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Women’s Sports Are Not an Identity Alliance—On Transgender Participation in Competition

Culture & Public Commentary2026.08.10
Women’s Sports Are Not an Identity Alliance—On Transgender Participation in Competition
Two former NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, have recently announced in succession that they plan to seek entry into the 2027 WNBA draft as transgender women. Both men’s remarks clearly carry the flavor of political protest and a stress test of the rules, rather than an ordinary application for participation that has already been recognized by the league. The WNBA’s current collective bargaining agreement only stipulates that only female players are eligible to participate in the league, but it does not further specify whether “female” here is determined by gender identity, sex assigned at birth, physical development, or some other standard. League Commissioner Cathy Engelbertlater said that…
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Aug 10, 2026
If Trump’s Information Can Be Sold, Why Can’t the Teleprompter Operator Make Money? — On the Truth API and the White House “Insider Betting” Investigation

Culture & Public Commentary2026.07.20
If Trump’s Information Can Be Sold, Why Can’t the Teleprompter Operator Make Money? — On the Truth API and the White House “Insider Betting” Investigation
Behind the Truth API and the White House “insider betting” investigation: what is the real problem, after all — profiting from information, or who monopolizes information and power? Introduction On July 16, two pieces of news that seemed to contradict each other appeared at the same time. Trump Media & Technology Group announced the launch of Truth API, selling financial institutions a low-latency data interface for major Truth Social accounts. The company said the service could deliver machine-readable data to institutional clients at millisecond speed, is scheduled to open on August 1, and is being positioned as a new long-term recurring revenue source. Trump’s remarks often move expectations around tariffs,…
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Jul 20, 2026
A Pluralistic Society Cannot Tolerate Everything—On Singapore’s Integration Courses and the Boundaries of Pluralism

Culture & Public Commentary2026.07.12
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 integration handbook and workshops for companies, culture-sensitivity courses for HR staff and team supervisors, and a centralized resource hub. EP Journey has already launched a six-month pilot in May, with plans to cover 600 participants before expanding gradually.[1] This is not a one-way program demanding that foreigners “become like locals.”…
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Jul 12, 2026
Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2026.06.24
Freedom is the root, plurality is the end; one cannot sacrifice freedom in order to protect plurality
The Singapore government recently required YouTube, Facebook, and X to block 14 pieces of online content targeting the Indian community. Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs said these posts attacked the Indian community and undermined Singapore’s multiracial social model, and that the relevant content may have originated on Chinese platforms. The police issued directives to the platforms under the Online Criminal Harms Act, requiring them to bar Singapore users from accessing the relevant content. This incident has drawn attention not only because it involves racial issues, but also because it touches the core of Singapore’s mode of governance: in a modern city-state that places a high value on social harmony, multiracial…
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Jun 24, 2026
On the Left’s Self-dug Grave

Culture & Public Commentary2025.02.24
On the Left’s Self-dug Grave
https://x.com/epr510/status/1893851683534643208 (Reflections on watching the right rise in the German election) What’s funny is that many left-wing intellectuals earlier all thought the enemy was Trump, and that once this oddity had run its course, everything would be fine. But the facts have shown that the left’s collapse is global; Trump’s rise is not an exception but a trend. I think many people still haven’t figured this out even now. Of course, the left’s collapse has something to do with the general spirit of the age, but fundamentally it is still an internal problem. In short, left-wing parties themselves abandoned left-wing positions. So the essence of the left’s defeat is not…
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Feb 24, 2025
Why PoS Ethereum Cannot Become a Base Currency

Culture & Public Commentary2023.06.10
Why PoS Ethereum Cannot Become a Base Currency
On the struggle between PoW and PoS in cryptocurrency, I often state my views, but it seems I have never set them out fully on the blog. Yesterday, just as a netizen wrote in asking about this, I wrote a few paragraphs, and I’m posting them here as well. Asked whether Ethereum might replace Bitcoin as the value-preserving currency of future society, my view is as follows: Of course Ethereum can preserve value, but I oppose POS currencies as the standard value-preserving currency, and this is for political reasons. POS provides a mechanism for risk-free interest-bearing accumulation, so value preservers can keep earning interest continuously. Even fiat currency does not…
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Jun 10, 2023
On the “Pattern” of the Digital City-State

Culture & Public Commentary2023.05.12
On the “Pattern” of the Digital City-State
Today I chatted again for a while with baiyu from SeeDAO, and in the process I laid out my thoughts on building digital city-states. What I chiefly want to promote is Arendt's thought, and to rebuild the “public sphere” in the digital age. SeeDAO’s ideal is to become a “digital city-state for 1 million Web3 nomads.” My quip is: this number, one million, is too big to be big, yet too small to be small. Too big in the sense that if Web3 is truly the general trend, then in the future there cannot possibly be only 1 million “Web3 nomads”; just the Chinese-speaking population alone would have to be…
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May 12, 2023
Introduction to “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile”

AI & Scholarship2023.04.29
Introduction to “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile”
This article was published in issue 87 of Xinrui Weekly (it came out last year, but I forgot to repost it), under the title A “Failed” Social Experiment in Cybernetics—A Review of The Cybernetic Revolutionaries. It was slightly abridged at the time of publication (mainly the parts about involution were cut); here is the original text. Allende was elected president of Chile by a large margin in 1970. After taking office, he immediately launched a series of socialist reforms, including banning foreign enterprises, striking at landlords, and establishing a state-owned economy, among other measures. During this period, in order to effectively manage the nationalized economic system, Allende invited the British…
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Apr 29, 2023
Huawendao Offline AMA, First Session: White Paper Presentation

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2022.11.13
Huawendao Offline AMA, First Session: White Paper Presentation
The first offline presentation event of “Huawendao” was held on September 23, 2022, at Meta Space in Wudaokou. What follows is a written transcript. First Half: Reading and Discussing the White Paper “Hua”: I’m one of the three initiators of Huawendao, I’m “Hua,” and today I’ll be reading through and explaining our white paper section by section. If anyone has any questions in the middle, please feel free to raise them at any time. What I’m talking about today is already the second version of our white paper. The first version was actually longer, with more than ten thousand characters, but after many people read it, they all said it…
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Nov 13, 2022
The Meaning of “Conflation”: How the Public Can Participate in Scientific Communication

Culture & Public Commentary2020.02.06
The Meaning of “Conflation”: How the Public Can Participate in Scientific Communication
The third essay written amid the epidemic. I’ll say it again: things are tense, so please be cautious about sharing this among friends. From science popularization to public understanding of science to science communication, people in philosophy of science and technology have been talking about this for at least twenty years. The most traditional “deficit model” has long been widely questioned, but to this day, science communication and its significance still have by no means truly taken root in people’s minds. Simply put, the “deficit model” says that scientists possess scientific knowledge while the public lacks scientific knowledge, so science popularization is nothing more than scientists, from a position of…
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