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I haven't read the document but what's wrong with the term "human"? Is there some other intelligent life-form on this planet contributing to technology and software today that I'm unaware of?

Picking on the word human just seems nit-picky, like someone's not woke enough to use a more inclusive term.

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My reading was that the complaint was that it implied false inclusiveness, which can come across as solipsistic to those who weren't included.

A little bit like how the final stage of Major League Baseball's playoffs are called the World Series, even though 29 of the teams are based in the USA and the 30th plays in a stadium ~25km outside the USA. I imagine that is at least a little bit irritating to professional baseball players from elsewhere in the world.

Except the World Series is named after the original sponsors of the competition and is not meant to infer worldwide participation. I'm not from the US and I am not from somewhere that plays competitive baseball and I know that,therefore I assume in the competitive baseball world this is known widely enough.

Nah, it being named after the New York World newspaper is just the sports blogger equivalent of an old wive's tale. It really was built off of the US exceptionalism of the gilded age with the idea that nobody could beat the US at it's own game anyway so why bother inviting them.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=467571...

The New York World story even has its own Snopes page: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/world-series/

That’s a quite good analogy, yes.

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