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That's an interesting acronym choice in 2025 and I would actually guess the employee group picked it themselves maybe a decade ago. The asterisk became fairly common in queer tech circles and it had started popping up outside of tech about a decade ago but has fallen out of favor and it's only tech I see it in anymore. The * is a wildcard character, exactly like in programming.
Oh, that makes sense