Yeah, a specific kind of intentionally bad music/stand up/whatever has always been his thing. I guess it’s in the Tim and Eric lane (and Tim seems to really like him), but Tim’s stuff has always seemed a lot funnier to me

There’s also the same phenomenon as people’s favorite SNL era, you can gauge the average age of the authors by their top choices

Being so contrarian you recreate Bush-era Republican talking points

Reading the replies to the original post, this is probably the tedious discourse he’s referring to

Yeah, the pen tool in there. (And a lot of the eraser tool.)

I can’t imagine an entire book of this

If that isn’t true, then surely the foreign policy pundits who did support it lost their jobs and were replaced by the people who were right about opposing it

The “grandma died” entry was making fun of Stephenson’s wife getting cancer and him doing some crowdfunding for treatment. Messed up even for Tuckley

Spoiler alerts please, mine isn’t arriving until tommorow

One of those dilemmas of “she shouldn’t have been made happier,” but “all prisoners should have safe and clean surroundings”

Next you’re going to tell me donuts aren’t actually nuts.

“Trump’s Plurality Win Was A Mandate, But Not Mamdani’s. Here’s Why.”

It's a no-win situation--if he came in undecided, he'd be lazy and aimless and molded by his professors' ideology, but he came in with a sense of purpose, so he's rigid and incurious.