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[Primer Ice_Tea - 🇲🇾🏁 | SimRacer/Gunpla/Vtuber @primer_icetea]

WHY IS THE MYVI HERE

[Balaji @balajis]

Should the global tech community continue investing in Malaysia?

Given recent events, I raise this question respectfully for the consideration of Prime Minister Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim (@anwaribrahim), for the people of Malaysia, and for our friends in the Malaysian tech community. The answer will be of interest to anyone in global tech that’s considering building, investing, or expanding in Malaysia, including executives at Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, founders of tech unicorns like Coinbase and Solana, and investors at the world’s largest venture capital funds like a16z and Polychain.

As context, I am the former CTO of Coinbase and former General Partner at a16z. In October 2024, I opened a startup society called Network School in Malaysia, because I felt I’d been invited in by the government’s pro-tech policies.

Specifically, the KL20 initiative set out Malaysia’s ambition of becoming a top 20 global tech hub. Their MDEC digital nomad visas and MM2H investor visas were created to facilitate an influx of global talent and capital. And the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone was announced to facilitate the flow of capital and talent between Malaysia and Singapore, where I live. When taken in combination with Malaysia’s datacenter buildout and its policy of welcoming visa-free visits for 98% of the world, it seemed like Malaysia might be a great place to build a global tech hub that was simultaneously inexpensive and easy to visit (especially for non-Westerners).

And that’s what we did, by creating Network School. It’s an international tech community with its first node in Forest City, Malaysia. We picked Forest City because it had millions of square feet of empty space, because it was one hour from Singapore’s capital markets, and because it was within the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone. Then, within 18 months, without a single penny of government money, we built Network School into a global attraction that brought thousands of engineers, investors, and builders from 70+ countries to learn technology, burn calories, earn online, and have fun, integrating with the local Malaysian economy along the way.

Indeed, in terms of quantifiable contribution to the Malaysian economy, we’ve already invested 100M+ MYR in our campus to make it startup-friendly. For perspective, that’s about 4% of the budget of Johor, the Malaysian state where Forest City is located. We employ dozens of Malaysians directly and indirectly at every level from executive to staff. We’ve backed Malaysian tech startups like Collektr, hosted events for local teams like Superteam Malaysia, and are major customers of many local businesses like barbers, laundromats, and restaurants. We’ve also revitalized the multibillion-dollar Forest City project, causing millions of MYR in real estate appreciation. And, as the video below describes, we were on the cusp of a 500M+ MYR expansion to grow our community, as well as a global merit scholarship with my friend Amjad Masad of Replit.

However, that emerging multi-billion dollar success story — which should rightfully have been hailed as a huge victory for the pro-tech policies of the Malaysian government — is at risk of being derailed by a fake story spread by an anonymous account named MP4P.

In short: on the day before the July 11 Johor elections, MP4P posted an Instagram post falsely accusing Network School of harboring illegal aliens. The sensational accusations caused a tizzy in Malaysia, until Malaysian authorities came to our campus on July 14 to investigate. (I should note that the officers were very polite and professional.) After checking hundreds of physical passports from 40 countries, including dual passport holders, the authorities confirmed to the press on July 15 that all travel documents were in order. During the process, we cooperated fully; in the thread below you can see a photo of the men, women, and children of Network School smiling and holding up their passports in the bright daylight. Our faces are shown and our names are known; we have nothing to hide.

With that said, the process is the punishment. What MP4P did is very similar to the American crime of “swatting”, because MP4P created a hoax report of a serious threat, thereby forcing the Malaysian police to take time away from protecting the Malaysian people towards investigating a nonexistent issue. Moreover, this anonymous MP4P account has also called for Malaysia to boycott Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft…a move that would cost ordinary Malaysians thousands of jobs…even while MP4P’s own Instagram collaborators promote their Apple and Google apps! I mean, we aren’t talking about a credible accuser, but just someone screaming inconsistently at the top of their lungs on social media for traffic, an all-too-common phenomenon these days.

Anyway, at this point, all further investment we were planning to make in Malaysia is on hold until we get sufficient assurance that such issues won’t recur. So are the investment plans of many of our friends, including the execs and investors at global tech firms that we brought to Forest City. Because to put it very plainly: we have invested 100M+ MYR in Malaysia, while creating jobs for dozens of Malaysians, and our faces and names are known. Our Malaysian executives and employees deserve the benefit of the doubt over anonymous internet trolls.

There are two paths forward. In the first case, if Malaysia still wants continued global tech investment, if it wants to be a top 20 tech hub, if it wants us to revitalize Forest City, then we request an audience with the Prime Minister’s office to discuss the terms of a memorandum of understanding between Network School and the Malaysian government, similar to the document recently signed between the Solana Foundation and the Kazakhstan government.

Specifics can of course be discussed, but we would publicly commit to abiding by all Malaysian laws (we already do) and respecting Malaysia’s sovereignty (never in question). In return, they’d get to know our friendly community, and realize that we actually chose Malaysia because we thought it was a great place to build a tech hub where engineers from the global South, investors from the West, and builders from Malaysia itself could meet new people, build cool things, and perhaps create millions of dollars in economic growth in the fullness of time.

That vision of peace and trade, internationalism and entrepreneurialism, is still on the table. We aren’t asking for any money — just a meeting, to help restore confidence in Malaysia as an investable jurisdiction. Alternatively, if you don’t want our investment, or those of our colleagues at billion dollar funds and trillion dollar companies, we will of course respect your wishes, and reallocate our capital to other countries instead.

Either way, we will remain friends and abide by your decision. Please let us know.

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

The Johor government has issued a cessation order to Network School after finding one of its premises operated without a valid business licence.

Founder Balaji Srinivasan, however, disputed reports that the school is shutting down, saying it has received only two notices and will be given a remedial period to resolve them.

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[sid @immasiddx]

Someone made a song called “Claude’s Plan” inspired by Drake’s God’s Plan.

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[julian casablanca @aminrashe]

@syakirahahmed_ @fanvoys_

[Mark McEathron @Mark_McEathron]

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It's a game where the loser is actually the winner.

That's right. Both teams desperately want to lose this match because it places them in a better bracket against easier teams to advance.

The winner has a very difficult schedule going forward.

Note: If you kick the ball into your own goal, it's a point for the other team...

[julian casablanca @aminrashe]

bcs they were bunch of maniacs

[العتيبي @tot_9il]

سؤال في بالي من زمان ليه كل الانبياء من الشرق الاوسط ليه مافي انبياء بالهند والصين او اليابان و اوروبا

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BİSMİLLAHİRRAHMANİRRAHİM 🇹🇷

[Weather Monitor @WeatherMonitors]

A few minutes ago: A resident captured an unusual object or phenomenon in the sky over Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.

[Waktu Solat Malaysia @WaktuSolatMsia]

Johor kini menjadi negeri contoh dalam mengawal penyebaran fakta yang tidak sahih.

Bacaan penuh: https://t.co/kyNHdSLWyX

[timekey.eth | Gate美股0费率 @mybitstar]

有人用 Python 写了个工具，把 Gemini 网页版直接变成 OpenAI 兼容 API，2天飙到400星

你可能还在每个月交 $20 给 Gemini API 或者用各种中转服务。但有人发现——Gemini 网页版本身就自带所有能力，只是缺一个"翻译层"把请求转成标准接口。

gemini-web2api，做了一件事：

把 Gemini 网页版变成 OpenAI API 兼容的服务器端。

🔧 用法：
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② python gemini_web2api.py 启动服务
③ 客户端配置 base_url=http://localhost:8081/v1
④ 用 OpenAI SDK 直接调 Gemini Flash / Flash Thinking / Pro / Auto / Lite

最离谱的是什么？

· 支持流式输出（Streaming），和 OpenAI 接口完全兼容
· 支持 Function Calling + Tool Calling，写在 Agent 里直接当 Gemini API 用
· Falsh Thinking 支持 20k+ tokens 长上下文
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· Docker 一键部署，跨平台

写 AI 副业工具、批量生成文案、搭自动化管道的，这个项目帮你省下每月至少 $20-50 的 API 费用。

不收藏你亏了。

🔗 GitHub: https://t.co/ElR9xyJ2yl

来源: GitHub trending, 2 days old, 389 stars, Python

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[JJubei @JimushiJubei]

A retard who thinks just because an industry is worth trillions, in this case, a usurious industry, it is deserving of worship.

Next is what?

Porn industry is worthy of worship too?

Purest of retard.

Take him home @drzul_albakri

[julian casablanca @aminrashe]

@JimushiJubei @drzul_albakri worship? wtf 😂

[julian casablanca @aminrashe]

@JimushiJubei Imagine confidently dismissing a rigorous legal framework that structures a multi-trillion dollar global industry just for cheap interactions

[julian casablanca @aminrashe]

@thedevonex @ameydeen_ tu ada ruang

[Sung Drip Woo @YaBoyRoshi]

IM CRYING! 😂😂

[julian casablanca @aminrashe]

@masterofnone @Linktree_ thing is the text and icon contrast could be clearer but bro this looks crazy good, interesting ux too

[Antoine @TROOVY]

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