Oh man, that was a chuckle and a half. Choice quotation:

We’re supposedly dealing with a group of idiosyncratic weirdos, all of them trying to independently reconstruct the entirety of human knowledge from scratch. Their politics run all the way from the furthest fringes of the far right to the furthest fringes of the liberal centre

Anyone know a good gladiator arena with aperol spritzes? I have a date to plan for the weekend!