“One small step for Filipinos”
Posted by JoeAm on May 1, 2025 · 114 Comments
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Recent discussions here at the blog cite the reality that the Philippine governmental process, and citizen reactions to it, range from dysfunctional to toxic. It is such a mess that it cannot be “cured” by simple masterstrokes. It is also true that things work better here than in the … Continue reading →
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 →
Category Blogging/Journalism, China, Culture and Arts, Education, Technology/Internet
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 →
Category Blogging/Journalism, Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Humor/Satire, Technology/Internet · Tagged with competitiveness, culture, development, entertainment, science, technology
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 →
The Philippines is a great place to live
Posted by JoeAm on March 10, 2025 · 65 Comments
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Whenever I say I like living in the Philippines people say “well, you’re white and rich so you don’t know what it’s really like.” But if I say, “Man, the Philippines is screwed up” they say something like, “Well, it’s because you Americans colonized us and treated us badly.” … Continue reading →




