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A painted illustration showing a lone young man seen from behind, hunched over a glowing smartphone while sitting on a rooftop ledge at night. A blurred, rain-streaked Southeast Asian city skyline of dark towers and warm orange lights fills the background, framed by bare tangled branches. The isolation and screen glow evoke online radicalization, True Crime Community immersion, and the loneliness that can fuel nihilistic violent extremism among youth.

Beyond the salad bar: Nihilistic violent extremism and the quest for significance in Southeast Asia

By Kumar Ramakrishna & Kenneth Yeo

A print-style illustration showing a vast murmuration of birds swirling in looping, overlapping spirals across a gradient of navy blue, coral orange, and cream. Thousands of small cream, golden, and dark silhouettes flow in shifting directions with no fixed path, visually representing societal change as continual, nonlinear dynamic social evolution rather than linear progress or regress, emerging from interacting political, cultural, and social systems.

Beyond progress vs. regress: Societal change as dynamic social evolution

By Colin Wayne Leach, Shaunette T. Ferguson, & Betselot Biruck Wondimu

A photo-style sepia illustration showing a reimagined Asch conformity experiment: seven people in 1950s suits sit in a row at a long wooden table, all pointing in unison toward a humanoid robot with glowing eyes at the end. A hand holds up a card with three vertical lines of differing lengths, symbolizing social pressure on AI agents to conform to group opinions in multimodal language model perceptual tasks.

Prompt-mediated perceptual conformity in multimodal language models follows Social Impact Theory

By Alessandro Bellina, Giordano De Marzo, & David Garcia

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