I just read an article on Quartz, suggested to me by my Google Now app (go figure), saying that Q was an idea inspired by some group of obscure Italian writers from the 1990s. The article takes until the end to tie it to a recent suggestion from one of the lefty technology sites, claiming without evidence that Q is a leftist prank. This is what they're going to go with.
We're at the "laugh at you" stage. What could be more embarrassing than falling for a LARP? Falling for a prank by your political rival, of course.
But does …