How Everyone Became a Hipster

[Splinter]( Aug 09, 2024 [How Everyone Became a Hipster]( [How Everyone Became a Hipster]( Once exclusively concerned with indie rock, underground rap, and experimental dance music, the event is now more inclusive in almost every sense of the word, save perhaps the ever-increasing price tag. Nearing its 20th anniversary in Chicago’s Near West Side, Pitchfork’s jamboree now features a slate of acts that feels like much less of a boys' club, while still offering the kind of foresight that helped it popularize some of this century's most important artists. [It Took All of America’s Basketball Might to Beat Nikola Jokic and Serbia]( [It Took All of America’s Basketball Might to Beat Nikola Jokic and Serbia]( I can confirm that Denver is now the Western Republic of Serbia. I began the game a neutral and mid-way through the first quarter I and everyone I knew was learning the Serbian national anthem. Some, like sports’ greatest poster of all time who I will get to in a second, charge us with being “cornballs” for rooting for our guy over America, but it’s deeper than that. [Olympic Marathon Will Offer One Last Heat Check]( [Olympic Marathon Will Offer One Last Heat Check]( On Saturday, when the men run the Olympic marathon, the high is expected to be around 86 degrees F. Sunday, when the women run just hours before the closing ceremonies of the Games, will be even hotter: 93 degrees F. This is too hot. [Schmuck of the Week: Beanie-Headed Dipshit Tim Pool]( [Schmuck of the Week: Beanie-Headed Dipshit Tim Pool]( Like Martin Shkreli before him, Pool joins what will hopefully wind up being an illustrious list of right-wing dipshits helping to "own" Splinter with more traffic as we rebuild this site. [Why Ask People What They Think About Climate Change When Chat-GPT Can Just Be Racist and Wrong About It?]( [Why Ask People What They Think About Climate Change When Chat-GPT Can Just Be Racist and Wrong About It?]( But polling is important (probably?), both for understanding politics and elections and also for having a solid grasp on where the populace stands on issues ranging from gun control and immigration to abortion and the economy. Thus, a burgeoning field of research has set out to ask the important question of whether the now-ubiquitous plagiarism machines can take over for the humans. [Kamala Harris Exposes the Superficiality of Liberal Politics]( [Kamala Harris Exposes the Superficiality of Liberal Politics]( It’s instructive to think about how partisan Democrats would react if Israel was committing a genocide with Donald Trump’s blessing, instead of the Biden-Harris administration’s. [The Once Isolated Tribes of the Peruvian Amazon Face Annihilation]( [The Once Isolated Tribes of the Peruvian Amazon Face Annihilation]( Huge swathes of forest have been illegally felled to satisfy the world’s demand for quality wood. Illegal gold mines can literally be seen from space. The land has been slashed and burned to create new farms for raising cattle and growing soy, oil palm, and coca, which is used to produce cocaine. [Silicon Valley Takes the MAGA Pill]( [Silicon Valley Takes the MAGA Pill]( Most fundamentally, a democracy in which their vote is equal to anyone else’s is a threat to their ideology as great men; on this, they agree with Trump. [View this email in your browser]( Copyright © 2024 Splinter/Paste Media (7525 Colbert Drive, Suite 106, Reno NV 89511) [unsubscribe](