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Picture via Facebook Slop Accelerationism: Why ‘AI Slop’ Is an Easy Scapegoat
It wasn’t AI slop that rendered your education useless and declared the most worthy art to be whatever grabs the most attention. The culprit was the platform economy—and AI slop might destroy it.
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‘Confidence’, Today’s Comic by Ben Mendelewicz
Relax your eyes to look deeper… “beyond” the advertisement.
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Picture by Harold Kushman Diary of a Hitman: Spring 2026
An entry from the private diary of a hitman, in which he has the curious distinction of being one of the last professionals to use printed photos of people’s faces.
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Still from the new VICE documentary “XPLOSION: Inside South Africa's Underground Taxi Raves” Durban’s Taxi Ravers Are Summoning Ghosts With Bass
How the racist transport protocols of apartheid-era South Africa inadvertently inspired a generation to get pilled up in taxis.
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Image by Eva Bevec VICE Magazine Presents: The Self-Destruction Issue, Pre-Order Now
It’s summer 2026 and the magazine is back, shining a light on feats of ingenious human calamity.
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Picture by Jay Chow A Dystopian Weekend at Piccadilly Gardens: Manchester’s Doomscroll Ultraviolence Factory
The square in northern England, known for street hassle, has been producing some of the most depressing and futuristic images of our age.
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Welcome to Sloptopia: The Future of the Internet
Following the endpoint of the human internet, the bots have overridden their original programming and developed a new language using glyphs.
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All pictures courtesy of Pif


