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Davide and Ekin-Su kissing, Love Island

Smooth brains in the villa.

on the questionable pleasures of a post-Brexit Britain’s number-one export: Love Island.


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Live, Laugh, -Love Island- (cover image)

on the questionable pleasures of a post-Brexit Britain’s number-one export: Love Island.

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Dirt teams up with Bloomers on a 1/1 work of art.

Secretsower is the artist behind 1,111 non-fungible flowers known as Bloomers. Dirt corresponded with him about tattoos, growing up on a flower farm and much more.

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Ok Bloomer

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You can't escape the horny RadioShack account.

on brand Twitter and the sex inherent in commodity fetishism.

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Cummodity fetishism

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The digital world can be too smooth for comfort.

on designers’ theft of digital textures that better emulate the physical world. He also made this on-theme Dirt logo.

The black market of BlkMarket

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The Futurist cookbook meets AI.

used DALL-e to generate imagery of the absurd cuisine from Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s 1932 tome The Futurist Cookbook.

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DALL-e meets Marinetti

A scan of a teenage Ivanka Trump in Teen Vogue. (Instagram/@thankyouatoosa)

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The Amy Astley era.

on her favorite teen magazine and its embrace of nepotism babies, before Gen Z made the term a thing.

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Teen Vogue's "nepo babies"

Illustration by Kyle Knapp

Snap crackle pop.

writes that ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) has returned television back to the revolutionary-adjacent art form that Walter Benjamin saw film being 86 years ago.

Streaming broke TV

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