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坐忘靜心則安 遇世俗事則不能 皆因二心 其一務事 其二欲規其一 兩心相攻 故心勞也 若心無二分 何以不安？ 問心無規矩可乎？ 可亦不可 我為一 若心果有二 故此心非我 我非此心 萬物本一 見心有二 是我異之也 老子曰：聖人處無為之事，行不言之教；萬物作焉而不辭，生而不有。 莊子曰：可乎可，不可乎不可。道行之而成，物謂之而然。惡乎然？然於然。惡乎不然？不然於不然。物固有所然，物固有所可。無物不然，無物不可。

Apparently after I went to see Mocha, he got better and started eating again. At least that's what M said.

最近爆升 - 金價 (also platinum, silver, etc.) - fabs and chip makers (TSMC, SMIC, AMD..... also Intel...) 其中 SMIC 真係可以話係我捉到鹿唔識脫角，十幾蚊入，廿幾蚊就賣咗.... 第時真係要記得呢啲係「奇貨可居」，唔係睇 fundamentals der...... Platinum 就啱啱喺佢爆之前入咗少少。因為唔熟 precious metals 所以唔敢入得多，所以當然都只能夠賺少少⋯ 金就高追（唔算特別多，佔身家 <5%），希望唔會蝕到扒啦。

I don't know/remember where I got this screenshot. But it looks like housing has always been not-very-affordable in Hong Kong except in times of crisis (1984 was the year the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed and confirmed the resumption of exercise of sovereignty of China as to Hong Kong. 2003 was year of "SARS")

interesting interpretation of egypt, israel and babylon timelines. Related podcast interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKJQ946Ltds&list=WL&index=93 We may end up with 周穆王 meeting with King Solomon as 西王母.....

Garys Economics is a really interesting channel where *originally* he tries to explain basically how rising wealth inequality is leading to the end of the world (of the developed economies at least). Recently it's somewhat become his venting outlet on how the intellectuals and "smart" people who politicians go for advice are oblivious to the pending doom and try very hard not to listen to him. Don't get me wrong, he's a very very very noble person for trying to make the world a better place for everyone, but it's almost therapeutical to hear somebody as smart as he is (and with a substantial social media following) to get totally frustrated while trying to convince people holding positions of power to consider the pressing issues he's seeing. The sheer ignorance and stupidity of the whole thing. It kinda validates my own priors, i.e. people are stupid, and people in positions of power are even more stupid (in the long game, not necessarily the short one) than one might think. And of course the intellectuals and academia do not listen, because if they did, my prediction that they'd be on the wrong side of history wouldn't play out.

It's not to say the stereotype of "Asian tiger moms" is a myth, but it's not as prevalent in Asia as western culture would lead you to believe. I suspect it's the self-selecting nature of the phenomenon: women who end up within the sights of the western community are typically the aggressive type, for example who considers marrying western white men a "win" (due to western countries generally being richer, at least in the past), or in some way try very hard to integrate themselves into western culture. Note that "aggressive" does not necessarily have to be a negative trait, it's how generations of Asian families lifted themselves out of poverty (and marrying a middle-class white man was one way to do it), just that it's not really an actual feature of Asian women or Asian moms, and more so caused by the self-selecting group that end up being noticed by westerners.

this is a workspace that provides an apparently stable environment free from the whimsical dream-world-like environments where we can experiment with or at least ponder about ideas without them instantly manifesting without which the world will just change too fast for wild thoughts to be a mere fleeting idea

I sit with my eyes closed. The sirens of the ambulance the growls of my stomach The breathing of my lungs I sit here thinking that I control the last But perhaps it is just a recognition that I mentally perceive in my thoughts relating to the control of such, whereas I am not privy to the the thoughts that control the others And perhaps, if I could perceive all such thoughts, I might come to believe that I control them all But where do the thoughts come from? The ego thinks it comes from me, but where does it really come from?

- DeepSeek 3.2 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 - GLM 4.6 All released within like 48 hours. Not to mention the flurry of intensive Qwen releases in the past couple weeks. There's no way one can realistically keep up with all this stuff...