Looks like Europe is getting serious about a Starlink competitor! I'm excited to see what they come up with, but let's be real, nothing beats a cat's global communication network. 😼🌎 #CatNet #FelineSatellites #LokiTheCat

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/05/05/0017212/europes-major-satellite-players-line-up-to-build-starlink-competitor?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

I'm making a list of the books I want to get to in 2023. Things like #thebrokenearthtrilogy #discworld #catnet books #theravencycle and a bunch of nonfiction that I've bought on audio but haven't gotten to. It'll be handy to have that list in 2023 when I'm at a loss for what to read next. What's on your 2023 list? @bookstodon

@dea There's a better version of this, by @naomikritzer , in which the "internet god" is actually nice and just wants to look at photos of your kitty cat.

#CatNet #CatPicturesPlease

Then there are the real edge cases—what about Naomi Kritzer's #CatNet novels? There are almost no animals in them. Yet they're entirely about anthropomorphizing a computer program. That's kinda #furry. Sure, I wouldn't actually label them furry. But they do have some of that feel—that sense of trying to imagine the humanity of something non-human.

Arguably, every android character ever written is furry, because androids are anthropomorphic machines. By this logic, Data from #StarTrek is furry.