Chaos on CatNet (CatNet #2)

by Naomi Kritzer

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emergency,

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Crow Wing County

emergency

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They’ll either be cross with me for making things difficult, or they’ll be radiating righteous sympathy, and I can’t bear either.

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Yay! I’ve forgotten who Glenys’ parents are, and what their story is.

Haha - Ok?

Haha - torch and pitchfork crowd A group of angry or vocal opponents who regularly come out against something, usually prognosticating dire consequences.

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Haha - ROBOTS!

Haha - did they need to tell her?

simultaneously extremely cool and extremely creepy.

Rajiv,

Brother Malachi?”

University Avenue.

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Rachel

“Your grandmother does combat driving?” she says.

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Bryony

Haha - nice connection

Glenys

what it wants are flower pictures. But there’s a difference between want and need, and it needs to help Rajiv with his plan.”

“I tried that. I think I may have made things worse.”

Question - see p. 205

whichever Bible guy it was who predicted the end of the world, he was not imagining a malicious AI that would get people playing phone games to have real-life fights with each other.

This isn’t the Tribulation, this is Rajiv.”

“What’s a malicious AI?” she asks. I start to try to answer, then discard my possible answers as too...

Nicollet Island.

“Drag racing,” Mimi says.

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Why isn’t CheshireCat navigating? She’s obviously smarter than GoogleMaps. Question

Glenys hands me my grandmother’s phone.

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Finally!

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Do you think we can trust this person? Barb? She’s not in any of the social networks run by the other AI and I like her.

“I think the other AI is testing things out,”

Hermione

“Don’t you want cops if you’re having rioting?”

Greenberry

Hermione

2010s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_Minneapolis–Saint_Paul Occupy Minnesota protests in 2011-2012 Killing of Jamar Clark by a Minneapolis police officer in 2015 and the aftermath Killing of Philando Castile by a St. Anthony police officer in 2016 and the aftermath Killing of Justine Damond by a Minneapolis police officer in 2017 and the aftermath Dakota Access Pipeline protests and actions of solidarity in St. Paul and Minneapolis in 2016-2017 U.S. national anthem protests (2016–present) where members of the Los Angeles Sparks walked off the court before Game 1 of WNBA finals in Minneapolis in 2017 2017 May Day protests in Minneapolis and elsewhere 2020s Protests of government COVID-19 mitigation measures in St. Paul and elsewhere in 2020 George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul after he was murdered by a police officer on May 25, 2020 2020–2022 Minneapolis–Saint Paul racial unrest was prolonged series of protests following Floyd's murder

Firestar

“They’re trying to distract LBB and her mom.”

CheshireCat

Ico

“Maybe she’s in jail.”