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[Garis Ketiga @garisketiga]

“Pegasus tu spyware Israel. Najib beli 2015, RM100 juta guna utk intip rakyat.
Reuters bagitahu, nama saya ada dalam senarai 2019, masa PH berkuasa.
Kerajaan sambung pakai 2021.”

— YBM 50

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The man behind this building is a sculptor. He was given 12 days to come up with a design. He had never designed a building. He won the contest. Every part of it, down to each feather, represents one date: August 17, 1945, Indonesia's independence day.

His name is Nyoman Nuarta, a sculptor from Bali. His most famous work is the giant Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue. It's 121 meters tall and took 25 years to finish. For the palace, Nuarta's idea was simple: take a 9-story office building, then wrap a giant copper bird around the whole thing. The bird is a Garuda, a mythical creature from Hindu stories that also sits at the center of Indonesia's national symbol. Five major architect groups in Indonesia signed a letter protesting the design. The government went with it anyway.

The wings carry 17 feathers, the tail 8, the base 19, the neck 45. Together: August 17, 1945. The body was designed to be 76 meters tall, chosen because 2021 was the 76th year of Indonesia's independence. The whole structure is a sculpture you can work inside.

The outer skin is made of 4,650 copper bars, each one weighing 300 kilograms, about the weight of a piano. Together that's around 1,400 tonnes of copper, roughly the weight of 1,000 cars, just on the outside of the building. Right now it looks bronze. Over the coming decades the copper will react with air and slowly turn bluish-green. That's the same effect that turned the Statue of Liberty green. It's already starting on Nuarta's earlier Bali statue.

The palace sits 1,200 kilometers (about 750 miles) from Jakarta, on the island of Borneo. Indonesia is building Nusantara, an entirely new capital, because Jakarta is the fastest-sinking major city in the world. Some neighborhoods in the north drop up to 25 centimeters (about 10 inches) every single year. Large parts of the city could be underwater by 2050.

The new capital was projected to cost $32 billion. State funding peaked at $2 billion in 2024. President Prabowo Subianto took office that October and cut the budget to $700 million the next year. The 2026 budget is $300 million, an 85% drop in two years. The full move-in date has slipped from 2024 to 2028. Only 4,000 government workers are scheduled to relocate there this year.

A building shaped like a bird, designed by a sculptor, marked with a date, slowly turning green. The capital it was built to anchor may never fully arrive.

[راكان @Alsharway]

فضيحة مدوية مقطع مسرب يُظهر أن حذاء العلامة التجارية السويسرية الأصل "ON"، الذي يُباع عادةً بسعر 250 يورو، يُصنّع ويُعبّأ في مصنع في الصين مقابل حوالي 8 يورو

[Muhammad Najib @muhammadnajib79]

Kuala Lumpur pun boleh sebenarnya tetapi persoalannya kerajaan mana yang sanggup beli tanah ni dan jadikan ia public park accessible for everyone?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

8,000 Meta workers got fired by email this morning. Singapore got the notice at 4 AM. The moment the email arrived, their laptops, work email, and accounts went dark. That is how a $1.7 trillion company tells you it is over.

Inside Meta, this round has a name. They are calling it "Pralaydin," which is Hindi for "day of catastrophe." Reuters reports this is the third firing round of 2026, and the full year could end with 22,000 people gone. About one in five Meta employees.

Analysts at Evercore say firing these 8,000 people will save Meta around $3 billion a year. That sounds like a lot. Zuckerberg has been writing much bigger checks for AI hires. Last summer he paid an ex-Apple engineer named Ruoming Pang $200 million to come work on AI. He paid another AI researcher, Andrew Tulloch, a reported $1.5 billion over six years. He wrote a $14.3 billion check just to get the CEO of an AI startup called Scale to join the team.

The same week Meta laid off 8,000 office workers, the company is still planning to spend somewhere between $125 and $145 billion this year on AI data centers and the chips to run them. The firings save about 2% of that.

Two days before the layoffs began, Meta picked 7,000 of the survivors and moved them onto brand new AI teams. The people getting hit in this round are mostly engineers and product managers. Another wave is already planned for later this year.

Meta is not in trouble. Far from it. The company made $56 billion in revenue in just the first three months of 2026. That was up 33% from a year ago. Pure profit in those same three months was nearly $27 billion. The stock is off its September high but Meta is still worth $1.7 trillion.

The severance is good on paper. 16 weeks of base pay, plus two extra weeks for every year you put in, plus a year and a half of health insurance. The average payout works out to about $360,000 per person.

The money does arrive. But finding a new job is brutal. Engineers who got cut in earlier Meta rounds say they have sent out hundreds of job applications and heard back from almost nobody, even with Meta on the resume.

So a wildly profitable company is firing 8,000 office workers via 4 AM email and instant lockout, while writing checks worth hundreds of millions of dollars to a small group of new AI hires. The Singapore workers reading their termination email at 4 AM were paying for the next $200 million hire.

[Shahnon Salleh @shahnonsalleh]

The cycle of fragmentation is now complete:

1. Mahathir's deputy was sacked and formed PKR (1998)
2. Najib's deputy was sacked and formed Bersatu (2016)
3. Anwar's deputy left and rebranded an old party, Bersama (2026)
4. Muhyiddin's deputy was sacked & set to form new party too

[Mutalib Uthman @mutalibuthman]

1. Ingat tak perasaan kita masa Februari 2020? Berita pasal virus mula tersebar, tapi hidup kita macam biasa. Kita semua buat tak tahu.

Lepas itu, sekelip mata kita kena lockdown. Dunia berubah.

Sekarang, kita berada posisi yang hampir sama. Tapi kali ini, bukan virus. Ia

[Rafizi Ramli @rafiziramli]

Saya ingat dua2 orang ni - dia & Farhan (yg sekarang menguruskan geng2 cytro/komunikasi PKR/kerajaan).

Sbb vibe dari awal tak kena.

It defines what I feel about them and what they feel about me from thereon.

Senang cerita - memang beriya nak explore cable. Jenis-jenis kena jadi BFF & bagi attention lebih2, sedangkan banyak lagi anak muda dalam PKR masa tu yang nameless yang dok buat kerja tiap2 hari without asking for acknowledgement.

I always believe that everything must be by merits and hard work, bukan sebab kenal orang itu orang ni, drop name sana sini.

Memang major turn off to me kalau macam ni, especially kalau muda2 dah terjebak.

Baik di tempat kerja, baik dalam politik.

ps: Ha3 lain kali tak yah nak post gambar konon dulu aku sokong sekarang aku tak sokong. Berpuluh ribu rakyat Malaysia ada gambar dengan saya dari dulu2.

[DI¥S@R @DIYSAR]

Selepas setahun rumah ni pon dah siap

[ude. ش‍‌ڡــﹳ @UdaShafiq]

KEMAJUAN pembinaan rumah lima tingkat di Kampung Tengah 1, Batu 6¼ Jalan Gombak, Setapak.

23 Januari 2025: Dapat surat daripada majlis

[DI¥S@R @DIYSAR]

@amoxcilliin @JatIkhwan Boleh share brand yg lain tu,mencari alternative lain

[Derek Devicemanager @IT_unhinged]

Our COO sent me a Slack: “Laptop is dead, nothing works, fix ASAP.”

I checked the monitoring tool.

His battery was at 1% and the charger wasn’t plugged in.

I could’ve just messaged: “Plug it in.”

Instead I opened a ticket, categorized it as a Severity 2 Power Incident.

Asked him for screenshots of the problem.

He sent a photo of a black screen.

I scheduled a remote session for 30 minutes later “to run diagnostics.”

At minute 29 I told him to verify his power source as Step 1 of the troubleshooting script.

He plugged it in.

Laptop turned on.

I documented the resolution as “User Education: Introduced to Concept of Electricity.”

The ticket remains a permanent part of his audit trail.

For “trend analysis.”

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

FILE ATTACHMENT: BADDAY.MPG

Before YouTube existed, one 27-second clip broke the early Internet and email servers.

In 1996, Vinny Licciardi - a real employee at tech company Loronix - sat at his office cubicle, lost his temper, slapped his monitor, smashed his keyboard like a baseball bat, and KICKED the computer across the floor.

The video spread by email as "badday.mpg" in 1997, hitting over 2 million views in days, becoming one of the FIRST viral videos in history.

I got this 100s of time sent to me in 1997, it was my slowest email download each time, taking ~18 minutes on dialup!

But I did laugh each time.

AOL, EarthLink and other ISPs banned the attachment by name. So folks just changed the name.

No one ever credited or knew who first shared it.

And no one cared especially Vinny.

Times changed and sharing, well it is going out of fashion…

[ƒ(x) 🇲🇾 @drahfa]

Rakyat Malaysia dah start jadi mcm negara maju. Instead of buying Panadol (as a brand), consumer beli Paracetamol (as a solution).

Rentak Malaysia skrg ni dah mcm Australia pada 5-10 tahun lepas.

A shift to value-based services/products, bukan brand-based services/products.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Bugatti just lost its all-time speed record. To the Chinese EV in this video. 308 mph at Papenburg, on a battery.

The Chiron Super Sport had held the record for six years. 1,600 hp, 8.0L W16, four turbochargers. Bugatti needed every horse of that to hit 304 mph. BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme did 308 with four electric motors and a battery pack.

Marc Basseng, the driver, won the Nürburgring 24 Hours. He said the run was "technically not possible with a combustion engine." He's right.

A combustion engine produces a power curve that peaks at a specific RPM and falls off either side. Past 9,000 RPM the valves float, the connecting rods stretch, the pistons can't reverse direction fast enough. The W16 is the absolute thermodynamic ceiling of 100 years of internal combustion. Every mph past 290 cost exponentially more engineering for diminishing returns.

The U9 Xtreme uses four electric motors. Each produces 744 hp. Each spins to 30,000 RPM. No valves. No pistons. No connecting rods. Total system output is 2,978 hp, almost double Bugatti's W16. Power-to-weight is 1,217 hp per tonne.

The motors were never the hard part. Mate Rimac said this years ago. The constraint was always the battery, because to deliver 2,978 hp into four wheels you have to discharge faster than any production EV ever has.

BYD built the world's first 1,200-volt production car. Everyone else uses 800V. The Blade Battery runs lithium iron phosphate cells with a 30C discharge rate, ten times what a conventional EV battery handles. Heat generation falls 67% versus 800V at matching output.

That last number is the whole game. Heat is what kills high-power EV runs. Other automakers derate within seconds at full power because the battery cooks itself. BYD's architecture lets the Xtreme hold maximum discharge long enough to actually approach the aerodynamic limit of the chassis.

Bugatti spent 20 years engineering the W16 to its physical ceiling. BYD spent 18 months building the architecture that cleared it.

They're making 30 of them.

The crown for fastest production car on Earth has belonged to Bugatti, Koenigsegg, Hennessey, SSC. All combustion, all European or American. The crown is Chinese now, and it runs on a battery.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas.

Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours.

Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count.

Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024.

Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds.

Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it.

The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record.

Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.

[Aisehman @Aisehman]

This is a good piece, by Malik Imtiaz.

Puak yang menentang takda kes yang kukuh.

Jangan percaya sangat propaganda Rais Yatim. Dia berat kepada geng sebelah sana, yang nak menghuni semula Istana Besar Seri Menanti.

https://t.co/RBfZFVuhIp

[🖤 Christine @christinelu]

Malaysia lets Taiwanese use the fast autogate at KLIA but covers up Taiwan’s flag on the sign to avoid drama and unnecessary tantrums.

Taiwanese passport = secret access. LOL

[Noisy @noisyb0y1]

19-year-old American student spent his entire scholarship $2,299 on an iPad and Mac Mini.

His grandma thought he was trying to hack the Pentagon.

He just dropped one file into Claude and went to sleep.

CLAUDE.md processed four principles. Written after Karpathy - co-founder of OpenAI - publicly broke down how AI tools actually work.

In the morning the system closed tasks a junior dev would take three days to finish. Claude did it in 3 hours. Didn't touch code nobody asked it to touch. Just did exactly what it was told.

45,000 developers installed this in a week. Most of them had never heard of the file before.

The iPad became his office. The Mac Mini runs while he's in class.

An agency does the same thing for $15,000 a month.

He pays $20.

Four lines of logic. And the question is no longer "can a student compete with an agency" - but whether an agency is needed at all.