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Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor YouTube video by HotChipVEVO

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What happens when the short-form video bubble pops? Read to the end for a really good Instagram video

www.garbageday.email/p/what-happe... For all that’s been written about the coming AI crash, very little has been written about the short-form video collapse that is clearly just over the horizon.

Call me Ishmael

Iran is winning the propaganda war against Trump – brick by brick Tehran’s viral videos satirising a Lego-style president have harnessed the power of AI – and Maga’s debasing of political discourse – and turned it against the US, writes disinformation expert Nina Ja...

www.thenerve.news/p/nina-janko... Collecting stuff. Brick by brick

At the White House Saturday, Trump didn’t talk much about the money behind all this. Instead, he asked if he could get some ibogaine.

CNN: Slopaganda

Post-Beast Era

AI Thirst. A new iteration of thirst trap propaganda journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A 6-7 explainer in April 2026

How AI Legos Became Iran's Secret Weapon YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

Inside Iran’s Gen Z Meme Army
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ICYMI: Your feed posts don't matter. The comments do. Lessons from Social Media Week 2026

open.substack.com/pub/liahaber... unfortunately my comments do not matter either

Bender Bending Rodríguez is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists in the animated television series Futurama.

A practical guide to making AI sound more human
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Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got “Trendslop” in Return. Leaders might assume that LLMs are able to offer a kind of unbiased, outside perspective. But new research found that leading LLMs have clear biases when it comes to strategy and consistently recommen...

Would you mind passing over the Trendslop please

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Congrats! Sounds awesome

The Great Meme Reset

Evidence as content on generated images about news

open.substack.com/pub/robhorni... AI slop as meta-experience

Erbauliche Lektüre von A-Z. Take me to Aruanda mspr0.de/krasse-links...

Is this AI?

Donald Tusk TikTok

“AI Slop” and the Information Ecosystem: Insights from a Cross-Sector Convening IGP and the Hewlett Foundation recently convened the Slop Salon, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of researchers, investigative journalists, technologists, and platform representatives to ...

igp.sipa.columbia.edu/news/ai-slop... The Slop Salon

"The video doesn’t need to convince you. It needs to circulate, register, repeat." Thx for citing the newsletter @politico.eu

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nymag.com/intelligence... “They find themselves in a surreal situation, competing for precarious gigs pantomiming the careers they’d hoped to have.”

When Virality Is The Message: The New Age of AI Propaganda Social media users don’t need to endorse a message to spread it. They only need to find it compelling enough to share, writes Renee DiResta.

“You didn’t have to like the Chinese Communist Party’s worldview to forward it to a friend. You could pass it along in frustrated agreement with a grain of truth, or simply because it was surreal” time.com/article/2026...

It is “taking screenshots of headlines in order to somehow process” time again

“This is happening. This is real…Take care, I guess.”

“not as discrete units of information but through affective narratives constituted by multiple sources and genres across multiple platforms and across the political spectrum”

The Team Behind the A.I. Lego-Style Videos That Lampoon Trump’s War in Iran A.I.-generated propaganda against the U.S.’s war in Iran, done in the style of Lego movies, has become inescapable online. Kyle Chayka tracked down the team making the videos.

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1. April und so. Find es jetzt auch nicht soooo gelungen, aber Kirche kann im Dorf bleiben

Memes, trash talk and AI - the online war between Washington and Tehran | The Listening Post YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

Memes, trash talk and AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aE2...