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I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom

David Wong, Jason Pargin

Cover of I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom by David Wong, Jason Pargin, published 2024 by St. Martin's Press

A few of my favorite very-online writers—but I’m think of Pargin and Jeb Lund (who for all I know don’t know each other at all) specifically here and not like, uh, Lockwood—are pretty good about using their veterans-of-forum-wars (or at least that era of online) past to be pretty strong voices for not being assholes on the internet.

this is a lot of that

cw: mens rights nonsense

my point: so if you feel like you don’t need some old guy rubbing your nose in a “deuteragonist" (I had to look up the word for that) “hey look at this kid who is a twitch streamer who is kinda black pilled, don’t be lame like this”, because you yourself are also over that, maybe skip this one

Ultimately it’s a fun read and a break from the John and Zoe books and pretty mad at the same stuff a lot of people are on mastodon are mad about re: the other social networks, so, I’m glad I read it.

Proximate posts in the Bookwyrm collection
newer The South by Adolph Reed Jr. 05 January 2025
this post I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom by David Wong, Jason Pargin 30 December 2024
older Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, Simon Saito 30 December 2024
Proximate posts in the General collection
newer Lunch Walk 31 December 2024
this post I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom by David Wong, Jason Pargin 30 December 2024
older Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, Simon Saito 30 December 2024