Chaos on CatNet (CatNet #2)

by Naomi Kritzer

“We’ll be okay,” I say. “No one’s going to be okay,” she says. “Then we might as well go to bed,” I say.

Haha

Haha

Cat says, and goes into an explanation about hostages and programmers and a rogue AI.

go bags

I wonder about the word them. Is Cat using the gender-neutral singular they, or does Cat mean multiple robots—

Haha - a problem with neutral plural pronouns.

Ellen

Haha

Rajiv.

Uh-oh — Boom Storm is not the boss.

“In the end, we don’t answer to you, Brother Malachi,” she says. “We answer to the Elder.”

Haha - who *is* the boss after all?

How could that be? Question

Haha

For the record, I do not recommend learning to climb out of houses by coming down an unknotted rope from a third-story window when it’s negative twenty degrees outside and you’re still hearing gunshots.

Haha

Powderhorn Park

Haha

Haha

“Why is this AI a he?” “That’s Boom Storm’s pronoun on CatNet.

CheshireCat is as much the product of their own experiences and decisions as they are of the code Annette’s team wrote—what is this AI going to be like?”

Great question

And he did trust us.” I really hate the idea of betraying that trust. Even if in some ways it’s a bad idea not to.

A real ethical - and strategic - dilemma.

How does Steph know that? Question

Haha - the 🌺 flowers 💐 of freedom. 💥

Haha

“She called me Beelzebub’s harlot the last time I tried, and I don’t think she’ll like the haircut.”

Haha

her father doesn’t want her back.

Ewww. What’s his role? Helpmeet to Ellen?

But that’s okay. My father, and Julia and Siobhan and Jenny, want both of us.

Haha

Haha

The Catacombs and Mischief Elves sites are still running, but they’re very different now.

Haha I’ll bet

There’s a series of images of flowers spilling out of odd and inconvenient places—the funniest is the person who planted a peony bush in a large pothole.

Saint Paul, Minnesota,

Lyda Morehouse,

I tried to provide a plausible vision of public safety workers whose first priority is public safety.

Powderhorn Park is entirely real

Can Can Wonderland is also real,

The James J. Hill House is real

Coya Knutson,

the Midtown Exchange,

Naomi did capture some of Nell’s and Glynis’ ambivalence, or disorientation.

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