# 2026-11-01 Goodbye social media - hello cyberpunk [](<2026-11-01 Goodbye social media - hello cyberpunk.md>) Why have a website and a blog if you're not going to do it on a social platform like Medium, Ghost, or Substack, and then promote the crap out of it on social media, like X (Twitter,) LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Threads? It's a question I've struggled with for a while--but social platforms and social media really just suck... [[2026-11-01 Goodbye social media - hello cyberpunk | Read more →]] ## 2026-10-31 South Korea between international orders [](<2026-10-31 South Korea between international orders>) Near everything South Korea took for granted in assessing, developing, and implementing policy has changed. What worked in the 1990s and 2000s, doesn't work two decades and two pointless wars later. The ready-made diplomatic solutions that decision-makers once relied upon are no longer fit for purpose. As an academic with time to kill, I wrote two books about it... [[2026-10-31 South Korea between international orders|Read more →]] ## 2026-10-18 Global war starts tomorrow! Alt-media and alarmism [](<2026-10-18 Global war starts tomorrow! Alt-media and alarmism.md>) Social media algorithms are designed to maximize engagement rather than inform or enlighten, but is alt-media itself is a just a big, fat, clunking influence operation with every commentator is either part of it, compromised by it, or unwillingly contributing to it? [[2026-10-18 Global war starts tomorrow! Alt-media and alarmism|Read more →]] ## Latest posts - [[Archive/2026/2026-11-01 Goodbye social media - hello cyberpunk.md|2026-11-01 Goodbye social media - hello cyberpunk]] - [[Archive/2026/2026-10-31 South Korea between international orders.md|2026-10-31 South Korea between international orders]] - [[Archive/2026/2026-10-22 Tracing ideas on North Korea.md|2026-10-22 Tracing ideas on North Korea]] - [[Archive/2026/2026-10-20 South Korea's converging threats.md|2026-10-20 South Korea's converging threats]] - [[Archive/2026/2026-10-18 Global war starts tomorrow! Alt-media and alarmism.md|2026-10-18 Global war starts tomorrow! Alt-media and alarmism]] ## All-time favorites - [[2025-09-16 South Korea’s Sunshine Policy Rocky dreams, Death Wish reality]] - [[2025-05-29 North Korea watcher cybersecurity best practice ]] - [[Archive/2025/2025-05-04 North Korea Watchers are just different|2025-05-04 North Korea Watchers are just different]] - [[2025-04-27 Storytelling in international relations]] - [[2024-08-20 Seoul’s foreign policy conferences]] You can read more on the [[About]] page, the [[Commentary]], [[Academic]], and [[Fiction]] pages, as well as the [[Archives]] page. Above all, please support independent thinking and writing, and [Buy Me a Coffee](https://buymeacoffee.com/junotane). ***