The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

Written a piece on being in China during the Hu Jintao era mikecormack.substack.com/p/china-then...

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Written a piece on being in China during the Hu Jintao era mikecormack.substack.com/p/china-then...

shout out the guardian photo editor one time

This picture is horribly, terrifyingly creepy

"I invite demented attention seekers onto my show, and you'll never guess what happened!"

I don't think this is the right framing, somehow

This looks absolute dogshit, my precious www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...

chat i sputtered

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

Why is modern mainstream culture so garbage? I explain why. mikecormack.substack.com/p/the-consti...

Shōgun is a novel about cultures colliding and learning from one another, about curiosity and respect as the antidote to zealotry. But by trying so hard to avoid the taint of cultural imperialism, the 2024 adaptation actually lapses into its mirror image: cultural chauvinism.

We noticed

All it took was a phony "peace prize." 'Federal prosecutors, who have for years fought vigorously against overturning the jury convictions in the long-running case, did not offer a reason for seeking a dismissal, saying only that it was “in the interests of justice.” '

This is one of those "Mansion or council house" quiz questions

"...collapses into a single petulant noise: 'Waaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!'", more like.

Utter madness

What you need to understand about Scotland is that it presents itself as progressive but underneath it the wiring is still feudal. Clans, tartans, the royal family in tweed, who's your father, what school did you go to?

Reviews and also tell someone in your life who isn’t in online spaces about our books. So many people who read are not online reading reviews. Spread the word anyway you can, for free.

If you ever feel self-doubt as a a writer: 1. You're probably much better than this 2. This books shows that doesn't matter, and public profile is still the key factor

This thread is like one of those sci-fi movies where they stumble upon a destroyed spaceship and find the log reports of the captain slowly going insane.

you will be visited by three spirits

Thread, long but very worth it.

I really liked the new adaptation of Shogun on first viewing. However, after a rewatch, I've had a bit of a rethink www.popmatters.com/shogun-serie...

New cover of book for paperback edition. Nice blurbs 😀

It says everything about the Conservative party that this self-evidently flaming moron was picked to be prime minister because she promised tax cuts

chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/04/j... Jung Chang: A Grande Dame of China Writing

China's real estate crisis keeps worsening • Property prices have fallen by 20-40% since their 2021 peak, depending on the measure • Huge share of families may have suffered loss, as value of their home is now below what they paid for it www.economist.com/finance-and-...

"Hey chump! I'm gonna lie in your face and you're going to accept it, because fuck you, that's why."

What do The French Connection, Wall Street, and Eyes Wide Shut have in common? Besides being set in New York mikecormack.substack.com/p/capitalism...

What do The French Connection, Wall Street, and Eyes Wide Shut have in common? Besides being set in New York mikecormack.substack.com/p/capitalism...

Just had a book submission accepted. Which is nice.

New cover of book for paperback edition. Nice blurbs 😀

I get videos about Pink Floyd which say, "It wasn't X, it was Y" twenty times with an automated voice reading AI slop.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Your Gareth Southgate interview was very very good

Major will get a lot of abuse for this. Mainly because he's right.

Major will get a lot of abuse for this. Mainly because he's right.

It scans your emails to classify them into inbox, spam, social etc.

Elon is a deeply, deeply, deeply pathetic man

One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads

www.ft.com/content/5b9e... "Rather than addressing past concerns about its data, China has instead increased opacity by discontinuing a number of data series and further restricting access for researchers."

I know there's a million things for which Trump should be removed from office, but that just instantly revealed how repugnant a human being he is.

Shouldn't you mention that he was lying?