12. "RE: TIA 04 read-through"
In response to message #0
Charlie Stross opened "Accelerando" with a Soviet AI (as in, originally a KGB project that was still around) wanting to defect to the West.
This being Charlie Stross, the Soviet AI was literally an uploaded lobster colony that had somehow sussed out English from reading the internet and wound up getting asylum in the Belt, running mining machines or something.