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Some readers have requested that Read Max write about the industrial musician Grimes’ recent confession, documented first by the cybersecurity blogger Jackie Singh, that she and an anonymous friend coordinated a lethal cyberattack the culture blog Hipster Runoff in 2012. I have neither the moral nor the emotional bandwidth to relitigate the Hipster Runoff debates of the early 2010s, but I’m willing to provide the following commentary:
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