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source: bookwyrm
date: 2024-12-30 19:10:48.00 +00
title: "I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom by David Wong, Jason Pargin"
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post_id: 6131358
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book_title: "I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom"
book_author: "David Wong, Jason Pargin"
book_url: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1610677
reading_status: read
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![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](./cover-6131358.jpeg)

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.