Does anyone know when the term vulture funds started to get used? First reference I can find is at some point in negotiations between Argentina and hedge fund creditors a few years back

— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) March 1, 2018

I don’t know first use, but I started hearing the term “vulture fund” and the related “vulture capitalist(s)” during the 1990s, and possibly in the 1980s but I was not paying as much attention then.

However, the earliest historical reference I can find is from 1964, in The Bankers Magazine, Volume 174.

That the term is used without quotes in a stodgy magazine like that (though it has an explanation) implies it was already in relatively-wide usage well before that.

If I had to guess, though I could not find any earlier evidence, I’d say that it probably originated in the 1930s informally.

I want my e-readers big and my phones small.

This seems to be the opposite of what nearly everyone else wants. If I had a smartphone with a 3″ screen, I’d be chuffed. And if I had an e-reader with a 9″ or 10″ screen, that’d make my month.

Big phones are the worst, and that’s seemingly all anyone is interested in selling. I can’t understand it.

The “progressive” Left will be less eager to celebrate these sorts of removals after the corporate censorship lens focuses on them. This is inevitable; there has already been a push to censor left-leaning ideas. So this isn’t speculative; it is already happening.

Though I know it feels good, and even I agree with removing content in some cases, this simply is not how you win ideological or political battles.

In other words, the Left may win this relatively-meaningless skirmish that has nothing at all to do with the real problems or issues, but that makes it all the harder for them win in other arenas — and guarantees the firehose of corporate censorship will be turned on them at the very first opportunity.

Strategic thinkers they are not.