This week’s essay by writers Fiachra Ross and Sudhir Vadaketh examines the long-held state narrative that Operation Coldstore was a “security operation”, during which over 120 people were detained without trial on February 2nd 1963. jom.media/the-long-shado…

Thanks to Today Online for reaching out. Please see my full responses in the 🧵below. 1/n todayonline.com/singapore/expl…

It seems extremely improbable for TPL to avoid conflict of interests.

Our enemy isn't the refugee, it's the property developer. Our enemy isn't the foreign worker, it's the shareholder. Our enemy isn't the tenant, it's the slumlord. The former owns nothing. The latter controls everything. Open your eyes & get off your knees.

Robot cleaning bathrooms! Another job that goes to automation. Looks like the inventor has been working on this for over 5 years!

Japan has a problem. A problem so big that it can no longer be contained—literally (Hint: It sits in these blue & white tanks). The decisions it makes in the coming months could affect the world’s largest ocean and millions of people. 🧵1/11

One story to read this weekend is ⁦Joe Brock⁩’ special report on a recycling programme by Dow and Sport Singapore. Joe found that donated shoes meant to become playground surfaces, running tracks ended up on sale in Indonesia reuters.com/investigates/s…

This fun little read is entirely worth the price of admission for these two lines: 'Since academia was proving to be a pretty tough nut to crack, I decided to pursue a path with less bureaucracy and red tape. I started emailing government officials.' mothership.sg/2023/03/singap…

I must say, making a song and dance parody to criticise racism is temperate, dignified and rather cultured. 😘

Our cities do not need your driverless cars. They desperately need more carless drivers! (BSO bikes of Struin, via International Cargo Bike Festival)

For years, Program Think #編程隨想, an anonymous blogger pushed back against CCP's rule one post at a time. Some compared him to the mysterious vigilante in V for Vendetta. Others called him “the tank man of the digital age,” a lone figure facing down China’s security apparatus.

2/ It was an argument that he had not advanced before. It was summarily dismissed this afternoon without being heard by the court. This means there are no more avenues to halt his execution from taking place tomorrow at dawn unless President Halimah Yacob stops it.

A city tells us something about its people. Singapore, a small island-nation, has become a major importer of sand as it fuels its nation-building and development goals through the years.

Sweet!

Maybe lets ask the 20th percentile if they are happy with this. Once again, public housing must be for ALL people, not some people.

yes!!!!!!!! please take note friends

.Adam Conover on the unique power of strikes is some of my favorite messaging and I've been doing labor messaging for almost 20 years. #WGAStrong

The world desperately needs nickel for EVs. The type of it we have left is extremely hard to refine & it's pushing the world's biggest nickel producer to embrace technology long considered too risky, too perilous for local communities. A The Washington Post deep dive:

A few personal notes: I was just at a NASA team meeting for 3 days in DC. The scientific findings are so fucked up. Experts on tropical rainforests told me privately that they think the Amazon has already passed its tipping point. Let that sink in. The world needs to know

I reckon we could close all mainland golf courses to build public housing and redeploy golf carts at town nodes for last mile travel. Just saying.