New tourism slogan: “It’s the Philippines, deal with it!”

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America The Philippines is different. Dilapidated in a modern era, rustic in the jungles, special express lanes for carabao, an adventure in the making as soon as you exit the airplane into the sweltering heat and taste the grit between your teeth. I once rode in a taxi whose prior … Continue reading →

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AI is brilliant, people, not so much

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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May I speak directly? Pinks aren’t doing enough.

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I recently did a post that said people are either lovers, haters, or teachers. Some thought that was too simplistic. Haha, as if anyone would read an elaborate parsing of the modern human condition, which seems to me, being once again simplistic, rather shallow, gullible, and uninvolved. During the … Continue reading →

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Spaced out dreams and AI fiction

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?

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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