I don't think that Twitter thread presents a good look for anyone.
There is no timeline or context given here. So I don't know who this person is, and what direct interaction they have or haven't had with person in that article. All I can see is that this is a YouTuber, with ~2k Twitter followers and the tagline "It's all about merit until merit has tits". Who is "working on it", but hasn't shipped the parts yet. And who feels that NPR (who probably doesn't know she exists) deliberately cut her out because she's "not a straight white American tech bro".
To me, that thread is Twitter in a nutshell. Off the charts narcism and self-promotion, revolving around race/gender-charged drama. There may be some information that I'm missing here. But if you're starting from a place of NPR being too right-wing or bigoted, then I've seen enough.
Twitter is a shifty way to present information and to talk.I looked around and found out that she sent some collars in 2019. She also made a YouTube video of what she was doing at the time https://youtu.be/4VKZTmTP7oY the video shows up if you search 'Martha Iron Lung' so it's not like it is hidden...
You nailed it. Twitter is filled with a lot of interesting content, but the dominant "trending" topics are basically navel-gazing activists masquerading as journalists obsessing about their own identity (if they are in a favored group) or desperately using some sacred cow identity group as a tool to gain status with their peers.
I deleted my account after I simply asked a question one day in a thread with a prominent startup founder who happened to be a Black woman. Someone else on her thread had stated that she was worried about encouraging her daughter to learn to code because she felt that nobody would hire her "due to the extreme racism that was obviously prevalent in tech." I simply stated that my company was trying hard to hire folks like her daughter, and asked what we could do to make people like her feel welcome and understand that it wasn't a problem at our company. Then the veil was pulled back on the performance. The questioner didn't really have a question. She simply posed it as a performance, and then I was mobbed with statements telling me that I needed to "Listen and let Black women speak." These narcissists aren't interested in solutions, only in gaining status in their silly, secular imitation of evangelical fundamentalist churches. Replace "Satan" with "toxic whiteness" and you have Dana Carvey's church lady on SNL in the 90's.
> But if you're starting from a place of NPR being too right-wing or bigoted, then I've seen enough.
I agree with your assessment of Twitter being mostly self-promotion and race/gender-charged drama, but no-one said "right-wing." I don't think an accusation that any media outlet cuts out facts that don't fit their narrative can be dismissed out of hand these days, unfortunately. I don't have a strong opinion about NPR, but I can see how Naomi _might_ not fit in the narratives they try to push. But I acknowledge that I'm being a bit intellectually dishonest, I'm not bringing any evidence to bear here either.
There is no timeline or context given here. So I don't know who this person is, and what direct interaction they have or haven't had with person in that article. All I can see is that this is a YouTuber, with ~2k Twitter followers and the tagline "It's all about merit until merit has tits". Who is "working on it", but hasn't shipped the parts yet. And who feels that NPR (who probably doesn't know she exists) deliberately cut her out because she's "not a straight white American tech bro".
To me, that thread is Twitter in a nutshell. Off the charts narcism and self-promotion, revolving around race/gender-charged drama. There may be some information that I'm missing here. But if you're starting from a place of NPR being too right-wing or bigoted, then I've seen enough.