Corruption speaks fluent Filipino
On the shadow side of Filipino values: the same orientations that build solidarity can be turned, fluently, into extraction.
Governance
Posts on governance in the Philippine context: corruption, accountability, and what good values practiced at the wrong scale do to institutions.
Working as designed, at the wrong scale
Three familiar explanations for Philippine corruption, and why a scale mismatch explains more than any of them.
You cannot out-post the trolls
On the platform where most of us argue, bullshit scales for free. Verisimilitude cannot win by posting faster. It wins when reality itself throws off the volume.