Andy P.

Independent digital journalist. Articles/productions in @gmanews @businessmirror @AJEnglish @thebeijinger | @mundusjourn

[Andy P. @coolkidandy]

Extremely mentally drained but fulfilled. Claiming it already

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[blue @bluewmist]

Your death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans and the world will continue without you.

So live a little.

[GMA News @gmanews]

As Hungary ends 'guest worker' scheme, affected OFWs weigh staying in Europe

Read: https://t.co/Im53kSHWPA

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Europe's deadly heatwave is pushing east with hundreds of millions still sweltering across the continent.

The heat remained intense across central and eastern Europe, with the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland hit hard as temperatures soared and records tumbled.

https://t.co/drUHZMQqvn

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.

[GMA News @gmanews]

Fictional Pinay astronaut's story now available in six official UN languages

Read more:
https://t.co/Y0eOHG9egU

[vince 🌲 @kaederaejepsen]

when they performed this on the wendy williams show

[Keilthar @Keilthar]

L'ingénieur en moi trouve ça génial.
L'informaticien en moi trouve ça grave.

[Plataforma ALTO @PlataformaALTO]

Milagro entre los escombros que dejó el terrible terremoto en Venezuela. Miembros del Cuerpo de Bomberos escucharon un débil quejido y con paciencia, fuerza y mucho corazón, removieron toneladas de escombros hasta dar con él: un pequeño perrito sepultado vivo 🙏

Cuando finalmente lo sacaron a la luz, tembloroso, cubierto de polvo y con la mirada llena de miedo, el cachorro se acurrucó en los brazos de sus salvadores.

Un movimiento de cola y un suave lamido en las manos fueron su forma de decir “gracias por no rendirse”.

Muchas gracias a estos héroes. Todas las vidas son valiosas

Terremoto en Venezuela. Caracas

[Enrique @enriqdev]

Google fue muy listo; usan los acelerómetros de miles de teléfonos Android cómo una red global de sismos, toda esa data se envía y Google logró una forma de detectar esas ondas a tiempo y enviar las alertas.

[𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑎 @naturehealyou]

some people are born to like this feeling

[Xplora @XploraSpace]

☀️🌍 Aujourd’hui, 21 juin, c’est le solstice de juin. L’hémisphère Nord atteint son inclinaison maximale vers le Soleil, ce qui en fait le jour le plus long de l’année. Dans l’hémisphère sud, c’est l’inverse, avec le jour le plus court de l’année.

[GMA News @gmanews]

NOW OPEN: NEW HIKING TRAIL LINKING 2 GERMAN TOWNS RIZAL ONCE VISITED

In time for Dr. Jose Rizal’s 165th birth anniversary, a historic trail connecting two German towns he once visited in 1886 is now open to local and foreign hikers.

The Rizal Historic Trail is a 10-kilometer path that officially connects Heidelberg, where he practiced ophthalmology, and Wilhelmsfeld, a nearby village where he stayed as a guest of a local parish family.

📸: Andy Peñafuerte/Stringer

Read more:
https://t.co/JAopKqhifU

[nanda @mafernandayumi]

hoje aprendi um novo insulto no trabalho
"trabalhar com vc é como trabalhar sozinho, porém mais difícil"

[philippine television out of context @phtv_nocontext]

sandali lang

[GMA News @gmanews]

The birth of Chick 32, triumphantly named Bayani, marks the first successful hatching under the Philippine Eagle Foundation’s (PEF) revitalized conservation breeding program in 13 years.

Read more:
https://t.co/bufuEMLaRS

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Before they filmed a single scene of Dark, the two people who made it already knew how the whole story ended, three seasons away. They wrote the ending first and spent 26 episodes building back to it. Nothing feels like filler because almost nothing was invented along the way.

The show even runs on a single number: 33. Every time it jumps to a new year, it jumps exactly 33, from 1953 to 1986 to 2019 to 2052. The writers set that clock in the first hour and never broke it.

One man, Baran bo Odar, directed all 26 episodes, and his partner Jantje Friese has a writing credit on every one. A single director and one lead writer across a whole show is rare at this scale, and a big reason it never loses its grip. The story follows 72 characters across six different time periods. The same character is often played by three different actors at three different ages, picked to look like one face aging over a lifetime. Names get passed down the family tree on purpose, so you are never quite sure who is whose parent. The creators always knew where it had to end. They just kept moving the pieces until it got there.

The same care went into the look. The crew spent six months in the forests near Berlin through winter, in real cold and near-constant rain, so the cast stayed wet and shivering for most of it. They shot on the Alexa 65, a top-end movie camera usually saved for big films, because it can capture near-total darkness and still hold detail in the shadows, so the picture stays pitch black without becoming a muddy smear. The cave scenes were filmed in an actual cave in central Germany. In a town painted almost entirely grey, a single yellow raincoat became the one spot of real color your eye could lock onto in any era.

The final season went further still. To build a mirror version of the world, the crew flipped every set, so staircases curved the other way and doors moved to the opposite wall, and they reprinted the books on the shelves so the spines read backward. Then they had the actors do it all left-handed, reaching for handles with the wrong hand, which the director admitted was strange and clumsy to shoot.

They wrapped just before the pandemic and dropped the finale on June 27, 2020, the exact day the world ends inside the story. The reviews matched the ambition. Season two sits at a perfect 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, the first and third at 90 and 97, and the series holds an 8.7 out of 10 on IMDb from more than half a million people. That unbroken wall of green in the screenshot comes from one choice made before filming began: lock the ending first, then build all 26 episodes to reach it.

[PEAK @Filmfanatics__]

All green. No filler. This is how you cook a legendary series. 🔥