Revving at Full Throttle — This Week’s Links

Features Clark Burscough | August 7, 2026 There was a point last week, after my empty wine glass got vibrated clear off the side-table of my sofa at the fancy cinema screening Christopher Nolan’s Homer’s The Odyssey, the screeching of Polyphemus so loud in the mix blasting out of the 7.1 surround sound system that nothing could stand in its wake, as I walked back out into the baking heat of late summer in climate-crisis London, that I started to wonder whether we are indeed heading towards the dying of the light of civilisation and the extinguishing of the written word, but then I got the ding of a Google alert arriving in my inbox, which was just a wall of referrals to games sites doggedly churning out top-ten lists of superhero power-rankings, and I realised that, no, we will always have this week’s links, below. — Alariko (@alariko.bsky.social) 2026-07-21T10:17:55.992Z This week’s news. • Starting this week’s selection with a return to a previous news item from March of this year, as a third-party panel at Japanese publisher Shogakukan found that editorial staff at the publisher had encouraged violations of human rights by, through a convoluted series of actions, re-hiring and p...