What Can Artists Learn from Brain Rot? What Can Artists Learn from Brain Rot?

sleek-mag.com

Inside an AI TikTok Shop Slop Factory That Shills Supplements Recalled By the FDA

How a company called Rosabella used AI content to market its supplements: "If you’re trying to sell health products to a 50-year-old, well, make your avatar 50 years old."

404media.co

That storytime TikTok is probably an ad

"UGC creators" are posting fake skits about bad bosses and toxic mother-in-laws to sell products. Consumers are falling for it.

open.substack.com

Epic Fury: The Dark Art of Defense Tech

Artist Simon Denny offers a close reading of the dark art of defense tech in an essay for Artforum's May issue.

artforum.com

Keynote | Universität Klagenfurt

aau.at

AI-Generated Synthetic Personas Are Spreading Across Ukrainian Social Media - LETSDATA | VANTAGE

A rotating cast of AI-generated soldier, veteran, recruiter, and rabbi personas racked up 20+ million views pushing anti-military and anti-migrant narratives across Ukrainian social media in early 202...

letsdata.net

Special Section - Beyond Verification: Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Artifices of Authenticity | International Journal of Communication

ijoc.org

Misinformation as strategy: Epistemic consequences and the undermining of shared truth

Misinformation influences cognition—shaping memory, beliefs, attitudes, reasoning, and decision-making. While intentionally disseminated misinformation (i.e., disinformation) has long served persuasiv...

cell.com

From Slop to Slop | M/C Journal

Introduction The video shows a man smiling as his reflection stares at him. There is an eerie feeling about this man: his eyes are odd, his facial expressions shift unsteadily. I generated this vide...

journal.media-culture.org.au

nime.org

The Ghost Stays in the Picture: Archives and Generative AI — Cybernetic Forests.

How do archives become infrastructures for generative AI -- and what histories remain in the images we generate?

cyberneticforests.com

KI und kritisches Denken | Ein pessimistischer Blick: Historisches Seminar

uni-osnabrueck.de

IDF removes soldier from role after livestream with controversial influencer Clavicular

Shira Braun sidelined from military’s international communications unit and given suspended jail sentence after appearing with looksmaxxing star during his divisive Israel visit

ynetnews.com

slop realism

We are in a culture of optimization, which means we are in a culture of slop.

etymology.substack.com

What is 'good' anyway?

Some reflections on the UN AI for Good Summit

open.substack.com

Festival Indigo, 7–9 October 2026, Cukrarna

Indigo festival will be organised from From 7–9 October 2026 at Cukrarna which will once again become a meeting place

theinternational.si

Utrecht University Winter Workshop - Music and Online Cultures Research Network

13, 14 & 15 January 2027 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Supported by a Van Oostrom grant, MOCReN will host its second Winter Workshop at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, on Wednesday 13, Thursday 14, and F...

mocren.org

ARG 3–2 EGY — FIFA World Cup 2026 Data Portraits

A single 2026 World Cup match rebuilt as a living data-portrait — two territory blankets, a momentum pulse, honest football made beautiful.

wc26.bogachev.fr

Vibes-based methods - Ash Watson, 2025

Vibes are having a moment and academics seem increasingly serious about understanding whatever the vibe is. Many qualitative methodological approaches are alrea...

journals.sagepub.com

TikTok and the algorithmic transformation of social media publics: From social networks to social interest clusters - Paolo Gerbaudo, 2026

The rise of TikTok has sparked a debate on the consequences of algorithmic content curation for social experience. My thesis is that TikTok represents a second ...

journals.sagepub.com

Trump Goes on 67-Post Rampage After Fireworks Fiasco

The president woke up after America’s birthday with plenty to say online.

thedailybeast.com