> I can't wait until I can send a directed thought to someone else.

Oh no, we're going to have ads inserted into our thoughts, aren't we?

Didn't that roughly end with "dying of cancer isn't doing the thing"?

I distinctly recall it becoming a bit extreme in the last chapter(s).

What is the exact job of the mayor of London then?

Greg Egan at least is well known in hard science fiction and frequently mentioned on HN.

Dutch is the only language I know that uses the "ij" digraph, where other languages write "ei", "ay", maybe "y".