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Entertaining article. For all the references to pre-Internet things and people, I can't help but feel it's mainly about a certain sort of Twitter cleverness. The witty reply to this or that outrage that, in the end, changed absolutely nothing. Not cleverness, then (and really, of all places, tech very much rewards cleverness), but impotent wit.


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