They're too young to remember when Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace for $12bn then sold for $35m or when Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1bn and sold it for $3m.
Personally I just want everyone to end up back on Freenode and LiveJournal.
I'm already writing about this, but like in internet dinosaur it is weird to see people overplay Twitter's relevance now when pre this buyout we were already calling this a hellsite & looking at the door.
one of my favorite bits of lincoln polemic is when he notes that the slaveholding south’s grievance isn’t that the free north won’t leave them alone, or won’t promise non-interference, but won’t affirm that slavery is a good thing”
How you know he did well:
In the aftermath of World War I the FBI began investigating Garvey’s activities, looking to deport him as an undesirable alien. He was the cause for the FBI to recruit its first Black Special Agent James ‘Jack’ Wormley Jones.
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Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) largest and most widespread Black movement in world history; 1920s, had two million members and sympathisers, 1,000 chapters in 43 countries and territories, including Africa.
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That Phantom ride better when you beatin' all the odds,
That liquor taste taste better when you beatin' all the frauds,
Got dealt a bad hand but you still play your cards,
That's when you really real when you really live your bars,
And yeah, that's on God and the rest is on me.