a site of accelerated modernization—its reforms unleashing growth and stratification while redefining socialism’s moral grammar. Feat. Yong Cai at @GC_CUNY https://t.co/x4vQIDnawe

@NewStatesman This essay is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Technology: https://t.co/ShBlRqASwN

Britain’s teen hackers aren’t masterminds; they’re gamers groomed on Discord. The pipeline is clear: gaming cheats to forums to extortion—fueled by bleak prospects and neurodivergent talents exploited for thrills. By Oliver Pickup in @NewStatesman https://t.co/mkzT3tJVkQ

Philosophy’s claim to universal truth is a “cultural artifact." In positing a Nietzschean genealogy to explore the violent origins of our concepts, our podcast of the week rejects any search for an abstract primordial reality. With Raymond Geuss https://t.co/vcMK2kNMDH

Across Brazil, motherhood has become a class marker of the ultra-rich. Drawing on Engels, Badinter, and Mary del Priore, our Portuguese pick of the week asserts that the ideals of motherhood have always served capital and the Church. By Ana Clara Ferrari https://t.co/0V8HfgPrVe

PTA’s Pynchon adaptations mark a shift in how readers encounter the novelist: cinema now replaces the classroom as a conduit. Our essay of the week traces Pynchon’s journey from academic postmodernism to popular cult figure. By @devintoshea in @lithub https://t.co/OVEgyrp07U

The emergence of the manosphere in Arabic-speaking digital spaces blends imported Western misogyny with local patriarchal traditions. Our hidden gem of the week highlights how algorithmic architectures amplify backlash. By Sarah Kaddoura at @FESonline https://t.co/sWrH5hvZ62

Challenging the widespread assumption of colonial theft and plunder, our book of the week argues that Western museums acquired objects through complex exchanges of purchase, diplomacy, and scientific excavation. By Justin M. Jacobs on @reaktionbooks https://t.co/VLAjg1c1sl

How do conspiracies spring from folklore, then go totalizing when networked online? This panel traces Pizzagate and QAnon across Parler and other platforms, where dispersed rumors congeal into closed worldviews. Feat. Timothy Tangherlini at @UCBerkeley https://t.co/PiiwEgJ1dK

Revisiting Jean de Léry’s chilling account of the 1573 siege of Sancerre, this conversation unpacks how Léry, a Huguenot who’d seen ritual cannibalism in Brazil, frames the act through scripture, rumor, and gendered blame. With Amanda Coate https://t.co/ZJu5MINTA1