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Last November, a fire tore through Wang Fuk Court — a residential estate of eight high-rise towers in Hong Kong — killing 168 people and displacing all 1,984 households. Hearings over the past few days have revealed only fragments of what went wrong. Residents had complained, repeatedly and to multiple government departments, about the renovation works long before the fire. None of it was enough to prevent the disaster. Whether anyone should be held responsible is for the independent commissi...

“Dear magical algorithm, where can I find the best bubble tea?” Back when Facebook was still the place to be, posts like this were everywhere — people speaking, half in jest, to the algorithm itself. At first everyone understood it was just a figure of speech. The post was really aimed at friends who might see it and chime in with recommendations. Social networks, after all, were where people talked to people. But a decade and change later, users seem to have forgotten the rhetorical sleight ...

Some truths are simple, yet hard to act on. Everyone knows that buying assets at the bottom is how you make money, but humans always only pay attention to opportunity at the top, itching to buy in — while at the bottom, we focus on risk and find every reason not to touch it. Bitcoin is the perfect example. At the end of 2024 it broke through $100,000 for the first time, and everyone was either scrambling to buy or thinking it had risen too high and vowing to buy on the pullback. As I write th...

This year’s Easter coincided with the Qingming Festival, creating a five-day “super long weekend.” The mainstream news reported the number of people traveling abroad with a celebratory tone every day. Final statistics showed that during the five-day long holiday from April 3 to 7, a total of 2.36 million people departed Hong Kong. Among them, 77%—more than 1.81 million people—headed north, over-fulfilling the “integration KPI”. No wonder officials were so self-satisfied; meanwhile, Hong Kong’...

Last month, Meta announced that it would terminate the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature for Instagram DMs on May 8. I don’t personally use Instagram DMs, but given its massive user base, I expected at least some outcry. Instead, beyond the usual voices from “privacy hardliners” like Proton and Mozilla, there hasn’t even been a ripple on social media. I couldn’t find a single complaint, let alone any talk of a boycott. I’m not just talking about a lack of discussion within my own echo cham...

Last November, a severe fire occurred at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, claiming 168 lives and leaving nearly two thousand families displaced. Four months later, affected units have been repeatedly burgled, yet owners have not even had the chance to return home to collect their belongings, let alone receive arrangements for permanent housing. On the other hand, the humble wish of residents to hold an owners’ meeting has been delayed time and again. Basic facts—such as the distribution of the decea...

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Lately, I’ve lost my usual rhythm. I keep dragging my feet until Wednesday to start writing my newsletter, clinging to the “deadline warrior” spirit, narrowly finishing each issue on the very night it’s due. This week, I’ve been even more persistent in my procrastination. By Wednesday morning, I still hadn’t put pen to paper; instead, I headed to the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts to observe the case against Book Punch and its founder, Pong Yat-ming, who are accused of operating an unregist...

A crypto giveaway experiment illustrates the tension between privacy and social utility. Privacy tech succeeds as a "feature" but enables Sybil attacks, showing where social apps and wallets diverge.

If I told you I was going to take my own cash and hand it out to neighbors on the street, you’d probably think I was crazy—but you’d likely think the “hard” part is parting with the money, not the act of giving it away. I have been doing this for eight years. I can tell you with full responsibility that the reality is: losing the money is hard, but giving it away is even harder. Imagine this: if I pulled out 100 one-dollar bills on the street and tried to hand one to every passerby, what do y...