Category: Opinions
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Turning Into Snake Oil
There seems to be a cycle that’s taking shape around many modern technological milestones. First, a community (be it a company or a collection of disparate open source teams) create a genuine advancement in science, and then the marketing overhypes it as some kind of magic bullet that will bring salvation to us all. But…
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6/55 Magic
I was contacted by the research team for Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho for their upcoming segment this Sunday regarding the “unusual” results of the PCSO 6/55 Lotto last September 28. On the jackpot draw, a total of 433 bettors were selected to split the 236 million peso prize. Even more interesting was the winning combination,…
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Sometimes they come back
On September 21 of this year, it’ll be exactly fifty years since the public declaration of martial law in the Philippines by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Before that, this Thursday, on June 30, his son and namesake, Ferdinand “Bong Bong” Marcos, Jr., will be at the National Museum (then the bicameral congress building in…
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What a joke
At times I can only sit back in disbelief at how little our own government thinks of us. It’s not really so much of a surprise at this point. Instead, what baffles me is how little effort they put into hiding how things really are. It’s like they know we can’t do anything, even when…
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NFT Who?
I was watching a Coffeezilla video recently, one among many already uploaded not just by him regarding the spate of NFTs that have taken over the cryptocurrency space. In the video, Coffeezilla touches on a few very important points about NFTs that I couldn’t help agree with. Not being entirely caught up in the cyptocurrency…
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Quarantine Journals: Another Drug Case Botched
I have to hand it to the people in charge, they never seem to run out of things to say or do to completely baffle the entire nation. Today, I woke up to the following news on the DZMM TeleRadyo’s official twitter page: Reading this is just absolutely painful for me. The rider is clearly…
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Quarantine Journals: Frayed Nerves (Part 2)
This is part two of a two-part opinion piece on current events in the Philippines. While based on news taken from trusted sources, I make the disclaimer that this blog is NOT a news channel. Content on this blog (this article included) should be taken with a grain of salt. I do not intend to…
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Quarantine Journals: Frayed Nerves (Part 1)
This is part one of a two-part opinion piece on current events in the Philippines. While based on news taken from trusted sources, I make the disclaimer that this blog is NOT a news channel. Content on this blog (this article included) should be taken with a grain of salt. I do not intend to…
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Quarantine Journals: Thinking About Trolls
Who has a troll farm? I’m not pointing fingers. But the global consensus seems to be that they do exist, and they’re making significant waves politically in a world that’s becoming increasingly dependent on the internet. It’s only a matter of time before the concept enters our lexicon. The troll farms have come, and it…
Dominic Dayta 