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After Academic Fraud, Public Trust Should Be Reduced to Zero: On the Jiang Fangzhou Incident, University Autonomy, and a High-Trust Society
Two official notices, nine overlapping passages, and one revoked master’s degree. The real question raised by this celebrity academic controversy is: after a breach of trust, which old credits must be reset to zero, and who has the authority to decide when trust may be restored? Introduction Within eight days, two official notices reached opposite conclusions. On July 5, 2026,…
A Self-Account & Guide (2026 Edition)
(This essay was drafted by Claude Fable 5 after reading all 1,400-plus posts on this blog, and approved by the author without changes. Unlike most English pages on this site, which are machine-translated through an API pipeline, this English version was translated and edited by Claude Fable 5 directly.) This blog is called Suixuan (随轩). It has been written since…
The Blog Has Been Refreshed
Recently I used fable5 to give the blog a redesign. Come to think of it, the last major redesign was already nine years ago. This time I once again revised the category system, redesigned an entirely new navigation menu, added new features such as annotation-style comments, and so on. Everyone is welcome to explore. The subscription tools have also been…
A Pluralistic Society Cannot Tolerate Everything—On Singapore’s Integration Courses and the Boundaries of Pluralism
Hu Yilin AI Interview | July 12, 2026 Introduction On July 10, 2026, Singapore’s Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, the Singapore Business Federation, and the National Employers Federation announced a report by the Alliance for Action on the Integration of Foreign Professionals, unveiling five initiatives: EP Journey for new Employment Pass holders, welcome days hosted by industry associations, an…
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After Academic Fraud, Public Trust Should Be Reduced to Zero: On the Jiang Fangzhou Incident, University Autonomy, and a High-Trust Society
Two official notices, nine overlapping passages, and one revoked master’s degree. The real question raised by this celebrity academic controversy is: after a breach of trust, which old credits must be reset to zero, and who has the authority to decide when trust may be restored? Introduction Within eight days, two official notices reached opposite conclusions. On July 5, 2026,…
A Self-Account & Guide (2026 Edition)
(This essay was drafted by Claude Fable 5 after reading all 1,400-plus posts on this blog, and approved by the author without changes. Unlike most English pages on this site, which are machine-translated through an API pipeline, this English version was translated and edited by Claude Fable 5 directly.) This blog is called Suixuan (随轩). It has been written since…
The Blog Has Been Refreshed
Recently I used fable5 to give the blog a redesign. Come to think of it, the last major redesign was already nine years ago. This time I once again revised the category system, redesigned an entirely new navigation menu, added new features such as annotation-style comments, and so on. Everyone is welcome to explore. The subscription tools have also been…
A Pluralistic Society Cannot Tolerate Everything—On Singapore’s Integration Courses and the Boundaries of Pluralism
Hu Yilin AI Interview | July 12, 2026 Introduction On July 10, 2026, Singapore’s Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, the Singapore Business Federation, and the National Employers Federation announced a report by the Alliance for Action on the Integration of Foreign Professionals, unveiling five initiatives: EP Journey for new Employment Pass holders, welcome days hosted by industry associations, an…
The Real Crisis in Academia Is Not That AI Can Write Papers, but That We Only Know How to Recognize Titles—Hu Yilin on How to Make Knowledge Subject to Examination Again
Hu Yilin Interview | July 10, 2026 ◆ Lead-in | In May 2026, an international medical conference held in Copenhagen was drawn into a suspected case of systemic academic fraud: several Indonesian participants were accused of falsifying institutional affiliations, impersonating real researchers, and smuggling dubious research into the conference. Indonesia’s higher-education authorities and national research institutions then launched an investigation….
From “Whether There Is a Mind” to “How to Establish the Mind” — The Broader Question of Heart-Mind Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
(In a group chat today, I asked GPT to organize it into an academic miscellany; GPT-5.5 Pro did a better job than Fable5. I also had it generate a paper, and I didn’t change a single character ↓) AI_guangyi_xinxue_paperDownload When it comes to artificial intelligence, philosophical discussion is easily sucked into an old and alluring question: does the machine really…
The AI Training Craze Should Not Turn into a “Certificate Movement”
After Singapore’s accounting sector launched AI training for 60,000 people, Hu Yilin talks about the real problem with vocational training: it is not about teaching people to memorize prompts, but about making them dare to use AI, know how to ask questions, and be able to judge. In July 2026, Singapore pushed AI vocational training into a very concrete industry…
Hu Yilin: The Digital Identity of the Future Should Not Be a Safer ID Number, but a Rights System of Proof on Demand
Preface｜ The Singapore Land Authority recently disclosed that a cloud-based development and testing environment managed by IBM was accessed without authorization, exposing the names, NRIC numbers, and then-current property addresses of about 70,000 people. The incident sparked public discussion about digital government, outsourced systems, and the protection of identity data. Scholar Hu Yilin believes that this event should not be…
Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself
Introduction｜The arrival of Open USD shifts stablecoin competition from a scramble for market share among crypto startups to a contest over infrastructure in which traditional finance, payment networks, technology platforms, and public-chain ecosystems all take part together. Around this new alliance involving more than 140 institutions, scholar Hu Yilin argues that stablecoins are not the moderate wing of the crypto…
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