Friday, November 6, 2020

Random Weird Gibberish On Twitter? Where In the World Is Izabella Kaminska?

Although not what that Kaminska Woman©* means with the first part of this tweet: Here's an example that was sent to me just this morning:

As so often happens when an Armenian argues with a Turk the thread degenerated rather quickly:

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Again, not what the editor of FT Alphaville was referring to with "random weird gibberish" but ticking all three of the boxes.

*And regarding the "Kaminska Woman" appellation, I've used it a couple times. Most recently in 2019's "It's That Kaminska Woman (+J. Kelly) Facebook Disputes FT’s Claim that Libra is ‘Not a Proper Blockchain’" (FB) and as an imagined conversation at Andreessen Horowitz's Sand Hill Road HQ regarding her May 2020 post "From Fahrenheit 451 to 'censortech'":

In Which The FT's Izabella Kaminska Comes Dangerously Close to Thoughtcrime 

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.....The world would probably be better off had Ms Kaminska composed this piece on the Twitter platform and run it through the latest offering from Twitter's Trust & Safety Council:

Twitter tests telling users their tweet replies may be offensive

Twitter Inc will test sending users a prompt when they reply to a tweet using “offensive or hurtful language,” in an effort to clean up conversations on the social media platform, the company said in a tweet on Tuesday.
When users hit “send” on their reply, they will be told if the words in their tweet are similar to those in posts that have been reported, and asked if they would like to revise it or not....
Reuters, May 5 
Offensive and hurtful.
For some reason I just flashed on the executive suite at Andreessen Horowitz:
"Marc, it's that Kaminska woman again"
[A16Z is an investor in both TWTR and FB]

And for the fantastical story behind second part of Ms Kaminska's tweet, wary-yet-possibly interested reader will have to wait until tomorrow.