Some had GPU issues so let's see if this is one of those.
they don't run the length of the screen, they simply display themselves in many images, and on pretty much every video. the problem started up last night. i've tried booting in safe mode, updating the mac, clearing caches (although it's not unique to simply my browsers--nothing works so far.

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