How does one reach young adults these days?

Posted by JoeAm on May 19, 2025 · 91 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I’d guess most of my thousands of followers on Facebook and X are in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. They are old school readers. I don’t know how to reach young people. My impression is they are into video rather than reading and writing. I ask google and get: … Continue reading →

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Is Sara smarter than Yellows, Pinks, and Left put together?

Posted by JoeAm on May 12, 2025 · 79 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Does Sara have campaign infrastructure for the presidency in 2028? Does she have visibility? Financing? Social media program? Policy platform? The answer is yes to each. Do the Yellows, Pinks, and/or Left have a campaign infrastructure? Visibility, none. Financing, none. Social media program, haphazard and voluntary. Policy platform, possibly … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Citizenship/Patriotism, Philippine Politics, Technology/Internet

AI is brilliant, people, not so much

Posted by JoeAm on April 21, 2025 · 53 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I’ve moved past trusting, past skeptical, past cynical, all the way to unbelieving in my engagements on social media. People deliver so much crap, most of it founded on beliefs that range from ill-informed to outrageously self-justifying, and far removed from facts. That’s the difference between people and AI. … Continue reading →

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Spaced out dreams and AI fiction

Posted by Irineo B. R. Salazar on April 14, 2025 · 194 Comments 

It wasn’t Kidlat Tahimik‘s first movie I watched as a teen that brought me to Munich nearly 30 years ago. Maybe it was the science fiction I read as a teen that primed my dreams of being in the tech scene. Or was it the sense of having grown up in a country that “only” … Continue reading →

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Are you a lover, a hater, or a teacher?

Posted by JoeAm on April 10, 2025 · 96 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Social media are undermining civility and sense. We are there, so we are parties to the creation of the data dirtstreams that give us nonsense instead of solutions. My interactions with people on X, Facebook, Blue Sky, and this blog make clear that there are three types of people … Continue reading →

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