Here's an example that was sent to me just this morning:On the secret coded messages in Twitter thing, it is interesting how much random weird gibberish there is on Twitter. I've been collecting screenshots of the most peculiar stuff for a while now. Are they old school Numbers stations? https://t.co/bFDSOmV1rm
— Izabella Kaminska (@izakaminska) November 5, 2020
Hereditary slavery &transgenerational status hierarchy – social complexity by definition – originate in hunter-gatherers geographically and temporally far distant from the obese 'mother goddesses' and carbohydrate sludge that are your heritage, and the same goes for monumentalism
— Zolbar Sakusun (@ZolbarSakusun) November 5, 2020
As so often happens when an Armenian argues with a Turk the thread degenerated rather quickly:
*****
Shut the fuck up. Or no, please backpeddle more about being a handicapped subhuman earnestly sending me links to feminist scholarship on JSTOR.
— Zolbar Sakusun (@ZolbarSakusun) November 5, 2020
Modernity is over and NOTHING is more important.
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
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.Offensive and hurtful.
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
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.