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Preston de Guise

@heydon @MarkAsser Ah yes, Pakistan International Airlines, but usually abbreviated. I spoke to a Pia only yesterday.

Henry

@heydon So that's clearly a bad answer, but scavenger hunt like, I see how it got there. Pia is quite a popular girls' name, at least in Germany, and PIA is the common abbreviation of Pakistan International Airlines (and it's ICAO code).

Josh

@hl @heydon You must be wrong because "the scary thing is we don't know how it works" or something 😉

Simon dē Gulielmō

@heydon It looks like a case of someone who panicked when trying to think of an alias and said the first thing that she saw.

Robert W. Gehl

@heydon Oh, the nights of my youth when I would linger over brandy and stare into the eyes of Pakistan International Airlines.

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@heydon Love to see a child's birthday cake with that last name.

Jeff Barbose 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 ❤️ 🇱🇺

@heydon On the contrary!

The Secret Pia Zadora thought she’d be taking to the grave!!!

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@heydon
We're laughing at Pakistan International Airlines, but the Anglo bias in the first three names is also Pitiful and Pisspoor.

Large Heydon Collider

@floppyplopper In the West, we believe every man in the East is called Muhammed and every woman is called Pakistan International Airlines.

hazelnot :yell:

@floppyplopper @heydon they're Eurocentric but not Anglo 😛

Paula is derived from a biblical name and Patricia comes from from Latin, and lots of European languages have them

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@hazelnot @heydon
you're very welcome to tell me this wasn't generated from a data set of living anglo women and I'm just as welcome to ignore you

hazelnot :yell:

@floppyplopper @heydon I mean it probably was but it's annoying when people tell me that shit that happens in my language and culture independently of the current American hegemony is "anglo" when I live in Eastern Europe

IEEE 1149.1

@heydon I knew a Pakistan International Airlines in middleschool, she was this super preppy girl, parents were loaded, total bitch.

Sadie

@Pibble @heydon
But PIA always brought the cool, expensive cookies for the bake sales.

IEEE 1149.1

@Burn_this_ @heydon thats true, and she was really generous during Valentine's and Halloween with the king sized candy bars

Katy Swain

@heydon I think it's sweet honouring the place where she was conceived in this way.

InfoSecSherpa

@heydon Well, Pia *is* a girl’s name 🤷‍♀️ 🤣

L.J. is the cis Minipang

@heydon I dated a Pakistan International Airlines once, sadly our relationship never took off.

frykitty likes Halloween

@heydon What you don't know is Pia Zadora's full name is, in fact, Pakistan International Airlines Zadora.

Taya Nielsen

@heydon 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon

@heydon This is not not an 'AI' failure, this is what it has been told.

Garbage in, garbage out.

Purple

@heydon Reminds me on the day I asked chat GPT something in Catalan, and the generated answer contained made-up words. I even checked with a dictionary because sometimes you are the one in the wrong.

One of the words even contained a symbol that doesn't exist in Catalan (á).

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@heydon I always wondered if the name “Pia” was an acronym. Now I know.

Bonkers

@heydon

Of course, the airliner was named after the founder's younger daughter.

Shad

LB : That's Ead (Éthylotest Anti Démarrage) little sister

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