Pax Silica is top of mind right now—impossible to escape in the headlines, the protests, the discussions, the arguments online. Before anyone signs anything, it is worth asking what, exactly, we would be agreeing to. The pitch is familiar: quality jobs, major investment, a seat at the table in the global AI and semiconductor value...
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A third (and probably not the final) installment on my phone addiction
I find that one way I get myself out of a writing slump is to write about my day-to-day fight with phone addiction. It’s been five months since I last wrote for CoverStory, and in the two times I emerged from a similar writing slump, I got myself out by writing about my phone addiction....
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Police try to arrest veteran photojournalist in anti-US rally
Police attempted to arrest veteran photojournalist Alberto “Bullit” Marquez as he was covering a rally on Wednesday, July 22, in Pasay City against alleged US aggression in the Middle East and the Washington-initiated “Pax Silica” project to set up an expansive AI and semiconductor hub in the Philippines. Marquez was trying to take pictures of...