[semiquaver]

WTF, why chime in without any additional research if you haven’t read it in the first place?

No, it’s an omniscient third person narrator. Yeah, YT is probably the “true” viewpoint, esp if you take diamond age into account. “Chiseled spam” and all that.

[OJFord]

There seemed to be enough information to comment from a language perspective.

Third-person narration that refers to the narrator themself as 'yours truly' seems contradictory to me.