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Simon Reynolds on ‘Heroin’, Rock’s Most Evil Song
The best-selling author and music critic tracks the itch for oblivion, from Lou Reed to Juice WRLD.
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All pictures by Dana Lovasz Biz Sherbert’s Young Americans: Long Island Jack
In her new brand new column for VICE magazine, Biz Sherbert interviews teens all over the U.S. about their hopes and jeans.
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In Your Face: The ‘Chosen Ones’ of Phuket Are Hard to Ignore
Photos from Thailand’s Taoist Nine Emperor Gods festival, where hundreds of devotees gather to gouge holes in their faces and then shove stuff through them.
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Dress: Shalot. All pictures: Julie Poly Catch Me if You Can
Ukrainian photographer Julie Poly found herself with a boxful of spare “anti-conscription” masks. Here, she puts them to good use.
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Experience: I Bought a Terrible ‘Anti-Conscription’ Mask
In Ukraine, cunning entrepreneurs are cashing in on the very human urge to not get blown up by a drone, by selling masks to help evade conscription gangs.
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Pictures by Emma Stern ‘Welcome to the Family’: Inside the Sex Cult of Miami’s Most Diabolical Pimp
William Foster lured desperate young women with promises of vast wealth. Instead, they were ensnared by his regime of mind control, sexual punishments, antipsychotic drugs, plastic surgery—and lots and lots of lemon juice.
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Picture by Julie Poly The Self-Destruction Issue: A Letter From the Editor
This one goes out to the many people in our Instagram DMs who believe they are being followed by helicopters.
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Image: Jamie Lee Taete Last Chance to Get Your Hands on the Summer Issue of VICE Magazine
Subscribe by Tuesday, September 1, to get The Self-Destruction Issue before it’s sold out forever.
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Image: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images How My Friend Got Sacked From the Cemetery
I’ve seen plenty of middle-class punk cosplayers claiming to be authority haters, but this guy was the real deal.
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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.
