algospeak originated on Tiktok, with all that implies. You couldn't post videos about sexual assault, suicides, murders, any of that directly, so people started self-censoring and using words - unalive maybe came from Deadpool in 2013? I'm not real interested in the actual etymology right now.

and you jest but there's been pushes to change things like "master/slave", "kill", "whitelist/blacklist", and the like to something different. I don't know how much traction, and i may have been tricked by april 1st posts or something.

I apologize if it came off as tone policing. "Raw dog" sounds innocuous, if a bit strange. There was a radio station that had an internet stream out of Topeka Kansas called "Raw Dog Radio" that was a comedy station/stream; as an example - but it was a direct reference to the sexual connotation. For people who don't know, and notice that "raw dogging" is entering zeitgeist, maybe they'll say it because it sounds silly. It was merely a warning about what it means. The "definition shift" really isn't, people are comparing taking a flight without water, cellphones, etc to sex without a condom (Doesn't matter, flew through the air at hundreds of miles per hour, don't care!) The person i replied to was comparing using an LLM without RAG to risky sex.

I'd also avoid saying "So. How are we going to fuck this pig?" in a meeting about infra problems.