adem

me as it is.

[adem @danishadem]

the pot calling the kettle black.

[adem @danishadem]

helping a convicted thief pay his fine with your own money is fucking braindead

the delusion is genuinely a disease at this point. absolutely unhinged and just fucking stupid

[Berita Harian @bharianmy]

Tabung Solidariti Najib Razak kumpul RM634,562.02 dalam tempoh tiga jam

#BHnasional Ramai rakyat Malaysia memberikan sumbangan serendah RM10 dan RM50 ke dalam tabung berkenaan.

https://t.co/Tm6ZEfgYPo

[adem @danishadem]

i know so many people with Pinkerton syndrome and it genuinely needs to be studied… some of you see a white person and suddenly act like you’re in the presence of royalty

[HermioneJG🦄 @hannnybunnyyy]

Kenapa la some Malaysians suka sangat ada white washed mentality. Semua ingat kawin foreigners ni macam kawin dengan orang kaya. Some of them are even red necks! Nothing to be proud of.

[adem @danishadem]

i’m the most ungrateful motherfucker in the world

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Full time: Manchester United 8-2 Arsenal.

[adem @danishadem]

@yvng_modulus Sasuke is literally a child of ethnic cleansing 😭 everything he did was completely in character imo. imagine finding out your whole life was built on a lie, of course he was gonna retaliate

no one gets him fr. only the real ones who’ve been through shit understand my goat

[adem @danishadem]

i want malaysia to succeed. i want us to attract the best talent, investment and opportunities

but none of that should come at the expense of our sovereignty. if you’re building here, you respect our laws and institutions. it’s really that simple.

[adem @danishadem]

nah man, i don’t buy it.

your branding leaned heavily on singapore when it suited the narrative. forest city felt more like an opportunity than a genuine commitment to malaysia

now that there’s scrutiny, suddenly malaysia is front and centre

[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.

[adem @danishadem]

congratulations in advance to the fraud on winning the World Cup and the Ballon d’Or

[Stake Football @StakeFootball]

🚨🚨| JUST IN: Bibi Netanyahu has 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 announced he is supporting Argentina in this FIFA World Cup. 🗳️🇦🇷

[@clashreport]

[adem @danishadem]

the bias FIFA has towards Argentina and Messi is actually ridiculous

[adem @danishadem]

even on a day when they had all the luck and everything went their way, Ferrari still found a way to fuck up the strategy and throw away second place

[adem @danishadem]

it’s crazy how we live in a world where the US is hosting a team at the World Cup and bombing that team’s country on the very same day

[adem @danishadem]

all i’m saying is the difference is very clear.

when ronaldo scores, the world talks about ronaldo. when messi scores, the world still talks about ronaldo.

[adem @danishadem]

@yvng_modulus still can’t believe you contributed to the album

[adem @danishadem]

Kimi Antonelli is literally the luckiest driver of all time. every race just gets handed to him

[adem @danishadem]

@AviGanapathy cant believe you remember me :(

[adem @danishadem]

constantly playing music just to silence my thoughts

[adem @danishadem]

@leavemebelahuh2 @yvng_modulus dont forget MSN…

[adem @danishadem]

out of sight, out of mind.

[Women Being Awful @WomenBeingAwful]

Unfortunately true most of the time

[adem @danishadem]

it’s definitely a sign from god and the fact that all women are the same is just crazy to me