Why are my cmd tab icons polarized?

all of the sudden today my icons started looking "polarized" when using cmd+tab or moving icons around on my dock. screenshot:
my icons also look like this when i drag them from a finder window on to my desktop. what gives?
i've tried the usual suspects like restarting as well as shutting down and booting again but this has persisted.

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