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Inside the trippy rise of dream tech, where lucid dreams are big business

‘I think we’re gonna build a social media where people can share what it is they do in their lucid dreams’

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Jan 10, 2024

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América de Cali: Inside Colombia’s most notorious football fandom

Kurt Hollander captures the fervent followers of América de Cali, whose dedication to the Colombian football team regularly includes heists, shoot-outs and game-ending pitch invasions

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Nov 24, 2023

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Inside the booming AI-generated porn industry

Amid clampdowns on deepfake porn, men are finding ways to bypass verification systems to monetise adult content generated with AI models

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Oct 18, 2023

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The entire history of Top Boy, as told by its stars

Britain’s favourite street drama is back from the dead – we go deep on its past, present and future with the team that live and breathe it

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Sep 07, 2023

Ciaran Thapar
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Hip-hop at 50: the Dazed covers that co-signed the stars

As the genre celebrates its 50th anniversary, we delve into our archive, speaking to the Dazed editors and contributors who helped bring all those iconic hip-hop moments to life

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Aug 11, 2023

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UFOria: how aliens are fuelling a new era of disinformation

Is it a psyop? A government cover-up? Aliens have entered mainstream discourse again, but it’s hard not to question the motives behind how this information is being fed to us – and why

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Aug 01, 2023

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How to kill Moloch, the demon driving humanity to the brink of extinction

From Oppenheimer’s atom bomb to the AI arms race, the future of humanity might depend on overcoming the influence of an ancient, malevolent god

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Jul 21, 2023

Thom Waite
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Folk horror and the Holy Fool: how Paganism re-enchanted modern Britain

50 years after The Wicker Man, Christianity is waning and neo-Pagan beliefs are on the rise – here, we talk stone circles, online spirituality, and anti-capitalist mysticism with the creators of Weird Walk and Hellebore

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Jun 12, 2023

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‘My fluidity, my dignity’: The radical kingdom of Christine and the Queens

Ahead of Meltdown Festival, which is this year curated by Christine and the Queens, the avant-pop star speaks to Daisy Jones about his new album, the journey he’s been on over the past few years, and the concept of fluidity

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Jun 08, 2023

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Nicki Minaj: her Minajesty

Eccentric rhymes, raw sexuality and bossy swagger have made Nicki Minaj the definitive hip hop fantasy figure of our generation. As the musical chameleon prepares to unleash her next album, we take a trip into her surreal world

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Jun 06, 2023

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Nick Cave on grief: ‘I want people to know that things get better’

As his moving book Faith, Hope and Carnage gets its UK paperback release, the musician opens up about his struggles with grief, censorship, and why he thinks social media turns everyone into ‘a bunch of assholes’

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Jun 05, 2023

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The treachery of images in the age of AI

Artists like Luke Nugent are using artificial intelligence to imagine hyperreal alternate histories, but what happens when the technology falls into the wrong hands?

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Apr 21, 2023

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Starseeds: the aliens who want to take humanity to the fifth dimension

Have you ever felt like you don’t fit in? Maybe you’re an alien born in a human body

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Apr 06, 2023

Thom Waite
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In full flow: why FLO are the past, present and future of British pop

In a musical landscape that remixes the past at breakneck speed, FLO’s embrace of the R&B sounds of their childhoods feels weirdly like the future – and asks timely questions about Black women’s voices in pop

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Mar 24, 2023

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Art attack! The unstoppable uprising of young climate activists

With their soap-throwing theatrics at the National Gallery in October, two campaigners from Just Stop Oil showed how to wake people up to the climate crisis. Here, a range of vital activists from Mikaela Loach to Vanessa Nakate add their voices

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Mar 14, 2023

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We have entered the age of TikTok face

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Hello Kitty at 50: how the ultra-cute mascot took over youth culture

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The story of Gia Carangi: world’s first supermodel who died of Aids at 26

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So you’re thinking about using your period blood for magic spells?

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The Girl Codex: a complete guide to everything girl-coded online

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I had my face stolen by AI

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Why can’t we move past 2014?

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This photo book reframes nudes from vintage XXX magazines

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Cailee Spaeny on becoming Priscilla and working with Sofia Coppola

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Harry Styles wants everybody to wear his pants

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Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos on Poor Things and creative disagreements

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Inside the world of 90s gamers and LAN Party culture

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