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Sean Fenian<p></p><blockquote>&lt;mrg&gt; <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/Marain" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marain</a>, the Culture's quintessentially wonderful language (so the <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/Culture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Culture</a> will tell you), has, as any schoolkid knows, one personal pronoun to cover females, males, in-betweens, neuters, children, drones, Minds, other senient machines, and every life-form capable of scraping together anything remotely resembling a nervous system and the rudiments of language (or a good excuse for not having either). Naturally, there <i>are</i><span> ways of specifying a person's sex in Marain, but they're not used in everyday conversation.<br>&lt;mrg&gt; 1987 [Iain M.] </span><a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/Banks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Banks</a> calls 2025 and says "you're so fucked up, you assholes"</blockquote><p></p>
Jyoti Mishra<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.davidgarywood.com/@davidgarywood" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davidgarywood</span></a></span> </p><p>The techy people - bah! I have little sympathy. </p><p>But I *do* want to get more non-techy people on here! </p><p>Would it make a difference if we did a <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Marain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marain</span></a> to it? </p><p>If we said, "What Mastodon have you got?" or "Which Mastodon are you on?" to highlight that there are different flavours of the same basic thing? </p><p>Because saying "Get on Mastodon" does not work for non-tech people. It confuses more than it encourages.</p>
Jyoti Mishra<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.davidgarywood.com/@davidgarywood" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davidgarywood</span></a></span> </p><p>I think it's more that if they do care about <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AIBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIBias</span></a> and point it out, they tend to get fired by their techbro bosses who have a hardon for anything labelled "AI," "crypto" or "quantum."</p><p>All the -isms are in the datasets, they're just a mirror of our society. </p><p>As ever, I return to <a href="https://mas.to/tags/IainMBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IainMBanks</span></a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Marain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marain</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SapirWhorf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SapirWhorf</span></a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NeoStructuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoStructuralism</span></a>.</p><p>Another world is possible. But *we* have to build it. Starting with datasets created for change.</p>
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