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Comment by mirimir

No, they're gender-neutral pronouns:

ve = she/he

ver = him/her

vis = hers/his

I encountered them in Greg Egan's Diaspora.

And yes, True Names :) An inspiration.

With a decent host machine, one can run numerous Whonix instances, each with one or more personas. They can be long-term or throwaway.

I do nothing at all private on smartphones. Signal and WhatsApp are cool and all, but radios are untrustable black boxes. Even if the data is secured at rest.

Edit: In Egan's Diaspora, one of the protagonists is a software-generated entity, which literally has no gender. In my case, I'm referring to invented personas, which have whatever gender I fancy.

parent mirimir 10 years ago

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