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Mastodon posts by @trenchworms@eldritch.cafe:
super revealing of the misogyny inherent to the space that “AI assistants” stopped being given feminine-coded names the moment tech chuds thought they were developing higher levels of autonomy
“i TELL Alexa what to do. i COLLABROATE with Chudbot. i will not reflect on this hierarchy at all.”
Also, Gemini is decidedly masculine, as it refers to the male twins Castor and Pollux, the plural of the latin geminus.
Etymology is not the same as meaning.
True. But the meaning is the constellation, and the star sign, which means twins.
It doesn’t have a masculine connotation in modern use, though.
And Alexa was named after the library of Alexandria
Also because the “x” sound was easier to identify than EVA or IVONA.