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pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/#credulous-dolts
A portrait of a bearded, glaring Rasputin. His face has been replaced with Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar; the pupils of the avatar's eyes have been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
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Cryteria (modified)
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pluralistic.net/2025/05/02/kpis-off/#principal-agentic-ai...
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Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff (modified)
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A leg-hold trap whose trigger disc has been replaced with the hostile, glaring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' A giant man's finger enters the frame from one corner, aimed at the trigger.
pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its-not-the-crime/#its-the-cov...
A giant rotten apple behind sepia-toned prison bars. A worm descends from the prison's ceiling to perch on the apple. The scene is surmounted with Apple's 'Think Different.' wordmark.
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Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil (modified)
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pluralistic.net/2025/04/30/trump-u/#i-think-you-know-what...
A 1942 photo of two smiling university graduates (a young man and a young woman) in gown and mortarboards, standing before the steps of a columnated university building. Behind them is a dancing skeleton, also wearing a mortarboard, drumiming on a snare drum.
pluralistic.net/2025/04/29/cheaters-and-liars/#caveat-emp...
hree men playing cards and having a drink. The men are dressed in long trousers and shirts. One man passes a card to another player with the card between his toes under the table, unbeknownst to the third player. The card-passer has Trump's hair and orange skin. The card-receiver wears a MAGA hat. The background is a heavily halftoned, desaturated, waving US flag.
pluralistic.net/2025/04/19/gotcha/#known-to-the-state-of-...
A three-headed jack-in-the-box, sproinging out of a box bearing a Facebook terms of service update notice. Each of Jack's heads has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Each head wears a top hat. Two of Jack's six hands have been replaced with Facebook 'thumbs up' icons. Each of the three aspects of Jack brandishes a cruel whip.
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Cryteria (modified)
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pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/#is-you-taking-no...
A naked, sexless pull-string talking doll with a speaker grille set into its chest. It has the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar, and a pull string extending from its back. A hand - again, from a Zuckerberg metaverse avatar - is pulling back the string. The doll towers over a courtroom.
pluralistic.net/2025/04/16/weaponized-admin-incompetence/...
A caricature of a head-clutching, distressed Uncle Sam, locked up behind dingy bars. In the foreground, from below, looms Trump's candyfloss hair.
pluralistic.net/2025/04/14/timmy-share/#a-superior-moral-...
An engraved illustration from a 1903 French edition of HG Wells's 'War of the Worlds.' It shows a shadow street scene in which revelers are spilling out of a nightclub, oblivious to the looming 'tripod' Martian at the end of the block. It has been modified. The Martian's eyes now emit two beams of brown light that strike the revelers, who have been tinted red, making it appear as though they are being cooked by lasers. Behind the skyline looms a giant poop emoji.
pluralistic.net/2025/04/12/pre-authorization/#is-not-a-gu...
A 19th century medical illustration of a topless woman whose left breast has been consumed by a tumor. She is being menaced by an engraved illustration of a looming skeleton, who raises one hand as if to strike her. Behind them is a faded and distressed Blue Cross logo.
pluralistic.net/2025/04/11/it-is-better-to-buy/#than-to-c...
A Gilded Age courtroom scene depicting a judge high atop the bench wagging a disapproving finger at an expensively dressed figure in the foreground. The foreground character has lost his top hat, which sits on the floor, as he roots through a breifcase on the defendant's table. The foreground figure's head has been replaced with the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The figure's right hand has been replaced with a Facebook 'thumbs up' icon. Hanging from the judge's bench like an unfurled scroll is a sheet of paper; the contents of this sheet have been replaced with the first page of the FTC's initial brief against Facebook.
pluralistic.net/2025/04/10/solidarity-forever/#oligarchism
A massive Earth Day demonstration in 1970, with a speaker in the foreground, his back to the camera, standing at a podium. The image has been modified: the speaker has been tinted green, the audience has been tinted red. Between the speaker and the audience marches a gleeful skeleton, pounding on a snare drum with drumsticks made of human femur-bones. The skeleton wears a top-hat. It is haloed in flaring light.
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umseas (modified)
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pluralistic.net/2025/04/09/cases-and-controversy/#brocoll...
A giant in a tailcoat whose head is the glaring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' surmounted by Trump's hair. The giant peers through a magnifying glass at three barefooted children, standing in his palm. The background is the Office of Personnel Management logo superimposed over a giant eyeball
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Cryteria (modified)
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pluralistic.net/2025/04/07/it-matters-how-you-slice-it/#t...
A scene in which a line of paupers queue up to be given a pie by Uncle Sam, who has been modified so he has Trump's hair. To one side of the scene are three caricatured plutocrats, gorging on pie. The background is a US flag.
pluralistic.net/2025/04/05/troy-hunt/#teach-a-man-to-phish
A vintage photo of a fisherman in an old-fashioned, one-piece bathing suit holding aloft a long fishing rod from which dangles a fish. The image has been tinted. The fisherman's head has been replaced with a cliched 'hacker in a hoodie' head. Beneath the fish is a rippling pond made up of the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
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Cryteria (modified)
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pluralistic.net/2025/04/04/anything-that-cant-go-on/#fore...
Margaret Bourke-White's classic 1937 photo 'The Louisville Flood,' depicting a group of Black Americans in a relief line standing before a billboard reading 'World's Highest Standard of Living' and 'There's No Way Like the American Way' with a white, cheerful family in a luxury car. The image has been modified. It has been colorized, with the exception of the people in the line. Behind them rises the flosslike hair of Donald Trump.
pluralistic.net/2025/04/01/doctor-robo-blabbermouth/#fool...
Sigmund Freud's study with his famous couch. Behind the couch stands an altered version of the classic Freud portrait in which he is smoking a cigar. Freud's clothes and cigar have all been tinted in bright neon colors. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' His legs have been replaced with a tangle of tentacles.
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Zde (modified)
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Cryteria (modified)
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pluralistic.net/2025/03/31/madison-square-garden/#autocra...
The Las Vegas Sphere as seen by night, with the lights of Vegas behind it. The Sphere itself has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' and centered on it is a Madison Square Garden logo. The Sphere has been topped with Trump's hair.
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Cryteria (modified)
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pluralistic.net/2025/03/29/jane-mcalevey/#trump-is-a-scab
Four turn-of-the-century women strikers, bearing sashes reading PICKET STRIKERS. In the foreground is an extreme magnification of the top of Trump's hair.
pluralistic.net/2025/03/28/street-pricing/#sportball-anal...
A black and white vintage photo of a man in a trenchcoat and trilby, sitting at a diner counter drinking a coffee, beneath a sans-serif, all-caps sign reading SANDWICHES. The image has been altered. The wallpaper in the diner is a detail from a US $100 bill. The foreground of the picture is a set of pitted, iron prison bars, which cast a shadow over the image.
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Daniel Brody (modified)
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