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Jean Dinco

Birding in Royal Park

I have been away for awhile because I feel so alienated from the work I do and in my relation to the larger world that I am part. I am currently enrolled to a Nature Stewards Course as a way for me to find myself again. In this journey, I

Age gating is just the first step

Australia became the first country in the world to ban anyone under the age of 16 from social media. The Online Safety Amendment Bill 2024 received royal assent last year, turning it into an Act which will come into effect by the end of December 2025. The passage of the

Rekindling the virtue of patience through film

I still remember the first photo I have ever taken with my camera, it was a portrait of the sales assistant at Henry’s on Hidalgo Street in Quaipo, Manila. A middle-aged man stared directly into the lens of the camera, his eyes weary but his smile wide and

The institutional capture of 'decolonisation'

In the last five years, I have seen a surge in interest in the topic of decolonisation. It has become a recurring theme in many conferences, panels and webinars I have attended, so much that its presence can no longer be ignored. For decades, decolonisation has only been confined to

Community detection using Gephi

Note: I wrote this in 2019 before Twitter's shitfuckery. The audience of this tutorial was originally meant to be some people of my cohort back when I was doing my PhD. Whilst it's been 6 years, the logic stays true for using Gephi. Community Detection is

Cleaning Factiva dataset

This tutorial is mostly for researchers with funding. I don't think I would have been able to do it without funding cause it needed an account with Dow Jones's Factiva. I wrote this tutorial on Medium in 2018 and probably one of my highest read tutorial

What's up with the Free Our Feeds campaign?

A new tech movement was launched last week surrounding the AT Protocol, the protocol that BlueSky sits on. ‘Free our Feeds’ seeks to ‘save social media from billionare capture’, which is quite a noble and ambitious goal. When you go to the website, you’d be welcome by a giant

Self-hosted offline Wikipedia

Institutions of truth and knowledge are under attack as Bigtech continues to simp to fascism. And they are setting the stage for the mass erasure of identities, bodies, and history accuracies. And of course, they started with trans people With Elon Musk leading the so-called Department of Government Efficiency,

Of Facebook and fascism

We welcomed 2025 with the hope that the new year would bring new beginnings. But the optimism did not age well as we were instead welcomed by companies who preemptively bent the knee to fascists. Though Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration is yet to occur at the time of writing

My degoogling journey: SearXNG

Ironically, what started me on my journey towards degoogling was ever since I got my hand-me-down Pixel 6 Pro a few years ago. I installed GrapheneOs on it. I also don't run Google Play Services on it. In the following months, I also stopped using Google