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

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

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

The Philippines is healthy, not hopeless and not helpless

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America The Philippines is a power-based democracy, by which I mean it is fundamentally democratic but with a strong layer of entitlement and impunity the higher one gets in its various dynastic bubbles. The top dynasts these days are the Marcos and Duterte dynasties. Interestingly, Duterte used his presidency to … Continue reading

Who’s YOUR Daddy? Haha!

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America We all see that dynasts run the Philippines, or friends of dynasts like that Bong Go fellow. A dynasty is more than the immediate family. It’s all the followers, like DDS, who took pride in promoting a murderer as good for the nation. And it is a sequencing of … Continue reading