Ammar Abu

Learn & Teach.

[Anwar Ibrahim @anwaribrahim]

Saya tegaskan pendirian negara bahawa kita tegas tanpa tolak ansur terhadap entiti haram Zionis Israel. Jangan ingat kita mudah dicabar sebegitu rupa seolah-olah Malaysia tidak ada maruah dan boleh dijadikan boneka. Kita ada kedaulatan dan selagi mana saya di sini, saya akan pastikan pendirian kita tidak berubah sama sekali waima sebesar mana pun ugutan!

#MADANIbekerja
#YakinMADANI

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Ammar Abu @ammars4team]

Mana tentera bawang Malaysia. Mai masuk sini sat. Haha

[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.

[Ammar Abu @ammars4team]

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[🇸🇪 Marcin 🇵🇱 @MarcinPLSE]

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Auto będzie dostępne w wersji 136KM,190 i 221 plugin.

[Ankit Mayank @mr_mayank]

BREAKING : 🇺🇸 NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani called out Trump for spending billions to kill people in 🇮🇷 Iran

Journalist — Are you against Iran War?

Mamdani — We are talking about a war that killed thousands of civilians, so yes I am dead against it 🔥

Journalist — Does it frustrate you seeing $900 million a day getting wasted on such wars?

Mamdani — We are spending tens of billions of dollars to kill people, that money could have been used to make life easier for our people

“We always seem to have money for war, but not to feed the poor” 🔥

Finally a sane voice from within the United States, we need more such people at the top who can lead the world towards peace. Respect 🫡

[Ammar Abu @ammars4team]

Masuk hiway thru rfid sbb lane kosong. Exit hiway lane rfid mcm musim perayaan. Takde choice, hadap lah panjang jem tu.

Smart tag, masa entry lane kosong cun. Masa keluar lane panjang. Ada pilihan guna tng, lebih fleksibel.

[Paul Tan @paultantk]

ada orang masih jual smarttag lama tapi refurbished! harga pun kaw2 lebih 300 ringgit. nampaknya orang betul2 tak nak lepaskan technology yg sepatutnya nak phase out ni hahah

[Ammar Abu @ammars4team]

@kelana_mus64978 @IshemaAline @BIGmisu Hahah habaq mai sup padia hat chruncy crispy

[Ammar Abu @ammars4team]

Bicaranya kayak anak2 baru belajar sains. Pokok sawit juga pokok yg ngeluarin oksigen. Khalas.

[Indie.ink @Ink_indie119]

@PHN316 Dear brothers and sisters don't stop share about how evil Indonesian gov are.

[Ammar Abu @ammars4team]

Yaman n Syria dah. Next Sudan n Afghanistan💪

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

Top 15 Least Peaceful Countries

1. 🇾🇪 Yemen
2. 🇸🇩 Sudan
3. 🇸🇸 South Sudan
4. 🇦🇫 Afghanistan
5. 🇺🇦 Ukraine
6. 🇨🇩 D.R. Congo
7. 🇷🇺 Russia
8. 🇸🇾 Syria
9. 🇮🇱 Israel
10. 🇲🇱 Mali
11. 🇸🇴 Somalia
12. 🇰🇵 North Korea
13. 🇮🇶 Iraq
14. 🇨🇫 C.A.R.
15. 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

Source: Global Peace Index

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Zohran Mamdani’s message to Donald Trump after his historic NYC mayoral win:

“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

[Ammar Abu @ammars4team]

Zalim betui. Pedih mata ikan2 tu.

[embun @softy_queen05]

washing fish with soap? 🤔

[Ammar Abu @ammars4team]

Tengok tuit ni auto mulut keluar 'Bodoh'.

[Department of State @StateDept]

THE PRESIDENT OF PEACE: 8 wars ended in 8 months.

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

This was Saleh, the dreamer, the one most of us never had the honor of seeing.

He had dreams like everyone else in Gaza. He was a ranked player in table tennis. He loved to sing and made songs before and during the genocide. He memorized all 600 pages of the Quran and loved Islam and he loved God. He was a Youtuber who started his journey on Youtube back in 2020 where he vlogged his life, added his songs, and showed the beauty of Gaza.

Saleh Aljafarawi, for 27 years of his life, lived under a brutal occupation whose only mission was to kill more Palestinians and steal more Palestinian land.

For two years, he starved with his people as he reported on limbless and bloody dead children, night and day. He ran towards airstrikes. He ran towards blood.

Saleh’s name in Arabic means “virtuous” and “righteous.” What a virtuous and righteous man this world has lost. He woke up millions of people to the ugliness of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and the greed and evil that runs our world.

He died telling the truth. Western journalists live to tell lies.
Palestine is bigger than just Palestine. Palestine is for every person who believes in freedom.

Saleh’s death will not be in vain. Glory be to the martyrs. Free Palestine. Free us all.

Videos are from Saleh’s Youtube Page

[Lily Jay @lilyjayofficial]

My brothers dying wish to me before he passed away yesterday

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

Greta Thunberg gives her first words after she was released from Israeli prison where she was beat and forced to kiss the Israeli flag. She says the story is not about them, the story is about Gaza.

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

BREAKING

Chinese President:

"We reviewed the U.S. standards for defining terrorism... and found that they apply perfectly to Israel."

[nad @littlemooneaJ]

Zizi Kirana, one of the Malaysian delegates of the Global Sumud Flotilla, shared her harrowing experience of being abducted by the Zionist:

- She was held in an open area under the scorching sun, forced to kneel and perform the commando rest position.
- Thirteen of her boatmates were released for immigration checks after about half an hour, but Zizi and another passenger, a Palestinian woman, were detained longer on the ground.
- When she tried to read the Holy Quran, her copy was snatched away and she was ordered to stop.
- During the security inspection, she was forced to remove her shoes, socks, and hijab. Despite resisting as much as she could, the IDF forcibly pulled at her hijab. Her boatmates, witnessing the scene, cried and shouted words of encouragement for her to stay strong and keep her hijab on.
- Eventually, they managed to remove her hijab by force. At that moment, Zizi prayed that God would deliver just punishment for their acts of cruelty and oppression.
- She was then taken to an area where other women were being held and ordered to strip off all their clothing.
- After the immigration checkpoint, the IDF mockingly said, “Welcome to Israhell.”
- They told her they had seen her on TikTok and Instagram, and that they knew she is a public figure in Malaysia.
- She was pushed and pulled around repeatedly. Before being taken onto the bus to the prison, her hijab was again forcefully removed. Her underclothes were cut because they wanted detainees to wear only one layer of clothing. All of them were barefoot, as their shoes and socks had been confiscated.
- Upon arrival at the prison, they were once again ordered to undress and change into prison uniforms, without hijabs.
- Zizi recalled that the IDF soldiers were actually cowards who could not even meet their eyes. During the interception, one soldier she stared at became defensive and shouted, “What? What are you looking at?” Because of this, she was the last person released from the boat and was punished the longest under the sun.
- Like other activists testified, while in prison and deprived of their hijabs, they improvised by using the t-shirts given to them as head coverings.
- Zizi and Ardell were among the first to arrive at the prison, where they were held for three days and two nights.
- During prayers, since they were barefoot, they used blankets to cover themselves and maintain modesty.
- All their belongings were confiscated and never returned, except for their passports.
- Despite everything, Zizi and the other delegates expressed gratitude for the ease of their deportation process and the warm welcome they received upon arriving in Turkey.

Share this and let the world know how evil they are. They're doing this to activists, public figures, people with voices. One could only imagine what they've done to the Palestinians.

#GlobalSumudFlottilla

[Legitimate Targets @LegitTargets]

🚨🇿🇦🇮🇱 BREAKING: SOUTH AFRICA demands the RELEASE of Nelson Mandela's Grandson Mandla, who was ABDUCTED on the Global Sumud Flotilla