Commonly known as the Scunthorpe problem
In October 2004, it was reported that the Horniman Museum in London was failing to receive some of its email because filters mistakenly treated its name as a version of the words horny man.
There are a lot of gems in the article.
One of the legit uses of AI is moderation that goes beyond string pattern matching.
This reminds me of the recent removal of the Enola Gay in US government history archives because LGBT+ is DEI.
Forgetting that gay not only has multiple meanings, but only predominately referred to homosexuality in the 1980s.
I remember looking it up as a kid. 1970s era dictionaries did not include the present definition.
Hahaha I wonder if they did the same thing with anyone from Dildo, Newfoundland
Where I live, there used to be an Officer Gay in our police. He retired a while ago, but just imagine the possibilities. There was graffiti. Soo much graffiti.
Like, this was a legitimate word, once, used for names and such.
So if you were having a same sex wedding would you drive there just to send out invites so that the postmark read “Ft. Gay”
He fort for the gay
