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In the middle of this book, I did not expect such a detailed and revelatory understanding of how the Irish where viewed. The misattribution of Irish heritage as African or Arabic is astounding.

Take your time. Relax. He’s a moron.”
“He said it was important.”
“How does he know what’s important? I could carve a better man out of a banana.”

We are not getting past reading Zachary Quack every night.

…you don’t actually need to have any kind of organisational leaders to do the curation for you – the algorithm is doing that. And so you’re telling your secrets to the algorithm without realising that that’s what you’re doing.’

The upside of being a conspiracy theorist is that you don’t have to wait for the slow process of actual fact-finding and scientific research, meaning that you can get your message out much more quickly than those trying to provide accurate information

“In this sense, a heat wave is a predatory event, one that culls out the most vulnerable people. But that will change. As heat waves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic”