This week we dive into the messy tangle of power and resistance: from the crackdown of inspiring rebellion in movies to an actual rebellion in Nepal. We check in on Albania’s AI-powered minister experiment, take a detour across the Wallace Line and its evolutionary divide, and wander into the extreme cinema of Lucifer Valentine. Plus, our usual dose of the weird, wonderful, and unhinged straight out of Reddit.

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