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Feb 23 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
A work that can help us make sense of the cycles of history, is .@fromTGA's essay, "Velvet Revolutions: The Prospects" from 2009. Here is a thread of some of his ideas to ponder during #EDSA36 season.
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Feb 16
1. Starting with this #InquirerBriefing, a thread with ten readings on the dictatorship and People Power, for a month heavy with memory for some, and which is increasingly remote for many more. #EDSA32
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Feb 13
Painting w/ a wide brush makes for vivid but misleading (because self-congratulatory) analysis. The heart of Duterte's coalition was the middle class, ditto for Dictator's Son (fueled by fear and hatred for reform + the poor). Next to last 2 sentences apply to old cronies BTW.
By all accounts the support for Voldemort Jr. cuts across classes. But anecdotally, those who had means during the dictatorship are the most shocked over Voldemort Jr.'s showing. Stunned by what their employees tell them --and not a bit afraid. But to be sure those with means
have coping strategies: they will live with the result of any election and those who believe they are in for persecution will pack up and go. The rest of the country doesn't have that luxury but then as things stand, a new middle class has arisen that is not socialized into the
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Feb 13
While you were sleeping: Congress basically amended the Constitution by amending the Public Services Act, removing foreign ownership restrictions on telecoms, domestic shipping, railways+subways, airlines, expressways+tollways+airports by declaring they are not public utilities.
I've been following this story for years, and written six columns on the topic. The whole inspiration for the effort to get around the Constitution was to allow China Telecoms to come in as the third player in our telecoms industry.
The Blog Heneral Lunacy while moderately in favor of this move, does at least warn of two things: its corruption, not ownership restrictions, that limits foreign investments; the amendments allow a lot of presidential discretion in the future. heneralunacy.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/the…
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Jan 14
In my quest to look for a way to make complex timelines for a project I'm working on (on the model of this image), I found some apps/links that might be useful for those doing historical, project, data visualization, etc. work and need open-source (or free) tools. A rhread.
First, thank goodness for people who collate and share tools and information, such as this wonderful example. shsulibraryguides.org/digitalhistory…
From her entry in particular (because of my #PhilippineDiaryProject) this one looks promising, online OCR suited for old publications: github.com/OCR4all
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Jan 12
Since we all have to do our best to hunker down again, a playlist: some of my favorite documentaries as available on YouTube. Enjoy! youtube.com/playlist?list=…
A playlist of live Classical music performances: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
A playlist of music from cinema: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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