‘Laughing our way to hell’: Of moral injury, dehumanizing your neighbor and a whiff of fascist iconograpy in Trump’s AI slop

Public domain, rpt. Steve Rose, ‘Slopaganda,’ The Guardian, Jan. 29, 2026. Over the Labor Day weekend, I was kind of nervous during the final edit on a blog post about moral injury. (Yes, I realize my posts read like a first draft, typos and run-on sentences included. But as an old newspaper guy, I luxuriate … Continue reading ‘Laughing our way to hell’: Of moral injury, dehumanizing your neighbor and a whiff of fascist iconograpy in Trump’s AI slop

Trump’s creepy, just-kiddin’-no-not-kidding obsession with Greenland is back in the news (at least for the time being)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdxsODGhfuM AI image posted to Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ account, Forbes, YouTube, May 23, 2026. Does President Trump have his eyes on Greenland again? It’s always hard to bring clarity to Trump’s funhouse-mirror version of objective reality, but I think he tipped his hand over the Memorial Day weekend, when he posted a creepy, funny-not-funny AI-generated … Continue reading Trump’s creepy, just-kiddin’-no-not-kidding obsession with Greenland is back in the news (at least for the time being)